How can Republicans start winning 25 to 35 percent of the black vote?

There’s only one way. Run good black candidates — such as, well, Herman Cain.

If Cain is even able to get 20 or 25 percent of the black vote in 2012 instead of the 5 percent McCain garnered in 2008, this effectively destroys the Democratic Party.

For the Democrats to win national elections, they must win 90 percent of the black vote.

How can Republicans win half or even a majority of the Hispanic vote?

There’s only one way. Run good Hispanic candidates — such as Marco Rubio.

So then the clear winning ticket for the GOP in 2012 is Cain-Rubio.

There’s no reason Hispanics should not be voting conservative. Most Hispanics are culturally conservative. They’re Catholic, pro-life, pro-family and hard-working.

Many churchgoing blacks are pro-life and conservative culturally. I don’t know many blacks who are fans of gay marriage. Many also own small-businesses and should be voting conservative. No group of people has been hurt more by Obamanomics than black America. The unemployment rate among black Americans is now over 16 percent. Many blacks will be open to hearing some new solutions — the kind of ideas Herman Cain is talking about.

But they’re not going to vote for someone who looks and sounds like Mitt Romney — the quintessential stereotype white candidate, with the quaffed hair that never moves, the whole bit.

Non-white voters are just not going to identify with Mitt.

But look what happens when the GOP runs a good Hispanic candidate — such as Susana Martinez in New Mexico. She won her race for Governor in 2010 by a solid 7 points in a state that is 50 percent Hispanic and where Democrats outnumber Republicans 50-32 percent.

That’s the formula for success right there.

The reality is: Many people prefer to vote for their own kind. It’s a tribal thing — especially when it comes to recent immigrants and minorities.

Jack Kennedy won 80 percent of the Irish and Catholic vote in 1960. He only won 38 percent of the Protestant vote. 4.5 million Protestant Democrats crossed party lines to vote for Nixon.

So there’s that tribal thing kicking in again.

It helps to be Jewish if you’re running for office in Brooklyn.  Walter Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate in 1984 in an effort to get both the female and Italian vote.

Romney would have been fine in the 1950s.   He would have fit right in with the culture.  But America has changed a lot since then. America now is only 60 percent white, maybe less. So that leaves 40 percent-plus who don’t look like Mitt Romney.

The Democrats’ playbook is to try to win 70 or even 80 percent of the non-white vote by playing special interest politics, generating resentment against whites, and engaging in class war rhetoric. Obama won 95 percent of the black vote and 66 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008. He only got 43 percent of the white vote, but still won the election by a healthy 7 percent.

There’s only one way to counter this: No more white candidates for us.

There is nothing more dangerous to the liberal coalition than a non-white conservative Republican.

They know that if Republicans start winning, say, 40 percent of the non-white vote, they’re finished as a serious political party. That’s why they will stop at nothing to destroy a conservative black leader.  Look at what they did to Clarence Thomas.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell (who’s white) is already suggesting that Herman Cain is an Uncle Tom, and that he’s not an authentic black because Cain did not participate in the civil rights marches of the 1960s.

Cain-Rubio is the way to go in 2012.

If Rubio’s not interested in being Vice President, go with Susana Martinez. A bonus we get with Martinez is she helps with women; so we get a two-fer.

Blacks will listen to what Herman Cain has to say. Hispanics will listen to Rubio and Martinez. They won’t listen to someone who looks and sounds like Mitt Romney.

Unlike Romney, both Cain and Rubio are solid true-blue Tea Party-style conservatives. So that’s yet another bonus.

Here’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s  Interview with Herman Cain Where O’Donnell Outrageously Tries to Say Cain is Not an Authentic Black American

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