For months, black Republican honchos have been peddling the fantasy that they will make history come November. The history they fantasize about is electing a record number of black Republicans to Congress. At last count, fourteen black Republicans bagged their party's nomination to face Democrats. It's been more than a decade since two black Republicans J.C. Watts and Gary Franks served in Congress at the same time. Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell gushed at the thought that this could be topped, "This will be the most successful election cycle for African-American Republicans in at least 20 years." Blackwell projects that at least three black GOP candidates have a better than even chance of winning victory. And if things go really well Blackwell thinks the number of black GOP election winners could hit five. That's more fantasy.
Blacks in the past have groused at and bashed the Democrats. But they still overwhelmingly vote for them. The off the chart vote blacks gave President Obama is repeatedly cited even by black Republican hopefuls as an aberration in that blacks turned the election into a holy crusade to get one of their own in the White House. That's wrong on two counts. Obama was more than just the fulfillment of a civil rights dream. He had a solid program for change that frontally challenged and promise of reversing the social and economic damage, race baiting, and neglect that characterized three decades of Republican rule in the White House and the sledgehammer attacks on or malign neglect of civil rights leaders and concerns when Republicans were out of the White House.
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