Conservatives Try to Woo Latinos to GOP and Republicans to Immigration Reform Camp

Feenmi · 02-22-2010, 02:20 PM

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by Diego Graglia • 2/22/10

The Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend in Washington illustrated the conundrum Republicans face when considering the immigration issue against the backdrop of a growing Hispanic electorate. While most conservatives still adhere to the accustomed recipe of more restrictive policies and fighting against “amnesty” for the undocumented, some right-wing activists have started advocating a new approach to woo Latinos with a mix of conservative moral values and immigration reform.

At CPAC, a new group called the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles hosted a panel where it promoted attracting socially-conservative Hispanics to the GOP column in future elections and –a bit counterintuitively– convincing Republicans that immigration reform is not a bad thing.

The partnership “will campaign among Latino voters and invest substantial resources to support pro-immigration candidates who are committed to fundamental conservative values and ideals,” it said in a press release (opens pdf file).

The group’s proposals –supported by prominent conservative organizer Grover Norquist– spurred a withering critique from former anti-immigration presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, in an online column under the headline “CPAC betrays America on immigration.”

Tancredo wrote:

“Whereas grass-roots conservatives and millions of 912 patriots – along with 80 percent of the American people – understand the need for border security as a precondition for immigration reform, CPAC board member Grover Norquist is busy launching a new project in support of the Obama administration’s plan to grant another amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens.”

Tancredo’s restrictive position is the one Republicans have most often expressed in recent years. But conservatives are not blind to the growth of the Hispanic electorate.

“If current demographic and voting trends continue, Hispanics’ growing share of the electorate could make Republican electoral college victories a near impossibility as early as 2020,” a Wall Street Journal article warned Monday.

Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant, told The Washington Post: “If Republicans don’t do better among Hispanics, we’re not going to be talking about how to get Florida back in the Republican column, we’re going to be talking about how not to lose Texas.”

“What’s happening at CPAC is a microcosm of the debate that’s taking place in the Republican Party,” wrote*pro-immigration reform activist Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, in The Huffington Post.

“And while the immigrant bashers remain ascendant for now –Sharry said–, the Hayworth-Tancredo-Malkin axis may just be the gift that keeps giving for progressives.”

That may be just so: the Journal noted that even a Hispanic candidate as Cuban-American Marco Rubio, running for the U.S. Senate in Florida, is courting “anti-illegal immigration advocates” by taking extreme right positions on the issue.

http://news.feetintwoworlds.org/2010...n-reform-camp/

NoWhereToRun · 02-22-2010, 04:46 PM

GOP's Demographic Wager: Courting Latino Candidates
Wall Street Journal - Peter Wallsten - ‎12 hours ago‎
Some high-profile Republicans are adopting a softer vocabulary on immigration and trying to recruit more Hispanic candidates, ...

promises and promises....politics...dirty..dirty.dirty

LADreamfriend · 02-23-2010, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by NoWhereToRun

GOP's Demographic Wager: Courting Latino Candidates
Wall Street Journal - Peter Wallsten - ‎12 hours ago‎
Some high-profile Republicans are adopting a softer vocabulary on immigration and trying to recruit more Hispanic candidates, ...

promises and promises....politics...dirty..dirty.dirty

You're totally right. Major advocacy groups need to deliver a message that for impacted communities (including Asian Americans, etc.) won't lift a solitary finger to vote, donate, or persuade their communities about candidates until they vote on a CIR bill.

angeleno · 02-23-2010, 01:22 AM

While 70% of Latinos vote Democrat that means there's still 30% of them voting Republican.

I think that the Spanish media is to blame here, particularly Univision which is one big GOP propaganda machine.

I think that if Univision were out of the picture, Democrats would enjoy just as much support from Latinos as they do from African Americans. This, in turn, would translate into Texas moving to the Democrat column putting extreme pressure on Republicans to soften their stance on immigration.

So fuck you Univision.

Feenmi · 02-23-2010, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by angeleno

While 70% of Latinos vote Democrat that means there's still 30% of them voting Republican.

I think that the Spanish media is to blame here, particularly Univision which is one big GOP propaganda machine.

I think that if Univision were out of the picture, Democrats would enjoy just as much support from Latinos as they do from African Americans. This, in turn, would translate into Texas moving to the Democrat column putting extreme pressure on Republicans to soften their stance on immigration.

So fuck you Univision.

But but, the chicks are hawt.

angeleno · 02-23-2010, 01:51 AM

Hahaha

See, my problem is not with their "entertainment" programming. If Sabado Gigante wants to have a contest on who's the midget with the biggest knockers, I say baste them with baby oil and put them in a salad bowl.

What really pisses me off though, is their customary practice of hiring brainless/illiterate (and rather hackneyed) cunts to host their "news" shows whose main stories center around a Honduran girl with a 10 lb tumor growing on the side of her face or the "mysterious" appearance of Jesus on a tortilla.

The sad thing is that most people watching this (I'm referring to Primer Impacto viewers et al.) are too stupid to realize how insulting and demeaning this is. Univision thinks they're too retarded to handle grown-up news, so to speak.

dtrt09 · 02-23-2010, 02:28 AM

Univision is an insult to Hispanic immigrants' intelligence. They do not have any programming of substance; they live for the ghetto, ridiculous soap operas: all with the same plot, same characters, where abuse, infidelity, bigotry, discrimination and harrasment are not only habitual, but to be accepted as humurous. They produce garbage programming that pollute people's brains and keep them the way the neo cons like them: in the dark.

Diplok · 02-23-2010, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by angeleno

Hahaha

or the "mysterious" appearance of Jesus on a tortilla.

LMAO!!!

I couldn't help but laugh. I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee or soda when I read this otherwise you'd owe me for a new monitor and keyboard.

OrlandoDREAM Act · 02-27-2010, 07:19 PM

wait, univision's has a liberal bias. jorge ramos? it might not be msnbc, but is close.

NoWhereToRun · 03-02-2010, 01:57 AM

good ole days...a simple handshake would b a binding contract or fulfillment of a promise...Don't have those days anymore...If you have something now is give with one hand and take it with another..Better yet...take it in writting. promises...cheap talk

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