lot more apparent. if you look at what happened at the national review institute s conference, just a few days ago, and some of the states that are coming out, govern gindahl saying the republicans are stupid. but gindahl is not the base. no. but i really think that we have to give it time, that the republicans are coming out of shock with the election. a lot of resources went into the romney camp and there was a sense, throw money at the problem and we will win. that did not happen. we ve not begun a serious conversation about the role of racial minorities and the republican party. and i did an op-ed on the new york times online a few weeks ago talking about how the black vote needs to be recaptured and the party needs to become the party of lincoln again, especially in light of the film lincoln which is all about the role of race and rights in the united states and the beginning of the republican party.
or two, as america continues to change, as they are the minority with something to lose. that s interesting. this in their status. so i think that the republican party may be able to speak to that. how clear you are about the emotional appeal of conservati e conservatives. it s difficult because the image of the republicans there are two images of the republican party for the average person. it s the country club castle loafer guy on the one hand and the wife beater wearing toothless redneck toting a bushmaster on the other. right. that does not look like the future of the america. it doesn t look like the president of the republican party. it s so diverse in one sense that it doesn t have one dominant image. i like how you putd it about the republican party and its relationship to black voters. because i believe that the black vote is the lead indicator vote for what s going to happen with other racial minorities and if the party can t win back part of
the black vote, i don t believe that it s going to take over the h hispanic vote. on social issues, on defense, the military has been the pathway, the gi bill, for example, for most of us or a large part of us into the middle class. i wouldn t be here were it not for the gi bill and the way it allowed my father to get educated. but the gi bill is a liberal policy. but no, listen to what i m saying underneath it. i m talking about the commitment to national defense and understanding of the role of the military and the united states, the relationship between the military national readiness, how we project otherwise in the world. but that s the patriotic americans in the united states are african-american? sure. but is there liberals. those things are no. but i think when you go underneath, there is a deep well of social conservativism among