VOTING AWAY STEREOTYPES

Last week's election results revealed the inaccuracies of 2 themes that the Democrats, the liberal media, and even some Republicans, have pounded incessantly since Obama's election.

The first theme pounded like a drum solo states that the Republican Party is irrrelevant, that they cannot get elected, and that they are a political party that will soon be relegated to permanent runner-up status. Really? On November 4th, the GOP padded its majority in the House of Representitives, regained the majority in the Senate, added more governors, which now total 31 of the 50 states, and elected more candidates on the state level than anytime in the past 100 years.Does that add up to runner-up status?

The second theme regurgitated by the Dems and the liberal media is that the Republican Party is composed of "old white guys," and that the Dems are the only party with a big tent that encompasses Blacks, Hispanics and women. What happened in this past election?  Mia Love of Utah became the first Republican black woman elected to Congress. Tim Scott became the first black senator from the south to be elected sine the Reconstruction. In Texas, Will Hurd, another black candidate,  won a Congressional seat. In my own home state of Indiana, three Republican women were elected  to the state House, and a Republican woman captured the office of Secretary of State.

While these are not huge numbers, they do indicate a crack in the wall of African American political loyalties, andit gives the lie to the belief that Republicans do not want black or female candidates. The GOP has much more work yet to do, but slowly and surely the old stereotypes trumpeted by Dems and liberal journalists are beginning to fade the way all stereotypes should.