Posted on 06/07/2012 6:54:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
No wonder Republicans can't even get 40 percent of Latino votes in a presidential election.
When Mitt Romney made his first big push to appeal to Latinos earlier this week in Texas, he hammered the "Obama economy" for being "particularly hard on Hispanic businesses and Hispanic Americans."
He pointed out the grim statistics -- an unemployment rate for Latinos of 11 percent and a poverty rate of 30 percent. And he stressed that the Obama regime's economic policies are hostile to the small businesses and entrepreneurs that traditionally provide many of the jobs in the Hispanic community.
Everything Romney said was true. But he delivered the wrong message in the wrong place. Texas is a Republican stronghold. Romney couldn't lose the Lone Star State this fall if he promised on Day One of his presidency to outlaw cattle, oil and gas.
Where Mitt should be stumping for Latino votes is in the contested states of Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Florida. That's where the election is going to be won or lost. That's where the Latinos he needs to persuade are concentrated.
Unfortunately for Romney, he's in serious trouble with Latinos. According to a poll last month, he trails Obama 61 to 27 percent among Latinos. It's nothing new. Latinos generally vote 2-1 Democrat.
In 2004, Republicans thought they went to heaven when President Bush got 44 percent of the Latino vote. But in 2008 it was back to the usual slaughter. Obama and Biden out-pointed McCain and Palin among Latinos by a margin of 67-31.
It's hard to blame Latinos for not liking Republicans. The GOP only pays attention to them in election years. And when it courts the Latino community, the GOP doesn't shape its message to fit their needs or appeal to their conservative family values; it delivers tired economic boilerplate about the benefits of lower taxes.
Romney needs to customize and personalize his message to Latinos voters. He also badly needs someone in his party to help him deliver it. If that sounds like a job for Super Marco Rubio, it's not. Everyone's favorite VP pick isn't the only Latino kid on the Republican block.
Have you heard of Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico and Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada? Didn't think so. Don't feel bad. Apparently no one in the GOP has either.
In 2010 Martinez and Sandoval -- young, smart, popular and Latino -- won easily in heavily Latino states. As Republicans. Both obviously figured out how to appeal to the independent and Democrat voters.
Sandoval beat Harry Reid's son in a state that's 26 percent Latino. Martinez was elected in a state that's half Latino and has three times as many Democrats as Republicans. How did she win the New Mexico governor's office?
Not by talking about the differences between Democrats and Republicans. Not about talking about taxes. She won by appealing to the values that Republicans and Latinos share: Who are we as a country? Where are we going?
Today Martinez has a 70 percent approval rating and is the unsung hero of the Republican Party. She's the first elected Latina governor in the history of the United States, and the GOP can't seem to find her even though she is right there in plain view.
Romney shouldn't necessarily pick Martinez as his VP, as some have suggested. But he should pick her brain. And when Mitt goes courting Latino votes in tough toss-up states like Colorado or Florida, the GOP should make sure Martinez or Sandoval is attached to his hip.
Deep down, Republican Blue Bloods have contempt for Latinos. They are Catholic, dirty, ignorant, scum, dontcha know. The Romney and the ePub problem stems from Northeastern WASP prejudices. Romney assimilated into that world, indeed, already his father had assimilated partly into that world. Mormon Schmormon, Romney’s a Northeast Blue Blood, at least in part. He needs to bust out of that bigotry. But when you make millions and schmillions of dollars and start moving and shaking in the circles inhabited by schmillionaires, it becomes pretty hard to maintain much empathy for the peons, whether assimilated Hispanics or just plain olde midwestern cracker farmers.
Martinez for Veepee!!!!
But gollies...
Willie Mitty was for the AMNESTY Bill...
“We cant send them all back”
“We must find a path to citizenship”
"Tired boilerplate"? Lower taxes means more freedom, and that beats the hell out of the establishment's typical sales pitch of amnesty for illegals.
Alot less insulting, as well.
I know the opinion journalists on MSNBC believe this, but seriously, do you?
"The Mitter" intends to confer citizenship on every identity a Third Worlder comes up with......gosh, that sure would be a lotta votes (/snix).
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES There's loads of parasitic ID brokers getting rich selling fake ID's to "impoverished" border violators for several thousand dollars each. Juan Madrigal--the Wash/state rapist--had some 30 identities. Another illegal used multiple identities to bilk UI of several million dollars.
Let's see----two illegals---that equals some 40-50 votes (/snix).
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LET'S APPLAUD FLORIDA'S EFFORT TO SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM MARAUDING BANDS OF THIRD WORLDERS AND THE OBAMA DOJ. Obama, and other vote-crazed US politicians, will do anything to get illegal votes.....even sacrifice the US Constitution. If Florida does not act, the US will have compromised its sacrosanct system of democracy.
BACKSTORY Florida discovered huge hordes of illegals on voters rolls when it called up names from the voter rolls for jury duty. Illegals said they could not serve on juries---b/c they were not citizens.
I am sick to f’ing death of ‘’Latino’’ this and ‘’Latino’’ that! To begin with Latin is a language, not a race and even if it were one is either a ‘’Latino’’ or an American, one can’t be both. I thought it was liberals who played this ‘’race/gender//bs and put people into boxes, not conservatives.
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Catholics vote democrat, we need to figure out some way to fix that yet not give up our pro-life, pro-traditional positions to make them happy.
Fixed.
* -- Conservative is in quotes because they do not actually want to conserve things, but change them: reduction in government size, taking responsibility for spending, returning to just family [and legal] values.
I guess I need to start thinking and voting like Latinos and other openly racist minorities:
I’ll only vote for white European males who are sensitive to the white European male agenda.
Damn, I guess that means I cannot count on your vote. I'm a "white" American male and support the agenda of "Truth, Justice, and the [Formerly] American Way... of shooting tyrants."
Well, that is THEIR problem, and my point, isn’t it?
Minorities are too busy hyphenating themselves to think of themselves as Americans.
Melting pot, what melting pot?
Oh, the pot's melting alright; it's what's inside that's not.
And, run ads using Obama's own voice reading where he abused Hispanic working ladies in college;
Obama Made Mexican Maids Cry in College
HELL YES, I DO.
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