Charlie Copeland wants you to know that his Delaware GOP is inclusive.
Or so this WDEL “story” by Rob Petree would have us know.
As times change, so do political parties–as is the case for the Grand Old Party. Many Delawareans have considered the Republican party to be one of exclusivity, as evidenced in the elections. Delaware Republican Chairman Charlie Copeland wants voters to know his party is “no longer your father’s GOP.”
“In the Republican party, there is active diversity–whether it’s African Americans, Hispanics, White, whether it’s LGBTQ, I mean the whole gamut–and we have an active discussion about all of those issues, and I think it’s good for the party and I think it’s good for the country.”
Hey Rob, once you dutifully took down that statement as Copeland’s hired steneographer, did it occur to you to ask any follow up questions, like, oh I don’t know, do you and your party support the Donald Trump and his history of racism? Do you support continued discrimination against transgendered persons? Do you condemn North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory then and call on his government to repeal HB2? Do you disavow the national party’s platform, which has been noted to be rather hostile towards the LGBTQ community you now say you champion? Do you condemn your nominee’s continued refusal to publicly state that the President was born in this country?
And I could go on like this.
With the trouncing of Lafferty and the success of the “I’m not really that type of Republican” Simpler campaign, I guess Charlie is feeling a little more free to cut the downstate nutbags loose.
Maybe the jilted hayseeds will take their 20,000 votes and all join some other White Nationalist party. Whatever happens the DEGOP doesn’t appear to be a real factor in statewide elections going forward.
To be fair, the GOP has been talking about their inclusivity for a long time. Remember how GWB paraded plenty of people of color across his first convention stage? The GOP’s problem is that they advocate policies that specifically harm poor people and minorities, but even worse are still blaming both for some of the country’s worst ills. You can’t spend your time demonizing people as a way to make sure your base voters stick with you and then expect those you demonize to ride with you.
Charlie’s BS here is some of the worst kind of white privilege.
Charlie’s right about it not being your Father’s GOP. My Father’s GOP made sane arguments that were based in fact and with an interest to make the country better.
Today’s GOP is largely that of the weird dude that lived in the dorm room across the hall who was always going off on the virtues of selfishness and the Illuminati. That jerk has no interest in solving the world’s problems by working together to get shit done.
I sort of miss that GOP. At least we could debate those knuckleheads.
“In the Republican party, there is active diversity–whether it’s African Americans, Hispanics, White, whether it’s LGBTQ….”
The republican party and the people they send to Dover will surely be shocked to find this out, I am sure. The only diversity in the republican party that exists is one camp thinks Obama is a communist usurper and the other camp thinks Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim.
The minorities that are in the GOP (and there are a few) aren’t allowed to bring up their minority status or push for their issues. You leave that at the door and worship at the altar of lower taxes and deregulation.
I know. I have been to the meetings.
“My Father’s GOP made sane arguments that were based in fact and with an interest to make the country better.” “I sort of miss that GOP.”
The nation misses that GOP. I used to think that they would eventually return to the yesteryear of responsible governance but the rise of Trump to be the standard bearer of the GOP has dashed all hopes of that ever happening. What’s left is a party devoid of any meaning, having a stranglehold on the Democratic process by preventing the rise of desperately needed third party who would provide an effective counterbalance to the Democratic Party.
What Delaware needs is a new GOP, or a backwards version of today’s GOP which reverts back to older values… To that I offer they should reverse their acronym to POG…. which we could find words for them to fill in … I’m fond of “People Over Government” and think that would be far more fun than something called the Grand Old Party which today is not really Grand, nor would many of us consider it a “real party”… They are “old”, though..
But the reversion of letters could sever to cut the cord to the 20,000 or whatever still tied to idiocy, and it would also regain what used be called Cathcart Republicans back from the Democratic folds now enveloping them, possibly gaining numbers in the process.. Losing 20,000 people is nothing if it causes you to gain 45,000; doing such is called a net gain. Since no Democrat would ever in his lifetime “say” he’d now join the GOP, because of its current loser status now being cemented by this year’s unbelievable daily events, the Schwartzkopf’s and Markell sycophants and followers might prefer being at home in something called the POG, if for no other reason than just to say they were insulated from Kowalko and others… 🙂 lol
But if the GOP wipes the racism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and appeals to selfishness off its platform, what exactly is left? The most powerful “arguments” for fiscally conservative and antregulatory policies rely on at least one of the above.