{"id":15032,"date":"2012-07-26T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:43:30","slug":"why_democrats_get_the_black_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/26\/why_democrats_get_the_black_vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats Get the Black Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I just saw a story quickly. I scanned it because I didn\u2019t have a chance to print it out, but it\u2019s about people literally abandoning public schools. They\u2019re just leaving them. Enrollment in public schools nationwide — I think the number I saw was down 10% and it\u2019s increasing. In big cities, which means that\u2019s inner city kids. We\u2019re not talking whites. Schools are decaying and Obama, the Democrats, are keeping those schools open in fealty to the teachers unions and for a whole bunch of other reasons. I have people ask me, and I\u2019ve asked myself all the time, too, although I must say I have the answers. So my questions to myself are rhetorical. People say, “I don\u2019t understand how African-Americans just keep voting Democrat.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>You make a mistake if you try to answer that policy-wise or intellectual-wise. It\u2019s not about that. There\u2019s no reason for anybody who cherishes success, liberty, and freedom, to be voting for Obama, but a lot of people are going to. I talked about this within the past month, and I hate to say it comes down to something like this, but it is one of many relevant factors, and it boils down to cool, and in a sense marketing. In fact, let me illustrate it this way. I\u2019m reading some of the highbrow intellectuals on some of the so-called (they think) highbrowed blogs. And they\u2019re highbrow analyzing the election, and the highbrows have got a theme going on some of these discussions. The theme is this. <\/p>\n

Is the decay of the country, is the status of the economy and the worsening of everybody\u2019s standard of living, is that enough to get rid of Obama, or is Romney gonna have to do something other than just be Romney? Because there is a comfort in knowing who you\u2019ve got. People are actually speculating and suggesting that people might, in the midst of all this decay, nevertheless choose to stay with Obama because the other guy might be worse. This is what the highbrows are postulating out there. I think that\u2019s a crock. Now, I do think that Romney\u2019s gonna have to do more than talk about the economy, and I do think when he talks about the economy he\u2019s gonna have to get specific, and it wouldn\u2019t be hard. <\/p>\n

Mitt, tell us what your economic policies are gonna be and what they\u2019re gonna mean. Tell us. All you gotta do is articulate conservatism. Tell us how you\u2019re gonna make the economy grow. Tell us. Give us your policy. And that\u2019s not hard, folks. Conservatism takes care of that. Free market economic policy, takes care of that. It will happen. It\u2019s been proven. But in the midst of this decay, the schools are being abandoned, and that\u2019s just one example. There are countless others. People think their country\u2019s falling apart. Scares the heck out of \u2019em. And yet, when you specifically talk about blacks. How can they still vote for Democrats after what the Democrat Party has done. <\/p>\n

All the Democrat Party\u2019s plans, I mean for 50 years, the race hustlers, the Jacksons, the Sharptons have been complaining and moaning and whining about the same stuff for 50 years. None of it\u2019s getting better. And yet they keep voting for the people who have assured them, “We\u2019re gonna take care of you. We\u2019re the ones that are gonna protect you from the racism and from the discrimination, from all the other stuff, all those horrors that await you out there. We aren\u2019t racist, and we don\u2019t discriminate, and we\u2019re gonna protect you.” And yet their lives don\u2019t get better. They\u2019re relying on these people, not themselves, they\u2019re relying on these people to make their lives better. The Democrat Party isn\u2019t happening, and yet they keep voting for \u2019em. <\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that they\u2019re voting for \u2019em. I think it rather has to do with what the image of Republicans is, or the image of conservatives is. In some cases it could be said, ah, they\u2019re just not cool. Obama\u2019s cool. Romney\u2019s not cool. He\u2019s stale white bread, not cool. Hollywood, that\u2019s cool. You don\u2019t see any Republicans there. You don\u2019t see conservatives where the cool stuff is. Cool stuff happens on Entertainment Tonight or MTV or Comedy Central. You don\u2019t see conservatives. You don\u2019t see conservatives anywhere where cool is, do you? In fact, it\u2019s such that if a conservative is someplace where it\u2019s cool the conservative looks like a guy from Mars portrayed as something that really doesn\u2019t belong where cool is. That\u2019s what I think a lot of this is wrapped up in. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s no individual\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not that Romney isn\u2019t cool, for example, or it\u2019s not that George W. Bush wasn\u2019t cool, any of that. It\u2019s just the power of pop culture media for decade after decade shaping people\u2019s minds. But I think you go nuts if you intellectually try to explain or policy-wise, even, try to explain why people would stick with losers. Why do they stick with people and policies that are harming them. Then you realize, that\u2019s not what they think they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re voting for people that harm them. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re voting for people that are responsible for the decay in their neighborhood or in the country. They don\u2019t see it that way. <\/p>\n

<\/a>They see it getting bad out there, and these guys trying to stop it, the Democrats trying to make it better, but they really are afraid what the Republicans would do if they got back in power, because of all the lies and distortions that have been told about Republicans that haven\u2019t been properly refuted. Hell, hadn\u2019t even been attempted to be refuted in many ways. August 1st is our 24th year, and for each of these 24 years, I\u2019ve had phone calls from African-Americans, “Rush, it\u2019s changing. More and more blacks are tired of the Democrat Party. It\u2019s changing.” And it never does. Twenty-four years. The Democrats still get 92, 93% of the black vote, no matter what. And these people do call and they do offer these testimonials. And yet, the percentage of the vote doesn\u2019t change. If it did change by 5%, it\u2019d be huge. If, for example, Obama were to get 88% of the black vote, or 85%, that would be an earthquake, if the others voted for the Republican. <\/p>\n

And every year I\u2019ve been hearing a transformation\u2019s taking place, and yet the percentages stay the same. And I\u2019ve looked at it intellectually, 50 years, the 24 that I\u2019ve been doing the program, chronicle the decay, the destruction, the breakup of the black family, and it\u2019s all brought about by big government policies. It\u2019s all brought about by the Democrat Party, and yet they keep getting the votes. (interruption) The last Republican to get a big percentage of the black vote? You mean presidential candidate? I can\u2019t name one. Oh, well, wait a minute, now. You misled me with the question. I thought you meant a majority. Nixon got 30% of the black vote. But that was because Sammy Davis Jr. endorsed him down there in Miami. Well, it was a factor. It was a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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