I agree. I’ve been saying we lost the Hispanic vote (which was trending GOP) because we allowed the Tancredos of the GOP to be the face of this debate. Plus we allowed some real nativists (anti Hispanics) to use this as a reason to go back to some not so great times in American history when Americans of Mexican descent were told to “go back across” which at the same time is when some racists whites told blacks to “go to the back of the bus.”
So here on FR don’t want to hear that and they’ll just lump us in with the WSJ, open borders crowd as they call them. They should go talk with the Hispanic community and ask them what they really think of illegal immigration. They wanted stoped just like most of us that are concerned about the issue. They just know that rounding them up is not going to work and it the rhetoric sounds racists. THAT IS A FACT, PEOPLE.
If FR wants the conservative movement to dwindle, we’re off to a great start. We had a good chunk of this population coming our way, but it’s a no go now.
Why did Bush lose the Hispanic vote in both 2000 and 2004? He was the ideal candidate to win the Hispanic vote for the GOP from the WSJ perspective. He spoke Spanish. He has Latino family members. He’s courted the Hispanic vote his entire career. He supports all of their issues and supports amnesty. Yet, Hispanics preferred the patrician New Englander John Kerry.