Latinoaview: Vote Republican? Not Hardly

[babylonsister]

http://latinoaview.blogspot.com/2010/10/vote-republican-not-hardly.html

Vote Republican? Not Hardly
By Fidel "Butch" Montoya


I was recently reading an article by Steve Sailer, movie critic for The American Conservative entitled, "What GOP Should Say to Hispanics - Vote like Americans." Sailer used information from the Hispanic Pew Center study released on October 5th. The survey - "Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Voter Weak Motivation" attempted to explain Latino issues that might affect how Latinos vote.

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What Sailer proposes is, "My conclusion: After a Bush-blighted decade, it's time for Republican candidates to address Hispanic voters directly over illegal immigration. As a general rule, human beings respond more constructively to being challenged than to being pandered to. Hence, GOP candidates should forthrightly ask for the support of Hispanic voters in opposing illegal immigration."

What an idiotic proposal and void of any political reality that anyone would actually think that Latinos would vote for Republicans, especially how in practically every race in the country, they have demonized and dehumanized undocumented immigrants, and now Sailer thinks we would even consider voting "like Americans," and vote for Republicans?

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Also, don't be so ignorant as to think that if Republicans simply "challenge Latinos instead of pandering to them," by asking Latinos to support the GOP's hate campaign against undocumented immigrants will resonate in the Latino community. Demonizing, dehumanizing, and calling people "illegals," is not going to drive as you call Latinos, "unmotivated Democrats," to vote for Republicans.

In fact, your misguided attempt to challenge Latinos to vote for the GOP candidate because of our "Hispanic patriotism," is like asking us to commit treason.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Repugs are truly tone-deaf, aren't they?

Left to their own devices, they choose words that fail to connect with their intended audience, and in most cases actually offend those they attempt to seduce. They just don't 'get it' and never will.

[babylonsister]

3. I don't think they can defend themselves, so they

do ineffective stuff like this. I'm glad some Latinos are noticing.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Many of the Crist supporters here claim that all Latinos would

simply rush to vote for Marco Rubio because he's Cuban American. They keep repeating this utter nonsense, which veers toward the prejudiced, as a way of talking down support for Kendrick Meek.

[lunatica]

4. They often miscalculate. They thought they had the women's vote with Palin

They're good at getting the white conservative vote because that's who they are. Outside of that, not so good.

[MadMaddie]

5. But

The MSM says these very voters are turning to the Repugs....:sarcasm:

[Number23]

6. Rec'd!

[lunamagica]

7. K&R.

[veness]

8. Thanks for this. K & R ! n/t