Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
This pretty much sums up the Republicans on this issue. Completely clueless. The Latino community is pretty straightforward. That's why they support Obama even though he's deported people at a higher rate than any past President [[this, still, not being good enough for Republicans, for some reason!).

Maybe the whole "rewards for their vote" or "offer them free shit" argument is just code for "we have absolutely nothing to offer politically".
The implication that people of color "want free shit" is exactly why they want nothing to do with Republicans.

The idea of "get Latinos in the party and we can win again!" in the party is an easy, simplistic cop-out for the Republican party. The truth is they're losing with the young, the highly educated, women, the Rust Belt, gays, Catholics, Jews, blacks...basically everybody who isn't rabidly conservative, stinking rich, or evangelical fundamentalists. Their tent is too small and too exclusionary. How in God's name do they think Hispanics will want to be invited to that party? Besides the overall odiousness of the base [[think of a bunch of screaming Janice Danielses on meth), the message is worse. Americans of all shades reject the idea of dismantling government services and keeping taxes low for the wealthy.

What makes them also think that their base will in any way be welcoming to Hispanics? This is a party that ran a crypto-racist message for the past four years because we have a guy who was half black in the white house. The Republican Party has become the political refuge for racists so don't count on Bubba and Blanca becoming bedfellows anytime soon.