The Minority GOP - I've

The Minority GOP - I've predicted it in this space before: the first black president, the first woman president, the first black or female governor of the state of Minnesota, will much more than likely be Republicans.

George Will comments on the same idea:

Before the 2000 election, the most prominent African American in public life was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is prominent because of a Republican, the first President Bush. Never have African Americans been as prominent in a presidential administration as they are in the current one, given the war against terrorism and the prominence of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice in the waging of it. Before the war eclipsed domestic policy, the president was particularly interested in education policy, which is the purview of Secretary of Education Rod Paige, an African American.

Britain's Conservative Party gave the country a Jewish prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, and a female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. The second African American elected governor of an American state since Reconstruction -- Douglas Wilder was the first, in Virginia in 1989 -- may come from America's conservative party, the ranks of whose elected and appointed officials are decreasingly monochrome. And the successes of African American Republicans in statewide elections will begin to produce modest -- and tremendously consequential -- Republican gains among African Americans in presidential elections.

Bit by bit, the erosion of Democrat hegemony in the minority community is beginning.

And I think the Dems know this. The race-baiting out there is getting more vituperative. And desperate. I'm already on record predicting that Condi Rice will be the first black AND first female president, and that Pat Awada will be either our first female governor or our first female senator.

This is something we'll follow as the next election progresses.

(Via Powerline)

Posted by Mitch at April 27, 2003 07:28 AM