Are Mia Love and Deneen Borelli The Michael Steeles Of This Election?

June 29th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

Source: adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com and foxnews.com

Somebody should put out an Amber Alert for Michael Steele, possibly even Herman Cain because ever since the Republicans decided they didn’t need these two men to be their little black puppets anymore, they have completely disappeared from the mainstream. But two people have seemingly risen from the ashes to take their place: Mia Love and Deneen Borelli.  You could call these women the black Sarah Palins of the 2012 election because like the Republicans dug up the Alaskan governor in 2008 to prove they were young mavericks ready for change, the Tea Party has pushed these women to the forefront of their movement to prove they’re not the racist faction they’ve come to be known as.

I don’t follow politics enough to know just what kind of movers and shakers Mia and Deneen were in their respective states of Utah and New York but it’s obvious that they weren’t on the national radar before their present affiliation with the Tea Party and its goal of bringing black folks into the fold, i.e. which means before this week nobody except republicans really knew who they were. But now, Deneen has been appointed by FreedomWorks to specifically recruit minorities to the movement and Mia hopes that she will become the first-ever black Republican woman elected to Congress. Not trying to paint republicans with the same brush stroke but since when did they care about giving black people some power? Oh, right it’s an election year.

Regardless of the motive, the question on everyone’s minds is will it work? For one, it’s not as though everyone can’t see through this whole front. This is the same group of people who allowed Michelle Bachmann to inform us that we were better off during slavery. They can’t possibly think we’d forgotten that could they? Although considering Mia and Deneen have, there are bound to be a few more like-minded negros out there I’m sure they presume.

Speaking on the underlying basis of the Tea Party and their philosophy of cutting spending to government assistance programs which we all know mostly minorities rely on, Erin Gloria Ryan wrote on Jezebel.com:

“Tea Partiers who think that the addition of black women to its ranks will cure its public relations problem are sadly misinformed about minority voters’ ability to detect the smell of pandering. Just as fiscal responsibility is colorblind, so is bulls***. And just because Deneen Borelli and Mia Love are intelligent black women doesn’t mean they don’t have some terrible ideas.”

Perhaps the Tea Party believes that since so many African Americans gladly stated they voted for President Obama just because he’s black, black people will start believing the Tea Party has their back just because these two women are black. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that’s not going to happen. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure what will happen when their goal isn’t met around November 6, 2012. Mia and Deneed will be shunned and disappear back into the shadows they came from like every other present-day black republican whose been used up and forgotten by the Grand Old Party when they failed to meet their lofty, transparent goals.

What do you think about Mia Love and Deneen Borelli’s sudden rise to fame via the Tea Party?

Brande Victorian is the news and operations editor for madamenoire.com. Follow her on twitter @Be_Vic.

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  • Ferice

    “I don’t follow politics enough to know just what kind
    of movers and shakers Mia and Deneen were in their respective states of Utah
    and New York” – Why should anyone believe anything you said? You
    surely have not followed politics if you only heard of them two weeks ago. You
    have the nerve to compare them to Sarah Palin when you don’t know their
    background. How could you make a fair and honest comparison? Have you ever had a conversation with any of
    the women whom who’ve referred to in your article? FYI — Sarah Palin may not
    be what everyone else expected her to be, but she was a darn good Governor –
    You can check the state record as far as economy and crime rate. There
    are few folks who’ve been disrespectful to the president, and I believe
    democrats would have happened given a black republican president. I’ve seen and heard lots of racist things Mr.
    Thomas, Steel, or Cain? I guess black
    folks have forgotten how racist democrats were then, and we did not start
    voting for them until the the 60s. The democrat started to support civil right
    - It was the main reason why Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party. Then, black folks start voting democrats
    instead of republicans. I commend these women for having the courage to stand
    up for what they believe in!!!! If you
    really care about black folks, I believe cutting Government care is the right
    thing to do too. It’ll force Leroy and Shaniqua to get a job and be responsible
    adult.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000806423682 Michael Dean

      I can respond. And I’ll ‘have the nerve’ to tell you that I’ve followed BOTH. Esp. that jerk, Borelli. And their both so driven by wanting to be “accepted”, I believe either one would back-stab their own parents, but to be patted on the head, and told how “intelligent, and articulate” they were… ironically by the very people that–is she were to be brought home by their same “admirer’s ” brothers, fathers, sons–would, at best, pull them aside, asking them “what the hell were you thinking?!”

  • FromUR2UB

    (looking perplexed) Black people are as diverse a group as any other, with a broad array of backgrounds and experiences. That’s a good thing because I don’t expect blacks to be monolithic in thought. Yet, as diverse as we are, it seems to me that one would have to have an out of body experience, and continue existing outside oneself to be so detached from the blatant racism of the Tea Party. They can argue from sun up to sundown, that their dislike of the president is about policy, economics, the direction of the country, or whatever. But what does referring to the president as a monkey, have to do with any of those? Which economic theory pertains to that? Why “monkey”?
    When name-calling and taunts have been so much of what the Tea Party has been about, then how are we supposed to respect them as group with legitimate and earnest interests in the country now? When the Republican party has been driving the attempts to prevent democrats from exercising the right to vote, then how am I supposed to get behind that? Is this what these two women “believe” in?. I don’t understand how any Republican doesn’t feel embarrassed to be associated with this group. How anyone black embraces this is beyond me.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000806423682 Michael Dean

      Well written response.

  • Simply Shan

    It’s gonna take more than a couple of puppets to get my vote. What happened to the republican party? Back in the late 1800′s and early 1900′s the use to be for the people? My have time changed!

    • unvle c

      The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the game. LBJ signed the act and the Dems excluding the Dixiecrats ran to the red aisle.

      • uncle c

        Correction the Dixiecrats ran.

  • newsjunkie

    It’s safe to say that Mia Love will probably head to Congress, she’s the current frontrunner right now. However, if they hope to draw more blacks to the Tea Party, it’s a waste of time. Mia Love will probably turn into the female version of Allen West while Borelli will remain with Fox News as a correspondent.

  • Nicolet75

    I don’t identify with today’s republican party but, historically speaking before the civil rights movement black folk were typically republican. Even today if you truly interview them, most blacks are quite socially and politically conservative. Far more so than todays democratic party.