New Rule: The Republican Party needs to just get it over with and tell the entire Hispanic community to go f*&$k themselves...
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Get educated people. You can't categorize a HUGE group of people and think all Latinos think alike. This is like saying that an entire continent has the same ideas and thoughts.
I know many Latinos who actually care about politics and are Democrats. One of my good friends helped Obama with his campaign and even took a picture with him when Obama visited Harvard.
How do I know this? In Mexico City, abortion is legal (there are restrictions of course), there is the gay parade, sex education in schools (nation wide), same sex marriage, public kissing..and I mean kissing (nationwide).
More nationwide facts from Mexico: No churches or religious buildings are allowed nearby public schools, church and state are truthfully separate. (unlike Utah).
As you can see, it's not as easy as you may think.
My point is to not judge a person w/o getting to know them first and that applies to all of you who think Latinos are some sort of exact copy of each other who have the same ideas and thoughts.
Just like every other group, everyone thinks different. There are conservatives, liberals, crazy ones and smart people.
The GOP isn't against Hispanics, they are against MEXICANS.
Mexicans have a lot of INDIAN blood, and are a visual reminder of the original people of this continent.
"Hispanic" is a euphemism created by whites so that they don't have to say MEXICAN!
The GOP would be perfectly fine with White Chilean and Cuban Hispanics.
Signed,
The Indigenous Peoples of North America
Jon Shank has rather meekly outlined what MANY CITIZENS also accept: Those peoples--especially the mascot, Third World spawn of pseudo-liberal delusions--deserve NOTHING less than UNCONDITIONAL "repatriation" to their sending countries; their apologists would also be ENCOURAGED to join them......
The unspoken truth about many represented in this string is that it's more important the issue be about votes that can be curried than principles of sound immigration policy, that as long as the boat isn't rocked the votes can be achieved. That's the anarchy I refer to. The more ignorant are blind to this of course and just follow the feel good crowd with the need to belong.
The liberals have been currying favor; defending sanctuary cities, delaying E-Verify, slowing progress on protecting the border etc., it's all about winning the hearts of a perceived built in electorate.
This is in fact the point in Maher's quip, let the Republicans in effect &%* themselves by not pandering, through promoting security first etc. The conservatives have put the foot down to the elitist right on a principled stand. Those that are for protecting the border and who want sensible and orderly immigration. For Democrats the ends justify the means. It's foolish to think that future voters aren't part of the equation that stymies progress to securing the border.
Obama is for amnesty, although he is also for securing the border; or so he says. Let's hope that the impetus is for security first, and not a light hearted attempt.
In essence, to your misguided point, if illegals become citizens, they have the right to vote.
(The original article title says "Hispanic", not "Latino" as in your comment.)
Example: "The Hispanic congressional leadership said today that the Latino polulation should stop complaining. The GOP agreed and said Hispanic issues have their place with the Latino community, but Latino issues do not have a place with the Hispanic community, unless the Hispanic-Latino Bicultural Committee gets approval from the Latino-Hispanic Committee for Hispanic issues in the Latino communities. People in the Hispanic community agreed, but the Latino community disagreed."
WHEW!!!
if these are such cut-and-dried absolute terms then why can't anyone agree on which term to use?
Is it bcause neither term is correct? Maybe what people really want to say is MEXICANS.
Maybe Palin will get a tan and start speaking spanish. LOL
Let's revisit the talking points from Democrats responding to the nomination of Miguel Estrada. They said, we cannot have an Hispanic on the Federal bench!! They said it, but what they really meant to say was we cannot have a conservative Hispanic on the bench!! God forbid that blacks and hispanics wake up and become independent thinkers, not victims and do well for themselves, without the poverty p!mp!ng of Jesse and Al, then the p!mps would be out of business.
Just like a broken clock is right twice a day.
Republicans seem to have missed this important aspect of affirmative action. See: Steele, Palin, and Estrada.
I really feel sorry for these people. They have no idea what is going on in the outside world. It's as if they are one big commune completely shut out from civilization.
sigh