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J.C. Watts: GOP 'in denial' about its image problems with minorities

By Alex Lazar - 02/27/13 03:27 PM ET

Former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) says the Republican Party is “in denial” about its image problems with minority voters — and he argues the “burden of proof” is on the GOP to show it is sincere about repairing relationships with communities tilting toward Democrats.

“We are in denial — because the fact is that many people associate the Republican Party as the party of the rich,” Watts told The Hill on Wednesday.
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Going forward, Watts says it’s up to the Republican Party to reach out to broad sectors of the American populace.

“Members of the Republican Party can’t continue to think like Washington centric consultants or else we are going to get our head handed to us.”


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Mike

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If you want to know what a nation looks like when people are not allowed to make a profit, go to North Korea. Cuba’s even closer.
 

loomixguy

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What is the problem you have with people having money?

Jealous?

Spun up because some may have inherited money/land/livestock?

Think that the world (especially Republicans) owes you a living?
 

jodywy

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/22/obama-and-his-1-percent/?page=1&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=RSS_Feed

In his first term President Obama was criticized for trash-talking the 1-percenters while enjoying the aristocracy of Martha’s Vineyard and the nation’s most exclusive golf courses.

Mr. Obama never quite squared his accusations that “millionaires and billionaires” had not paid their fair share with his own obvious enjoyment of the perks of “corporate jet owners,” “fat cat bankers” and Las Vegas junketeers.

Now, that paradox has continued right off the bat in the second term. In the State of the Union, Mr. Obama once more went after “the few,” and “the wealthiest and the most powerful,” whom he blasted as the “well-off and the well-connected” and the “billionaires with high-powered accountants.”

Like clockwork, the president then jetted to West Palm Beach, Fla., for yet another golfing vacation at one of the nation’s priciest courses, replete with lessons from a $1,000-per-hour golf pro to improve the presidential putting.

The rest of the first family jetted off on their own skiing vacation to elite Aspen, Colo., where nobody accepts that at some point they’ve already “made enough money.” Meanwhile, below the stratosphere, unemployment rose to 7.9 percent for January — the 49th consecutive month it has been 7.8 percent or higher. The economy shrank in the last quarter of 2012, gas is back to almost $4 a gallon, and the government continues to borrow almost $4 billion a day.

Today, lots of liberal grandees attack the rich and yet do their best to act and live just like them.

Take financial speculator and leftist billionaire, George Soros, who is back in the news. Mr. Soros is able to fund several progressive think tanks that go after the 1 percent because he is the most successful financial buccaneer of the age — notorious as “the man who broke the Bank of England” and was convicted of insider trading in France. The Soros family investment firm’s most recent speculating coup was betting against the Japanese yen. That made Mr. Soros $1.2 billion in just three months — enough capitalist lucre to keep funding Media Matters and other attack-dog progressive groups for years to come.

Facebook co-founder and Obama campaign organizer Chris Hughes just bought The New Republic and has rebranded the magazine as an unapologetic progressive megaphone.

How odd that hip Facebook just confessed that it paid no federal or California state income taxes for 2012 on its $1.1 billion in pretax profits on its U.S. operations alone. Odder still, Facebook will probably receive a federal tax refund of about $429 million. Apparently Facebook’s “well-connected” found some “high-powered accountants” to write off their stock options as a business expense.

Perhaps Treasury Secretary-designate Jack Lew should have a look at Facebook’s tax contortions. He should be familiar with the big-money paper trail, given that Mr. Lew himself took a nearly $1 million bonus from Citigroup after it had received billions of dollars in federal funds to cover its gargantuan losses.

Mr. Lew, like his tax-dodging predecessor, Timothy F. Geithner, has a propensity for doing just the opposite of what the president used to preach against. Mr. Obama, remember, warned Wall Streeters not to take bonuses after their failing companies received federal money.

Mr. Obama also derided dubious offshore Cayman Islands tax shelters. Yet he apparently forgot to tell that to Mr. Lew, who invested in a fund registered to the same Potemkin Cayman Islands building that Mr. Obama had used as a campaign prop to bash the 1-percenters.

One of the nation’s best-known class warriors is former U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. of Chicago, who for years has damned the wealthy for their ill-gotten gains. He pleaded guilty to fraud charges after he and his wife were accused of siphoning off $750,000 from their campaign accounts to pay for an assortment of 1-percenter extravagances like a $43,000 Rolex watch.

Today’s leftists like the high life as much as their demonized conservative rivals. The more they damn the bad “millionaires and billionaires,” apparently the less guilt they feel about living it up in Palm Beach or Aspen, paying no taxes, offshoring their profits or wearing Rolex watches.

The vast growth of the federal government has splashed so much big money around New York and Washington that even muckraking progressives can’t resist. Loud redistributionist rhetoric offers the necessary vaccination shot that makes privileged leftists immune from any criticism — or guilt — over indulging in tax avoidance, billion-dollar speculation or aristocratic tastes.

George Orwell long ago noticed the same thing, when in “Animal Farm” the pig elite loudly damned reactionary humans even as they sought to copy them by walking on two legs.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His new book, “The Savior Generals,” will appear this spring from Bloomsbury Press.





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Mike

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loomixguy said:
What is the problem you have with people having money?

Jealous?

Spun up because some may have inherited money/land/livestock?

Think that the world (especially Republicans) owes you a living?

Some people don't have the wherewithall to create wealth and I guess are envious of those that do?

Wealth is what made our nation great..................

Maybe not to the fat asses who sit around and moan about it.
 

loomixguy

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Mike said:
loomixguy said:
What is the problem you have with people having money?

Jealous?

Spun up because some may have inherited money/land/livestock?

Think that the world (especially Republicans) owes you a living?

Some people don't have the wherewithall to create wealth and I guess are envious of those that do?

Wealth is what made our nation great..................

Maybe not to the fat asses who sit around and moan about it.

Old Dunderhead does PLENTY of that......
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
J.C. Watts: GOP 'in denial' about its image problems with minorities

By Alex Lazar - 02/27/13 03:27 PM ET

Former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) says the Republican Party is “in denial” about its image problems with minority voters — and he argues the “burden of proof” is on the GOP to show it is sincere about repairing relationships with communities tilting toward Democrats.

“We are in denial — because the fact is that many people associate the Republican Party as the party of the rich,” Watts told The Hill on Wednesday.
---------------

Going forward, Watts says it’s up to the Republican Party to reach out to broad sectors of the American populace.

“Members of the Republican Party can’t continue to think like Washington centric consultants or else we are going to get our head handed to us.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/285325-watts-gop-in-denial-about-its-problems-with-minorities#ixzz2M8jPqgSs
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I have to disagree with JC Watts. What more can Republicans do to "reach out" to broad sectors of the American populace, especially blacks? Try to out sugar daddy Democrats?

It is Mr. Watts who is in denial. He needs to accept the fact that generations of government hand-out programs which encourage dependency, not independence from the government teat, have created a permanent underclass that literally does not know how to be successful in an American society.

You think that sounds racist? It's not at all. How is that Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese families can immigrate to the United States without speaking a word of English, set up shop in the heart of some of the toughest black neighborhoods, and in a few years have thriving businesses and kids finishing in the top 1 or 2% of their classes?

I think we all know the answer.
 

Sandhusker

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Being rich was never a bad thing until the Social...er, Democrats decided to engage in a devisive class war where they would gain by hurting the nation.
 

Mike

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I don't know how we got to a point where all "Prosperous" people were stigmatized as "Bad" people.

I would love for a Liberal to explain this phenomenon. Trying to understand it and think as they do is beyond my comprehension. I always thought it was the "American Way"?

Yet Warren Buffet, Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, etc. are Saints to the Left?

Please?
 
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