Republicans have a great opportunity in 2010 to do serious damage to the Democrats’ reliance on black voters as part of their voting-bloc-coalition.

Democrats count on their voters remaining blindly loyal identity voters, where blacks, Jews, gays, and other subgroups never think of voting Republican, because they were taught since birth that Republicans are evil and Democrats are good.

We used to think that way too, as gay men who grew up in Democrat households in the midwest.

All of that changed in 2008, when we saw how awful the DNC behaved itself, with our final break with the party coming on May 31st, 2008 when the Rules & Bylaws Committee met in Washington DC and took delegates away from Hillary Clinton and gave them to the DNC’s chosen candidate, Dr. Utopia.

That was it for us, folks, in terms of blind loyalty to the Democrat Party.  Our eyes were opened, and we haven’t looked back since.

We know we aren’t alone in this either.

But, there are other opportunities out there for Republicans to drive wedges between the DNC and blind party voters.

One ripe opportunity is running black candidates for Congress in blue states with heavy black populations.  Wherever you have big cities, you have large concentrations of both black voters (who will vote for a black candidate regardless of party, since race trumps party affiliation for them) and urban, liberal elites (who are so terrified of being called RAAACISTS, they will not vote against a black candidate regardless of party). If Republicans run black candidates who are credible, non-crazy people (so, not Alan Keyes), and the campaigns are professional-looking and not half-hearted, we don’t see how Republicans would lose.

The black candidates have to be conservative, so the Republicans who love sitting elections out “to teach the RNC lessons” (which are never learned) can’t have the excuse of sitting their butts home.  With normal conservative turnout in a blue state, combined with votes pealed away from Democrats in the black community, plus votes urban liberal elites either cast for the black candidate or waste sitting home (because they can’t bear the thought of voting against a black candidate), Republicans win.

What would be REALLY smart would be to find black WOMEN to run as Republicans.

Recruit them from big law firms in the major cities, or use Congressional staff or media people and business women. There are more successful black business women than Oprah or Gayle King.

This is another reason we want young gay Republicans like Congressman Aaron Schock to come out of the closet, too.  Just like with the black community, Republicans could drive a wedge between the DNC and the gay community as well…if they ran candidates that are attractive to conservatives while also appealing to liberals in niche demographics (who won’t vote against these people for identity reasons, even if they can’t necessarily be made to vote FOR them).  Schock could defeat Dick Durbin in 2014 if he came out:  as a white gay Republican, he’d never get the black vote because the black community is the most homophobic and racist segment of voters in the country.  But, closeted, Schock’s not getting the black vote anyway.  He WOULD, however, force Boystown to have a meltdown, and with it the Gold Coast, Northside, Loop, and most of Cook County.  How do they vote against a nice looking, smart, affable gay man?  A lot of these voters would sit home…and if Republicans just do 4% better in Cook County than they typically do, they’d win the state.  The conservative downstate vote, Republican base, independents, and depressed Dem turnout would win that Senate seat for Schock in a few years.  But, only if he’s a niche identity candidate appealing to the gay market in this state where liberal Chicago dominates.

Notice, we are not advising Republicans to adopt any liberal principles.  Republicans lose when they try to be Democrat-lite.

Republicans win when they offer a clear alternative to spendthrift liberalism, but do so without getting into messy social issues…and can present their message in a package that’s attractive to low-information identity voters who see a candidate’s skin color and sexuality first and foremost on the ballot.  Conservatives need to be energized in the blue states, and liberals need to have depressed turnout generated by Republican candidates they find it hard to vote against, hard to hate, lest they open themselves up to being called RAAACISTS and bigots.

So, Republicans need black women and young handsome gay male candidates. A crop of those, and an Aaron Schock out of the closet, would make Rahm Emanuel apoplectic.