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GOP Has Latino Options
Townhall.com ^ | June 7, 2012 | Michael Reagan

Posted on 06/07/2012 6:54:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: skeeter

That’s why we need Marco Rubio in the VP slot.


21 posted on 06/07/2012 11:48:08 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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To: Kaslin
Re: “It's hard to blame Latinos for not liking Republicans.”

It's also hard to blame Republicans for not liking Latinos.

Except for Cubans, Latinos overwhelmingly reject the basic principles of Conservatism.

For the last 20 years, non-Cuban Latinos have voted 70%-75% for Democrat congressmen and senators.

As a political group, they are European Socialists, heart and soul.

22 posted on 06/07/2012 12:41:08 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: pistolpackinpapa

You’re out of your mind.


23 posted on 06/07/2012 1:32:05 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Liz
*** 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. ***

Let's not forget or dismiss the cheese-head vote that was just cast from Madison, Wis on Tues. A modest 119% Turnout! Not even old man Daley and the Chicago Machine of the 60's could pull that off.

So Gov Walker needs to grab the reins like FL did and get the dead, illegal and 'students' -- who are registered three or four times, off the voter rolls. Now Walker will have a harder time as the SOS was a Geo Soros hand-picked and funded candidate. But Walker needs to give it a go anyway. And if when Holder sticks his nose in, shove a Cow Pie in his face.

BTW, I think I found 'my problem' - it's my Firefox ver 11 'upgrade'. 100's of complaints on the Mozilla website about it and the newer ver 13 for Win 7.

24 posted on 06/07/2012 2:00:31 PM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Condor51; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; Clintonfatigued

THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD Ohaha and his braindead campaign team stayed out of the WI recall-—stupidly believing all the union propaganda——b/c they are using the same strategy. “Dems CANNOT possibly lose—after all they have BIG Unions behind them.”

The Ohahas have no clue WRT Fla——that Americans are watching and deploring his self-serving tactics to undermine the voting process by forcing FLA to keep
illegals on the voter rolls.


25 posted on 06/07/2012 2:23:02 PM PDT by Liz
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To: skeeter

You’re out of your mind.
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Can you back up your accusation with something substantive?


26 posted on 06/07/2012 6:20:13 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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Tell you what - you provide substantiation that the republican party is ‘mean-spirited, uncompromising, and harbors non-compassionate hatred of anyone, or anything, that looks or sounds Latino’ and I’ll apologize for calling you nuts.


27 posted on 06/07/2012 9:28:28 PM PDT by skeeter
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Go back and look at the Primary Process we just went through; especially the Debates. And see how they tried to “one-up” each other by showing how anti-immigrant they were by not being willing to consider a viable road to citizenship for young immigrants brought here by, or born here to, parents who came here illegally. They have grown up here, been educated here, served here in our Military, etc. But, the GOP seems to not even be willing to try to work out a sensible solution. You had meat-heads like Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum wanting to put 11 million people on buses and take them back to Mexico. They all just wanted to prove that they were anti-Amnesty. Well, aren’t we all? But, there has to be a sensible solution. You don’t just throw the baby out with the bath water. Are we not smart enough to come up with a workable solution to the immigrant problem.

As a High School teacher, I see many bright, good kids who have grown up here, the offsprings of Illegal Immigrants. They do not deserve to be severly punished and separated from their families. Rick Perry tried to explain why it was only right to let them attend State Colleges with the same rights and privileges of the white kids they grew up with and went to school with their entire life. He was excoriated by his GOP opponents and many Conservatives.

All Republicans would have to do is show that they don’t hate Latinos and are willing to work out a solution to the Immigrant problem; but they won’t. They would rather try to be the John Wayne of the GOP. Even Marco Rubio told them they’d best get their act together or the Hispanic vote would put Barack Obama back in the White House for 4 more years. And they have the numbers to do it.

It’s late and I could go on and on. But, I’m tired of trying to explain. Ask any political pundit what kind of rapport the GOP has with the Hispanic community. You’ll find that I am NOT nuts. I just want to see Obama out of the White House. We need to get, at least, some of the Hispanic vote to accomplish that.


28 posted on 06/07/2012 11:00:04 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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To: skeeter

Go back and look at the Primary Process we just went through; especially the Debates. And see how they tried to “one-up” each other by showing how anti-immigrant they were by not being willing to consider a viable road to citizenship for young immigrants brought here by, or born here to, parents who came here illegally. They have grown up here, been educated here, served here in our Military, etc. But, the GOP seems to not even be willing to try to work out a sensible solution. You had meat-heads like Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum wanting to put 11 million people on buses and take them back to Mexico. They all just wanted to prove that they were anti-Amnesty. Well, aren’t we all? But, there has to be a sensible solution. You don’t just throw the baby out with the bath water. Are we not smart enough to come up with a workable solution to the immigrant problem.

As a High School teacher, I see many bright, good kids who have grown up here, the offsprings of Illegal Immigrants. They do not deserve to be severly punished and separated from their families. Rick Perry tried to explain why it was only right to let them attend State Colleges with the same rights and privileges of the white kids they grew up with and went to school with their entire life. He was excoriated by his GOP opponents and many Conservatives.

All Republicans would have to do is show that they don’t hate Latinos and are willing to work out a solution to the Immigrant problem; but they won’t. They would rather try to be the John Wayne of the GOP. Even Marco Rubio told them they’d best get their act together or the Hispanic vote would put Barack Obama back in the White House for 4 more years. And they have the numbers to do it.

It’s late and I could go on and on. But, I’m tired of trying to explain. Ask any political pundit what kind of rapport the GOP has with the Hispanic community. You’ll find that I am NOT nuts. I just want to see Obama out of the White House. We need to get, at least, some of the Hispanic vote to accomplish that.


29 posted on 06/07/2012 11:01:20 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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To: pistolpackinpapa
And I'm tired of refuting the kind of leftwing pap you assert in your post. I wont bother pointing out that no one in the debates or in any positions of authority within the party trotted out the old straw man about shipping the 20+ million illegals currently in the country back home, which appears to be the cornerstone of your entire point.

Don't bother claiming to be anti-amnesty, you are clearly not. We've had your kind around here for years and have heard the argument & cliches you're tossing around dozens of times. Its sounds more ridiculous each time.

First, it doesn't matter how many nice kids you personally know, it is beyond debate that illegal immigration is costing all of us dearly - financially, politically and socially. Second, I'm surprised a person in your position believes the only way to reach Americans of hispanics heritage is by granting an amnesty to illegals. Strikes me as an insulting stereotype. Americans of all heritages know there already is a path to citizenship. Why should illegals be exempt simply because they successfully slipped over the border?

We've tried the amnesty route before - we were promised it would be the 'last time'. And it was a disaster. We will not allow political cowards and panderers to sucker us again. We just want our leaders to do the right thing and enforce our laws. In factthe truth is exactly opposite of what you believe - if the GOP refuses to do the right thing the party will cease to exist.

30 posted on 06/08/2012 6:16:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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I’m not for Amnesty and I want our leaders to enforce the laws. This might surprise you but I drove 5.5 hours round trip to Houston a few years ago to protest Sheila Jackson Lee and other left-wing loonies on the Immigration issue. I wore my T-Shirt that said: “Mr. President, put up that wall.”

But, I see that you missed my point completely. So, this discussion is over. Have a nice day and I truly do wish you well.


31 posted on 06/08/2012 10:08:41 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
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No, I didn't miss anything.

But thanks for the good wishes.

32 posted on 06/08/2012 10:12:02 AM PDT by skeeter
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