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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If the GOP no longer needs my support and vote I wish they’d just come right out and tell me!
“So you give them amnesty and then they still vote for liberals and grow the welfare state even further thru the roof. Then what?”
No; you don’t GIVE them amnesty. You PROMISE them amnesty. As my sister said, the dems promise everything but then don’t produce. Why don’t we stop being so darn ethical and play their game? Promise the minorities every blessed thing they want to get their votes (as the dems do), then just don’t do it. Simple.
SOLUTION: MARCO RUBIO
No the solution is secure the borders first. Cut off social services to illegals. Fine employers who hire illegals. Then start deporting illegals.
“Graham won his election against despite being strongly in favor of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants against a anti-immigrant Democrat no less. McCain won the Republican nomination even though his candidacy was declared all but dead because of his support for comprehensive immigration reform. How far did Hunter and Tancredo get?”
It begs one to question who is in control when an overwhelming majority of republicans are against illegal immigration and amnesty!
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