Will a minority candidate need to be conservative to be elected President? [View All]

[mac56]

The cliche I've always heard, over and over, goes like this:

"The first (woman, African-American, Latino-American...you fill in the blank) to be elected President will have to be a conservative. Not a liberal: the voters won't be ready to accept that much change at one time."

I've heard this so many times I've lost count. I hope to God it's not true.

On the other hand, JFK was elected as the first Catholic President, and he was a liberal Democrat. Then again, that was 46 years ago.

Help me out here. Izitso? Must it be so?