As somebody said, though, they'd all have "Texas" somewhere in the state's name (or "Tejas" for the new border state).
Posted on 11/03/2012 9:14:19 AM PDT by WilliamIII
A lot can change in just four years. For former Florida Governor Jeb Bush a four-year timetable is enough for a significant shift for the Republican party. He tells Joe Hagan of New York magazine: “It’s a math question. Four years from now, Texas is going to be a so-called blue state. Imagine Texas as a blue state, how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.” Hagan starts the article for New York magazine with this idea that Texas’ rapidly changing demographic will unfavorably affect the Republican party. He writes: “Sitting down across from me, [Jeb] assumes his role as party Cassandra, warning of the day when the Republicans’ failure to tap an exploding Hispanic population will cripple its chances at reclaiming power—starting in Texas, the family seat of the House of Bush.” If this is a problem for the Republican party, Hagan believes Bush is just the solution: “a popular two-time governor of a Hispanic-heavy state, with a record of improving education for minorities, fluent in Spanish, married to a Latina, and father to two Hispanic sons, George P. Bush and Jeb Jr.
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I know this “blue” Mexican (legal or illegal) vote seems to always cast them as liberal.
Having been born and raised in California (I know I do not know all of them), the Mexicans I know are all very conservative, and they detest illegals.
Yea, get it, my personal experience is not or may not be the norm however personal experiences always color perceptions.
“He means Texas will be Mexican. Illegals.”
Jeb grinds this axe all the time. His wife is Hispanic, and he therefore wants to be able to have the rest of us pay to have her family all come here.
NO MORE BUSHES!
I keep waiting for a sinkhole to swallow Austin. My guess is that even the devil doesn’t want them...
Hey Jeb, isn’t is time for you and your dad to visit Obama again?
By the way, thanks for saving Terry Schiavo. Oh, wait a second......
Demographics don’t work out for Anglos & Asians; the Republicans should be able to garner support with Latinos with the same things that attract whites: low taxes, business-friendly atmospheres, basically the American Dream. As for those Hispanics that are basically replacements for the black urban underclass, no outreach is warranted or necessary; they were imported specifically to vote Dem (and replace the number of blacks thinned by the welfare reform of 1996).
I always heard that Latino women mess yer brain up but this guy is beyond hope.
I’ve long said that the ultimate demise of the Democratic Party and its welfare-state mentality is going to happen when Hispanics and blacks end up fighting with each other of their “aggrieved victim” status.
Hasn’t happened in California. But keep on dreaming if you like.
Failure to tap into Hispanics-how so? They know what we (ostensibly at anynrate) stand for-pro-life, anti-homo marriage, self suffiency instead of government handouts and the environment to make that possible (lower taxes, less regulation). What are we supposed to do that we don’t do now-pander? We’re already doing that now with minorities, and it wasn’t what we were supposed to be about as it is. They already know that they share our cultural conservatism (or so we keep hearing). So we have to start trying to out-pander the left on gimmees and freebies?
Failure to tap into Hispanics-how so?
By nominating Jeb Bush
Sorry Jeb, your younger brother pretty much ended the Bush dynasty once and for all. I will NOT vote for another Bush again. Not because I am against Bush, no, but because there are plenty of others who can do the job and we really do not need this family name in the POTUS anymore.
The only time I want to hear or read the word “Bush”, from now on, is in a sexually-oriented situation.
Take it as a warning.....
Jeb Bush is no MENSA candidate, but he’s got a decent chance of being right about this. Look at the *demographics*, not merely who shows up to vote.
Combine Bonzo’s second term (God forbid) blanket amnesty for wetbacks, and make the slimy cockroach mayor of Los Angeles the 2016 Rat nominee for President and you’ve got a Texas-sized landslide — and the resulting end of America — that will make the ‘tranquility’ of the Bonzo Years look like the 1950s.
Gone will be Texas, Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and lots of other states you might not expect (North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa...).
Viva La Raza! Viva Aztlan!
The Bushes, among other big government Republicans, ruined the GOP and everything Reagan did for it. If there’s a reason more people aren’t registered Republican it’s because of them.
There goes jebby boy with another progressive one world order wet dream. Just STFU jeb... I do not care what you do as long as you just go away.
LLS
As somebody said, though, they'd all have "Texas" somewhere in the state's name (or "Tejas" for the new border state).
I do believe that you’re correct. So that they can enact more of that “compassionate conservatism” which brings us closer to the left and a one-party system.
It’s all about personal political power, not the party platform.
Oh... and I am certain that jeb can change that as long as we agree to merge with mexico and make all mexicans into American citizens with super minority status.
LLS
BUT, trimming is important!
For those of you who doubt this as just the ravings of a lunatic fringe called Jeb Bush... don’t discount it.
Texas is being overrun by people from all over the country in search of jobs and lower taxes. Lots from Kalifornia fleeing the loons and bringing their own brand of lunacy. Add to that lots of tags from the NE showing up. Add to that the invasion of the latinos.
Texas is changing and FAST. I do not doubt the prediction that it will turn blue one day not too far from now if not in 2016. The United States and any hope of a conservative majority is quickly coming to an end. The tipping point is almost here and if Romney wins it will just be a delaying action. I don’t think the facts that are driven by demographics and the dole can be changed.
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