We need a campaign of outreach. We had/have fair warning:
As to the Hispanic Vote: Part I
Should Republicans court Hispanic voters? Only if they want to survive. By Clint Bolick.
The bitter debate over immigration has damaged the Republican Party’s effort to expand its base, particularly among Hispanic voters. The Republican share of the Hispanic vote grew in 2004 to about 40 percent nationally— only to decline precipitously to about 30 percent in the disastrous 2006 congressional elections.
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Conservative Republican Values and the American Hispanic Mind
By Alberto Acereda
A large segment of the American Hispanic community has historically shared conservative Republican values, even though today many of them vote Democrat. In fact, a close look at US history demonstrates that Hispanics have traditionally been closer to conservative Republican values than to those of the Democrat Party.
The GOP needs to establish a clear agenda to reach and mobilize these millions of American Hispanics who are not getting the conservative Republican message. Their presence in the party and their vote is critical and it is still today a swing vote up for grabs. Democrats should not assume that American Hispanics are part of their base. But Republicans should understand the need to act quickly.
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Hispanic outreach crucial to GOP
By: Ken Mehlman
May 1, 2007 05:06 PM EST
In 1980, as he was preparing to run for president, Ronald Reagan asked Lionel Sosa, an advertising executive from San Antonio, to lead his outreach to the Hispanic community. Reagan told Sosa his job would be easy: "Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet."
On this, as in so many other areas, Reagan was a man who saw the future. In 1984, he made history, receiving 32 percent of the Hispanic vote. President George W. Bush achieved similar results in 2000, and in 2004 won a record 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.
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Hispanics are not conservative, have not been conservatives, and will not be conservative in the future.
The Democrats have ran for decades on the idea that they will tax whites and give the money to minorities and minorities have support those plans. As long as Hispanics support affirmative action, set asides, quotas, and separatea and unequal they cannot and will not be conservative.
The only question in the future is as the U.S. becomes a Hispanics/blacks country and whites are in the minority is whether the economy will produce enough taxes to pay for the socialist paradise that minorities consistently vote for?
Can you offer any research to support your position?
How do you explain Bush's inroads into the Hispanic vote in 2000 and 2004?
If your premise is taken as certainty, then YOU and the rest of the GOP/Conservatives are screwed, so therefore, there is no need to beat an eventually dead horse.
Let's just throw up the white flag now and worship the President Elect and the Halo that and seek comfort and salvation in his Halo.
NOT.
The question now is how does the GOP regroup, reorganize, and come up with a strategy towards 2010 and 2012.
Just as in football, wherein the West Coast offense was developed specifically to defeat the 4-6 defense, we have to evolve to the playing field before us.
We will see better days.
Old Dog
Paul Fuentes
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