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Who says that those young Republicans will be allowed to take office?

We had better win now because the next time there is a Democrat President or if Bush is able to push through broad illegal alien amnesty, the demographics will be so slanted against the GOP that the dems will never again lose national control.

"We had better win now because the next time there is a Democrat President or if Bush is able to push through broad illegal alien amnesty, the demographics will be so slanted against the GOP that the dems will never again lose national control."

I've heard that argument before -- like from my boyfriend *every* night. And every night -- de ja vu here -- I tell him that he's wrong because Latinos are going to be great Republican voters if the Republicans play their cards right. Latinos have very conservative social values in many parts of the country, very church-going, and they don't feel they *have* to belong to the Democratic party.

Courting the Latino vote is one of the things President Bush is doing EXACTLY right. Not pandering. Courting.

I also think, unlike I realize a lot of people here, that African-Americans will not necessarily vote lockstep with the Democratic party of the future.

I'm not afraid of the demographics. If the Republican party truly remains the party of merit-based promotion and the party of opportunity, people will find their way to us.