re: #96 lostlakehiker

Some of those are false. Republicans are mostly middle class whites, and those that aren’t, are mostly lower middle class. Many women are Republican, although not quite the same fraction as men.

And truly, most Republicans are indifferent to Obama’s race. Obama hasn’t made advancing minorities the central focus of his administration—-he’s taken seriously the job of being president of the country, all of it. There are policy reasons enough to gripe about…for all his good intentions, things haven’t exactly worked out great so far.

The eventual nominee tells more about the Republican party than the foamy, chaotic early jockeying for the nomination. Witness the absolute collapse of Pat Buchanan when he tried for the nomination.

True, but before he collapsed, Buchanan managed to hole Bush below the waterline with his convention speech. He should not have been allowed to give that speech and if he tried, booing should have been organized to show that the party did not agree with him. Instead, the GOP came away looking like it tolerated bigoted loons, a problem that has since gotten much worse.