The moderate-conservative Republican blogger in Louisiana opines about the community activist and ex-con who won the Republican primary last week for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s old U.S. Congressional seat in Chicagoland. Mainstream media has not embraced Paul McKinley's claimed rehabilitation from his armed robbery past, and the local Republican Party opposes his win: "Herein lies the dilemma.
Inner city reformers like McKinley are representative of life within these Democrat-held areas. While purists balk at his diction, it is the same language spoken daily in an America few Republicans dare visit."
More commentary from Mr. Enzi, about Mr. McKinley: "His advocacy against Chicago's infamous 'Machine' and support of traditional marriage and gun rights are what the inner city needs to hear more from its embattled traditionalists.
He can't be dismissed as a trust fund baby.
He can't be accused of acting 'too White' (a usual Democrat charge) for such an urban district. He knows life there with an intimacy few critics or even distant supporters can match. Very rarely do people escape such hopelessness.
In Paul McKinley, America witnesses a truly Hood conservative who has lived the worst of the inner city and now wants to help save it.
Sounds good to me."
Nadra Enzi: "Why Paul McKinley's Hood Conservatism Is Good For The Republican Party & The Inner City"
