The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos. – Dana Milbank
But not to fear, the RNC Latino brigade is here.
Jim Messina shouldn’t apologize. He should be fired for such an outrage.
And, no, this story wasn’t featured on The Onion. It actually happened today.
The Republican Party is so utterly clueless on how to appeal to Hispanics that they end up without even the chimichanga Dana Milbank tried to hand them.
Pres. Obama hasn’t pleased Hispanics in many ways. He’s deported more undocumented immigrants than George W. Bush, and Obama hasn’t come through on comprehensive immigration reform.
Hey, but what’s a Latino to do? Vote Republican and “start self-deporting”?
Complete total nonsense. But good for the Republicans anyway. The Obama camp does not have exclusive rights to faux-outrage. Anybody can use it.
They should have used it on something that didn’t just seem ironic.
You make Milbank look enlightened:
Hey, but what’s a Latino to do? Vote Republican and “start self-deporting”?
Most latinos are here legally.
um… you do realize I’m quoting Mitt Romney, right? Guess not.
I do:
“The answer is self-deportation, which is people decide they could do better by going home because they can’t find work here because they don’t have legal documentation to allow them to work here.” As the New York Times notes, Romney “further explained that under his plan, a card would indicate who could work legally and who could not. After a transition period, illegal immigrants would not get a card.” Said Romney, “When that transition period was over, they would no longer have the documentation to work here in this country legally…If they can’t get work here, they’re going to self-deport.”
I also realize that Mr. Romney was referring to illegal imigrants not all lationos. Because, of course, we all know that illigals can’t vote anyway so politicians don’t give a shit about them anyway.
How bad have the Republicans lost the hispanic vote with their xenophobic anti-immigrant, anti-Latino over the top rhetoric? New Mexico with a large hispanic population was long considered a toss-up battle groujnd state. In 2008 New Mexico became a reliable blue stae with its large and growing hispanic (mostly Mexican) population. McCain gave up the state and Barack Obama handily defeated McCain by 15%.
Rasmussen just published a poll showing that Barack Obama beates both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum by nearly 20 points. Its why the Obama campaign thinks even Arizona is in play since in 2008, Arizona went for its native son John McCain.
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