Elbery Guillory is a black State Senator from Opelousas, Louisiana. Recently he left the Democratic party to become a “Republican.”
Obviously, this website has made it abundantly clear what we think about both parties. We’ve also made it abundantly clear we think Guillory (and all politicians of all races) should leave both major political parties. But in Guillory’s defense, he cut an impressive YouTube video outlining his reasons for bolting the Democrats – a video which is instructive on two critical levels.
First (and we hope the S.C. Black Caucus is paying attention to this), Guillory exposes the B.S. Democratic claim that government must be the “benefactor of social justice for all Americans.”
“Programs such as welfare, food stamps, these programs aren’t designed to lift black Americans out of poverty, they were always intended as a mechanism for politicians to control the black community,” he says.
“The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the the government to get ahead in life is despicable,” Guillory adds. “And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they’ve always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them.”
Exactly …
Just as importantly, Guillory offers up a vision for the Republican Party that hinges on individual liberty and free markets – two concepts the GOP seems to have forgotten.
“The individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness free from government dependence and free from government control,” he says. “Because to be truly free is to be reliant on no one other than the author of our destiny. These are the ideas at the core of the Republican Party, and it is why I am a Republican.”
Guillory is correct … these are indeed the ideals at the core of the Republican Party. Unfortunately the politicians the Republican party nominates and supports (i.e. George W. Bush, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, etc.) habitually abandon these ideals.
In fact Republicans are even rejecting market-based reforms and embracing U.S. President Barack Obama’s demonstrably failed education initiatives in the so-called reddest state in the nation.
Anyway, here’s the video …
(Click to play)
(To read Guillory’s remarks in their entirety, click here).
Again … there is no love lost between this website and the Republican Party. We want the party to die, and have said so.
“It’s past time that the GOP’s lily white cadre of dark-suited, red-tied, two-faced, big-spending, liberty-depriving, imperialistic, crony capitalistic, currency manipulating, morally sanctimonious, special interest suckling politwhores went away for good .. and let people who actually stand for the things they claim to stand for take a crack at this,” we wrote last November.
We stand by that comment …
In fact we think it speaks volumes that a black Democrat hit the nail on the head better than any white Republican we’ve ever heard on these issues … on his first day as a member of the party. So props to Elbert Guillory, and lets hope more politicians of all races and all partisan affiliations acknowledge the fundamental primacy of individual freedom and free markets.
***
41 comments
Good for Mr. Guillory for turning his back to the party that so carefully nurtures the culture of poverty so prevalent in America.
Yeah, no disrespect intended. One libtard party to another libtard party. I’m still waiting on someone here to show me the voting record of more than 10 Repuklicrats that don’t vote like Demlicans.
Just saying Jay. It’s not you brother man. :)
Yep. The rat just jumped off one sinking ship and swam to another one…that is sinking faster.
In fairness to him, maybe he’s a true “believer” and thinks he’s “doing good”.
I know man, it’s a two headed snake. I just get giddy when an African American “talks tough” about how detrimental entitlement programs are to the African American community. Too bad “his community” are all out beating each others asses in front of their government subsidized housing and video recording it on their government subsidized phones to later post to youtube from their government subsidized computers, and not paying attention to important topics of the day.
Good for Mr. Guillory for turning his back to the party that so carefully nurtures the culture of poverty so prevalent in America.
Yeah, no disrespect intended. One libtard party to another libtard party. I’m still waiting on someone here to show me the voting record of more than 10 Repuklicrats that don’t vote like Demlicans.
Just saying Jay. It’s not you brother man. :)
Yep. The rat just jumped off one sinking ship and swam to another one…that is sinking faster.
In fairness to him, maybe he’s a true “believer” and thinks he’s “doing good”.
I know man, it’s a two headed snake. I just get giddy when an African American “talks tough” about how detrimental entitlement programs are to the African American community. Too bad “his community” are all out beating each others asses in front of their government subsidized housing and video recording it on their government subsidized phones to later post to youtube from their government subsidized computers, and not paying attention to important topics of the day.
IF FITS had one-tenth the couarge and leadership this man has, you could quit w/ the cheap sensationalism, waffling and patronizing….
Nothing is like the wrath of pop culture and the leftwing radical when an insider goes public about the chains imposed by the democrat party…
We need more like him to break the death grip on our culture…
I’m not sure that the most libertarian of the GOP’s values—however much I agree with them—will resonate with the African American community. Still, maybe this is one piece in a puzzle of rebuilding trust with black people. In the end, we on the right have to come to terms with out sorry history on race before they’ll ever have reason to vote for us. As awkward as it was, and as clumsily as he may have handled it, I still liked Rand Paul’s forum at the HBC a few months back. More of that, please.
I’m not sure that the most libertarian of the GOP’s values—however much I agree with them—will resonate with the African American community. Still, maybe this is one piece in a puzzle of rebuilding trust with black people. In the end, we on the right have to come to terms with out sorry history on race before they’ll ever have reason to vote for us. As awkward as it was, and as clumsily as he may have handled it, I still liked Rand Paul’s forum at the HBC a few months back. More of that, please.
Sanford, a heavily flawed Republican, beat ECB, a top-tier democrat for a seat that the democrats said was un-losable…Then the flood gates of Obama Scandal bust open….
Now a democrat, in the Deep South, exposes the democrat party as a failure… and liberalism is characterized as an ideology of bondage….
So let us pray 2014 is a bountiful election for true Americans, sickened by the hideous path of misery Obama has taken us down…
Brave and courageous. Elbert gets it. It doesn’t even have to be about party, more importantly he articulates the concepts that made this country great. Read his words in their entirety and learn something about Republicanism of old.
Brave and courageous. Elbert gets it. It doesn’t even have to be about party, more importantly he articulates the concepts that made this country great. Read his words in their entirety and learn something about Republicanism of old.
Welfare shouldn’t be meant as a way to “get ahead in life,” it should be to help people who have fallen on hard times, who are incapable of holding work due to a physical or mental handicap, or who are so chronically destitute that they need some kind of assistance for bare necessities, especially in the case of children who can’t help the situation they are in.
If he wants to fight dependence on government, by all means, go for it. Attack welfare fraud. Improve employment opportunities. Stop letting large corporations subsidize their workforces’ compensation on the backs of the taxpayers. Tweak programs to encourage people to find a job.
If he wants to fight it by taking sweeping, indiscriminate cuts to welfare programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich, then he is most assuredly a Republican. If he wants to voucherize Medicare and not care when old people can’t afford health insurance, then he made the right move. If he wants to butcher Social Security in the name of self-reliance, even if that means having a high poverty rate among the elderly in 20-30 years, then I’m sure he’ll find lots of like-minded individuals in his new party. And when these people who depended on government programs have nowhere else to go, at least they’ll have a warm, fuzzy feeling deep down in their hearts that they are now free to starve when they can’t afford groceries, freeze when they can’t afford electricity, and die quickly when they can’t afford their meds.
Do you, at least, agree that people who choose to turn their genitalia into baby factories need to bear some burden or take on just a smidgen of responsibility? Where should the ceiling be? Two kids? Five kids? Fifteen kids?
Hell no. Smirks thinks the gubmint should be paying for eveyones kids, everyones problems and everything is a disease and it’s caring to help them with gumint money.
It gives him/her a ‘…warm, fuzzy feeling deep down…’ to spend other peoples money on someone besides the one that earned it.
Don’t punish the children for the mistakes of the parents.
Welfare should not be. Plain and simple.
Welfare shouldn’t be meant as a way to “get ahead in life,” it should be to help people who have fallen on hard times, who are incapable of holding work due to a physical or mental handicap, or who are so chronically destitute that they need some kind of assistance for bare necessities, especially in the case of children who can’t help the situation they are in.
If he wants to fight dependence on government, by all means, go for it. Attack welfare fraud. Improve employment opportunities. Stop letting large corporations subsidize their workforces’ compensation on the backs of the taxpayers. Tweak programs to encourage people to find a job.
If he wants to fight it by taking sweeping, indiscriminate cuts to welfare programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich, then he is most assuredly a Republican. If he wants to voucherize Medicare and not care when old people can’t afford health insurance, then he made the right move. If he wants to butcher Social Security in the name of self-reliance, even if that means having a high poverty rate among the elderly in 20-30 years, then I’m sure he’ll find lots of like-minded individuals in his new party. And when these people who depended on government programs have nowhere else to go, at least they’ll have a warm, fuzzy feeling deep down in their hearts that they are now free to starve when they can’t afford groceries, freeze when they can’t afford electricity, and die quickly when they can’t afford their meds.
Do you, at least, agree that people who choose to turn their genitalia into baby factories need to bear some burden or take on just a smidgen of responsibility? Where should the ceiling be? Two kids? Five kids? Fifteen kids?
Hell no. Smirks thinks the gubmint should be paying for eveyones kids, everyones problems and everything is a disease and it’s caring to help them with gumint money.
It gives him/her a ‘…warm, fuzzy feeling deep down…’ to spend other peoples money on someone besides the one that earned it.
Don’t punish the children for the mistakes of the parents.
Welfare should not be. Plain and simple.
The GOP going away won’t change anything as the politicians will still be around, they will just don whatever clothing they need to in order to get elected, that’s the reason why we have “Republicans” that act like Democrats, they are Democrats they just call themselves Republicans. VOTERs, now that’s where the changes have to occur, fix that and the ship will right itself.
People that are tired of what is going on politically should get involved at the local level. When the Lexington GOP had the biannual reorganization meetings this spring my precinct, 2,200 eligible voters, had only 6 people show up, four of them were there because of me. A number of precincts had no one show up. Even the most represented precincts only had a dozen or so (the precincts had between 2,000 and 4,000 eligible voters). For Lexington County that meant roughly 100 to 150 people, out of tens of thousands, decide the make up of the party in the county and help produce the crop of candidates that run for local elective offices. Those individuals then nurture and promote for the next level. If you truly are tired of things as they are, get involved. If you don’t get involved you are just looking to gripe for a hobby and would gripe no matter who or what happened.
Excellent point. I’ll have to check this out. Where can I find more information?
Frank,
The Lexington County GOP web site is;
http://www.lexingtongop.com/
and the chairman is Bill Rentiers. The meetings are normally the first Monday of the month. The meetings have been held at different locations lately but are normally announced on the web site or in an email blast ahead of time. Contact Mr. Rentiers and you can be added to the list.
Think of it, less than 200 people decide the direction of the dominant party in a county that has over 110,000 registered voters, talk about the tail wagging the dog. Just 50 people could have a profound impact on the activities of the coounty party. If voters want to take back the government and get it back to a manageable size, this is where to start. In every county, in every state changes are waiting to be made, step in and help make changes.
The GOP going away won’t change anything as the politicians will still be around, they will just don whatever clothing they need to in order to get elected, that’s the reason why we have “Republicans” that act like Democrats, they are Democrats they just call themselves Republicans. VOTERs, now that’s where the changes have to occur, fix that and the ship will right itself.
People that are tired of what is going on politically should get involved at the local level. When the Lexington GOP had the biannual reorganization meetings this spring my precinct, 2,200 eligible voters, had only 6 people show up, four of them were there because of me. A number of precincts had no one show up. Even the most represented precincts only had a dozen or so (the precincts had between 2,000 and 4,000 eligible voters). For Lexington County that meant roughly 100 to 150 people, out of tens of thousands, decide the make up of the party in the county and help produce the crop of candidates that run for local elective offices. Those individuals then nurture and promote for the next level. If you truly are tired of things as they are, get involved. If you don’t get involved you are just looking to gripe for a hobby and would gripe no matter who or what happened.
Excellent point. I’ll have to check this out. Where can I find more information?
Frank,
The Lexington County GOP web site is;
http://www.lexingtongop.com/
and the chairman is Bill Rentiers. The meetings are normally the first Monday of the month. The meetings have been held at different locations lately but are normally announced on the web site or in an email blast ahead of time. Contact Mr. Rentiers and you can be added to the list.
Think of it, less than 200 people decide the direction of the dominant party in a county that has over 110,000 registered voters, talk about the tail wagging the dog. Just 50 people could have a profound impact on the activities of the coounty party. If voters want to take back the government and get it back to a manageable size, this is where to start. In every county, in every state changes are waiting to be made, step in and help make changes.
Follow the money. What is he going to gain…personally?
Follow the money. What is he going to gain…personally?
It wasn’t his first day as a member of the party. He was a registered Republican until 2007 and became a Democrat to win an election in a heavily Democratic district. Hell of a guy.
It wasn’t his first day as a member of the party. He was a registered Republican until 2007 and became a Democrat to win an election in a heavily Democratic district. Hell of a guy.
Same message Malcolm X gave in the 1960s, but for some reason conservatives didn’t like it then.
Well if Malcolm X had the same message in the 60’s and it didn’t get any traction from his believers and others then, and Obama’s presidency hasn’t effected an era of increased personal responsibility among his countrymen, who is the appropriate message bearer?
I don’t know. Bill Cosby tried too.
The odd part though is that conservatives hated one such messenger (X) but seem to like this one.
But conservatives have done this before, witness their vastly different receptions to Booker T. Washington’s and WEB DuBois’s “bootstraps and responsibility” messages.
Well if Malcolm X had the same message in the 60’s and it didn’t get any traction from his believers and others then, and Obama’s presidency hasn’t effected an era of increased personal responsibility among his countrymen, who is the appropriate message bearer?
Same message Malcolm X gave in the 1960s, but for some reason conservatives didn’t like it then.
Well if Malcolm X had the same message in the 60’s and it didn’t get any traction from his believers and others then, and Obama’s presidency hasn’t effected an era of increased personal responsibility among his countrymen, who is the appropriate message bearer?
I don’t know. Bill Cosby tried too.
The odd part though is that conservatives hated one such messenger (X) but seem to like this one.
But conservatives have done this before, witness their vastly different receptions to Booker T. Washington’s and WEB DuBois’s “bootstraps and responsibility” messages.