Posted on 02/27/2008 7:24:26 AM PST by BGHater
Two years ago, Republicans fought over immigration and hemorrhaged Hispanic voters. Now they are poised to nominate the one man who can rebuild the Hispanic voter coalition that pushed President Bush twice to victory, the architects of that coalition say.
"I think the only candidate that Republicans have running for president who could retain those votes is in fact Senator McCain," said the Rev. Luis Cortes Jr., president of Esperanza USA, founder of the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and a key player in helping Mr. Bush connect with Hispanic voters during his two runs for office.
Democrats have traditionally enjoyed a strong advantage among Hispanic voters, though Mr. Bush changed all that, gaining 35 percent in 2000 and as much as 44 percent in 2004. Two years later, however, Republicans' support among Hispanics collapsed under the weight of the immigration debate, falling to 30 percent for Republican congressional candidates.
But by fighting his own party on immigration and by having ties to Hispanic leaders, Sen. John McCain emerged as the lone GOP presidential candidate capable of competing with Democrats for Hispanic votes.
"Without a doubt," said Lionel Sosa, a media strategist who was instrumental in Mr. Bush's two wins. "All of us are waiting in the wings, we're waiting for the call. We're waiting to serve."
Pollster John Zogby said the Republican Party has been "hemorrhaging, as far as Hispanics are concerned." But he said the Arizona senator has a broad appeal that can reverse that among Hispanics, who he said are open to his "maverick" image.
"It's not simply immigration. The election is won in the middle this year, and he has great appeal to independents and to moderates, and that's on the basis of authenticity, character," Mr. Zogby said.
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I really is time for a new party.
The Hispanics can have him.
VIVA JUAN!
40% support now a “coalition” makes?
Time for a new party and Hispanics probably don’t want him
either. Who wants a nasty old s.o.b. who can’t be relied on to do anything but suck up to the nearest presstitue.
The new immigrants sold their souls to the Dems and successful second and third generation ones are either real Republicans or unreconstructed Dems.
Hola !
He plans to lure them alright. Right across the border.
Among liberals, in the quest for preferred treatment and government benefits, the politics of race is most obvious in the black vs hispanic divide. Both see themselves as first in line at the plantation of the Democrats and they will NOT vote for the other group.
That is a cold, hard fact that the MSM will be loath to discover, much less report.
Viva La Raza party.
I agree. It shows up in all the exit polls. But the media has been dancing around the issue.
If white males voted this way as a block, the media would have a name for it.
John McCain will get over 40% of the Hispanic vote this year.
Senator Hussein will get at least 75 percent of the Hispanic vote, and maybe more with Richardson. How much the Hispanic vote will matter depends on how the old red state, blue state lines begin to crumble, especially out west. Florida may bolster McCain’s numbers with Hispanics, especially with his hardline towards Cuba, but even with Florida, McCain will lose. Of course, if McCain doesn’t get Hillary or Lieberman as his VP, there is no reason why he shouldn’t go for Richardson or some other leftist Hispanic who will have a broad appeal with Hispanic voters. He could promise to open the border, and sell US citizenship at five bucks a whack through convenient vending machines. Whatever it takes to get elected, but McCain will still lose.
The ones I talk to are voting for Bill Clinton.
The big question for McCain is how to “retain” the Hispanic vote while not pissing the “Angry White Man” off.
No problem to bring in 60 million more Mexican nationals No problem to subsidize unskilled workers and their bun in the oven spouses. Think of all those votes!. And the lettuce..my God, all that lovely lettuce!
Just over 40%? Come on, you aren't losing confidence in your shamnesty candidate are you? Where's that open borders spirit you always display as a bushbot? I thought the Florida primary was Juan's litmus test with people who really don't want to be American, but just use our system to suck the legitimate citizenry taxpayer money from. Don't tell me Obama is offering a better deal to illegals...what will Juan do???
Demographics.
McCain wont have to worry about the Angry White Man much longer. They will be a minority.
In 20, maybe 32, years there will be two parties - the Democrats, and the Partidad de la Raza, a spin-off of the Democrats after Hispanics reached 40% of the population and realized they didn’t need pandering Democrats; they could get control of power themselves.
The Republicans will have faded into history, like the Whigs.
We will be like Argentina, or France, where socialist parties who pretty much agree on things fight over who is in charge of the spoils and corruption.
America will be like Britain, with a faded empire and memories of grandeur, but subservient to China economically, militarily, and educationally.
There will be a wealthy class, no middle class, and a big lower class.
Take lots of pictures today. They will be quite useful to archaeologists centuries later who would like to know what America’s ruins looked like in their original state, like the Parthenon or the Roman Colloseum.
RINO McCain made it clear yesterday where he thinks conservatives are in the scope of things.
Here's a guy who throws the F word around left and right when arguing with folks in his own party, but he has too much "class" to use Obama's middle name.
What does he think the rats would do if his middle name was Adolf?
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