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How Can McCain Be Losing Latinos?
Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/26/08 | Ruben Navarrette

Posted on 10/26/2008 9:54:46 AM PDT by DogBarkTree

SAN DIEGO -- Recently, I was on a Latino-themed radio show defending John McCain. The defendant was accused of abandoning comprehensive immigration reform, turning his back on Latino supporters, and associating with a bad crowd (read: Republicans). I didn't give an inch. I was the only person in the discussion who actually knew McCain -- from my stint 10 years ago as a reporter at a newspaper in Arizona -- and I could attest to the fact that the senator had always gone to bat for Latinos. At one point, another guest scolded me in frustration: "Look, it's not about John McCain. It's about the Republican Party!"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; amnesty; election; gop; hispandering; immigrantlist; immigration; karma; latinovote; mccain; obama
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To: DogBarkTree

The lesson is that the people will always vote for the guy offeing something for nothing. McCain and Palin offer to spread the opportunity while Obama wants to spread the wealth. Opportunity means work and the possibilities of failure. If that’s the case then as the song goes”take the money and run”!!!


21 posted on 10/26/2008 10:11:18 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: mrsmith

There is a Jose the “Plumber” in this vid, which features homemade vids sent in to the McCain campaign—

http://www.johnmccain.com/informing/news/PressReleases/f955cd30-1f4c-47f5-a9ad-26aa7a6d3e9b.htm


22 posted on 10/26/2008 10:13:30 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right: You never win by losing!)
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To: beethoven

A boy asks his mother why am I more black than white his mother says don’t go there every time I think of that party your lucky you don’t bark.


23 posted on 10/26/2008 10:13:53 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: xkaydet65

I a poll of the US military posted here , Mac was getting 60 % of the latino vote wearing the uniform.


24 posted on 10/26/2008 10:15:50 AM PDT by fantom
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yep, I lived in New Mexico for a few years. It’s the perfect model. All government employees are hispanic. It takes 50 million years to get anything done and corruption is pretty rampant. The non-Hispanic people live in their own gated enclaves or sections of town and venturing outside of them can range from iffy to downright risky.


25 posted on 10/26/2008 10:16:34 AM PDT by riri
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To: Jeff Chandler

Blacks have not assimilated as well as they should have by now because they have been kept on welfare plantations and because their “civil rights leaders” fear that, if they do assimilate, they will no longer be a reliable voting bloc, but, rather, will begin to vote more on issues other than race and handouts.

There’s a vid around here somewhere of Obama talking about how it threatens the Rats’ ability to elect blacks if blacks move from inner city [plantations] into the suburbs.

I think it may be this one:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2115374/posts


26 posted on 10/26/2008 10:19:05 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right: You never win by losing!)
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To: DogBarkTree
Ihope if this guy is elected (or if he is not) he will figure out which side his bread is buttered on. He cultivated media just to see them stab him in the back He cultivated Latinos with the same result. We are the ones who are supporting us I hope this time he does not stab us in the back.
27 posted on 10/26/2008 10:19:12 AM PDT by bilhosty
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

He’s not losing them.


28 posted on 10/26/2008 10:20:51 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: fantom

They’re in a profession where two things are very different.
Hard work is the way of their world, as is opportunity.
Everything in the their world is earned not given.


29 posted on 10/26/2008 10:20:52 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: gotribe
He’s an Arab-American, not an African-American.

This is factually incorrect. His father was a member of the Luo tribe, which is considered a typical "black African," by which is meant what used to be called Negroid, tribe.

30 posted on 10/26/2008 10:21:14 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: freekitty
He’s not losing them.

Eight more days will inarguably tell the tale, either way.

31 posted on 10/26/2008 10:22:58 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (G-d watch over and protect Sarah Palin and her family.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Guass what Jaun y Jorge - you can’t out pander the Democrats. Once you’ve reached the absolute limit in terms of what you think you can get away with, the other party has just barely started.


32 posted on 10/26/2008 10:23:11 AM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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To: fightinJAG
Blacks have not assimilated as well as they should have by now because they have been kept on welfare plantations and because their “civil rights leaders” fear that, if they do assimilate, they will no longer be a reliable voting bloc, but, rather, will begin to vote more on issues other than race and handouts.

It's been that way since the 60's. Before that, it was segregation which prevented Blacks from assimilating.

33 posted on 10/26/2008 10:23:13 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Free Lazama... never mind.)
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To: DogBarkTree

They read Free Republic and got grossed out by all the hatred expressed towards them here.

We could have had the Latino (that is, born-here or legal immigrant) vote if we had tried for it or at least been civil. Not all Hispanics are illegal, poor, on welfare, or want to speak Spanish to the 5th generation. But people here and in the GOP in general lumped them all together with the Dem’s specially tended group of dysfunctionals, and this is the result.


34 posted on 10/26/2008 10:24:00 AM PDT by livius
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To: DogBarkTree

It is the BIG FAT so called TAX CUT for 95% of Americans. Not complicated.


35 posted on 10/26/2008 10:24:06 AM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: Mr. Mojo
That's it. The amnesty crowd wants freebies and lax border security, and they know they're more likely to get that with Democrats in power.

The Democrats have been in power for the last two years. Have these people got anything yet?

36 posted on 10/26/2008 10:24:39 AM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch, pray, and work. This election will separate the sheep from the goats.)
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To: DogBarkTree
I say American they say "hyphenated american".....their choice not to be an American. They choose to be victims. They will always be victims until they acknowledge they ARE Americans .

Their self induced exile is their problem they choose to keep versus solve. Minorities under a Socialist Democratic form of government will ALWAYS be victims.

For the hyphenated americans;

Digo al americano que dicen el " american" escrito con guión; ..... su opción a no ser un americano. Eligen ser víctimas. Serán siempre víctimas hasta que los reconozcan SEAN americanos. Su exilio autoinducido es su problema que eligen guardar contra solucionan. Las minorías bajo forma de gobierno Democratic socialista serán SIEMPRE víctimas.

For their socialist handlers;

Я говорю американцу они говорят " hyphenated american" ..... их выбор, котор нужно не быть американцом. Они выбирают быть жертвами. Они всегда будут жертвами до тех пор пока они не подтвердят их американцы. Их ссылка наведенная собственной личностью их проблема они выбирают держать против разрешают. Несовершеннолетия под социалистической демократичной формой правления ВСЕГДА будут жертвами.

Stay safe !

37 posted on 10/26/2008 10:26:56 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: gotribe

I wish more people were aware of this.


38 posted on 10/26/2008 10:27:06 AM PDT by beethoven
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To: Vaduz

Well, his wife is a dog!


39 posted on 10/26/2008 10:29:06 AM PDT by beethoven
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To: indianyogi
There is still time White people, keep your country as your fore fathers gave you.

This country is great and the dream of so many immigrants because of our opportunity. This is the country where through hard work and perseverance you can improve your life and your children's lives. There is plenty of room for immigrants who want that dream, regardless of what race they are. We don't have room for racial grievances, whether the race is white, hispanic, black, asian, or any other race. We should stand for freedom, not any fears of racial persecution. Immigration should be regulated and our laws should be scrupulously enforced, for the protection of the immigrant and of the citizens. But people who want to come here for freedom and opportunity should be welcomed.

40 posted on 10/26/2008 10:29:25 AM PDT by Dan Cooper
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