Posted on 10/20/2007 6:39:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party's highest-ranking Latino official abruptly resigned Friday, marking the latest casualty in the GOP's bitter internal fight over immigration and dealing another setback to President Bush's years-long effort to court Latino voters.
The announcement by Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida that he was quitting as general chairman of the Republican National Committee came after he had expressed frustration over the tenor of the immigration debate within his party. ...
"Mel Martinez was a symbol of the party's outreach to Latinos, and that seems to be disappearing," said Lionel Sosa, a longtime Republican strategist and advisor to GOP presidents since Ronald Reagan. ...
The White House had engineered the ascent of the Cuban-born Martinez over the objections of many conservatives as part of an effort to repair the GOP's image among Latinos. That image suffered when Republican congressional leaders and conservative activists stymied administration-backed measures that would have created a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
Some GOP strategists say the party's poor performance among Latino voters in 2006 helped ensure Democratic victories across the country. Now, some worry that Martinez's early exit from the RNC foreshadows more trouble in 2008.
Robert de Posada, president of the Republican-leaning Latino Coalition, said Martinez's departure is especially disheartening because it follows the resignation of another high-profile Latino in the GOP: former U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales.
"The message that it sends is Latinos are not welcome," De Posada said. "The radical conservative base has a temporary victory right now."
The RNC will be run by Mike Duncan, who shared the title of chairman and was responsible for the party's day-to-day operations.
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Bush issued a brief statement saying that Martinez "represented the best of the Republican Party and its core values."
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“And Republicans are too stupid to realize the Mexicans will never vote for them en masse anyway, since the entitlements offered by democrats are always going to be better.”
This always amused me. Mexicans are socialists to the core. They will not support any party that does not give them freebies.
Re: Your Post #59
I am in complete agreement with you.
“Yes, but ‘Melquiades Martinez’ is of EUROPEAN ancestry.”
So, what’s your point? Most Mexicans have some European blood in them. Hell, look at their former president, Vicente Fox. He’s got more European blood in him than half of the American citizenry.
“have their town runover by the ticks. They’re sucking us dry and killing us.”
No kidding. They have utterly destroyed a great many towns.
The Chicagoland area has a HUGE illegal population. The Mexcian flag is more common in many neighborhoods than the American flag (who am I kidding? The American fla isn’t even flown anymore around here). Ther are entirte towns here where nothing but Spanish is spoken. All the store signs are in Spanish; all the car radios are blasting Mexican music and talk shows at full volume; the mexican flag is prominently displayed everywhere. They invaded and conquered entire towns.
“...this country will become the worlds largest balkan state.”
That’s a given. We are within ten years of a civil war.
Yes, but the concept of “La Raza Cosmica” is a strictly Mexican concept. Google “Jose Vasconcelos” sometime...
Sounds like Los Angeles!
It is arrogance. They think they are more globally understanding and feel that America has to join in. Instead of American values, they tend to look at multiculturalism as an answer to our racial-ethnic-religious divisions. It is not but they feel so. Then too, no one there is a Ronald Reagan. And no one will ever be again. I would rather have a Rudy or Mike than a Bush because I know where they stand and they are very consistant. Unfortunately, my votes for the Bushies were turned into a great disappointment although on the war, and tax cuts, I think W has at least kept his word.
ROTFLOLOL!
I love Mel as Mickey Mouse!
Of course, lately, the RNC has seemed more like
the Mickey Mouse club than a political org. ;o)
Thanks DC. I made that sometime back, never thought much about the ‘Mickey Mouse’ bit, just liked the way the figure was gesturing, lol.
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