Posted on 11/24/2012 1:21:00 PM PST by Steelfish
Selling the American Dream By RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY NOVEMBER 2012 issue
Can The GOP Bring Hispanics Home?
IT WAS THE SPRING OF 1994. The Smashing Pumpkins ruled the airwaves. I was 22 years old, recently graduated from Arizona State University and living in the “Real World” house in San Francisco. Rooming with six strangers and having my life taped for MTV’s groundbreaking reality series, The Real World, in the nation’s most liberal city was a formative experience for a young, Hispanic, conservative, Catholic girl from the Southwest.
The Real World perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon. In San Francisco, I saw my first gay pride parade with my HIV-positive Cuban roommate, Pedro. I attended “spoken word” night at a dry hip-hop nightclub with my dreadlocked, African American Muslim roommate, Mohammad. I regularly bar-hopped in seedy neighborhoods with my anarchist bike messenger pal, Puck.
I went to more drag shows than I care to admit, and once was even taken to “bondage night” at a local club, where I observed a sad, topless, wrinkled grandmother in leather shorts, and misfit weirdos of every stripe, spanking and electrocuting each other. I was shocked (no pun intended), but in youthful optimism also convinced that somehow this “culture” would make me a more well-rounded, worldly, sophisticated adult.
So I was annoyed when my “open-minded” roommates balked and moaned after I invited them to experience my world at an Empower America conference. Jeane Kirkpatrick and my political hero, Jack Kemp, were headlining the event.
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And if you are Cuban, you do relatively well in school and get a big advantage by qualifying under the affirmative action umbrella—so even that constituency gets corrupted over time.
Hispanics in my Central California Coastal town have the American Dream. 87% of the births at the local hospital are to Hispanics on MediCal. 87% of the kids in the local schools are Hispanic and 87% of them are on the free lunch program. SSI for grandma, free day care for the kids, MediCal provided dental care, Section 8 housing, EBT card and monthly welfare checks. They already have the American Dream.
I didn’t accuse her of anything she didn’t admit to in the first few paragraphs.
And liberals aren’t family oriented?
A majority of Hispanic children are born out of wedlock, and they’ve come on strong for abortion and gay marriage as well. They are no more church going than the American population as a whole.
Thanks for calling me of the younger generation I am 70.
My look down the road doesn’t include either.
We must close the borders, and only allow legal immigration.
Suggesting of course that Americans of Hispanic descent are inveterate law-breakers. People never explain why they feeeeeeeeeeeeel that way.
Oh nevermind.. 1986 redux -- amnesty and open borders -- a.k.a., comprehensive "reform."
BTW, I remember Jack Kemp, Jeb Bush, and William Bennett out here screaming at Republicans for passing Prop 187 in 1994 -- 1994 also elected a Republican governor and Republican control of the Assembly for the first time in ages. About one-third of the voters were there voting just to "Save Our State."
The Republican Party of California followed Kemp's, et al advice and since the late 1990s, IIRC, they've won just three statewide elections.. two of them by SchwarzenKennedy
She didn’t attempt to hide from it. It didn’t corrupt her, which is the point. She went through the experience with her values intact. I watched that show. It was her roommates that were the intolerant reactionaries that we know leftists to be. She tried to open their minds to different ideas and they refused to be moved. It was ultimately more an indictment of them than of her. She’s also the only one to come out of that show a success story.
I don’t believe that Liberals are family-oriented. I believe Liberals hate God and want to destroy the family unit.
I think we can reach Hispanics. They have been propagandized by Liberals for so long that they have lost their way on some issues. But I believe that they are able to be reached. I think some of the support for abortion and gay marriage is efforts to be included, following along with the crowd who claims to accept them. I believe we can change those attitudes if we change the way we relate to them. I do not believe that Blacks can be saved. They are far too gone. We will save ourselves a lot of heartache if we just recognize that fact and let them go.
BINGO
Terrorists prefer legal immigration.
Hispanic Voters = Illegal Alien Amnesty
The GOP needs to get off their Fetish for Hispanics and Illegal Aliens, or they will keep losing more of their base
Get real GOP...or get Whig
I am afraid all this breast-beating over the Hispanics, moderates vs. conservatives, swing states, Reagan Democrats... blah, blah, blad is totally a waste of time. The GOP is finished unless it learns to get its hands dirty and do some serious street fighting. The base is in rapid retreat from all things RINO and DC and unlikely to every rally again without a real war cry, not more limp-wristed ‘analysis.’
Fine, I’m all for trying to get the message to Hispanics or any other “minority” voters. But I don’t expect great results. Probably the only way many will change their socialist ways is if the country goes through a deep depression. And if we keep electing people like Obama, that won’t too far in the future.
Jack Kemp was considered a “radical with hair on fire” by the GOP-e of the time and they all disavowed him. However, GOP presidential candidates got much more of the Hispanic vote during his time. Read all of the article beyond the first few words and you will understand this.
It didn’t carry forward because the GOP abandoned (a) the ideals and (b) the outreach. The fact that Ryan was not allowed to go and speak to “urban” (read: poor black) areas and nobody at all went to speak in Hispanic areas, except for Rubio, who was allowed to occasionally preach to the choir, tells you why we lost these areas spectacularly.
I was speaking to a Hispanic friend this weekend who said she despised everything Obama stood for - but she voted for him anyway, because she thought the GOP hated Hispanics and Romney made it very clear that he “didn’t want” their votes.
She loves Rubio and Mia Love, btw, but she said she couldn’t get past Romney. Also, she and a lot of Hispanics did not like the fact that he was a Mormon.
Rubio’s (Catholic) family was sucked in by the Mormons for social services after they arrived in the US, but then he married a Catholic and is Catholic himself.
Mia Love is also a Mormon, but she wasn’t brought up as a Mormon and probably still has a less-Mormon oriented agenda (and I wouldn’t be surprised if she finds another religion one of these days).
But Romney was very much a part of their strange world vision, which involves making huge profits for themselves and their church. They were originally enemies of the US, and Romney’s great-grandfather fled to Mexico with his wives. Romney’s grandfather brought his son (Romney’s father) back to the US as a child when the Mexicans began objecting to this polygamist colony and its proseletysing.
The only reason Utah is part of the US is because the Mormons didn’t have enough firepower to resist the US cavalry, and the Mormons finally had to back off after killing a whole wagon train (Mountain Meadows Massacre) and various other groups and individuals that were on their way to settle the West. The condition for statehood was that they give up polygamy and any practice that was contrary to the US Constitution.
Romney, like Obama, apparently thought he was the fulfilment of some Mormon “prophecy” where they would take over the United States.
Could we have found a worse candidate?
No, nor do I. The poor fools on this thread complaining about Hispanics don't seem to realize that Obama (by executive order almost immediately after his inauguration in January, 2009) took a large percentage of the legal Latin American immigration quota and alloted that quota to people from "Muslim countries."
I know, and if we don’t push them back out now, it will become too late in four more years.
Her words:
For too long, the party’s strategy has been to hire a few Beltway conservative Latinos six months before an election and call it “outreach.” What’s needed is permanent outreach at the grassroots levels between elections. Conservative Hispanic activists on the ground know that the GOP needs to take a few cues from successful groups like the far-left La Raza, which has made its mark by bringing public policy to the neighborhood level.
Well, in that case, I had better put more water on to boil a lot more pasta.. Dinner is at 7PM.. see ya, Oh, and you better bring an extra chair.. Ha!
Not a chance. We have lost the Hispanic vote. (not suggesting that we change to get it). Look no further than CA to see it. on this, CA is absolutely a microcosm. We haven’t had the Hispanic vote since Prop 13 and never will. Anyone who thinks we can get it is fooling themselves terribly.
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