By not showing up at last night’s debate, Fauntroy says, the major Republican candidates blew another opportunity to reach Black America. It shows that the party is still not serious about winning Black and brown votes, he adds.
Scoggins countered that leading Republican candidates don’t clearly understand the issues important to the Black community, which he calls “a sad commentary.” He agrees with Fauntroy that leading GOP candidates chose not to attend the debate because they were afraid of a backlash from conservative voters. “What makes it worse is that you are spending billions, trillions of dollars overseas to bring democracy to another country, but you’re afraid to even talk to people right here at home. That says a lot.”
Scoggins, however, stopped short of saying that the snub will hurt the GOP’s chances among Black voters in 2008. “The election is a year away,” he says. “In politics, that is a lifetime. But that still doesn’t leave a lot of time to get your message together.”
Six Republican contenders that did show up to present their views were Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Rep. Duncan Hunter (Calif.), Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.) and late entrant Alan Keyes, a former ambassador who lives in Maryland.
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