Mia Love has a killer smile and a winning personality. Who, you ask? She's from Utah. A Republican, Mormon...and Black. Born in New York to Haitian immigrants, she just may be the first African-American GOP Congresswoman ever to be elected in the US. She's already been the first Black Mayor from that Grand Ole Party elected in Utah and, mark my words, she's going places nationally. Love is most certainly a game-changer.
But the game-changing aspect is not simply that she may be the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress; it's that the Republican party itself is actively transforming itself before our eyes. Mia Love is not an anomaly but part of the new face of the party. She is 37 years old, in an interracial marriage, mother of three, living in Utah. Imagine the possibility of a not so distant future in which Mitt Romney wins, becoming the first Mormon President. His VP, the very conservative Marco Rubio from Florida, a first-generation Cuban American, is as right-wing as we have in this country. But he's Hispanic and will sway voters on that fact, irregardless of his views. Congresswoman Mia Love will be leading the charge for family values, fiscal responsibility and personal responsibility.
I will relish the photo the GOP will flaunt of the Romney family standing tall with the Rubios-- Marco and Jeannette, his blond, former Dolphin cheerleader wife and their four kids next to the interracial Loves. That's America today and it's not the Dems that will be leading.
The GOP bombed with Sarah Palin in the last election. But with LOVE on their side, success may be at hand...Dems need to pick up the pace if they think otherwise.
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