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atino's are a natural fit for the Republican party, they are cultuarlly conservative, but all you do is push them away with your xenophobic rantings and the demo's exploit that.

Latino legal immigrants are, but not Latino illegal immigrants. They are criminals and criminals are no "culturally conservative".

The "chicano" movement is a thing of the past. Their left-labor coalitions are falling apart. The defeat of Villaraigosa was the last hurrah for Aztlan, which most of the people who voted for him didn't believe in anyway (before the election, 50 percent of hispanics said he was too liberal, yet 80 percent voted for him because, hey, he's one of them. That will change).

The future of hispanic politics in this country is with Democrats like LA city atty Rocky Delgadillo (who won in the same election), who wants to get hispanics off food stamps and into jobs, and Republicans like Henry Bonilla.

Meanwhile, the latest gallup poll has 45 percent of hispanics saying they might vote for whatever Republican is running in their Congressional district this year (usually each party gets in the low 30's when asked who they will vote for.) That's a miraculous number, when you consider that so many come from districts where there are no credible GOP candidates.

The cultural issues, like homosexuality and abortion, will be critical to bringing hispanics along. Hopefully, Republicans will stop being so afraid to pick up the cultural issues. That, more than immigration politics, is losing hispanics for the GOP.