Centrist=Liberal
Yeah, we figured it out pretty quick that when Teddy defends him and the NYT's is sympathetic that he sure as hell isn't taking a conservative approach.
Those Hispanics you note he's targeting? Half of them are illegal. Kick the socialist law breakers out and poltically they lose nothing since LEGAL Hispanics don't support illegal immigrants.
But that would take a President that gave a damn about Americans and our laws.
I didn't mean current Hispanics - I meant future generations of Hispanics. And they will all be legal - the 14th will never be amended or re-interpreted.
Rove is a systems guy - he's interested in the political process. His primary focus is what's good for the GOP, not what's good for the country.
What's good for the GOP is to maintain control. In order to do that, the GOP must win elections. As certain representatives of illegals have asserted, the outrage you hear from the right is an "echo of a dying culture". (They were right about Calif, and they're right about America.) So, to win elections and maintain power, the GOP must appeal to Hispanics to form a new coalition.
You may disagree with the intent and/or motivations (ie why can't they put America first?), but you can't fight the conclusions: the US will be majority Mexican within 100 years.