See #105.
Also, Latinos voted against Romney because he did not have the courage of either Perry or Gingrich to acknowledge that singling out illegal hispanics causes legal hispanics to become uncomfortable, afraid that their rights will be trampled.
We might not like that they feel that way, but it has become glaringly obvious that they do. Bush won 44% of the Hispanic vote and Romney 28%. With numbers like that, you get the courage to tell you base the truth whether they want to hear it or not.
Legal Hispanics defending what they see as an attack on their right of privacy, equal treatment, etc., is CONSERVATIVE principle. We let Obama beat us with Hispanics over an issue that should have been ours.
Excellent post.
I agree with you on all your points about Romney (whom I voted for, too, although I was certainly not happy when he was selected as the candidate).
Someone made the point on Breitbart that the determining factor was a cultural one, that is, that the majority of Americans are now fine with an internationalist, government-dominated moral and economic life. I think that’s true to some extent, but I also think that there are many who are very unhappy about it and unfortunately Romney didn’t give them a rallying point for expressing this. He and the GOP strategists obviously decided that the way to win was to cater to the culture rather than oppose it, and they really never called Obama and the Dems on anything they have said or even done.
I think Perry or Gingrich would have been real opposition candidates and we might have won with either of them, because they would have provided that cultural rallying point. (And both of them, btw, would have been brave enough to address the concerns of Hispanic voters, who are fundamentally conservative but feel unwelcome in the GOP).