Is GOP missing chance to grow? (Hispanic vote)

Las Vegas Sun ^ | November 19, 2011 | Karoun Demirjian

[Pelham]

+1

[Pelham]

great post

[raybbr]

The same things that matter to “Americans”; lower taxes, no murder of chilren or “gay marriage”, and people that might possibly acknowledge that the oldest city in North America is SAN AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, not Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Okay, if that's true why do candidates have to talk to hispanic groups, then? Why isn't Gingrich right when he says he shouldn't have to talk to the hispanic groups to get their vote?

BTW, the part about St. Augustine is a joke, right? Hispanics really care about that? Are you serious?

[kearnyirish2]

Gingrich shouldn’t have to talk to Hispanic groups to get their votes; if they think he represents their interests they’ll vote for him.

Spanish was spoken in the United States long before English.

[raybbr]

Gingrich shouldn’t have to talk to Hispanic groups to get their votes; if they think he represents their interests they’ll vote for him.

Yet, as the most conservative (IMO) of the candidates, the hispanic groups whine and moan about how he DOESN'T talk to them.

Spanish was spoken in the United States long before English.

So?

[MNJohnnie]

Newt Gingrich suggested that Latinos didn’t need to be singled out as any different from any other ethnic group

Odd since Newt sung a different song when he spoke to the Hispanic 100 council in Oct 2011

http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2011/10/13/gingrich-seeks-middle-path-on-immigration/68253/

Gingrich seeks middle path on immigration

[af_vet_rr]

The idea was that by lifting some of the kids born to illegals up a little bit ... not by GIVING them a college education but by letting them pay in-state tuition, they might rise from poverty and become taxpayers and assets to Texas and the country.

An illegal immigrant with a college education is still an illegal immigrant and honest law-abiding employers are not going to be in a rush to hire illegal immigrants.