Posted on 06/12/2013 6:42:51 PM PDT by markomalley
Democrats terrify Hispanics into thinking they’ll be lynched if they vote for Republicans, and then turn around and taunt Republicans for not winning a majority of the Hispanic vote.
This line of attack has real resonance with our stupidest Republicans. (Proposed Republican primary targets: Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio.) Which explains why Republicans are devoting all their energy to slightly increasing their share of the Hispanic vote while alienating everyone else in America.
It must be fun for liberals to manipulate Republicans into focusing on hopeless causes. Why don’t Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners?
As journalist Steve Sailer recently pointed out, the Hispanic vote terrifying Republicans isn’t that big. It actually declined in 2012. The Census Bureau finally released the real voter turnout numbers from the last election, and the Hispanic vote came in at only 8.4 percent of the electorate — not the 10 percent claimed by the pro-amnesty crowd.
The sleeping giant of the last election wasn’t Hispanics; it was elderly black women, terrified of media claims that Republicans were trying to suppress the black vote and determined to keep the first African-American president in the White House.
Contrary to everyone’s expectations, 10 percent more blacks voted in 2012 compared to 2008, even beating white voters, the usual turnout champions. Eligible black voters turned out at rate of 66.2 percent, compared to 64.1 percent of eligible white voters. Only 48 percent of all eligible Hispanic voters went to the polls.
No one saw this coming, which is probably why Gallup had Romney up by 5 points before Hurricane Sandy hit, and up by 1 point in its last pre-election poll after the hurricane.
Only two groups voted in larger numbers in 2012 compared to 2008: blacks aged 45-64, and blacks over the age of 65 — mostly elderly black women.
In raw numbers, nearly twice as many blacks voted as Hispanics, and nine times as many whites voted as Hispanics. (Ninety-eight million whites, 18 million blacks and 11 million Hispanics.)
As Byron York has shown, even if Mitt Romney had won 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, he still would have lost. No Republican presidential candidate in at least 50 years has won even half of the Hispanic vote.
In the presidential election immediately after Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote actually declined from 37 percent to 30 percent — and that was in a landslide election for the GOP. Combined, the two Bush presidents averaged 32.5 percent of the Hispanic vote — and they have Hispanics in their family Christmas cards.
John McCain, the nation’s leading amnesty proponent, won only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote, not much more than anti-amnesty Romney’s 27 percent.
Amnesty is a gift to employers, not employees.
The (pro-amnesty) Pew Research Hispanic Center has produced poll after poll showing that Hispanics don’t care about amnesty. In a poll last fall, Hispanic voters said they cared more about education, jobs and health care than immigration. They even care more about the federal budget deficit than immigration! (To put that in perspective, the next item on their list of concerns was “scratchy towels.”)
Also, note that Pew asked about “immigration,” not “amnesty.” Those Hispanics who said they cared about immigration might care about it the way I care about it — by supporting a fence and E-Verify.
Who convinced Republicans that Hispanic wages aren’t low enough and what they really need is an influx of low-wage workers competing for their jobs?
Maybe the greedy businessmen now running the Republican Party should talk with their Hispanic maids sometime. Ask Juanita if she’d like to have seven new immigrants competing with her for the opportunity to clean other people’s houses, so that her wages can be dropped from $20 an hour to $10 an hour.
A wise Latina, A.J. Delgado, recently explained on Mediaite.com why amnesty won’t win Republicans the Hispanic vote — even if they get credit for it. Her very first argument was: “Latinos will resent the added competition for jobs.”
But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better! This is the very definition of treason.
Hispanic voters are a small portion of the electorate. They don’t want amnesty, and they’re hopeless Democrats. So Republicans have decided the path to victory is to flood the country with lots more of them!
It’s as if Republicans convinced Democrats to fixate on banning birth control to win more pro-life voters. This would be great for Republicans because Democrats will never win a majority of pro-life voters, and about as many pro-lifers care about birth control as Hispanics care about amnesty.
But that still wouldn’t be as idiotic as what Republicans are doing because, according to Gallup, pro-lifers are nearly half of the electorate. Hispanics are only 8.4 percent of the electorate.
And it still wouldn’t be as stupid as the GOP pushing amnesty, because banning birth control wouldn’t create millions more voters who consistently vote against the Democrats.
Listening to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus burble a few weeks ago on “Fox News Sunday” about how amnesty is going to push the Republicans to new electoral heights, one is reminded of Democratic pollster Pat Caddell’s reason for refusing to become a Republican: No matter how enraged he gets at Democratic corruption, he says he can’t bear to join such a stupid party as the GOP.
Coulter supported Christie.
Coulter supports GOP Proud.
And she's now blaming little old Black ladies for Romney's loss rather than blaming herself and the other inside-the-beltway RHINO elites for pushing Romney on us. Coulter's candidate lost not because of little old Black ladies, but because Romney sucked as a condidate and couldn't excite the conservative base.
“...we need a party that will fight for freedom on all issues, not just fiscal...”
Um, wouldn’t that be the Libertarian Party?
Solid take down and strongly worded. The Surrender Party has become a corporatist donor servicing organisation and not an engaged political party. Here is the key part:
But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better! This is the very definition of treason.
I wouldn’t trust any women that dated Bill Maher. How freaked up do you have to be to do
That.
Ann trying to make up for supporting Obama on the Eligibility issue. Good God she was evil against Birthers....which did nothing but help Obama get re-elected
And, which helped this latest Amnesty push
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LOL! That’s a good point!
Well informed sanity.
This IS one she is right on, but I still can hardly open an article of hers to read. I was so incensed by her arrogance and stubbornness in regards to Romney that it still makes me mad. Romney is a good person, no doubt about it and would have made a far better president than what we have, but he is no Reagan, nor is he all that conservative. I hope Ann gets things straightened out again, as she has been one of our best writers. If she goes off on Sarah again I’LL NEVER READ ANOTHER ARTICLE BY HER AGAIN!
If only folks would have listened to me in 2012, when McCain was the darling of the RNC, we may have been able to do something. Now we’re stuck with a full house of pigs.
uh huh!
Perhaps Ann is coming out of her midlife crisis.
Maybe the greedy businessmen now running the Republican Party should talk with their Hispanic maids sometime. Ask Juanita if she’d like to have seven new immigrants competing with her for the opportunity to clean other people’s houses, so that her wages can be dropped from $20 an hour to $10 an hour.This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans over the last decade or so.A wise Latina, A.J. Delgado, recently explained on Mediaite.com why amnesty won’t win Republicans the Hispanic vote — even if they get credit for it. Her very first argument was: “Latinos will resent the added competition for jobs.”
But rich businessmen don’t care. Big Republican donors — and their campaign consultants — just want to make money. They don’t care about Hispanics, and they certainly don’t care what happens to the country. If the country is hurt, I don’t care, as long as I am doing better!
This is the very definition of treason.
Dems are motivated by their liberal dogma and quest for long term supremacy; Republicans are in it for personal enrichment.
Democrats love the money that flows in from lobbyists but they always manipulate the resulting donor expectations in ways to ultimately serve the liberal agenda. Contrast that with the GOP-e, who slavishly obey the whims of their big money contributors and consultants.
That's why the Democrats prevail most of the time.
I’m speaking generally, of course.
There are exceptions to this in both parties. But the pool of these exceptions is shrinking.
Hopefully, the Tea Party movement can bring about change.
Frankly I dream of a day where a party comes a long that strictly sticks to the constitution, no making policies over religious morality but more on the constitution and common sense, let the states decide on whats moral for them(within the constraints of common good and constitutionality) and let the military decide what they want . Low taxes and fiscal restraint. I Know that doesn’t jive with many here as they believe Christianity is the overdriving force of what this country should be..but I am a firm believer that people of good will seek out whats right. If living in a state with a more theocratic bent is what they want then they will go there...with in the economics of their situation of course.
It’s what happens when you go out with perv bullies like Bill MAher. She got weird after that.
Any more "sage wisdom" from blondie and I'll just about toss my cookies!
Let’s legalize 15 million people who broke our laws. Let’s add millions to the job market so they can compete with millions of Americans already struggling to find work. Let’s add millions of people to the welfare state at a time when the government is going bankrupt. This is how our dirty politicians represent us. They screw us every chance they get.
Hard to take anyone seriously that PimPs Romney(Christy) and calls someone else STUPID!..
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