McCain Losing the Hispanic Vote
Posted on July 9, 2008
Filed Under George W. Bush, Immigration, John McCain, Karl Rove, Republican Party |
This will come as a surprise to many in the Republican Party, particularly folks like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, George W. Bush, and Karl Rove, but not to me.
Republicans are losing the Hispanic vote they so eagerly coveted.
Many in the Hispanic community are throwing their support behind Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats.
Karl Rove, George Bush, and John McCain all thought that by proposing and supporting so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” centered around a path to citizenship for the 12-20 million illegals living here would effectively align most Hispanics with the Republican Party, but as I predicted, this isn’t the case.
I want to revisit the very first piece I wrote for the old blog over a year ago. Here’s what I wrote:
Even while pandering to senior citizens, Rove and Bush have had their eyes focused on a bigger, long-term voting bloc: Hispanics. Rove is convinced that most Hispanics are Republican by nature. Because many illegal aliens are Hispanic, Rove and Bush have devised a strategy to help secure the legal Hispanic vote and gain millions more in currently illegal aliens who cannot vote: amnesty for the twelve to fifteen million illegal aliens in our country. Rove believes that Hispanics are the key voting bloc of the future, and are therefore essential to his vision of a permanent Republican majority. But yet again, instead of reaching out to Hispanics with a conservative solution to the immigration problem, Bush and Rove are pushing another expensive, liberal piece of legislation designed solely to pander to potential Republican voters. Just as they did with the senior citizens, Bush and Rove have miscalculated the expected gains of the amnesty bill in the Senate. Democrats, not Republicans, will get credit for it, and at the same time, the Republican Party will lose the conservative foundation its built upon.
The Senate bill did not pass of course, but the political result has been as I said: Democrats are receiving the Hispanic support.
Why do I bring this up now? Because and I want you to read carefully the response given to John McCain’s speech. Keep in mind that McCain has supposedly back away from the path to citizenship requirement in an attempt to appeal to us, the conservative base.
Luevano described McCain’s discussion with LULAC members as consistent.
“I don’t think (McCain) has deviated from his position,” he said. “We were concerned that he had supported comprehensive immigration reform but kind of stepped back. But he said ‘no.’ He is trying to clarify, saying, ‘I still support comprehensive immigration reform and we need to secure the borders as well.’”
Interesting. Let me translate John McCain’s “new” position on immigration reform: throw in some talk, and perhaps even some action, on border security, but continue to focus on giving the illegals a path to citizenship.
And to think you good Republicans are buying into this. You are buying into the idea that he’s somehow appealing to the conservatives on this issue.
Please. McCain’s position has not changed. He’s an amnesty guy.
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