Message #995

[kentay]

I stand by ny argument that this individual would have attacked the theater without guns.  He was hellbent on an attack.  The shooter is the killer and solely responsible.

In all honestly, it's hard for me to understand how the Second Amendment protects amassing an arsenal like this one.

Thank You for speaking out WBC, you're one of the few left in a once great party that has attracted most of the religious and racist intolerant verbal bomb throwing white people into your party.  kentay 

kentay, what's the basis of your obsession with race?

I have no problem with race until you have a party that attracts mostly white people when we are a multi cultural, multi race society. Why is it you see no problem with belonging to a most (95-98 %) white party?  kentay

I don't believe the GOP IS 95-98% white.  Of course, that's a different issue than your enthusiasm in injecting race into virtually every discussion.

In 2000, 93% of the Republican Party was White?

The data reviewed here highlight an essential dilemma the Republicans face as they ponder their future. The Republican Party's constituency is overwhelmingly white -- and the significant majority of those whites are ideologically conservative, while a majority are highly religious, as defined by church attendance. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, has more than three times the percentage of nonwhites among its identifiers as does the GOP. And white Democrats are much more likely to be moderate or liberal than conservative, and are much more likely to be infrequent church attenders rather than frequent church attenders.

Does the Republican Party in essence "stick to the knitting" and cling to its core conservative principles? Or should the Republicans make an effort to expand their base -- among whites who are moderate or less religious, and/or the various nonwhite groups who to this point are largely ignoring the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats? The decision the party makes in response to this question could be pivotal in helping determine its future.

2009 Racial Breakdown of two major Political Parties