I haven’t seen a potentially more tone deaf statement ever written, and it smacks of the kind of “target audience” nonsense that marketing (and in this case, political consultants) use to cash big checks while their clients make an ass of themselves. Stating that X is already an ideal conservative voter, but just doesn’t know it, is simply an excuse to get on the “the message, not the meaning, is the problem” bandwagon. After all, if everyone is a secret conservative and doesn’t know it, we don’t really have to change anything do we?

“It is a fact that the GOP represents the interests of East Asians better than the Democratic Party.”

Clearly it isn’t, and trying to lead off a conversation with an individual, let alone a segment of the population, by pointing out their idiots isn’t fruitful. It’s why Democratic rhetoric that talks about “people voting against their own interest” falls flat so often, and one reason why, semantically, Obama tried to pivot away from it (with the exception of the clinging to bibles and guns statement that fell like a ton of bricks).

What we do know, as a FACT, is that Democrats do represent East Asians better. After all, they do seem to continue voting for them. Is it possible that they’re all secretly yearning to get that subliminal message from the RNC, and turn on into Republicans? Maybe. But I’m guessing most of them are fairly rational, and are voting for their interests, even if their “interests” aren’t what people have assigned them.

And to contradict what the original blog author stated, oddly enough Democrats have started winning both the Jewish vote AND the Muslim vote. Certainly some of the accusations of pandering ring true in the case of Democrats, but with a majority of Jewish politicians on the federal level being Democrats, and the only two federal level Muslims being Democrats, something must be working for them.

But seriously, I’ve heard plenty of people say that the Democratic Party was the party of, or for, Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, etc. The GOP became the party of Whites by default. Now some, like the folks over at Vdare say that the GOP should become the party of the Whites in fact. The GOP has had outreach to non-whites for years. Perhaps it’s hopeless, but it’s not for want of trying. It is a fact that the GOP represents the interests of East Asians better than the Democratic Party.

There’s this thing, it’s called ‘non-white’. The GOP has worked very, very hard to be the Party of White Men; this has had some obvious effects. Notice that the GOP is well along in the process of p*ssing off Hispanics, which was the one ‘non-white’ group it had a chance to break parity in.

IMHO, this is due to a multi-decade strategy of concentrating on a base which was more and more narrow, in a country which was slowly growing more and more diverse.

“It’s particularly odd that the Japanese vote for the party of Roosevelt, who interned them. ”

That would be because the Democratic party is the party of civil rights, while the GOP is the party of laughing at Gitmo, enthusiasm about torture, and sh*tting on the Bill of Rights.

But on the topic of groups who actually should be voting with the right but don’t, what about East Asians? It’s always amazed me that Chinese and Japanese Americans tend to vote for the Democrats. It’s particularly odd that the Japanese vote for the party of Roosevelt, who interned them.

Politically, East Asians have several excellent qualities. They are generally affluent, educated and willing to engage in communal enterprise. They have “Confucian” values of thrift, work, and orderliness. Many (most?) are Christian and believe in what we now call family values. While immigration and dual loyalty may be a stumbling block issues I don’t think they are necessarily a deadly one. The issue of hidden university admission quotas is very much on their minds at the moment.

Apart from mere political opportunism there is a real case to be made for an alliance between East Asians and Caucasian Americans.