Posted on 05/18/2009 9:02:56 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The Republican Party has scarcely begun to repair a wound that threatens to confine it to minority status: its 2006 collapse among Hispanic voters.
Driven by some Republicans’ sharp attacks on illegal immigration and — as many Hispanics perceived it, immigrants in general — Latino voters fled the GOP en masse in the midterm elections, then turned on John McCain, as well.
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There are stirrings of a Republican response. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has spoken with Hispanic leaders about creating a new organization to back Latino candidates. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has made minority outreach a priority at the RNC. And some Republicans see an opening if Obama continues to defer action on overhauling immigration.
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A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Brian Walsh, said that candidate recruitment for 2010 is still under way and noted that Martinez himself had endorsed Crist, in part for his moderate stance on immigration.
But Graham, who said he sympathized with the Senate Republican leadership’s decision to back a candidate with a good chance of winning, also raised concerns about the Florida decision.
“The key for our party is to have Hispanic candidates to carry our banner,” Graham said. “I don’t blame them for trying to make sure we don’t lose another seat in Florida. But at the same time, clearly Mr. Rubio is the type of person who would lead our party in Florida and the country to a new level.”
Graham said he’s considering forming a political action committee, or some other entity, aimed at recruiting strong Hispanic Republican candidates.
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Good work.
DUmmy trolls always have a short life span.
A righteous zot if there ever was one!
Like I said “Liberal troll don’t bother me.”
Nice to see that you have been banned.
Indeed.
Here is a link to the most relevant thread, and a Romney fact file has been in compilation for some time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241437/posts
Oh I guess you can't say 'cause you got the ZOT!
EXACTLY!
You are so right. In a capsule, that phrase says exactly why the GOP is so idiotic.
(I'm not addressing only the Catholic part, but in total)
The elitist GOPers think all Hispanics voters are alike. In picking candidates, they look for a pretty face whose name ends in "ez" and, if they find a candidate desireable enough to join their Rockefeller silk-sock club, they'll back them. Unfortunately, conservatives like Marco Rubio are persona non grata and need not apply.
It's really insulting that they pander to the most extreme views of the Hispanic community (La Raza, LULAC, etc) and treat Hispanic voters as only a tool as opposed to constituents. That is why the GOP is not popular to Hispanics. They see McCain as a self-serving hypocritical politician, as do I.
And when their internet trolls set out on the great WWW and call people "bigots" or "extremist right wingers" or "one issue voters," all they do is further the opposition to their obvious pandering. I think I saw an accusation on this thread that conservatives want to deny Mexican Americans their culture. WHAT? I'm from California. The Mexican American culture is fully entwined in most every element of our lives... it is a shared culture. That said, I'm not ready to support turning the Coliseum into a bull fighting stadium -- but I'm not so sure McShamensty wouldn't support it.
Cute
I’m not going to search over a thousand posts to find what I asked you to link to.
If you don’t want to back up your statement with a link to what you stated, fine with me.
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NOTHING FOLLOWS
EOM EOM EOM
IATZ! Good shooting.
Time for "Le Zot"
And more of your wonderful work, thank you!
That wasn’t meant to be cute, it was a link to JR’s statement of intent, I thought you would want to read the thread.
I think I misunderstood your interest, are you a Romney guy?
He’s DEAD, Jim !!
RIP, j.simmons ...
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