[AuntB]

A Latino Woman speaks: "No, Latinos are not ‘natural conservatives.’ The immigration reform proponents often cite Reagan’s “Hispanics are conservative, they just don’t know it yet.” The logical conclusion that follows is: ‘If not for our pesky stance on illegal immigrants, Latinos would vote Republican.’ It’s a pleasant idea, and one worth exploring, but not necessarily backed by data. A 2012 Pew poll found that 75% of Hispanics “prefer a big government which provides more services” rather than a small government providing fewer services. (Meanwhile, only 41% of the general American public held this view.) And how did it break down generationally among Latinos? A whopping 81% of Latino immigrants held the pro-big-government stance, with the percentage only dropping to 72% amongst second-generation Latinos. So much for Reagan’s rosy view."

[FlingWingFlyer]

A Latino Woman speaks: "No, Latinos are not ‘natural conservatives.’

The first time I've heard an Obamanoid speak the truth.

[cripplecreek]

Stop pandering to illegals for votes and start creating conservatives from among the American electorate.

[concerned about politics]

But let’s be blunt: political gain is the driving factor. It’s no surprise that the three Republicans most publicly discussing the issue are all 2016 contenders: Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Jeb Bush.

Yep. They have no problem throwing America citizens under the bus in exchange for a forign vote.

If the republicans continue on this path, they'll have no voters at all. If they think 2012 was bad, they haven't seen anything yet!

[factoryrat]

But it will ensure a plentiful supply of cheap, compliant population to exploit, which seems to be the only thing that both the dems and pubs can reach a consensus on. Illegal immigration is a win-win for politicians, they get cheap labor, and cheap votes! To put things into perspective, the last politician to really tackle illegal immigration was Eisenhower. How long ago was that? But, nowadays, we're told by our wise politicians, from both parties, how essential all of the undocumented immigrants are to our economy.

[skeeter]

Well, finally someone is speaking the truth here.

Its probably too late, but at least those brainstems in the GOP about to bury their party forever can no longer claim they weren't warned.

[stanne]

Here’s Rubio. He ran, in 2010, in favor of English.

Just because it’s expedient, he goes 180, not just on this issue, on every one that he’ll find expedient.

Why anyone likes him is just so beyond me and baffling, It’s discouraging that our side can be so bamboozled disturbs me more than anything coming out of the dems. I expect it from them.

This is his character, not the issue.

He has no convictions.

From the Nat’l Journal Feb 2013:
But when he ran as a tea party-backed conservative in the 2010 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Rubio pivoted toward the right wing of his party and endorsed making English the official language of the U.S. “We have to have a common language that unites the people,” he said during the campaign. His Democratic opponent, then-Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, ran an attack ad that portrayed Rubio standing in front of a border fence and saying “Solo Ingles” (English only).

Rubio hasn’t mentioned English-only since his election and did not cosponsor a bill from Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that would preclude the government from making government documents in other languages. On Tuesday night, however, Rubio found himself clearly at odds with the English-only advocates in giving his remarks in two languages.

[headstamp 2]

Wouldn’t it be amazing if Mexico was prevented from exporting their poverty to us and instead were forced to address their corrupt economic and political systems by a whole slew of young, restless, agitating Latino men.

Instead we allow all this to be blamed on us and then we are required to support and pay for it.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

GOP! Immigration Reform Won’t Win You The Latino Vote

Yeah, ska-rew that.

They definitely need to reach out to the "Hispanic" Chamber of Commerce types with their pro-business message.

And they also need to do some serious outreach to Latino Catholics, and Catholics in general, to out their favored RAT "catholic" politicians as the wild-eyed babykilling hypocrites that they actually are. This needs to happen at the local level and with messages on Spanish cable.

[sheana]

Well apparently the GOP are as bad at math as the Democrats. Even if they get 44% of the newly made legal immigrants votes the Dems get 56%. Repubs lose. They really are stupid.

In the GOP ‘autopsy’ report released this week, the section on Hispanics optimistically cites the oft-repeated claim that George W. Bush won a record-setting 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004

[TLI]

Lets see, what will it take win over the "latino" vote?

A 2012 Pew poll found that 75% of Hispanics “prefer a big government which provides more services” rather than a small government providing fewer services.

We could do Universal welfare, spanish only schools, 100% $3,000.00 (un)Earned Income Tax Credit, free birth facilities, free nanny, free, kindergarten, free school, free college, affirmative action hiring, driving license and voter registration cards issued in the field by Border Patrol agents, no ID voting, $1,000.00 a month EBT cards, Mexican flag above u.S flag, spanish street and traffic signs, peso is legal tender for all transactions, free obamacommiecare for all "immigrants," etc, etc.

Yeah, that might get a few of them to vote R, but most of them still will not do it.

No matter what third-world cesspool they escaped from, they are determined to recreate it here while draining our economy

With us in it to support them.

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