Posted on 09/24/2008 2:09:58 PM PDT by GoingBacktoCali
Well, at least if you're a Latino who supports democracies, that is. Yesterday here in New York, VP candidate Sarah Palin met with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Thank you Governor Palin. Thank you for taking the time to sit down with Colombia's president and showing the respect to listen to the democratically elected leader of one of our most important allies. And thank you President Bush for greeting Colombia's president warmly on Saturday and having your Commerce Secretary do the same.
I can't thank any Democrats for doing the same, though. Even though Uribe's concerns are not partisan ones, but ones that will benefit both countries. Investor's Business Daily reported yesterday on this shocking refusal of leading Democrats to give Uribe the time of day.
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As I said before the great erasure, If they’re legal American citizens, more power to them. If they’re illegals, they need to go back to their home countries and stand for democracy there.
My post was more about how they should vote, rather than how they will vote. I agree that McCain clearly will not get a majority of the Latino vote.
Of course I am talking about legal citizens.
I agree. They won’t vote Republican and there’s no reason Republicans should keep appeasing them. Tell them to go to He!!, they aren’t doing the Republican Party or the Nation any good.
There are many reasons for hispanics to vote Republican; lower taxes, pro-life, pro-Christian values, etc. Why are Republicans are trying to pander to pro-illegal leftist hispanic groups to get the hispanic vote? Are they going to appease the pro-abortion crowd to get the woman vote? Are they going to appease the racial quota crowd to get the black vote?
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