TEA Partiers? That’s so last month. The GOP establishment will take it from here:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other Republican leaders are launching a new effort Thursday to reach out to Hispanic voters.
The Hispanic Leadership Network is meant to help Republicans and conservatives listen to the Hispanic community and, in the process, figure out how to win more of their votes.
Hispanic Republican candidates had some big successes in November: Marco Rubio was elected to the Senate in Florida; Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez won the governorships of Nevada and New Mexico, respectively. But Republicans overall still lost the Hispanic vote nationwide by about 2-1 — not much different than in 2008.
Bush wants to change that. “The challenge, though, is that we have a situation right now where Republicans send out signals that Hispanics aren’t wanted in our party, not by policy so much as by tone,” he says.
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Columnist Ruben Navarrette, who is also speaking at the conference in Miami, says there is a new conversation going on beneath the surface in the GOP — particularly when it comes to the push by some Republicans to repeal the 14th Amendment in order to deny birthright citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.
“They’re not fools — they realize that there are those places where they can overplay their hand, and I think the 14th Amendment change is a perfect example of a bridge too far,” Navarrette says. “It’s poison. You play with that, and I am never, ever going be able to go before a group of Hispanic women … and convince them that the Republican Party isn’t anything but a bunch of ogres.”
A small but encouraging sign to Aguilar is the decision to deny Iowa Rep. Steve King the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee. King is one of the party’s most strident voices on the issue.
“To me, the message is, ‘Steve King, you’re too loud and you’re saying things that are very offensive. We don’t want to see that.’ That’s a very good first step: Reject the ugly rhetoric,” Aguilar says. “The question now is can we propose, can Republicans practically propose immigration solutions that go beyond enforcement only? And if we do, Hispanics will respond very favorably.”
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Has no one in the Republican establishment read 1984? And don’t consider it a “how-to” manual, I mean?
We’re doomed.
The left (and, sadly, many on the right) want us to anguish over being “civil” — which is now being culturally defined as not making conservative arguments in a way that is forceful, passionate, and (judging by the last election) rhetorically effective.
I’m done with anyone who buys into any of this. If it takes a third party move, fine. I’m willing to be on the losing side if it means sticking to principles. YMMV.
Why the fuck do Republicans always feel the need to announce things like this?
First off, Jeb and company are not up to snuff on labels. “Hispanic” is now considered a racist term (via my SFSU college student). “Latino” or “Latina” is preferred.
And Marco Rubio? Not an authentic Latino to most. I believe “Coconut” was one of the milder terms.
Now, I have no issues with reaching out to any voters who share a belief in the same principles I do. There is many in some Latino communities who would vote GOP if the principles were accurately described.
But too much of the community is in thrall to Leftist Latino Democrat leaders who are are corrupt as the places where many of the members emigrated from.
Why do they think they aren’t in possession of sufficiently decent political truths? Why think that those truths alone wouldn’t persuade people to join them for their own good, no to mention the good of the whole, without having to tailor their approach to single out one group or another with principle weakening polish? That insecurity tells a tale, I think.
What we really need is for Rupert Murdoch to buy Univision. Sabado Gigante with pervy old men and nubile young women, but now with 100% more Hayek!
As if Navarrette had any desire to do other than convince them that the Republican Party is a bunch of ogres.
So, the country is being taken over by illegals immigrants, and the solution is to pander to the illegal immigrants.
How about we just hang a Mexican flag on the white house and be done with it.
Navarette, Nishi, they both start with N.
And it’s amazing how many Hispanics are avid for border enforcement.
Republicans send out signals that Hispanics aren’t wanted in our party
No, the DEMS produce overt messages that the GOP hates their guts and wants them dead. They rely heavily on the fact that in Latin America, the “conservatives” are the party of hereditary wealth and the Church (which in Latin America enables corruption, sadly), not the party of liberty and self-governance.
We should not be pandering to the latinos; we should be educating them about Classical Liberalism and the enlightenment values that led to our prosperity. They’ve never heard our founding principles (where would they?), and most of those who have the moxie to leave their homes and come to a foreign land, legally and not, are already tuned in to the value of hard work. (I’ve heard tons of latino immigrants complain about the lazy and freeloading among them.)
But the GOP is too effing stupid to do that, so I’m just spitballing here, as usual.
Why does Navarette assume Latino voters can’t tell the difference between “legal” and “illegal?” Does he think they’re illiterate?
Amateur politicians like Meg, Carly and Ah-nold are a big part of the Cali problem. Election after election, Californians get a choice between some “outsider wealthy actor or billionaire CEO who thinks they can run themselves a tidy little state” GOP Candidate, and a leftist Commiecrat.
Billionaire CEOs seem to be attracted to the turnaround challenge while real Conservative principles and real hard knuckle California politics are annoyances they think they can dance around.
What we need is a Tom McClintock like GOP legislator who fought in the trenches and rose up through the legislature, but alas, those lack the financial clout.
Then again, given that Meg Whitman, and too many other deluded Hispanderers in the GOP wouldn’t take a hard Arizona-like stand against illegal aliens, I suspect the GOP in this state is indeed doomed. Gee, how did all those Spanish language ads for Meg Whitman work out???
Victory *does not* consist of pandering to, and importing more, people who are > 50% likely to vote against the GOP and for Demunist welfare goodies. It consists of appealing to, and not driving out of the state, people who are > 65% likely to vote for the GOP and freedom of enterprise.
Watching the GOP Establishment be taken in by snakes in the grass like Ruben Navarette is like watching those depressing Peanuts cartoons where Charlie Brown is duped into trying to kick the football, only to have Lucy Van Pelt pull it away from him every time. Charlie Bush and other GOP saps keep on Hispandering, and Lucy Navarette and other Hispandering deceivers keep on promising “socially conservative” voters who don’t exist, and the GOP keeps on falling flat on its back.
With the Establishment encouraging the California GOP to bend over and drop trousers, and Ruben Navarette and other deceivers offering the KY Jelly, no wonder Gay Marriage is a now a moot issue in California. In practice the California GOP is already there.
“Why does Navarette assume Latino voters can’t tell the difference between “legal” and “illegal?” Does he think they’re illiterate?”
Doesn’t matter. You see, if we start worrying about the illegal ones, even the legal Hispanics will be hassled by the police when they go out for ice cream.
Best just to pretend there’s no problem.
And Marco Rubio? Not an authentic Latino to most.
Cubans don’t count to the Left, for obvious reasons. And the GOP establishment dupes think “they are all alike”. When you hear nonsense about “the Latino vote” always remember that.
Heh.
You’d think Jeb’s wife Columba would have caught him up on that.
Not this shit again. Look, the GOP has a bunch of Cubans and that’s all they’re going to get. Outreach to the majority of Hispanic voters means compromising on immigration and the borders. Not going to go over with the GOP base, and not going to be believed by the mass of Hispanic voters.
If the GOP was smart, they’d decriminalize pot and work toward lowering the drinking age. If they want more votes, that’s how they’ll get them. Give the kids what they want. Worked for Nixon.
Lost My Cookies has it. *Of course* the GOP should promote the “talented third” of MexAmericans, just as it should promote the “talented tenth” of African Americans. But otherwise, just watch as the minority marxists make the Demunists increasingly anti-White, anti-Asian and anti-Semetic, and *reap those rewards*.
Here’s a message for Paco and Lupe: Democrats have the same philosophy as the government in the shithole you left!
RAAAAACISTS!
Salma or Freidrich? Knowing Murdoch, probably both.
Ay-yi-yi I could watch the Fotogalerías on esmas all day.
This “sit mixed together” movement starting up in anticipation of the State of the Union address is straight out of the community organizer’s handbook of feel-goody training session conduct. Fuck it all.
What IS the difference between “Hispanic” and “Latino”? Does anybody know?
I thought Latinos spoke Latin myself, which, hey, it happens. Weird, admittedly, but people do weird shit all the time. I just wondered if they taught “Romanii ite domum” along with “Gabacho vaya a casa”…
I appreciate some of their past service, but at this point I want all the Bushes to go away.
Wasn’t someone here asking about Jeb’s viability as a candidate in Florida? This pretty well settles that answer doesn’t it?