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Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House’s two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined. “They asked a long list of Republicans to come,” Bond continued, “and to a man and woman they said ‘no.’
Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House’s two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined. “They asked a long list of Republicans to come,” Bond continued, “and to a man and woman they said ‘no.’
Where is you outrage, OP, that every single prominent Republican that was invited to speak declined??? (I bet we never see the OP in this thread again.)
Terrible decision by Boehner and Cantor they should have had the day marked on their calender and showed up and spoke. I can see the Bush boys declining with their father being in bad shape and who knows when it will his last day. Bond makes a good point of how are {R}s going to reach out to blacks when they give them the cold shoulder on a very important day for their race. The leaders blew this one.
Granted, he isn't known for being a disgraced Colonel with a penchant for saying idiotic things like Allen West, but really, who is paying the slightest attention to what Scott thinks?
Now, if you had said Connie Rice should be welcome, I'd agree with you. Not only is she one of few republicans who can discuss the issue of civil rights seriously, she's also a great public speaker in general (she was, by far, the best speaker at the 2012 RNC convention as one example)
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