re: #7 wrenchwench

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No matter what attempts Rand makes to make the party look better, he can’t shut the base up, so it’s all for naught.

It’s similar with Hispanics. What many conservative whites don’t realize or want to admit is that the Republican Party base not “promises of free stuff” is why racial minority voters don’t like their party. If you’re a native Spanish speaker, say and here your mother tongue booed by an audience of certain party. Or if you’re black and constantly being told that your race is on the “Democratic plantation”, you’re not going to want much to do with that party. Rand himself is part of this problem. I still remember him talking down to the Howard University students and acting as if they wouldn’t know that the founding members of the NAACP were all Republicans and that the Republican Party was once the more progressive on race of the two parties.