Top Latino Republican says, ‘Farewell, my Grand Old Party’

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Top Latino Republican says, ‘Farewell, my Grand Old Party’

By Ed O'Keefe at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/22/top-latino-republican-says-farewell-my-grand-old-party/#comments

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One of the few Hispanic political operatives able to help Republican candidates win large percentages of Latino voters says he will leave the GOP if it nominates Donald Trump for president.

Hispanic anger and opposition to Trump is nothing new and is widespread, but Lionel Sosa's concerns are notable. Sosa, a Texas-based ad maker and one of the few Hispanic political consultants to help Republican candidates win over large percentages of Latino voters, lay down a marker this week in an op-ed in his hometown newspaper.

If the Republican Party nominates Trump, "I'll have to bid farewell, hoping that one day soon, it comes to its senses," he wrote Tuesday in the San Antonio Express-News. "Here's my thinking. This madness could be temporary because our nominee is not really a Republican. Not a real conservative. He's just a shark, a self-promoter out to see how far his out-of-control ego can take him.

"Instead of 'Tear down this wall,' the party promotes a new and bigger wall," Sosa added. "A thousand points of light has been replaced by a thousand points of anger. In place of compassionate conservatism, our nominee promotes callousness, extremism and racism. And instead of a unifier, the party now cheers the ultimate 'us against them' proponent. Divisiveness incarnate."


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[msongs]

1. he he's ok with the rest of the latino-hating republican party lol nt

[msanthrope]

6. Exactly. nt

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Republicans started their "Mexicans are streaming into this country

and taking our jobs!" and "Mexicans are sending millions of dollars out of the country every month!" spiel in the early 2000s. (Note: Republicans never differentiated between undocumented workers from Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, etc. They referred to all Latinos/Hispanics and undocumented workers as "Mexicans!"

I question this guys common sense! What took him so long to decide to leave the Republican party? The Republicans have stepping over one line after another in their long, slow race to become the white people's party!

[applegrove]

3. He does not seem to understand that Trump just lifted the vail. That the GOP has always been

racist in its use of racism as a wedge.

[cosmicone]

4. Trump just openly said what most of them think silently you idiot! n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

5. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Sosa was happy to be in the Party of Pete Wilson until Trump? That makes his ethics seem

less than consistent. Not all that impressed.