Posted on 10/16/2013 6:31:49 AM PDT by jimbo123
It’s been almost a year since Mitt Romney lost seven in ten Hispanic voters to President Obama, sparking Republicans to try and improve the party’s poor reputation with Hispanics. Yet, the GOP has little to show that its “re-brand” is working.
On Monday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced that it hired “Hispanic engagement staff” in seven states; California, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Chairman Reince Priebus called the hires “unprecedented” moves that “will ensure our message of ‘opportunity for all’ reaches voters.”
The moves are the latest in a string of listening sessions and candidate outreach efforts that Republicans have used to show they’re serious about attracting Hispanics. But Hispanic voters appear as alienated by the GOP as ever.
A report commissioned by the RNC in March recommended that Republicans “embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,” warning that “if we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to our core constituencies only.”
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Yet the new leader of the senate is a man named Cruz!!
Looks like sonmebody is trying to move on from Obama’s current crisis to get us mired in the next one.
The GOP needs to dig their heels in and say “NO, not till we resolve the Obamacare/debt crisis.”
You are on a roll today with these amnesty posts :)
You just have to promise them more freebies than the Dems do, Reince. The myth that these noble squatters are such hard workers belies the fact that they sign up for every welfare program they can get into. Sharing a border with Mexico would bleed Texas dry, if it weren’t for our oil and gas business.
“Yet the new leader of the senate is a man named Cruz!!”
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Enthusiastic bump
Promote LEGAL immigration. Streamline the naturalization process. Enforce the law.
Illegals are not going to vote for you anyway so you might try appealing to those who are at least TRYING to do the right thing.
Idiots.
NO amnasty.
Yes, but it wasn’t because he is a phony panderer of that elusive and unobtainable Hispanic vote manna from heaven.
It was because of his Conservatism.
The truth is that Hispanics NEVER will largely take up the cause of conservatism, I don’t care if they are mostly Catholic or not.
There is a small percentage of Hispanics who are conservatively disposed, but that percentage won’t increase with wholesale unchecked immigration into this country.
Too, too many of them would be looking for instant realization of American bounty rather than get conservative ideals the traditional way.
When Cruz is president, I expect the GOP, if there still is a GOP, can take 7 out of 10 Hispanic voters who vote.
The GOP has been alienating not only Hispanics but conservatives in general because of their RINO policies. As a Hispanic, I supported Senator Cruz during the primaries and general election. I will continue supporting GOP candidates who are true conservatives but will not support any RINO candidate.
Well, the GOP-e is calling for the elimination of conservative Tea Party from the GOP, so they had better get busy with those Hispanics!
The GOP-e will sell out and pass “undocumented democrat reform” thinking Latinos will then love them. In fact, Conservatives will abandon the GOP-e, especially if they manufacture a Chris Christie type nomination, and Latinos will vote for the free stuff. So on the national level, the brilliant Karl Rove and the GOP-e will face catastrophic losses at the polls. Brilliant.
How ‘bout we do truth, not pandering? I’m sick to death of the RINOs and their political lackeys telling me a person’s ethnicity is more important that his or her ethical and moral positions. Conservative ideas are great, grounded and appealing to everything American Hispanics hold dear. Why not stand on those values? I’d be highly offended to be courted for the color of my skin rather than the content of my character.
Well said, TE. Thanks.
"Opportunity" = amnesty. No sale, GOP.
So, even by that broad standard, only one in 10 is even winnable. Three in ten vote like other Americans who have to work for a living, in the private sector, year-round in jobs where at least some post high school education is helpful . . . maybe because they are legal and they actually do fit this description. That's the broad standard.
The more likely explanation is that more than two decades of neglected border enforcement and invasion encouragement, the "Hispanic" demographic has been diluted to the point that only three in ten, rather than four in ten, feel any loyalty to the U.S.A.
Why be fake Democrats, when they can vote for the real thing?
There. Fixed it.
Yes. We heard for years about the black voting demographic is actually “socially conservative”, but every chance they’ve had, they’ve voted for the gibmes over those so-called “conservative principles”. They even ditched their supposed anti-sodomite stance for obamaphones and the rest.
Now the GOP wants to make the same old mistake with the Hispanic voting block. Most of the later immigrants, especially, are going to do the same thing-vote for the gibmes over those so-called “family values”. And one study shows that future generations of recent immigrants do even worse and rely even more on government gibmes than their parent(s).
There is a block of disaffected voters out there ripe for representation-white working people. People who pay (or would pay, of they could find a job) the majority of taxes. People who support law and order, and oppose gibmes as a way of life, but support a short-term “safety net”, to be used only as such.
But they are left to twist in the wind, so they stay home.
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