'Why I Became a Republican': GOP Women Learn Tips on Minority Outreach

sorry, I have no use for republicans OR democrats. we need a new party....a tea (taxed enough already) party....career politicians in Washington are part of the problem, not part of the solution. they earn six figures with full benefits with a terrible approval rating...why????? we need to vote out all career politicians every election, every time, starting this november.

I see folks on these boards are confusing SSI and Social Security. SSI is a welfare program for elderly and disabled people. The program for the disability, survivor benefits and retirement that most of us receive or will get since we, or a family member, paid taxes and is the subject of the privatization debate from the Libertarian wing is Social Security also known as SSA. I hate that the two get confused, since I will sound like Pelosi, with the "I worked very hard for that", as my taxes are being taken out of my paycheck. And my child gets Social Security as a dependent under her father's work history. Which scares me if SSA is ever privatized, because there can be no bail out in this case because there would be trillions of dollars involved if the market goes belly up.

Republicans simply do not like Black people and Black people know this..The party of Lincoln is long gone and it started with Goldwater's obstinate opposition to LBJs Civil Rights Act. To this day, Most republicans still think the Civil Rights Act is 'unnecessary gov't intrusion'..as Rand Paul says...They didn't help themselves by welcoming Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms into thier party even after their Dixiecrat activism. Repubs just don't have the skills to be comfortable around non-whites. They don't want them in their schools, their churches and their country clubs. Now, the republicans have turned their rancor to hispanics and all non-christians...The same resistance Blacks have for republicans will live on in all non-whites, brown skinned, non-self righteous christians.

Republicans simply do not like Black people and Black people know this..The party of Lincoln is long gone and it started with Goldwater's obstinate opposition to LBJs Civil Rights Act. To this day, Most republicans still think the Civil Rights Act is 'unnecessary gov't intrusion'..as Rand Paul says...They didn't help themselves by welcoming Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms into thier party even after their Dixiecrat activism. Repubs just don't have the skills to be comfortable around non-whites. They don't want them in their schools, their churches and their country clubs. Now, the republicans have turned their rancor to hispanics and all non-christians...The same resistance Blacks have for republicans will live on in all non-whites, brown skinned, non-self righteous christians.

i was a Democrat once when I was young like most young people. I came back from Vietnam and started my life once again. By my 30s with a mortgage and a family and car the more I worked the less the bottom line increased. I started asking myself why am I paying so much in local, state and federal taxes. Once you educate yourself, look at the federal agencies, the congress, the trade deals, the flooding of immigrants into a system unable to cope etc. you realize you could never vote Democrat again.

African Americans who are republican are republican because they see opportunities that they do not in the democratic party that is filled with minorities. There is no other reason an african american can hold their head up and exclaim I'm a republican without others of their minority group asking why. The answers given in the article do not answer why just my parents were, I have conservative priciples without naming those conservative principles. If Malkin from Fox News is a republican it is because she has opportunities that would not exist for her in the democratic party. As far as Lincoln - who is arguably the greatest president this nation has had here's a quote 'this country was founded by and for the benefit of the white man...' said before he met Frederick Douglas - an educated former slave.

How is it that the Republicans always "have a problem" and it's the liberal democrats who claim this? If anyone has a problem it's the democrats their party is in a tail spin and they have no idea's just blame.

To whom it may concern in the Republican Party please stop sending me negative mailers about the Democratic Candidates in my area, that is not the way to win me over. And what annoyed me more is that the Republican Party bashed these candidates but did not offer any candidates in the mailers for me to weight against in the primaries and come November 2nd, 2010.

I do not understand how some people on this posting can criticize George W. and blame him for the mess we are in. Obama, in less then two years has spent more money then Bush did in eight! We are on a road going nowhere but down. This recession can be traced back to Pelosi,Reid,Barney Franks and others. The sub-prime mortgages that allowed people to buy homes with no way of paying the lien's was the number one reason for the situation we are in today!

The republicans are all about helping the wealthy. They have nothing when it comes to helping average middle income people.