[rmmcdaniell]

This article is frightening. If Texas and Florida become democratic leaning the GOP will never win another presidential election. Combine the electoral votes from those two states to already liberal states especially California and New York it is numerically impossible for a Republican to win. Wouldn't it be sick irony if Bush lost in 2004 because his home state Texas went RAT as a result of his own failed immigration policies.

[Gorest Gump]

Even if Tony Sanchez wins the governorship, which is a longshot at this point, it won't mean that Texas is going to the RATS. Tony is pretty conservative for a RAT, even a Texas RAT. He's perceived by the RATS as a conservative who they will only stomach if he wins and has coattails. So even a RAT win in 02 won't mean much in 04, IMHO.

[d14truth]

"Above all, insofar as there is a modest drift rightwards among Hispanics as they rise economically, that is more than canceled out by the fact that continuing immigration channels new, poor Hispanic voters into the Democratic ranks."

Comprendo y problemo?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

What is WRONG with the PRESIDENT????? WHY WHY is he doing this??? I do NOT support this do not do not!

[Brownie74]

Combine the electoral votes from those two states (Florida and Texas) to already liberal states especially California and New York it is numerically impossible for a Republican to win.

Bingo!! You are looking at about 143 or so electoral votes in just these 4 states alone. Thats a bunch.

How many states in fly over country would the republicans have to carry just to cancel these 4 states out? And then, where do you go from there?

[Dane]

Already posted,

here

Anyway this is more doom and gloom red meat for the anti-immigrant crowd. There was a post on the other thread which shows that Florida's state government has become more Republican in the 90's, when immigration boomed.

Also if Mr. O'Sullivan's rant was correct Bill Simon in California would be 20 points behind Davis in the governor's race. He is actually leading in many polls at the present time.

Hisapnics are like others and they will vote against incompetance when they see it.

Bu that would mean Mr. O'Sullivan would have to think that Hispanics are human beings, which it appears he doesn't.

[majordivit]

You don't need to be an expert to figure this out. Overwhelming majority of American blacks/overwhelming majority of hispanics/overwhelming majority of arab immigrants/overwhelming majority of african immigrants/overwhelming majority of latin and south american immigrants = third world people = = jealous hatred = left wing = democrats. The only hope is to get as many third world people out of America as possible. If not, the GOP as we know it (and its already becoming left wing) will be dead and so will America.

If there is one thing that we should have learned about third world people by now is that you can't buy them off. With all the trillions we give to american blacks in the form of welfare and housing and affirmative action quotas and everthing else, the overwhelming majority still hate..The same goes true for so called hispanics and muslims in America. We went to war in favor of the albanian muslims. We went to war to liberate Kuwait. Take a poll today out of Kuwait and you find most oppose America now. No suprise. You cannot buy them off.

[Arleigh]

This article is frightening. If Texas and Florida become democratic leaning the GOP will never win another presidential election.

The RepublicRat Party does not deserve to win another election. It has morphed into a slightly more moralistic version of the DemocRat Party. Both are driving us to the destination of a big government, globalized socialist state. Unfortunately, the RepublicRats have a small, shrinking base (rich whites) and the DemocRats a growing one (non-whites).

Either the RepublicRats wake up and shift back to the right and to a form of nationalism/populism, or a white nationalist party will emerge to fill the vacuum. Remember that whites are still 72% of the population, and concentrated in the small states that have disproportionately high Electoral College votes. The number of whites who DON'T vote is nearly the size of the ENTIRE Black and Hispanic voting bloc. The white middle class is a sleeping giant. When it awakes to what is being done to its children's future, there will be Hell to pay....

[WOSG]

It is frightening. If you recall, Loretta Sanchez beat Dornan on the backs of new INS-sponsored citizens that Clinton-gore races to sign up. ... these citizens that made Cali so Democratic since 1996 included many who were amnestied in the 1980s. If Bush gets his way on amnesty, it will turn Texas and Florida too into Democratic states in 10 years. Scary.

If we dont loosen immigration, or even tighten it, i dont see the same dynamic. And i *dont* think the pessimism in reaching out to hispanics is warranted. there is a lot that can be done to foster conservatism in hispanic communities. they are no more natural democrats than other ethnic groups.