February 25, 2005

Lynn Swann!

Lynn Swan? No. Lynn Swann!

Well, it appears that Lynn Swann was there at the GOP convention for real, and probably to gain some support for a gubernatorial bid. What is more interesting is that should Swann win the Governor's race, he will not be alone as a Black Republican in higher office. Ken Blackwell is currently Secretary of State in Ohio, and will run for Governor in '06. Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele is also running for governorship of that state, and of course, Lynn Swann in PA, as evidenced today. This is good news for the GOP, and horrifically bad news for Democrats. If the GOP only goes 1/3 in electing these three people to the statehouse, they will do a better job than the Democrat party will have done in advancing Blacks to higher office. If they go 3/3, they will have 3 governors, two from Blue states, all of whom would instantly be considered contenders in a presidential run.

If such an event should occur, it will simply be devastating to the Democratic party and the current civil rights establishment. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP have put themselves firmly in the back pocket of the Democrats. And while their game of racebaiting has been good for their pocketbook, it really hasn't done a heck of a lot getting Blacks elected to higher office. Barack Obama is their only success story, and that is only because the Illinois GOP imploded. Meanwhile, the Democrat party has shown over and over again in recent days how much they take the Black vote for granted.

First, the Kerry campaign gave short shrift to the social conservative agenda that is popular with the black vote, but not with rank and file white liberals in the party. Second, Senate Democrats let Barbara Boxer and ex-Klansman Robert Byrd rake Condi Rice over the coals with barely concealed racial epithets. Finally, Howard Dean, in the process of making a joke about republicans, intimates that Blacks today are only capable of being hotel staff.

Columnist Joseph Phillips puts it well:

The problem with Dean’s witticism and the CBC’s accompanying amusement is that it represents a jaundiced view of America as vastly unchanged since 1959. It is a vision that is not only outdated it also happens to be untrue. Far from being a nation where blacks are relegated to being maids and man servants as Dean (and the Democratic Party) are fond of telling us, this is a nation not of second-class citizens in need of benevolence, but first class citizens desirous of respect.

The alternative notion that Blacks are second-class citizens in the Republican Party is also inaccurate.

There are currently four blacks in this country holding statewide elected office. All of them are Republicans. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is poised to become the first Black governor of Ohio in 2006 and will be on the Republican ticket as a presidential or vice presidential candidate by 2016. Current lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steele, will become the first Black governor of Maryland and perhaps move to the U.S. Senate or become part of a national ticket. Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams will become the first Black Texas attorney general. Waiting in the wings is football hall of fame receiver Lynn Swann who is running for governor of Pennsylvania and of course Condoleezza Rice who if she chooses will be a formidable challenger for the Republican nomination for president in ’08. Dean and the CBC can yuk it up all they want, but they are hard pressed to produce anything near this level of accomplishment for Black candidates -- at least not yet.

What I think we are looking at is something unprecedented. Sometime in the next 12 years, an African American is going to run for President, and in all likelihood win. And that African American will probably be a Republican.

Posted by John Bono at February 25, 2005 12:33 AM| Link Cosmos

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