Larry Elder, in World Net Daily:
President Bush addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – after five years of invitations – and blew it. He pandered, he condescended, all to show blacks that, yes, the president feels your pain.
“I consider it a tragedy,” said President Bush, “that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African-American community. For too long my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party.”
Actually, the Republicans did not “let go” or “jettison” the black vote, which they were almost the universal benefactors of from 1865 to 1932. What happened was that the Democrats figured out how to outbid the Republicans for black votes, an advantage that Democrats will probably have until Judgment Day, even considering that 21st Century Republicans have become spend-happy themselves.
