Posted on 10/07/2009 11:26:33 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
In the Long Run, the GOP Must Be Inclusive.
BY MICHAEL GERSON
Mel Martinez's recent resignation from the U.S. Senate was for personal and family reasons. But the departure of the Republican Party's most visible Hispanic leader crackles with political symbolism.
Martinez does not consider himself disillusioned, but he is "frustrated." "There are lots of Hispanics to the right of you and me on immigration," he told me, "but they think, 'Republicans just don't like us.' " Martinez makes clear that a number of his Senate colleagues were "conservative, but not inflammatory." Other elected Republicans, however, made "pretty divisive use of immigration policy. It is more a matter of tone, of how you talk about immigrants. It has made Hispanics feel unwelcome, unwanted."
In ethnic politics, symbolism matters. And recent Republican signals to Hispanics have often been crudely unwelcoming.
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Most elected Republicans bring serious arguments and good motives to the immigration debate. Fewer leaders, however, are willing to confront the extremists in their midst.
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Well, that explains why you endorsed Crist over Rubio, you race-baiting RINO traitor.
pendejo, cabron, martinez, hijo de puta, y so fortho
“Well, that explains why you endorsed Crist over Rubio, you race-baiting RINO traitor. “
Aw, C’mon............you can do better than THAT!!
I’m sick of hearing this crap. If standing up for America means “losing the Hispanic vote” then so be it! Good bye and don’t let the door hit you in the ash.
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The GOP can’t win the latino vote under any circumstances! How could they? The latinos are entrenched lefties and please don’t tell me they have family values - they say things like “mia familia” and have no regard whatsoever for things outside of their family.
We conservatives are self-reliant and individualistic, latinos are groupthink and most of the immigrants from latino countries aren’t coming here to become “John Wayne” - they are coming here for the easy living and to get something for nothing. They are tax consumers, not producers.
One final note, and the most important one of all, latinos are only 5-7% of the vote. The GOP can live without the black vote, it can live without the latino vote too.
Missing Words [Ramesh Ponnuru]
Reaching out to Hispanics is very important to Mel Martinez and Michael Gerson. So why can’t Gerson bring himself to mention the words “Marco Rubio” in a column about Martinez’s departure from the seat that Rubio is running for? And why is Martinez opposing Rubio’s candidacy?
Thankfully, most of the Latinos in this country are inelgible to vote.
Au contraire! They may be ineligible, but they do vote, in large numbers. Illegal alien Latino votes put Al Franken and Jim Webb in the Senate.
And ACORN was one of the most productive organizations in registering illegal Latinos to vote in Minnesota and Virginia.
Hah....that only slows em down, doesn't stop them, at least not in SoCal.
Just ask B-1 Bob Dornan who got his seat stolen from him by Loretta (Brixey) Sanchez and the illegals who voted in the OC.
BTW "Loretta" dropped her "Brixey" so she could win using Sanchez after she switched form Rep. to Dem.
Hispanics voted as a bloc for Democrats in 2008 (and 2006) in spite of the fact that a sitting Republican President (Bush) and a Republican Presidential candidate (McCain) were the leading proponents of amnesty and a path to citizenship for 20 million plus illegals.
What more could a Republican do to make these Hispanics happy? This shows the folly and stupidity of people like Martinez, McCain, Graham and their like in the stupidity of pandering to Hispanics. Even if they gave them $10000 cash to vote Republican, they would vote Democrat. It's in their DNA, just like with African Americans.
Republicans would have a better chance educating Hispanics that voting for Democrats would place them into a permanent poverty and welfare class like what happened to the African Americans, who after 70 years of Democrat fealty find their status worse than ever and their family structure destroyed.
From John Fund's book Stealing Elections: (via PolitickerMD.com)
“Perhaps no piece of legislation in the last generation better captures the ‘incentivizing’ of fraud… than the 1993 National Voter Registration Act…Examiners were under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship.
States also had to permit mail-in voter registrations, which allowed anyone to register without any personal contact with a registrar or election official. Finally, states were limited in pruning ‘dead wood’ - people who had died, moved or been convicted of crimes - from their rolls. … Since its implementation, Motor Voter has worked in one sense: it has fueled an explosion of phantom voters.”
What the F**K???
The Republicans ARE inclusive. Wasn’t it Republicans who pushed hard for Amnesty? And despite this, they lost the Hispanic vote anyway.
If there is anyone the Republicans are trying to exclude its conservatives. We’re just not welcome in that party.
I think that's putting it mildly for many of us.
Hmmm . . . maybe Republicans should announce they are for “comprehensive reform” or the drunk driving laws, to shore up the Irish vote. Or for repealing anti-organized crime laws, to gain Italian votes. Or for a more lax law on usury, to attract Jewish voters.
See how ugly and awful that sounds? That’s how I hear people who complain that the GOP is “anti-Hispanic” to the extent it fights for enforcement of immigration laws. It basically says that all H9iapanics are criminals, or support criminal activity. it is very, very demeaning - to Hispanics! I know many who are fed up with the pandering and race-baiting from the left, and who want the immigration laws ENFORCED.
But my educated guess is that both parties see a demographic trend and are trying to go after the votes . . . whether or not the country survives in the process.
The illegal aliens cum legal citizen are not going to vote for republicans anyways. Why help them? Better to drive them all back from whence they came. Make undocumented presence in this country a felony. Deport them on the first offense and ban them from ever returning for any reason. If they are found a second time, try them and execute them.
I thought only O blames everything on Bush.
The GOP can and should get the Latino vote. Latinos, like blacks, are socially conservative, prolife and anti gay marriage. I also believe them to be less likely than blacks to just blindly throw their vote to the Dems. The GOP should use the San Joaquin Valley water issue, and social issues to get the hispanic vote the Republican way. Not just pander to them with affirmative action or open borders.
Is endorsing illegal activity the only way to attract Hispanics?
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