Barry's about as conservative as they come. It's funny, you look at a lot of middle-class black folks in PG County, and they really should be a natural fit with the GOP on paper. The problem is that the GOP cannot win elections without its core group of racists, and, as is clear by the laughably low number of african-americans who vote for the GOP, there's no real way to engage in the kind of dog-whistle appeal to racists while attracting blacks in any number.