Essayist Terrence Heath is back with another look at the GOP. Eric Cantor is claiming the conservative message is getting "lost," that minorities aren't hearing it. Oh, they're hearing it just fine, says Heath, and they're rejecting it.
Heath describes the dilemma the GOP faces. They won't be able to please their base, their donors, their conservative beliefs, and Americans demanding economic solutions. Somebody will be disappointed. Now the GOP might try to make their message more appealing to minorities (anyone who isn't old, straight, white, and male), but people figure out pretty quickly whether the walk matches the talk.
In a fourth part of a series (I commented on the other three parts here), Heath looks at the big problem conservatives have with Obama. He's a black man who doesn't "know his place." And, yes, that is very much a coded racist message. The four-year hope was that Obama would be booted, restoring the primacy of white guys, and Obama's time in office would be historic and an anomaly. Heath shows many of the racist slogans that appeared when Obama started running for the presidency and became more numerous when he won it.
But, much to the dismay of the GOP, Obama won that second term. And the GOP is still reality challenged.
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