Posted on 11/26/2008 6:42:32 AM PST by AJKauf
Republicans need to re-brand their party and convince Hispanics they’re welcome. If they believe their ideas on education, economics, defense, trade, foreign policy, and other issues are superior, let them make that case to Hispanics. That doesn’t mean ditching their core principles, but it might mean changing their tone. It doesn’t mean alienating core voters, but it does means being more inclusive.
And it doesn’t mean giving up the party’s opposition to illegal immigration. Polling suggests that Hispanics will go along with enforcement measures that seem reasonable such as increasing the number of border patrol agents and giving them resources. The GOP doesn’t need to sign on to open borders. But it wouldn’t hurt to open a few minds within the party.
Specifically, there are five things that Republicans did which cost them Hispanic support....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
#6...didn’t promise free stuff.
Great first comment on the article. GET IN LINE! First you have to win back me-a white Christian pro-life conservative. Then you can worry about going after others.
Say what? This is total tripe! Run your party and your campaign and your life on Conservative ideals. I’m NOT interested in trying to coax a bunch of taco-breath Mexicans to join our cause because we have to promise them goodies.
Screw these illegals. All they want is a handout and to take over the Western half of the US.
If they had backed off, seen the error of repeating the 1986 with amnesty now for a promise of border enforcement in the future and gone to shut down the border first, allow new farm and work visas to those requesting them and having job offers already in hand, and considering how to handle the illegals here, it might have worked. Instead they pushed for a hurried bill through Congress without proper investigation of the costs and the citizens melted the Congressional phone lines.
What was the emergency that required amnesty to be passed by Memorial Day 2007 and not one day later? I think the supporters just didn't want it carefully considered so the feigned an emergency and lit a fire of opposition.
Nonsense. The only mistakes the GOP made that lost Hispanics are the same mistakes they made that lost everyone else:
* Overspending
* Not fighting for smaller government
* Not fighting against redistribution
* Not purging the currupt
"* They made language and culture the issue rather than illegality, which irked U.S.-born Hispanics who might otherwise have stayed out of the fray;"
BS. It was always about illegals. The minutemen weren't out to stop Cinco de Mayo and soccer-they were out to stop illegal immigration.
" * They let the debate digress from one that was anti-illegal immigration to one that was anti-immigrant to, finally, one that was anti-Hispanic;"
The media framed it that way on purpose for obvious reasons-it works-sadly even on convincing pajamas media that it was all about racism and not illegals.
"* They fell into the trap of offering simple solutions to what remains a complicated problem;"
Building a wall and enforcing the law is not complicated-never was.
" * They either assumed that Hispanics were not in play or that they could win some of those votes on the cheap with a spattering of Spanish ads."
The Spanish ads only cost them votes with their base.
“They didn’t condemn the racism in their ranks on the part of those who believe that Hispanic immigrants are inferior to the immigrants of old”
Where was it? Some YOUTube video of people yelling at a counter protester? Pllllllllease.
Hispanics who are overwhelmingly Catholic and the Jewish need to examine their conscience before they vote. No Jew or Christian worth their weight in salt should have ever voted for Hussein or any other pro-abortion candidate! PERIOD!
I've had it about being inclusive! What about being here legally, speaking English (the language of our country, commerce, etc.) not stealing IDs to work and get government freebies, do these people NOT understand?
As to being inclusive, exactly what IS their problem?????
Inquiring minds want to know (except we already know about THAT one), it means we roll over on our values, lay down and play dead (just as gays are insisting over Prop. 8 on marriage.)
Remember, all they wanted was to "live their own lives the way that they wished" then we find out that means scrapping millions of years of marriage tradition to accomodate whatever is their latest craze - does marrying one's horse come next - if so, are we again not being "inclusive" to the gays?
But being truthful about Obama's pro abortion/pro infanticide history would have been "mean spirited" and not an "honorable" way to run his campaign.
Contrary to what some have posted, there was nothing in the article to suggest that Hispanics wanted a pay-off to vote for Republicans. There are many Latino (and Filipino and Asian) small businessmen and women who are very entrepnurial and culturally conservative. Our message to them on these issues should resonate. We must make it clear that our ideas our good for all people, white, black, brown,... If we let ourselves be identified as the party of only white Southerners, the electoral map of 11/4/08 will be repeated over and over.
This is Ruben Navarette, the repulsive open borders cockroach from Southern California.
This is the equivalent of Rahm Emmanuel telling us how to elect Republicans.
Exactly. Not enough Hispandering.
The article wanted desperately to blame republicans and not the media for the various perceptions of how the Republicans were viewed by others. The party has no voice, it is the media that does it all.
Imagine yourself a fence sitter and deciphering all you know about Republicans was gleaned from the MSM. You would quickly find yourself in the Obama camp. At least he was offering something.
I’m of the mind that a candidate offering anything but principles I can believe in and which are a part of the foundation upon which the country was built, is offering too much. Not everyone is made that way.
Then there is that branch of the disloyal Republicans who wouldn’t vote for this or that candidate because they are stuck on what the media says, right or wrong. We saw lots of evidence during the primaries.
How to take on the media and their distortions as well as their half truths, and deception, intended to make them the ships compass, is the real answer to the dilemma.
Yeah, let’s take advice from an open-borders Quisling.
Hey, Naverette- Kiss my nativist grits you racist bastard.
Well said. But a bunch of people around here think Tom Tancredo and Pat Bucahann should be the face of the Republican Party.
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