“We should reach out to remaining Hispanics, many of whom are not Mexican, blacks and other minorities.”
Again, how do we do that? Give me a suggestion, a practical one, not ‘we need to reach out’. McCain and Bush tried to pander every way possible. Bush appointed many hispanics..DOJ, nominated Estrada to Scotus, Martinez was head of the RNC.....Didn’t do any good.
How do we ‘reach’ out? The government has given them minority status, and everything else. What do you mean by ‘reach out’?
I worked at the polls all day during the May primary elections. We have several people of minority status in our local Republican chapter. They always have a meal for us afterwards, and this time when we went I was glad to find about 12 African Americans among the 80 gathered there.
We should encourage them to bring family and friends to our meetings for starters, and make other active attempts to recruit them at the party level where we can. The election of Obama is going to make it all the harder I admit. But we and the party should have been far more active about it years ago.