Posted on 12/02/2010 3:00:07 PM PST by WilliamHouston
Alarmed by the GOPs alienation of Hispanic voters, a group of operatives and former elected officials has launched a bid to wrestle the partys image back from illegal immigration foes and its led by a Republican named Bush.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has teamed up with former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who served in former President George W. Bushs Cabinet, and former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), a one-time supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, to restore the Republican Partys standing with this fastest-growing segment of the electorate.
The newly formed Hispanic Leadership Network marks the first major outreach effort by the wing of the Republican Party that believes it must change its tone towards Hispanics to stand any shot of winning back the White House in 2012. Its backed by Republicans connected to the Bushes and Sen. John McCains presidential campaign, a group whose big-tent philosophy has been usurped in recent years by the tough rhetoric of illegal immigration opponents. (See: McCain looks bad in Bush book)
When Norm called me to tell me he was doing this, I almost broke into song, I was so happy, said Ana Navarro, co-chair of McCains National Hispanic Advisory Council. We all know its been a problem, but nobody has been leading any real concerted effort to address the problem. . . .
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Jeb’s “Latino Outreach” is another name for “Jeb as VP candidate in 2012.”
Como se dice “a fool’s errand” en Espanol.
“Manténgase alejado de los arbustos”
Once again living up to their name as the “Stupid Party.”
As a half-Hispanic who has been around them all his life, let me assure you-—the vast majority of Hispanics who support “open borders,” amnesty, etc. are of the type who can’t legally vote anyway.
There is a pecking order, you’ll just have to trust me on that. I am not Mexican but I live in a heavily Mexican-populated town (ag workers, mainly), have a lot of Latino customers and I pick up on the attitudes of the assimilated Tex Mex crowd, the illegal aliens and everything in between and I can tell you that making an economic and socially conservative argument will strike a chord with more of them than pushing “shamnesty” ever could.
The people who think of hispanics as some sort of monolith are dead wrong. There are as many varieties as what Heinz sells.
I was being a bit sarcastic.
No, Jeb. We’re done with globalists.
A couple Latino freinds of mine who came here legally, were very liberal for several years, until they started their own business, then it was full on conservative.
That’s what I am saying!
Didn’t Republicans win the enduring loyalty of Hispanics with the IRCA amnesty in 1986? Oh wait ... in reality, they handed California to the Democrats on a golden platter.
Our top priority should be legalizing 20 million more Democrats. Obviously. Anyone who disagrees is a racist, hater, bigot, Eurocentric nativist rabble rouser, prejudiced hillbilly “bitter clinger” who needs to be politically corrected by MSNBC.
I worked with (primarily) legal aliens in central virginia and came to the same conclusions. They were good, stand up, family, church-going people. There were distinct sub-classes based on race: mexican, guatemalan, puerto rican, etc. They don't all like each other. And the illegals are not well respected. They don't really see them as "brothers" because they don't play by they rules they way they have had to do. The illegals want something for nothing.
Personally I believe that a pure Constitutional conservative message that the Constitution applies equally to everyone and ensures the personal freedom to live your life and be LEFT ALONE TO LIVE IT would score big in these communities. This opinion is based on 40 years in southern california and 12 years in rural central va, with 2 years close contact specifically with alien agricultural workers.
No, no, no. No more Bushes. No more left turns. No more support for illegals.
If being against illegals is so BAD, then how come more Hispanics voted Republican in this last election than they have for years?
Let’s distinguish between racism (bad) and being against millions of criminal illegals flooding into our country, taking all our low-level jobs away from young people, and sucking up untold billions of dollars in free welfare of every description, all the while driving DUI without insurance and killing people right and left?
No, thanks. I think decent, legal Hispanic citizens of this country can tell the difference between themselves and gangs of drug smugglers and welfare leaches. If not, then maybe they don’t belong here either.
Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, don’t these states have high rates of voter fraud ?
And if the GOP would direct its appeal in that direction, it would consistently garner 35% Hispanic support.
It seems like the hardest things for pubbies to grasp is that it is impossible to out-liberal the liberals. Me-toosism is obvious and stupid and is seen through right away by the people it tries to attract to and is ridiculed by Democrat politicians.
So why do it? It is such a loser! Just stress growth, prosperity, and a jobs-producing economy for the ENTIRE country and forget the identity politics BS. The pubbies might even shock themselves with the results if they tried.
One word: Marco Rubio.
I would like to hear more from you on the subject.
Republicans can attract the Hispanic vote. Hispanics are no different from other Republicans on God and country, birth, marriage, death, taxes or immigration. I know plenty of Hispanics and you are quite correct that they have no allegiance as a voting block to a party that supports wide open borders, unchecked illegal entry by impoverished, marxist aliens.
I did not slog through the entire article but saw Jeb saying and doing nothing but organizing for a campaign to attract Hispanic voters. The non-voting Mexican illegals can raise hell all night long, but as you said, they can not vote (except in California.;)
I certainly hope that Marco Rubio takes the best from the Bushes political, campaign experience but leaves their RINO loving attachments and business-as-usual crowd in the dust.
I am leery of Rubio for only one reason—the Bush grooming thing clearly going on.
Rubio is likely going somewhere in the future politically and the times call for an end to the faux conservative attaining office. They can run until the cows come home but must not be elected again. They are killing us.
Um, the percentage of Hispanics voting for the GOP increased in 2010. So, what is the pressing need to trot out RINOs to promote amnesty?
Like in this last election when we had more Republican candidates opposed to all that while the percentage of the Hispanic voters voting for the GOP increased eight percent...
Wassamatterwithyou?
Don’t you like your president hold hands and french-kiss the Saudi king who promotes and supports Al-Qaeda and pays for all the mosques built in this country?
And always remember — Islam is a ROP.
Yes, California is a famous exception, as B-1 Bob Dornan can readily attest.
Jeb was our governor here for 8 years and I thought he did a good job overall. He has talent as an executive and I believe him to be more conservative than his brother. However, no matter how he approaches a presidential campaign and what his merits are, the country is simply not ready for another Bush.
Even if Obama did something so horrifying that even his own party pushed him out of office I still don’t think that anyone named Bush would stand a chance.
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