And he won’t tell you who they are. This is from TPM, who has some of the video of Rmoney making this claim of secret support from black leadership.
So let’s think about this for a minute. Rmoney wants you to know that he has more black support than can be public. Because these black people are somehow afraid to be known Rmoney supporters. Why? Because there is a price to be paid for getting outside of some black people’s party line.
This is more of the GOPs despicable Southern Strategy — feeding into their stereotypes that black people are all the same. Unless they are GOP black people. And that this community is particularly ruthless towards its members who turn to the GOP apostasy. So Rmoney is left to claim secret support of people who are afraid of their own communities.
This is bullshit,of course. Starting with the fact that being a GOP black person is an easy way to get to the head of the wingnut welfare line (c.f., Alan West, Artur Davis, Michael Steele) because the GOP is so very desperate for every bit of diversity they can get. But let’s get to the real reason that the GOP has issues with black and brown communities — demonizing these communities is a core piece of the GOP appeal. There won’t be very many converts to the GOP side as long as they keep pointing to these communities as the basic problem of angry white communities. Besides, the current GOP appeal is pretty much about making sure that wealthy people get as many tax dollars as possible, by any means necessary. Most black and brown people get that this is a scam, and a scam designed to undermine their own interests. So even though these communities may have some natural alignments with the GOP (especially in social conservatism), they keep advocating policies that are never going to include the communities they are working so hard at demonizing.
But then, Rmoney won’t tell you about where he has his money offshored. He won’t tell you about his alternate health care plan. He won’t tell you about how he’ll reform the tax code. But he will tell you he has secret black supporters.