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The Latino-Vote Obsession
National Review ^ | 11/13/2012 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/13/2012 6:27:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Yet, aside from the always-sound advice to be civil, show empathy for the less well off, and avoid callous rhetoric, almost all such thinking is oversimplistic, if not flawed altogether.

Okay, but that advice is always good.

In the first place, why do Republicans think their conservative message is a natural one for the majority of contemporary Latinos/Hispanics — rubrics that strangely now include everyone from Cubans and upscale Argentinians to Oaxacan indigenous peoples and Hondurans? In truth, the vast majority of Latinos who vote overwhelmingly Democratic is made up of poorer immigrants from Central America and Mexico rather than Marco Rubio–like second-generation Cuban-Americans.

Sure. But you want to make sure you have a shot with those Rubio-types (and not just among Cuban-Americans). I'm not saying go with Amnesty or some Obama-lite program, but don't write off the Latino vote entirely either.

21 posted on 11/13/2012 9:36:27 AM PST by x
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To: SeekAndFind
Money quote:

Should Republicans advocate fast-track immigration from the Pacific, or cool their rhetoric about China? Or was the reason here as well that David Axelrod’s community-organizing-themed campaign brilliantly demonized Mitt Romney as an uncool old rich white guy, while reminding minorities that the future of America is to be theirs?

Ally-ally-in-free: Despoiling white America to give to you. Just remember to vote Democrat.

22 posted on 11/13/2012 10:45:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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I'm not saying go with Amnesty or some Obama-lite program, but don't write off the Latino vote entirely either.

His whole point is that we've been taken by a campaign that offered strangers free money -- ours -- in return for votes. It's the end of the line for democracy. We can't make democracy work, with somebody doing this.

23 posted on 11/13/2012 10:50:25 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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“Me Too!” never works.

Tell that to the talking heads who were hyperventilating, they were repeating the names of Jeb Bush, George P. Bush, and Marco Rubio so fast ...... not one conservative was mentioned by these TV wiseguys, by the way.

24 posted on 11/13/2012 11:00:56 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT!


25 posted on 11/13/2012 11:08:12 AM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“Tell that to the talking heads who were hyperventilating, they were repeating the names of Jeb Bush, George P. Bush, and Marco Rubio so fast ...... not one conservative was mentioned by these TV wiseguys, by the way. “

Worth repeating.

I’m very close to never voting Republican again. When they had the Congress and the Presidency under Bush they refused to enforce the law and deport the millions of foreign nationals living here illegally.

As a result the invasion is even larger and their ‘solution’ is to help Obama ram through some form of Amnesty. To hell with all of these lawbreaking traitors.


26 posted on 11/13/2012 11:50:21 AM PST by Pelham (America, 1775-2012)
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To: mom3boys

My hope is that you ask him and then post his thoughts along with yours. I happen to work with some poor, but religious Mexicans. They say they know how bad government is and they see that welfare traps people. How do you capture those voters?


27 posted on 11/13/2012 1:14:02 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mom3boys

>> Why not ask people like my husband what made them see the light?

Limbaugh spoke to this yesterday.


28 posted on 11/13/2012 1:16:12 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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