{"id":10261,"date":"2012-07-25T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2012-07-25T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:37:47","slug":"every-voting-bloc-has-no-prayer-of-representation-because-every-other-voting-bloc-gets-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/07\/25\/every-voting-bloc-has-no-prayer-of-representation-because-every-other-voting-bloc-gets-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"every voting bloc has no prayer of representation because every other voting bloc gets in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a third talk, drafted by William Safire, one of his more liberal speech writers (at that time), Nixon proposed a “new alignment” to include such unlikely partners as traditional Republicans, the “new South”, some “black militants”, the “silent center” (a tag lifted by Safire from a speech by former Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois, a New Deal Democrat), and “thoughtful critics like Daniel Moynihan and Richard Goodwin — both liberals. \u00c2\u00a0Probably Nixon was no more than half serious about some of the elements in his proposed alignment — particularly the black militants. \u00c2\u00a0But the talk showed the way his mind was working; he was groping toward new coalitions — examining unusual options<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From Conservatives in an Era of Change, James Riechley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a gambit every president ends seems to end up on, and certainly the schemes hatched by the land-sliders. \u00c2\u00a0Franklin Roosevelt was the same way — apparently as early as the late 1910s hoping for there to be a way to breaking off the Conservative South in realigning his party. \u00c2\u00a0Nixon’s “black militants” falls under the sway of the hoped for premise of Moderate Republicans on the premise that they desired de-centralization. \u00c2\u00a0(And remember, the Black Panthers opposed Gun Control where Governor Reagan … well, you know the drill.) \u00c2\u00a0This gets into this area of absurdity, described in Rule and Ruin by\u00c2\u00a0Geoffrey Kabaservice:<\/p>\n

Reed in his turn carried the Republican party into some strange new territory, particularly when he introduced McClaughry and other Percy assistants to the 3,000 member Blackstone Rangers, Chicago’s most powerful and feared black street gant. \u00c2\u00a0Reed’s work with young people brought him into contact with some of the Rangers. \u00c2\u00a0Members of the New Breed approached the gang to try to get them not to harm Reed’s workers in the district, particularly white volunteers and people on loan from the Percy campaign. \u00c2\u00a0Some members of the New Breed believed that the Rangers could provide access to voters in the housing projects, while others hoped to channel the gang’s energies away from violence and into political activism. \u00c2\u00a0Reed became a liaison between the gang and the Republicans working for the campaign, which […]<\/em>
\nMcClaughry recalled later that “The Blackstone Rangers were at war with City Hall and the Democratic power structure, and so were the Republicans, so there was some interest in this group. \u00c2\u00a0The Republicans put out a tentative feeler, because if these guys actually voted, or if they intimidated whole neighborhoods into voting, they could be a powerful voting bloc. \u00c2\u00a0But this was risky business, since the Rangers were criminals.” […]<\/em>
\nThe columnists Evans and Novak reported that Chicago’s Republican money men had “no interest in developing a Negro political base” and seemed “dismayed and somewhat confused by the Republican variety of black power” on display in Reed’s organization<\/em>.<\/p>\n

David Lindsay profers through his political realignments on Obama<\/a>, trying to match him up with his social conservative politics by way of mentioning every prominent politician in the last century, ignoring Theodore Roosevelt’s Imperialism as against Eisenhower’s “MIC” speech, and that Lincoln Chaffee won as an Independent. \u00c2\u00a0Untangle these threads and they go somewhere… but nowhere terribly expedient. \u00c2\u00a0And it drifts into the bizarre when he throws Kesha Rogers into the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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