This is really stupid even by Politico’s standards. J.C. Watts is not going to run for chairman of the Republican National Committee, and, if he does, he isn’t going to unseat Reince Priebus. The article should have never been written. And I don’t know what we need to do to convince Republicans that they won’t win any votes by placing minorities in token positions of responsibility. Maybe we could poll every minority in the country and find out if any of them would vote for the Republicans if J.C. Watts is their chairman.
Remember, J.C. Watts’ father said, “A black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.” Except, the Republicans are so grateful to have even one black supporter that they’ll make it lucrative for you:
Since leaving Capitol Hill a decade ago, Watts has formed J.C. Watts Companies, which including [sic] a lobbying shop representing clients like defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. and energy producers. Watts also owns several John Deere farm equipment dealerships, and he frequently appears on TV to discuss the GOP and minority issues.
J.C. Watts already received his reward for being a token black Republican. He ought to follow his own advice:
“These old, tired, pathetic models of saying, ‘Okay, in the black [community], when there’s a presidential election, we will form an African-American Coalition for [Mitt] Romney or [Sen. John] McCain,’ I’ll never do that again. That is a joke, that is so tired,” Watts said. “It’s window dressing to say, ‘African Americans for Romney’ or ‘African-American Coalition’ or ‘African-American Advisory Council.’ That’s insulting to the people that they ask to do it when you don’t put an permanent infrastructure in place to give it credibility.”
Here’s a newsflash, J.C. The Republicans don’t like you. They don’t like black people. They think all black people are moochers who won’t take personal responsibility for their lives and just want free phones and crack cocaine. I don’t know how much more evidence you need for you to realize it, but the GOP has been trying to tell you this for the longest.
Michael Steele.
Michael got a lotta love from the Repukes.
He could also chat with Alan Keyes. But since Alan spends most of his time on Uranus, he will have to time his chat carefully.
J.C. Watts has been wanking away for an awful long time, Wanker of the Day hardly does him justice.
He was a largely meaningless Repub congressman over a decade ago, yet he still frequently gets his face on the teevee “news”. One has to say Bravo. The token negroes of our noble “conservative” movement sure have a long, long shelf life….perhaps they’re imperishable!
Reince Priebus knows too much…republicans can’t afford to dethrone him.
I always love when the GOP pulls out “but but but Lincoln freed the slaves! and Democrats and Jim Crow, amirite?”
It’s the political analog of Pabst Blue Ribbon printing the medal they won in 1893 on their labels, even though -like the GOP and the Democrats- contemporary Pabst bears no resemblance to the Pabst of the late 19th century.
Here’s a newsflash, J.C. The Republicans don’t like you. They don’t like black people.
You’re wrong, Boo!! Where did J.C. Watts represent in Congress? Oklahoma, right? What is he really known for? Being a two-time Orange Bowl winning QB as a Sooner under Barry Switzer!! So, of course white people love him!!
I didn’t know that. I had wondered how he got elected in Oklahoma.
One thing that is a pet theory of mine is that part of the idiocy in the GOP is that the Party offers a type of social mobility for people who don’t necessarily have better options. Sort of like the good old boy who never went to school and becomes a preacher, living high on the hog on his flock’s dime. Watts may not fit that profile precisely, but most of these idiots, while richer than most of us, are not nearly as rich as the genuinely, obscenely rich. They are in a position where they could drop back down to “the middle class” if they don’t keep funding themselves.
Truly, it’s a con.
The type of people who are attracted by GOP politics would be losers in most other walks of life: the qualifications are subservience to money, an ability to lie with a straight face and a lack of conscience
Hey BooMan…
J.C.’s gotta feed his family too.
I don’t know how he can stomach anything….but..he’s found a way.
Maybe J.C. gets free cell phones and crack cocaine.
BTW, he endorsed Obama over Romney, strange behavior for a future GOP chairman. More evidence of tokenism.