Posted on 04/13/2013 3:13:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Marco Rubio’s approval rating is six points lower with Hispanics than George W. Bush’s, so the Republican Party thinks it is a great idea to put him on all 5 Sunday shows.
The Republican “rebrand” strategy is centered around making Sen. Marco Rubio the face of immigration reform. The problem is that Hispanics aren’t flocking to the Florida Republican. A new poll from NBC News/WSJ/Telemundo found that despite months of efforts to elevate Rubio, the senator’s approval rating with Hispanics is 23%. Twenty five percent of those polled were neutral, 12% had a negative opinion, and 40% didn’t know him. On the surface, these numbers don’t seem all that bad. The fact that Rubio is a relative unknown could provide upside for his approval.
Republicans might be feeling good about Rubio if the same poll didn’t reveal that George W. Bush’s approval rating with Hispanics is six points higher (29%) than Marco Rubio’s (23%). President Obama’s approval rating with Hispanics is almost three times larger than Rubio’s (64%), but not even the president can match potential 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval rating of 65%.
The GOP is responding to this lukewarm reception for Rubio by putting him on all five of the Sunday news shows tomorrow as their face of immigration reform. Just like they did with women and Sarah Palin, Republicans are acting on the assumption that Hispanic Americans will vote for them if they promote a Hispanic person.
Instead of admitting that the problem is what they stand for, Republicans are trying to once again put a different race/gender/ethnicity on the same failed platform.
Splashing Marco Rubio’s face all over television on Sunday morning isn’t going send Hispanics back to the Republican Party.....
(Excerpt) Read more at politicususa.com ...
I think they are just using him to score votes.
Hit piece by a Politico copycat. Promotes Hildy
JMO....
North and South American Hispanics don’t relate to Cubans. They may all have similar roots from Spain/Portugal, but the cultures are not at all similar.
Cubans are generally either White or White/Black mix. The NA and SA Hispanics are generally White or White/Am. Indian mix.
It's why Obama carried the Cuban-American vote in Florida by 20 points last year.
Add-on to my post above...
I realize what I posted was somewhat simplistic and generalized. However, I truly believe there is a large cultural divide between NA/SA Hispanics and the Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
I’m a Natural Born Texan with ancestors who were here in the 1820s when it was still part of Mexico. Obviously, there are cultural differences between me and someone who has lived their whole life in one of the Northeastern States.
That’s essentially the comparison I was attempting to make about why “Hispanics” are not very supportive of Rubio.
That will give you a better view of Conservatives walking away from the GOP.
Last week he told a group of Blacks he favored eliminating or reducing prison terms for many drug offenders - Bye-Bye, Cultural Conservatives.
He punts on gay marriage, never explicitly saying he is against it - Bye-Bye, Evangelicals.
His immigration plan says nothing about E-Verify or employer sanctions, which, of course, would cause illegals to self-deport by the millions - Bye-Bye, Immigration Hawks.
He is a Foreign Policy Dove and has equivocal positions on Israel - Bye-Bye, Defense Hawks and Neo-Cons.
He seems to be completely unaware that 80% of new immigrant citizens vote for the Democrat Party - Bye-Bye, America.
For goodness sakes Rand Paul is a demagogue.
/bingo
He’s not a Republican, he’s from that deep tradition of pre-Civil War Democrats.
I know a hit piece when I read one and this is a hit piece.
Rightly or wrongly, Marco Rubio is getting the Palin treatment.
Rubio’s biggest mistake and perhaps a fatal mistake, was joining that idiot Immigration Reform Gang of Eight. Schumer suckered him into that one, big time.
More and more, we focus less and less on the army on the Left that seeks to destroy us and spend time that should be devoted to the guys who are actively trying to destroy us on those who have some standing on our own side. Khrushchev was right - we will destroy ourselves from the inside by allowing ourselves to become distracted.
While the slangy, rapid fire acento costal spoken around the Caribbean is tough for gringos from Mrs. Wojiezchowski'a Espanol 101, it is, I assure you, mutually intelligible everywhere en el mundo hispano. My heavily fortified Tex-Mex gets smiles in Spain, but they understand me perfectly, and I them.
Castilian Spanish was the first European language to have standard grammar and spelling, and entry was consciously made easy so newly conquered Indians could communicate. Of course on the upper levels, it is as difficult and as nuanced as Italian or French. No matter what the country, that of course is a class thing. BTW, even the lower classes en el mundo hispano, do not make the atrocious grammatical errors one hears every day in American English. Go figure.
Rubio's problem isn't Spanish. It's that he is really a bit of a fake. E.G., he allows everyone to assume that his folks were refugees from that bad boy Fidel. Not so. They came in '54. So there's less excuse for them having neglected to become citizens in time for them to bestow natural born Citizenship on wonder boy. And speaking of wonderboy and linguistics, what's with the Eyetie handle "Marco?" En espanol it's "Marcos" with an "s." This idea that suddenly the 100 million Latinos wandering around the US are going to follow this fellow into the GOP is laughable.
In fact, we could probably save the Republic if we pulled 20% of the Hispanic vote and a lousy 12-13% of the African-American vote, providing of course that the base actually shows up, at which they are really bad. Maybe that minor inroad into minorities is what the RINOs (and Marco is a RINO) are shooting for. Keep'em in the game.
Thank you for a most brilliant and disarmingly simple thought:
Maybe we should focus on the person's ideas - once they've cleared the eligibility hurdles that is.
Don’t forget who is behind the scenes running this amnesty scam.
Who is Cesar Conda? (Rubio’s chief of staff, for one thing)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007546/posts
“I stand with Rand.”
“Then you are standing with a political coward whose Amnesty plan (re: “Normalization”) will effectively kill both the GOP and this country.”
So tell me who do you see as the saviour of the conservative movement?
Agreed.
“So tell me who do you see as the savior of the conservative movement?”
“Anybody who is actually a conservative.”
So basically you have no clue.
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