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Coulter: If the GOP is this stupid, it deserves to die
Human Events ^ | 6/12/2013 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 06/12/2013 6:42:51 PM PDT by markomalley

Democrats terrify Hispanics into thinking they’ll be lynched if they vote for Republicans, and then turn around and taunt Republicans for not winning a majority of the Hispanic vote.

This line of attack has real resonance with our stupidest Republicans. (Proposed Republican primary targets: Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio.) Which explains why Republicans are devoting all their energy to slightly increasing their share of the Hispanic vote while alienating everyone else in America.

It must be fun for liberals to manipulate Republicans into focusing on hopeless causes. Why don’t Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners?

As journalist Steve Sailer recently pointed out, the Hispanic vote terrifying Republicans isn’t that big. It actually declined in 2012. The Census Bureau finally released the real voter turnout numbers from the last election, and the Hispanic vote came in at only 8.4 percent of the electorate — not the 10 percent claimed by the pro-amnesty crowd.

The sleeping giant of the last election wasn’t Hispanics; it was elderly black women, terrified of media claims that Republicans were trying to suppress the black vote and determined to keep the first African-American president in the White House.

Contrary to everyone’s expectations, 10 percent more blacks voted in 2012 compared to 2008, even beating white voters, the usual turnout champions. Eligible black voters turned out at rate of 66.2 percent, compared to 64.1 percent of eligible white voters. Only 48 percent of all eligible Hispanic voters went to the polls.

No one saw this coming, which is probably why Gallup had Romney up by 5 points before Hurricane Sandy hit, and up by 1 point in its last pre-election poll after the hurricane.
Only two groups voted in larger numbers in 2012 compared to 2008: blacks aged 45-64, and blacks over the age of 65 — mostly elderly black women.

In raw numbers, nearly twice as many blacks voted as Hispanics, and nine times as many whites voted as Hispanics. (Ninety-eight million whites, 18 million blacks and 11 million Hispanics.)

So, naturally, the Republican Party’s entire battle plan going forward is to win slightly more votes from 8.4 percent of the electorate by giving them something they don’t want.

As Byron York has shown, even if Mitt Romney had won 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, he still would have lost. No Republican presidential candidate in at least 50 years has won even half of the Hispanic vote.

In the presidential election immediately after Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote actually declined from 37 percent to 30 percent — and that was in a landslide election for the GOP. Combined, the two Bush presidents averaged 32.5 percent of the Hispanic vote — and they have Hispanics in their family Christmas cards.

John McCain, the nation’s leading amnesty proponent, won only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote, not much more than anti-amnesty Romney’s 27 percent.
Amnesty is a gift to employers, not employees.

The (pro-amnesty) Pew Research Hispanic Center has produced poll after poll showing that Hispanics don’t care about amnesty. In a poll last fall, Hispanic voters said they cared more about education, jobs and health care than immigration. They even care more about the federal budget deficit than immigration! (To put that in perspective, the next item on their list of concerns was “scratchy towels.”)

Also, note that Pew asked about “immigration,” not “amnesty.” Those Hispanics who said they cared about immigration might care about it the way I care about it — by supporting a fence and E-Verify.

Who convinced Republicans that Hispanic wages aren’t low enough and what they really need is an influx of low-wage workers competing for their jobs?

Maybe the greedy businessmen now running the Republican Party should talk with their Hispanic maids sometime. Ask Juanita if she’d like to have seven new immigrants competing with her for the opportunity to clean other people’s houses, so that her wages can be dropped from $20 an hour to $10 an hour.

A wise Latina, A.J. Delgado, recently explained on Mediaite.com why amnesty won’t win Republicans the Hispanic vote — even if they get credit for it. Her very first argument was: “Latinos will resent the added competition for jobs.”

But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better! This is the very definition of treason.

Hispanic voters are a small portion of the electorate. They don’t want amnesty, and they’re hopeless Democrats. So Republicans have decided the path to victory is to flood the country with lots more of them!

It’s as if Republicans convinced Democrats to fixate on banning birth control to win more pro-life voters. This would be great for Republicans because Democrats will never win a majority of pro-life voters, and about as many pro-lifers care about birth control as Hispanics care about amnesty.

But that still wouldn’t be as idiotic as what Republicans are doing because, according to Gallup, pro-lifers are nearly half of the electorate. Hispanics are only 8.4 percent of the electorate.

And it still wouldn’t be as stupid as the GOP pushing amnesty, because banning birth control wouldn’t create millions more voters who consistently vote against the Democrats.

Listening to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus burble a few weeks ago on “Fox News Sunday” about how amnesty is going to push the Republicans to new electoral heights, one is reminded of Democratic pollster Pat Caddell’s reason for refusing to become a Republican: No matter how enraged he gets at Democratic corruption, he says he can’t bear to join such a stupid party as the GOP.



TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; anncoulter; borders; coulter; illegalaliens; illegals; immigrationbill
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To: markomalley

Coulter supported Christie.

Coulter supports GOP Proud.


21 posted on 06/12/2013 7:08:16 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: manc
the woman who attacked newt and gave us Romney.

And she's now blaming little old Black ladies for Romney's loss rather than blaming herself and the other inside-the-beltway RHINO elites for pushing Romney on us. Coulter's candidate lost not because of little old Black ladies, but because Romney sucked as a condidate and couldn't excite the conservative base.

22 posted on 06/12/2013 7:08:45 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

“...we need a party that will fight for freedom on all issues, not just fiscal...”

Um, wouldn’t that be the Libertarian Party?


23 posted on 06/12/2013 7:09:55 PM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: markomalley

Solid take down and strongly worded. The Surrender Party has become a corporatist donor servicing organisation and not an engaged political party. Here is the key part:

But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better! This is the very definition of treason.


24 posted on 06/12/2013 7:11:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: livius

I wouldn’t trust any women that dated Bill Maher. How freaked up do you have to be to do
That.


25 posted on 06/12/2013 7:13:06 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: markomalley; All

Ann trying to make up for supporting Obama on the Eligibility issue. Good God she was evil against Birthers....which did nothing but help Obama get re-elected

And, which helped this latest Amnesty push


26 posted on 06/12/2013 7:16:04 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Don't Blame Me For La Raza Rubio....I Voted For Alex Snitker)
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To: Rebel_Ace
No, no, no, you have it all wrong. Libertarians are only after one thing: they want dope legalized, they want abortion wide open, they want all government axed so they can pursue purely libertine lifestyles. That is the only "freedom" they seek -- Reagan was wrong when he said libertarianism was at the heart of conservatism. Thomas Sowell is a self-described libertarian, and what doe he know?

/s

27 posted on 06/12/2013 7:16:25 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: VRWCarea51

LOL! That’s a good point!


28 posted on 06/12/2013 7:18:19 PM PDT by livius
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To: markomalley

Well informed sanity.


29 posted on 06/12/2013 7:21:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: markomalley

This IS one she is right on, but I still can hardly open an article of hers to read. I was so incensed by her arrogance and stubbornness in regards to Romney that it still makes me mad. Romney is a good person, no doubt about it and would have made a far better president than what we have, but he is no Reagan, nor is he all that conservative. I hope Ann gets things straightened out again, as she has been one of our best writers. If she goes off on Sarah again I’LL NEVER READ ANOTHER ARTICLE BY HER AGAIN!


30 posted on 06/12/2013 7:25:14 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: markomalley

If only folks would have listened to me in 2012, when McCain was the darling of the RNC, we may have been able to do something. Now we’re stuck with a full house of pigs.


31 posted on 06/12/2013 7:25:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Give me your tired, your hungry..., wait, we've got them. They're our citizens... What about them?)
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To: VRWCarea51

uh huh!


32 posted on 06/12/2013 7:32:53 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: markomalley

Perhaps Ann is coming out of her midlife crisis.


33 posted on 06/12/2013 7:39:07 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.....)
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To: markomalley
Maybe the greedy businessmen now running the Republican Party should talk with their Hispanic maids sometime. Ask Juanita if she’d like to have seven new immigrants competing with her for the opportunity to clean other people’s houses, so that her wages can be dropped from $20 an hour to $10 an hour.

A wise Latina, A.J. Delgado, recently explained on Mediaite.com why amnesty won’t win Republicans the Hispanic vote — even if they get credit for it. Her very first argument was: “Latinos will resent the added competition for jobs.”

But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better!

This is the very definition of treason.

This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans over the last decade or so.

Dems are motivated by their liberal dogma and quest for long term supremacy; Republicans are in it for personal enrichment.

Democrats love the money that flows in from lobbyists but they always manipulate the resulting donor expectations in ways to ultimately serve the liberal agenda. Contrast that with the GOP-e, who slavishly obey the whims of their big money contributors and consultants.

That's why the Democrats prevail most of the time.

34 posted on 06/12/2013 7:43:17 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

I’m speaking generally, of course.

There are exceptions to this in both parties. But the pool of these exceptions is shrinking.

Hopefully, the Tea Party movement can bring about change.


35 posted on 06/12/2013 7:48:53 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

Frankly I dream of a day where a party comes a long that strictly sticks to the constitution, no making policies over religious morality but more on the constitution and common sense, let the states decide on whats moral for them(within the constraints of common good and constitutionality) and let the military decide what they want . Low taxes and fiscal restraint. I Know that doesn’t jive with many here as they believe Christianity is the overdriving force of what this country should be..but I am a firm believer that people of good will seek out whats right. If living in a state with a more theocratic bent is what they want then they will go there...with in the economics of their situation of course.


36 posted on 06/12/2013 7:52:09 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: Cicero

It’s what happens when you go out with perv bullies like Bill MAher. She got weird after that.


37 posted on 06/12/2013 7:53:45 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: markomalley
You first honey as you were the first to support Chris Christie, Rudy, and Mitt, claiming that to support a conservative was to "throw away the race to Obama!"

Any more "sage wisdom" from blondie and I'll just about toss my cookies!

38 posted on 06/12/2013 7:56:25 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: icwhatudo

Let’s legalize 15 million people who broke our laws. Let’s add millions to the job market so they can compete with millions of Americans already struggling to find work. Let’s add millions of people to the welfare state at a time when the government is going bankrupt. This is how our dirty politicians represent us. They screw us every chance they get.


39 posted on 06/12/2013 7:57:47 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: markomalley

Hard to take anyone seriously that PimPs Romney(Christy) and calls someone else STUPID!..


40 posted on 06/12/2013 7:58:48 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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