Posted on 05/15/2012 6:48:25 AM PDT by SmileRight
The Republican Party faces a threat to its existence. It’s not an ideological threat, but a demographic and mathematical one. Unless the GOP acts to change the math by broadening its appeal to minorities, it will cease being a major force in American politics.
If you have any doubt about this, look at the numbers:
In 1960, white Americans made up 94 percent of the electorate. By 2010, the figure had dropped to 75 percent.
Among African-Americans, more than 90 percent vote Democratic, and in the 2008 presidential race, 96 percent chose President Obama. For Asian-Americans, a clear majority consistently votes Democratic. In the last presidential election, 56 percent voted for Obama.
Among Hispanic-Americans, the fastest growing segment of the electorate, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is about 2-to-1. Eight years ago, four out of 10 Hispanics voted for ...
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Rubio is for the kind of amnesty program that would guarantee the GOP’s extinction.
Your assessment relies on one to be logical, something that many people lack.
As a young boy, I was always told to learn from leaders. Learn from those who are better and strive to eventually be better than them. Think of the old saying, "...when the student becomes the teacher," and other such things.
So if a majority of conservatives are white and if a majority of taxpaying consumers in this country are white, could one make the case that a majority of successful people in this country or the world are white conservatives? And if that's the case, then why would politicians and their ilk try to cast aside whites as racist instead of embracing our work ethics, our morality, our values, and our family structures?
“And if that’s the case, then why would politicians and their ilk try to cast aside whites as racist instead of embracing our work ethics, our morality, our values, and our family structures?”
That’s a very good question. I don’t profess to have the answer. I can only speculate.
Perhaps because for the last five decades, “our work ethics, our morality, our values, and our family structures” have been derided as racist, imperialistic, xenophobic, and whatever else you wish to brand them?
“oh?
and what is that “slide”?”
Read and understand Article II of the Constitution......
just because the dems got away with ignoring the Presidential eligibility requirements due to a perfect storm of political circumstances, and long term manuvering to install a throughly socialist candidate in the White House, doesn’t mean we should attempt to ignore it also and attempt the same coup. That is the “slide away from the Constitution” I’m talking about. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Your question appears purely rhetorical...and meant to lay a trap.
Rubio, born in the US to legally residing foreign citizen (Cuban) parents, is, under the 14th Amendment, a “born citizen.”
He is not, however, a “nautural born citizen” as understood, and intended by the framers, from their study of 18th century jurists/political thinkers/wrtters, when they used the term in writting Article II; nor as understood and defined by the USSC in numerious citizenship decisions... the principle one being Minor v. Happersett.
Rubio’s 14th amendment birthright citizenship is inmaterial at any rate, because when his parents became naturalized citizens their minor children shared in that naturalization also.
A “naturalized natural born citizen” is an inheirent contradiction of terms and meanings.
A far as citizenship is concerened, Rubio’s covered, 14th Amendment citizen and naturalized......Unlike Obama, there is no doubt Rubio’s a citizen...... unfortunately, just like Obama, he doesn’t meet Article II eligibility requirements because of his lack of two citizen parents.
Sorry as much as I appreciate Rubio’s values/principles/stances, defense of the American mores, his charisma/clarity, etc., he doesn’t meet Constitutional eligibility requirements for the position of POTUS. He knows it, and has often said he is not a candidate for the executive position(s).
I wish people would stop trying to push Republicans/conservatives/Conservatives to think that Rubio is eligible, and he should/will run if given enough “grass roots” pushing. It does a great dis-service to all of us, effectively serving to “legitimize” Obama’s unconstitutional assumption of power and subsequent reign of terror on the US body politic. They should be ashamed of themselves for being so short sighted.
I wish people would quit pretending to teach the Constitution who don’t understand it themselves.
“I wish people would quit pretending to teach the Constitution who don’t understand it themselves.”
Agreed when you gonna take up your study of it?
It was the Democrats who began this ethnic pandering generations ago. This is what big city politics is about. Any Republican that tries to immitate what the Democrats do is not worthy to be a leader as this person has no vision. Marco Rubio seems to be giving yesterday’s speaches. It think he is behind the people and is not daring enough to understand and challenge the whole Democrat worldview which includes an ethnic preference outlook.
What is it exactly that Hispanic voters want?
HARD WORK, FAMILY, RESPECT FOR THE LAW This, I think would make a good slogan that sums up conservative values which we have in common with many Hispanics and Asians.
Many immigrants today go right to the welfare roles. We saw the travesty of Aunt Zentuni who was in the country ILLEGALLY and was still given the whole smorgesbord of liberal welfare programs. Millions of legal immigrants do the same. Legalizing millions of illegal aliens, and their kids born here, and the many relatives that they will send for, would indeed inflate our welfare roles greatly.
Compassion begins at home. Let’s be compassionate to our own kids who will be stuck with the bills. Every man woman and child in this country now owes $40,000.
You have a point - there's common ground ... which reminds me - my local paper didn't report on the Zimmerman news - doesn't fit the liberal narrative...
Exactly.
And nobody asked the American people what they thought about all of this. This is just more evidence that the federal government is almost totally controlled by the Democrat Party and works exclusively for its benefit.
Anyone who doesn't want only that God given liberties to rise or fall on their own industry restored - as intended by our founders - belongs on the other side.
If this does not happen soon we might as well admit though we still may have the name, we are no longer America.
Both parties are controlled by corporate interests. The Chamber of Commerce wants to keep this inexhaustible supply of cheap labor flowing. It reduces costs and suppresses wages. There is a reason why Boehner and Cantor are not allowing a national e-verify law supported by Lamar Smith to be brought to a vote.
There are many people in non-white immigrant communities that practice conservative values in their lives, for instance the Asian shopkeeper who gets up at 5 in the morning to open his shop. These people should be natural conservatives and we have to reach out to them. Is the Republican party actually doing this? It is not enough to have a prominent person in the Republican party, we have to reach out to these communities and speak to the community leaders, especially the business people who have sway in their communities. Also, consider how these people have to deal with the angry blacks that the Democrats have spoiled rotten, blacks vote 90% Democrat. If Republicans were smart they would point out this connection to those Asians and Hispanic business people. Business owners could have a strong influence on their communities.
Every basic traditional American value has been attacked by the left. We have all been in a sort of Communist reeducation camp for the past 70 years. Conservatives are suffering from a bad case of beaten wife syndrom. We have to recognize this and start rethinking what has become the default (liberal) way of thinking. That is what freerepublic is about, it is a kind of think tank for everyman.
That is true, the RINOS are a part of the problem as well.
This is why when I hear anything that sounds like ethnic pandering coming from Republicans, I put that person on my do not vote for list. I do not trust that person after that.
But are Asians really part of any problem in this country? I was actually blown away to read that they general vote Democrat. Why? I wouldn’t have guessed that. Are they too intelligent for their own good?
I like the slogan, and I think it would be effective. However, those billboards would likely be defaced once it came out that “whitey” put them up.
But Asians?
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