Clint Eastwood's empty chair
Lewis DiuguidThe empty chair that film star Clint Eastwood used at the Republican National Convention this year seems rather haunting and precient now.
Instead of it being the place of no content, which Eastwood tagged for President Barack Obama, it now signifies the unappealing nature of the Republican Party today, following GOP challenger Mitt Romney’s loss to Obama.
The Republicans are an empty chair when it comes to attracting women with issues that are meaningful to more than half of the country’s population. The Republicans are an empty seat when it comes to appealing to Latinos to come into the party. The GOP’s stand on immigration, culture, heritage differences and other issues are a major turn-off.
The Republicans’ chair stays empty in appeals to African Americans. The GOP often is on the wrong side of issues on civil rights, equality, affirmative action, safe housing, urban renewal, prison reform and boosting funding for education.
The empty chair isn’t attracting many in the LGBT community because of the GOP’s strict stand against gays in the military and same-sex marriage.
And let’s not forget the 47 percent, whom Romney labeled as deadbeats. These Americans of all colors would rather stand anywhere else than take a seat in that Republican chair.
That empty chair eventually might not even appeal to Republicans themselves. The country has changed, and eventually Republicans will wake up, stand up and come to rest in better places.
JR Beillenhouser
6 months, 1 week agoThis country will be even more of a disaster in by inauguration. People are about ready to get a big case of buyers remorse.
Mark Hastert
6 months, 1 week agoOur poor sad conservative friends. A bitter cup of wine made from sour grapes.
Mark Robertson
6 months, 1 week ago7 trillion has been spent on the disastrous Great Society welfare state. It has trapped many African Americans and others into dependency, destroying generations. The out of wedlock birthrate in the African American Community is over 70 percent. The welfare state has replaced the father. The welfare state is the new slave plantation, it enslaves people.(See Obamaphone lady.)This disastrous Obama has rescinded work requirements for welfare recipients. He has taken welfare back to pre 1996 welfare reform. Words are not adequate to explain what a total disaster he is. This nation is in grave danger with him at the helm. What a waste. So many good people qualified to be president, including Mitt Romney, and we get four more years of this thug. Romney would have the economy turned around in 6 months to a year. Obama is intentionally destroying the economy to make way for his socialist utopia. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence
Mark Hastert
6 months, 1 week agoGet over it guys. Accept loss with a little grace. We don’t have a welfare state. Clinton and Newt reformed it. It was in all the papers. I’m sure you must have heard of it. And it any of you are SS recipients are you takers?
Mark Robertson
6 months, 1 week agoYes, and Obama has reversed 1996 welfare reform. And Social Security and Medicare are broke and breaking us. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence
Mark Robertson
6 months, 1 week agoThe main reason that most Hispanics vote Democrat is the “generous safety net” and “progressive taxation.”(See freebies and soaking the “rich.”)(Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans, by Heather MacDonald, National Review on Line, 11-7-12)Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence