Bruce Bartlett: Revenge of the Reality-Based Community-My life on the Republican right & and how...

[JDPriestly]

64. How Republican is this thinking?

I thought knowing the Democratic Party’s pre-1964 history of racism, which is indisputable, would give Republicans a story to tell when they went before black groups to solicit votes. I thought it would also make Republicans more sympathetic to the problems of the black community, many of which are historical in their origins. Analyses by economists and sociologists show that historical racism still holds back African-Americans even though it has diminished radically since the 1960s.

So I wrote Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past. Unfortunately, it was published the day Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses. But I still held out hope that Hillary Clinton, who was pandering to the white working class in unsubtle racial terms, would capture the Democratic nomination. The anger among blacks at having the nomination effectively stolen from Obama would make them highly receptive to GOP outreach, I believed. I even met with John McCain’s staff about this.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/revenge-of-the-reality-based-community/

Am I allowed to quote from the original article since it is published in a conservative source?

I'm printing this to show the kind of foolish, crooked, tricky-dick thinking that is the trademark of recent Republican campaigns and how this author seems to also think in that sickeningly critical way.

He wasn't concerned about respecting people of different races. He was just trying to figure out how he could use racial inequality and racial divisions to benefits conservatives.

What a creep. I hope he has changed his social values as well as his party affiliation.