[umgud]

Convert them at every opportunity. Hispanic businessmen should be easier to convert than the working masses. I will however, stand by my speculation/prediction.

[livius]

I think you're probably right, thanks to the Demo machine that has virtually been snapping them up at the border. However, I do think that most Hispanics, especially the increasing number of immigrants who are middle class (fleeing from Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, etc.) tend more towards Republican or at any rate, conservative, values than towards whatever it is the Democrats use in place of values.

Aside from their conservative and family oriented social values (before they get into the clutches of the Demo welfare machine, at least), many Hispanics are small-business oriented in a way that Republicans should capitalize on. That is, their dream is not uniformly that of going off and becoming, say, a doctor or a lawyer, but running their own business of some sort. This can range from anything to a small grocery store to their own stock brokerage.

I think that approaching Hispanics on the level of their business sense and initiative, which they have but often cannot use in their own countries because of corruption, bureaucracy and instability, is the way to go. We should offer a dynamic, positive message, something that contrasts with the Demo "pity the poor wetbacks on welfare" approach.