You're absolutely correct. Bush is trying to prevent turning off the Latino vote (now bigger than the black vote) so that they won't be voting for the Democratic Party as a block, as the blacks do now.
For if that were to happen the black and Latino vote combined would deliver a solid 30% to the Democrats who would need only another 15% from blue state white liberals to control the Presidency and the Senate forever.
I'm afraid that some of our "base" Republican voters don't seem to be very strong in math and suffer from an inability to look beyond next week, let alone the next election.
Well, if your assessment is correct, what he doesn't seem to understand is that the Latino vote is not the same across the board. My legal immigrant Latino friends are at least as conservative as I am and don't appear to feel much connecction to the illegals pouring across our borders. So, he must believe he will get the illegal immigrants who will soon be American citizens (thanks to the Republican party, thank you) as republican voters (which I very much doubt). I can't see how much sense THAT makes, since the demographic would appear to be a democrat voting base.
susie