election

The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (R - South Carolina), as quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jay Bookman in an article from Aug. 30 looking at race and the GOP.

In some respects — in very few respects, as it turns out — the portrayal of the Republican Party as a group of angry white men is a caricature that couldn’t possibly be true.

But then a columnist like Bookman points out something just about anyone with a set of functioning eyeballs noticed while a prominent conservative like Graham utters the statement above and and Mitt Romney practically dons brownface for an appearance on Univision and oh, yes, can we see the first-ever black president’s birth certificate, please? and suddenly there’s no way it’s not a caricature.

Romney and the Republicans are at their most honest when talking about ignoring the 47 percent and at their least when claiming to be the party of the “100 percent.” The GOP only has itself to blame for the perception that they only care about one segment of the population.

Is there a way to fix that? Absolutely. Easier said than done, but the Grand Old Angry White Men Party (Lindsey’s words, not mine) needs to bring more minorities and women into the fold. Considering the party’s views on things like immigration, abortion, healthcare reform and more, that’s a tall order. But there’s something to be said for hope and change, even on the right.

And while Graham’s comment was beyond the pale, it turns out that that’s exactly where the Republicans need to start looking.

— inothernews

(h/t The Colbert Report)