Posted on 02/24/2008 1:37:15 PM PST by lowbridge
No political party can prevail nationally on Anglo votes alone, so the long-term danger to Republicans is that their party is sending a message to Latinos that it doesn't want us.
"There has been too much of an anti-immigration tone," Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Belart, a South Florida Republican congressmen, told USA Today. "When people start to perceive that immigrants are being put in the same category as a threat to national security, it's hard to get your message across."
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"Bush has worked incredibly hard for his Hispanic vote share. He reversed historic Republican Party positions on issues of importance to Hispanics and showed a willingness to listen to the needs of the Latino community."
That respectful romance with Latinos ended abruptly in the lead up to the November 2006 elections, when extremists on immigration hijacked the GOP.
One of them, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, may wish he had taken a more moderate stance instead of essentially adopting the position of the Minutemen and similar radical anti-immigration groups. These groups promulgate their wildly exaggerated portrayal of a cascade of brown people overwhelming our southern borders, running loose to rape, steal and murder on the streets of our cities.
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This bum never voted GOP. Too busy asking Harry Reems for his mustache tips.
Yeah, I can see his point. Refusing to surrender to an invasion force is so radical and extremist... to professional numbnuts like Jeraldo.
It’s all about ME ME ME.
Riiigght....Jerry was for the GOP, except for “immigration” issues that changed him.
Oh riiiiight...wanting to kick out illegal aliens is "extremist" only when it's Americans giving them the boot.
I think Hugh Hewitt once said it best (not specifically about Horrendo, as it turns out, but it fits):
“The respect of some people is not worth having.”
How the DNC lost voters like me (Grimmy’s view)
I just can’t stand a politcal organization that wont go the final measure and call itself what it is. If the DNC is gonna quack like a bunch of commie bastards, they should just come out and be commie bastards.
Can’t stand radical halfassedness.
Anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant tone, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Belart. Anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant.
Get it through your thick skull.
Stupid Republicans.
I don’t believe what Jerry Rivera tells me when he has video to back it up. I sure don’t trust him when he tells me about his imperfect memory of his imperfect voting preferences.
We let him immigrate from Puerto Rico. He should feel lucky that we went that far.
Jerry Rivers was a ‘911 Republican’ - voted for Bush because of his War on Terror stance. I would be willing to bet in local and house/senate races, Jerry was and is a pretty staunch Dim.
This is the same jackass that accompanied a high risk patrol in Afghanistan and then set up lights for his live shot after they settled into their night security position.
This retard is a danger to himself and others.
Thank God for Senator Cornyn.
He's having to fight US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Tx. Gov. Rick Perry who are finding ways not to get a Texas border fence built.
This is a good sign for the GOP. Geraldo is a POS.
Anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant tone, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Belart. Anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant.
I will admit there were and are a few fringe anti-immigrant racist nut-cases that joined in on the anti-illegal crusade. Most of us in the anti-illegal movement went out of our way to decry these people and disown them. Of course, the media always went out of their way to find these folks and feature them as 'the typical anti-illegal activist'.
Which of course opened teh door for asshats like Graham to call all of us anti-illegal voters bigots. Mmmmm, boy, that really encourages warm feelings of party unity and loyalty, being called a bigot by a party leader.
Whenever an article has a first person pronoun in the title, you can count on it being written by Whoreraldo or the Rapist-in-Chief.
When did the lying, blabbering fool Whoraldo ever vote Republican?
For that matter, in what presidential race did a majority of Latinos ever vote Republican?
Jerry Rivers was always a lefty.
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Oh really, when was Jerry a Republican?
He’s such a dope.
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