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"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.

Your argument might have merit if we were still accepting immigrants at a rate where they were assimilated. What we have now is a mass invasion (11 million illegals in the US now) that are not assimilating and, in fact, are balkanizing the US. Common language and common values are vanishing. We have large groups which are hostile to the US and a people and a government on our southern border that dream of the day when they can take the southwest back for Mexico.