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Payback is a ...
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Univision America Host & contributor to NPR, The Hill, FoxNews Latino and other media
Republicans Say Goodbye to Latino Voters
The party of "family values" expressed its will in the House that immigrant families be separated, homes broken up and communities devastated. The fact that some 70 percent of those people affected are Hispanic gives this action the added onus of targeting the fastest growing American ethnic group.
From a strategic standpoint, therefore, the GOP's latest aggression against immigrants only makes sense if they have already abandoned all hope of winning the 2016 presidential election. While some Republican strategists are counseling abandoning the Latino vote in favor of increasing the older white vote, their strategy is bereft of mathematical calculus and empirical anchors.
Conservative writer Peter Wehner noted in a data-rich article for Commentary magazine, "the [demographic] challenges facing the Republican Party, at least at the presidential level, are significant and fairly fundamental."
As Senator John McCain and former Governor Mitt Romney clearly demonstrated, Republicans cannot win national elections without reaching a significant threshold support from Latino voters. Neither McCain nor Romney were able to pull it off - and Obama, who won about 71 percent of the Hispanic vote is the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to win back to back elections with more than 51 percent of the total vote.
Also not coincidentally, McCain and Romney both assumed an anti-immigration, pro-deportation stance in their campaigns. Romney's share of the Hispanic vote was the lowest since Senator Bob Dole garnered a tiny slice in 1996.
Boehner's attempt to disguise this mass deportation vote as some sort of strike against Obama's supposedly unlawful use of executive powers will not work. To the extent that Latinos need another reminder that the GOP is intrinsically antagonistic to Hispanics, this vote will be a permanent reminder that less than two weeks into the GOP's control of Congress, the party united in favor of deporting the maximum number of people - including children.
Also not likely to be soon forgotten is the fact that this anti-immigrant vote serves no practical purpose. It will never become law. If a Democratic filibuster doesn't stop it in the Senate, it is guaranteed to be vetoed by the president.
So why open the new Republican-controlled Congress with a vote that will be a large, smelly albatross over the Republican Party in 2016? One can only surmise that Boehner and his leadership team have made the calculus that losing the Latino vote for generations is acceptable to maintain the GOP's House majority. Somehow - perhaps because of the gerrymandering of districts in 2010 by Republican-controlled legislatures, a process that has created a locked-in advantage for the GOP in the House in spite of not representing a true democratic majority - Boehner thinks that depending on principally older, white voters is a viable strategy to win elections.
After the 2012 election, when Romney's campaign crashed and burned on the shoals of a massive repudiation by Latino voters, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus called for a new approach. No longer hostile to Latinos, the party would look to support some version of immigration reform and stave off what could be a permanent absence from the White House.
Of course we know that this "re-branding" of the Republican Party never occurred. Quite the opposite happened, in fact. As the takeover of the GOP by increasingly radical Tea Party Republicans has advanced unabated, uber-conservative John Boehner has been accused of being the worst political creature ever imagined - a moderate. For ideologues who relate to politics like the faithful connect with religion, any deviation from right-wing orthodoxy is political apostasy.
In the Middle Ages apostates were punished by crucifixion. In 2015, the punishment is a bit less gruesome: Tea Party primaries. Nevertheless, even center-right Republicans have been pushed into supporting a nonsensical strategy to castigate immigrants or face political crucifixion at the hands of 21st-century Torquemadas.
Of course political blindness is neither new nor partisan. There was a time when small factions of the Democratic Party supported some form of denuclearization of America even as the country faced the mortal threat of global Communism. This was the time, as well, when Democrats lost all but one national election between 1968 and 1988.
The American electorate rejects extremists. Now Republicans will re-learn that essential lesson at the hands of a highly motivated Latino electorate, quite tired of being the target of Republican attacks.
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quite tired of being the target of Republican attacks.
You're darned skippy these folks are down right tired of the Republican games! They are used and abuse by the (R)'s for promoting their businesses while paying them pennies on the dollar. Then, when it comes time for elections, and the whole amnesty deal rises for discussion and voting, the (R)'s simply renege on promises made to help these people...THEY BACK STAB 'EM and it's still going on but, not for long. Just look at what they were saying almost one year ago today about the Latino vote in the 4th paragraph down in the following link:
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/latinos-dont-affect-vast-majority-house-republicans-races-n26551
QUOTE: “[House] Republicans don’t have to worry about the Latino electorate,†said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst and senior fellow at the University of Southern California. “They don’t have to listen to them very much.â€
Hey, look at her name...it fits her very, very well!! Sherry BeBitch. I'll let you great Americans figure that out as we're not allowed to use certain language here. Yep, payback is, indeed, a mutha. Then, we have validated what I've been saying all along about these types of people right here in the 11th paragraph and last sentence:
For ideologues who relate to politics like the faithful connect with religion, any deviation from right-wing orthodoxy is political apostasy.
In other words, if you don't speak and hate everything/everyone else like we do, you're all wrong and we have no use for you...you're a traitor...a RINO. We don't care about the business of the American People, only what'll get US back into the White House Presidency seat....that's it. So, now, since we know we can't depend on you tortilla eating, flea market shopping, 'good swimmers', we'll just do away with ALL OF YOU. Yep, the true colors come out when the GOP cannot get their way with people.
Finally, an excerpt from the last paragraph of the article link above:
“Politicians by nature are myopic and narrow-focused,†Jillson said. “They’re looking at their last election and next election. They’re not looking to 10 to 12 years when the Republicans will say, ‘We’re sorry for not advocating on these issues.’ They won’t be able to pivot on a dime and look friendly Election Day when the Hispanic vote matters.â€
This coincides dead on with what Boehner is thinking in the article posted by Speedy in the 9th paragraph down and the last sentence:
Boehner thinks that depending on principally older, white voters is a viable strategy to win elections.
But, the problem here, America, is this at the very bottom of the page:
The American electorate rejects extremists.
Yes, no one is all about the extremists, EXCEPT OTHER EXTREMISTS, as I've said many, many times here all over these blogs. People are simply SICK and TIRED of all those that promote nothing but HATE and RACISM. Al Sharpton? What about him? He's not promoting racism...he's calling it out. I guarantee that if the Oscars had ALL BLACK NOMINEES, there'd be a sh*t ton of uproars...but Al is supposed to be quiet when NOT ONE OF US IS NOMINATED FOR ANYTING???? Get real. Those who oppose AL's standing up and speaking out on this issue ARE PURE EXTREMISTS. You, know, the more people oppose Al, the more I like it...it's a sign. If we look at how THE MASSES OPPOSED JESUS when he was advocating for righteousness and still faced MAJOR OPPOSITION, it all comes into perspective. No, I'm not comparing AL to Jesus...just focus on the metaphor in general. Yeah, there ya go.
It's very odd how we can see their perspectives at times but, they can NEVER see ours. It's their way or no way...everyone else is all wrong and attacking our constitutional rights....imposing on our religious freedoms. Good grief. You can do the same things right now that you could do 7 years ago. Freedom still reigns.
Obamacare? It's for the good of the PEOPLE and not the FOR PROFIT industry...cutting out the middle man. If it was a Republican president implementing such a law, all Republicans would be praising him to high hell for helping the American People get coverage.
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