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Selling the American Dream: Can The GOP Bring Hispanics Home?
The American Spectator ^ | November 20, 2012 | RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (wife of U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin)

Posted on 11/24/2012 1:21:00 PM PST by Steelfish

Selling the American Dream By RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY NOVEMBER 2012 issue

Can The GOP Bring Hispanics Home?

IT WAS THE SPRING OF 1994. The Smashing Pumpkins ruled the airwaves. I was 22 years old, recently graduated from Arizona State University and living in the “Real World” house in San Francisco. Rooming with six strangers and having my life taped for MTV’s groundbreaking reality series, The Real World, in the nation’s most liberal city was a formative experience for a young, Hispanic, conservative, Catholic girl from the Southwest.

The Real World perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon. In San Francisco, I saw my first gay pride parade with my HIV-positive Cuban roommate, Pedro. I attended “spoken word” night at a dry hip-hop nightclub with my dreadlocked, African American Muslim roommate, Mohammad. I regularly bar-hopped in seedy neighborhoods with my anarchist bike messenger pal, Puck.

I went to more drag shows than I care to admit, and once was even taken to “bondage night” at a local club, where I observed a sad, topless, wrinkled grandmother in leather shorts, and misfit weirdos of every stripe, spanking and electrocuting each other. I was shocked (no pun intended), but in youthful optimism also convinced that somehow this “culture” would make me a more well-rounded, worldly, sophisticated adult.

So I was annoyed when my “open-minded” roommates balked and moaned after I invited them to experience my world at an Empower America conference. Jeane Kirkpatrick and my political hero, Jack Kemp, were headlining the event.

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To: artichokegrower; RIghtwardHo; GunRunner; All

This is about the best response we’ve gotten for a long time.

Why vote Republican when the Hispanics already have their dream. Come into the country smuggled or by tourist visa, and give birth and hence automatic citizenship; free K-12 education for all illegals and no questions asked, non-enforcement of the immigration laws; reduced tuition to American’s colleges and universities, scholarships and Pell grants, driver’s license and bank IDs, often free housing and fee medical care, and not as much crime as Guadalajara, Democratic protection rackets from state lawmakers to mayors to Congress, have federal appeals courts strike down state laws against enforcing immigration statutes, ACLU and LaRaza defenses, a cottage industry of immigration lawyers, and Obama for four more years. Heck what better dream?


41 posted on 11/24/2012 4:47:32 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: nolongerademocrat
they are primarily Catholic and should be Conservatives

Who told that the Catholic vote is conservative?

Republicans have only won the Catholic vote 5 times, or a disputed 6th time, in our entire history, and only one of those was not for basically a reelection of a sitting incumbent.

42 posted on 11/24/2012 4:48:04 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: RIghtwardHo
We have lost the Hispanic vote. (not suggesting that we change to get it). Look no further than CA to see it. on this, CA is absolutely a microcosm.

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43 posted on 11/24/2012 4:59:34 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: nolongerademocrat

Most Hispanics come from countries where they regularly vote pro-Marxist. I can’t for anything see what makes people think they’ll stop doing that once they come here—and the Democrats give them far more stuff than they could hope for at home.

But it’s a sweet hope, I guess—and I’m all for realistic outreach to all left-leaning voters.


44 posted on 11/24/2012 5:13:07 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Steelfish

This is a deluded fantasy. The GOP is not going to win the “Hispanic Vote”. Here is the best strategy for GOP (and American) survival:
1. Put the military on the boder.
2. Cut off all benefits to illegals.
3. Deport, deport, deport.
4. Jail employers of illegals.
5. Close up the anchor baby loophole.
6. Cut down legal immigration to about 100,000 annually.
7. Make English the official language of government.
8. Abolish Affirmative Action.
If we did all this, we might have a chance.


45 posted on 11/24/2012 6:15:10 PM PST by River Hawk
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To: Steelfish
Gee all of what she is saying sounds soooooo good. Hispanics are natural Republicans but they just don't know it. I'm sure the author believes this but in election after election the truth comes out. That truth is that 2 out of 3 Hispanics are NOT conservatives they are looking for free stuff PERIOD. They vote Democrat to get free stuff. We have not been remiss in telling them about conservatism. They have rejected conservatism. They proved to be like the Jews. Polls showed Jews moving toward the GOP but they were not telling the pollsters the truth. They care as little about Israel as the Hispanics that watched the Univison stories about Mexicans being killed by Fast and Furious guns care about Mexico. The Jews watched Obama cripple Israel's ability to save herself and shrugged. The Hispanics learned about Fast and Furious and shrugged. What is the difference? They both will vote Democrat - all be it for different reasons for ever. Sorry author but this just doesn't pan out in the real world of “free stuff over patriotism.”
46 posted on 11/25/2012 4:17:16 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GeronL
This person doesn’t sound anything like a conservative

That could be, but now she's raising 6 kids with her Republican Congressman husband. True, she has the hyphenated last name and gave all the children Spanish names, but with 6 children running around there's a limit to how liberal she can be.

I don't know about her political prescriptions but it wouldn't be wise to just tell her off or turn her away because of acquaintances she had 20 years ago (when she was Young Republican).

I gather she had a hard time reconciling her own convictions with those of her Real World housemates. It's to her credit that she didn't either give in to their views or run away screaming.

When Bill Buckley started his conservative magazine, National Review, back in the 1950s a lot of his contributors were people who had been radicals or communists, bohemians or libertines 20 or 30 years before.

They got older. They changed their views. Real world problems and hard-earned truths replaced youthful experimentation and enthusiasms. They grew up.

47 posted on 11/25/2012 11:19:38 AM PST by x
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