Newt Gingrich is the most anti-white candidate in the GOP presidential field. In fact, he may be one of the most anti-white Republicans ever. It is true that 81 percent of the jobs Rick Perry says he brought to Texas went to newly arrived immigrants (93 percent of whom were illegals), and he says that denying in-state tuition to illegals is heartless, but Newt Gingrich makes the him look like Tom Tancredo by comparison.
In the 2010 midterm elections, nearly 90 percent of votes for Republicans were cast by whites. John McCain’s support was of an identical complexion. Writing for The New York Times, Thomas Edsall, like Steve Sailer and Pat Buchanan before him, has dubbed the GOP “The White Party.” But rather than consolidating his proven white base and welcoming white working class voters who are increasingly defecting to the GOP, Newt Gingrich seems determined to dispossess that base while mollycoddling groups that will never vote for his party in significant numbers.
Since Ronald Reagan’s second term, Mr. Gingrich has been a proponent of the “Opportunity Society” platform that encourages property ownership. This was the prototype for President George W. Bush’s “Ownership Society,” which, in practice, meant lower mortgage standards for minorities, with an eye to winning Hispanic support.
Mr. Gingrich’s pandering is not limited to Hispanics. In 1997, when J.C. Watts called Jesse Jackson and then D.C. mayor Marion Barry “race hustling poverty pimps,” then-Speaker Gingrich apologized to Mr. Jackson on behalf of Congressman Watts, and invited him to sit in the Speaker’s gallery with his (second) wife during the State of the Union speech. In 2009, Mr. Gingrich teamed up with Al Sharpton for a five-city education tour “aimed at bridging the achievement gap for minorities in schools.”
Presidential candidates are fond of saying “my record speaks for itself.” In the case of Newt Gingrich, this is certainly true, and whites would do well to study his record closely before pulling the lever next year.
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