Yes, in GWB first term when the economy appeared to be improving and Hispanics were buying those first houses and Iraq looking like an easy win and Bush was running deficits handing out free candy, they were able to nale down some Hispanic votes in 2004.
But those days are over because those things were not sustainable.
With the bad economy Obama did the best he could to dangle freebees in front of them, while the GOP did the best they could to convince them that only the rich matter to them,
If the GOP is going to court their vote then they need to be honest about what that means, and its not pretty.
About half of what you said is accurate, sickoflibs. The rest shows signs of spin. The closer you got to the end of your post, the more accurate you became. AuntB is hooked on presenting a Mexican poll and pretending it’s a poll of Latino-Americans. I think your spin is unintentional and you’re just repeating what you’ve been told. Hers is deliberate.
I know a lot of Latinos. The ones who are here legally. The ones who were born here. The ones who can vote legally. You know, there are Latino families in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and New Mexico who have been living here for 200-300 years.
AuntB claims that she’s “educating” us. Here’s some real education.
The illegals cause a lot of problems for Latinos who are here legally. To a very large extent, the illegals are predators and the legal Latinos are their favorite prey.
Think about it. If you’re here illegally from Mexico, with brown skin, and you speak about seven or eight words of English with a heavy accent (if you can speak any at all), whose identity are you most likely to steal: Mike Murphy, Vladimir Volkov, or Tony Gonzalez? Obviously you’re going to steal the identity of Tony Gonzalez. Because you can convince a potential employer, a potential landlord, and even the cops that you really are Antonio Gonzalez.
Illegal Latinos drive up the cost of renting an apartment or buying a used car for legal Latinos, because they stay in the Latino community. And they drive down wages for legal Latinos for the same reason.
If they’re dealing drugs, they’re dealing to the sons and daughters of legal Latinos. If they’re stalking young girls, their most likely victims are the daughters of legal Latinos. Because those victims are the ones they see every day.
Yes, some legal Latinos have family members who are illegal or still living in Mexico, and they want to reunite their families here where the money is. Where the good life is. Who can blame them?
But the ones who have their entire families here are very much opposed to amnesty. And if we can just get the illegal Latinos out of the country, and prevent them from voting illegally, you will all see a substantial change in the way the rest of them vote, and respond to polls.
If we turn our backs on legal Latinos, and drive them away with harsh, racist rhetoric, we are finished as a political party.
Finished.