I’m sure everyone has heard, by now, that Rand Paul
has officially declared himself to be a candidate for president in 2016. But as I am not that much of a fan of the
Kentucky Senator, that is not what I will be discussing here. The subject of
this post will instead be on the fact that CNN, aka the Communist News Network,
actually saw fit to bring in Van Jones, a man who has been known to dabble in
communism, championed all manner of 9/11 conspiracy theories, and who was,
however briefly, Barry “Almighty’s” "green jobs" czar, in to evaluate
Paul’s political aspirations. When Carol
Costello asked Jones for his thoughts regarding Paul’s outreach to the black
community, Jones only reply was to use the opportunity provided him to slander
Republicans in general. Jones said, “You
know, the Republicans have a very tough branding issue when it comes to people
of color. Since that they are not in touch. They don't care about some of these
communities. I think Rand Paul has been the big exception to that over the past
couple of years.”
Jones went on to point out that the Republican Party
hasn't attracted the black vote which, while stating the obvious, begs the
question, why do CNN commentators fail to emphasize the demographics that
Democrats haven't had much, if any, success in reaching out to? And in using Jones’ failed logic, if the
Republican Party's failed outreach to minorities means they don’t care about
them, does it then mean that the Democrats’ poor outreach to Christian
fundamentalists is proof positive that Democrats don’t care much for
conservative Christians? Despite his
applauding Paul for not being one of those “out of touch” Republicans who
“don’t care about” minority communities, Jones warned that his extreme views
may keep the progressive vote out of his reach, “I think there are other issues
though that for young progressives, once they look behind that initial foray,
they are going to be concerned. He's rabidly anti-choice. He's against a
woman's right to choose when it comes to rape and incest. That's going to be
off putting for I think a section of young people.”
Why Jones is talking about the progressive vote when
Paul is pursuing the Republican platform remains a mystery. Also unexplained is how Jones can find the
idea of not forcing children to pay for the crimes of their fathers to be a
“rabid” position. Especially since the vast majority of aborted children are
minorities, and Planned Parenthood, one of the largest abortion mills was
founded by a woman who was associated with eugenics as well as with the Ku Klux
Klan. Jones concludes that Rand “is not
going to be an easy candidate for either side to deal with because he's so
unusual in the mix of views that he has and he has tried to reach out and help
that Republican branding problem. I think it has been effective when it comes
to young people of color.” In other words, Jones predicts that Rand will
alienate Republicans because he likes minorities and he will alienate
progressives (who he might not have wanted in the first place) because he has
the audacity to believe that children should not pay for the sins of their
parents.
Let’s look at Jones’ statement regarding the lack of
Republican outreach to blacks for a second.
If we do compare it to the lack of Democrats reaching out to Christian
fundamentalists, is there sufficient motivation for either of these groups,
blacks or Christians, to do a little outreach of their own. And which group might stand to gain the most
from doing so, the blacks in reaching out to the Republicans or the Christians in
reaching out to the Democrats? I think
the answer to that is rather obvious. And,
I would argue, if blacks were to ever find within themselves a willingness to think
for themselves I’m confident that they would dump the Democrat Party and in
very short order. And by doing so they
would be lifting a tremendous weight off of their backs. I would also argue that
both of these groups have much more in common with the Republican Party. And imagine if they were ever to unite under
the banner of the GOP, and become allies in the fight to take back our country
back. What would old Van have to say
about that, I wonder?
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