I have to say, I don’t think the Hispanic fascination with Democrat candidates is anything but liberalism on their part.  As I wrote in my Fresno Bee column last week, I think its a myth that Hispanics are "culturally conservative".  

Now, a former Schwarzenegger advisor Rob Stutzman is quoted in a George Skeleton column in todays LA Times that "Republicans need to understand that they live in suburbs with second-generation Mexican American neighbors whose parents came here and worked in agriculture and the service industries and are very proud of their families’ success" as a key for the GOP to get Hispanic votes.

Huh?

I think there are plenty of Republicans and conservatives, like me, that appreciate all hard working people, regardless of country of origin and skin color.  Making a case that this is somehow a gateway to getting Hispanic votes is not only simplistic, but ignores the fact that 2nd and 3rd generation Hispanics seems to be, well, just as leftist as leftists.  This has got nothing to do with "appreciating people", and everything to do with not wanting a State with 12% of the nations population having over 30% of the public assistance burden – regardless of the skin color of the recipients.

And this nonsense about ignoring our immigration laws in order to curry favor with one voting block is just nonsense.  I guess if we really needed the Muslim vote Stutzman would be advising us to go soft on terrrorism too.

Mexico has brought a military style drug war to our border and the security of that border has never been more important.  I for one will keep reaching out with a solid conservative message to all communities, Latino and otherwise.  If they don’t like it, they can live with the leftist havoc they create with their votes.  Come to think of it, Schwarzenegger got a huge percentage of the "latino vote" as well.  

It seems to me that a pattern of voting for the wrong person has emerged in the Latino community.  Until they truly feel the pain of their poor decision making, we are at their political mercy.  Instead of "appealing to them" we should spend what few dollars we have on a permandent educational campaign highlighting the conservative platform, to all voters, including Latinos.  This would be much more effective than "understanding" people.  Give me a break.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 20th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.