Republican Latinos are different from those who are not. They are active in church, care for the family, think marriage is between a man and a women and they love starting new businesses. They work hard and have a short history of going from poverty to the American dream...all things we should want in our party.
It is utterly amazing that what you see so clearly is invisible to so many here. The immigration across our southern border is the best long-term thing to happen for our country in my lifetime. The elections of Reagan and Dubya and the GOP takeover of Congress were important and wonderful (though the Arkansas Antichrist was elected for eight years) but this immigration will be a gift to social and family conservatism that keeps on giving.
When we are poised to break up the Demonrat Party by successfully appealing to the minorities whom Demonrats regard as political captives, too many among us are too timid to join the fight.
Those who oppose the immigration ought to ponder the meaning of one of Bush's favorite references: "The soft bigotry of low expectations." This is NOT the race card. It references how even good folks are seduced by expecting little or nothing of the poor. The best GOP plan (and conservative plan) is to challenge each kid born in adverse circumstances and each kid crossing that southern border to be the most that he or she can be, to encourage them and their families and to recreate an economic system that was able to offer a magnificent array of occupations to citizen and immigrant alike.
Bush's saying displays the confident, expansive conservatism that was the hallmark of Ronald Reagan and underlines how open America truly is to those who come here for good reasons. Bush the Elder is worthy of respect. Reagan and Dubya are also loved by those who love America and all that it means.
Take many of the votes of African-Americans and Hispanics from the Demonrats and the Demonrats will be no more. Social conservatism is the lever to pry them off the Party of Howard Dean's primal scream.