[Sabertooth]

They are American citizens, with every right, duty and responsibility that you have.

You are absolutely correct.

My point is that if, as the "Bush is always a genius" crowd believes, these Latinos will swing their vote toward Amnesty, that is not a good thing in the long-term for the GOP. or America..

I think that outreach on the basis of Amnesties for Illegals is condescending and insulting to Latinos, and hypocritical to a party that has portrayed itself as dedicated to upholding the Rule of Law.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I think that outreach on the basis of Amnesties for Illegals is condescending and insulting to Latinos."

I don't think that outreach exists, not for citizens anyway.

[Twodees]

There are Americans with Spanish surnames in all of the southwestern states whose families have been American ever since those states entered the union. IMO, it's disrespectful to call them hispanics or anything else other than Americans. They aren't immigrants and they aren't Mexicans and none of them that I ever met like the invasion from Mexico any more than I do.

I would be very surprised if Bush doesn't lose the votes of most of those folks who voted for him in 2000. There are a lot of conservatives among the old Southwestern families and they don't need for anyone to speak garbled broken Spanish to them or to promise to let invaders from Mexico take over the states their families played a large part in building.

If Tio Jorge really thinks he's going to please those folks, the oldest families in the Southwest, with this nonsense, he's even dumber than he looks. I don't think he's dumb though. I think he just doesn't care about anything except advancing the same agenda his daddy lived for.