Jeb Bush: ‘There Should Be No Surprise’ That Republicans Keep Losing The Minority Vote
Source: Think Progress
MIAMI At a conservative Latino conference where the mere mention of his name as a presidential candidate drew wild applause, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) delivered a blistering critique of Republican outreach to racial minorities, calling the GOP a reactionary party bereft of ideas both for appealing to minority voters and for repairing the country more broadly.
Bushs comments came at the annual Hispanic Leadership Network conference, where right of center Latinos meet to discuss politics and policy this years focus is comprehensive immigration reform. The governor delivered the keynote address at the conferences Thursday afternoon session, which is where he leveled his bleak assessment of the GOP on race:
BUSH: Immigration is a gateway issue. Its not the dominant you ask people the polling, immigrations important but its not the dominant (issue). Educations more important, health cares more important. Jobs are more important. (...) But if you send a signal, yeah yeah, we want your vote Of course we want your vote, everybody wants your vote, but you cant be part of our team, you cant join our club, youre not who I am. We dont have a set of shared values. You think people are going to embrace that kind of attitude? Thats exactly what weve done in about six election cycles in a row. So it should be no surprise that we have the result we have.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/19/1892981/jeb-bush-minority-vote/
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and thus, the nomination.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)This country can't take any more years of Republicans taking higher office if they tweak their message somehow.
1Independent
(17 posts)Maybe over 4,500 dead American troops in brother's Halliburton/Cheney/Iraq war might have a little impact also?
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And, when a political party expresses hatred for minorities since 1865, maybe minorities got the point that they're not wanted.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...why Florida public schools are in the shape they are in.
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Good start, Jeb. Though it's, of course, true, you'd have no shortage of Democrats who'd point that out.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)And when he is in Iowa against it.
In Florida, for it and so it goes.