two comments —
1. Obama has conquored by dividing us. Every president in my lifetime tried, some better than others, but they all tried to bring us together, foster harmony or, in the words of our founders, domestic tranquillity. Obama’s very cleverly rekindled a terrible racism in America, something I did not think possible, but its worked for his elections
2. There is a good measure of social conservatism in Latino or Mexican culture. And, while some of the immigrants like welfare...many others come here for the old-fashioned idea of economic opportunity. Similar comments for our massive influx of folks from the PRC. THe R party should be able to reach out to these growing segments of society...reach out with generally conservative values and policies...but reach out. Either the R’s don’t reach out...or else they reach out with liberal D programs and values. Mistake either way. I firmly believe (based on just the Chinese and Mexicans I meet, yes)..that the R party should be capable of capturing a substantial part of these votes.
Indeed, there is still a core of black people in America that believe in generally socially conservative morals...and the black ‘vote’ should be well within the R party’s grasp....by the simple expedient of actually reaching out and providing black voters with the accurate information about the D party being the slave party while the R party stands for abolition of slavery and equal opportunity, etc. I’m not claiming the R’s can win the black vote, but the R’s can sure as Heck do a whole lot better than 3% !!!!
I’ve never seen any party campaign so incredibly ineffectively, to the point of looking all like they wanted to throw the elections...than the R party in 2008 and 2012.
Please don’t write off the Mexican or Chinese votes, at any event. They can be attracted to a good candidate with a good program and a good outreach to communicate that good program
In my somewhat-humble opinion, at any event.
We’ll see what the R “leadership” (so-called) does next.
Best,
fhc
Sorry
You are where I was 25-30 Years ago but I won’t condemn you for it
I spent nearly 2 decades living in and absorbing the third world mindset
It’s coming here
The public assistance rates for legal immigrants is nearly twice that of native born
Take blacks out of total and immigrants are on public assistance exponentially higher
No minority except Christian Arabs and Vietnamese has ever supported GOP in modern era since the 1920s in a national election
Karl Rove fudged that Bush got around 40% but that was a bald faced lie