O' rilly?
That would be news to my father, mother, myself and most of the family on my father's side. My family was and is very "conservative". My father was a Marine as were two of my unlces and a couple of cousins. He spoke spanish fluently and was served our country from Lebanon to Vietnam.
My father trained Cubans near Ft. Myers in the 60's and fought while on TDY in Central and South America. When Kennedy visited Dallas, he didn't bat an eye. He hated him for cutting loose the men he helped train.
There is no "Hispanic" race. That's a myth that the dems and the MSM have sold to the majority of this country. The immigrant from Cuba has nothing in common with the peasant farmer worker from Guatemala or the photographer from Argentina. The Colombian journalist or police officer that made up Los Pepes have nothing in common with current Cuban journalist or Mexican cops.
He never allowed us to be labeled as a "hypen American", cause he said that all the blood he ever saw from his men was red. The only difference I grew up knowing was the difference between officers kids and enlisted mens kids.
There are lazy, welfare sucking leeches that are hispanic (insert country of origin) just like there are white trash POS that live in 'Frisco, Chicago and Kansas cooking meth and humping their cousin.
My 4 kids have Irish and Mexican blood. The one in college read Atlas Shrugged, gave a report on the Road To Serfdom and picked up a nasty habit for shooting skeet and pistols. My other ones are also labeled "hispanic" by the high school and middle school because of me. Guess what? The make fun of the science teachers yapping about Global warming and "diversity".
The "hispanics" from Texas that have been here since the 1800's like my mother's family or came over during the revolution in the early 1920's like my dad's are pretty conservative. They go to church, fought in our armed forces (6 uncles and many other cousins), run schools, work as nurses, doctors, lawyers, and are mixed just like Italians, Germans, Poles, and the rest.
Your rant about pandering to hispanics is correct. The Republican party shouldn't or advocate any "group" or "race" based policies, but on PRINCIPLES of limited government. I heard my father and one of my liberal aunts argue and he told her that if she wanted to suck off the government nipple and have schools taught in spanish all she had to do is look at how the American Indian and African-American turned out as opposed to the Chinese, Japanese, Jewish and German immigrants. One set let the government "take care" of them, the other group was also discriminated against but flourished.
You may not know any conservative "hispanics" but I know a lot of them. If you're going to "kick them out of the party" or make their inclusion in your "tent" a pain in the a##. Well you're going to have a tough time winning any elections in Texas my friend. "Hispanics" make up about 35% of the population. If they vote en masse with African Americans in Texas, about 15% .... well you're getting the picture.
Remember the MSM and the libs want to divide us. We need to fight on principles together against the liberal pukes and not based on the fact that I like menudo, tortillas, chorizo and barbacoa, while you like.... whatever it is you like.
16% according to the Bureau of the Census.
Another great post. Thank you!