What Makes (and might keep) the GOP Chumps
There are myriad reasons why the GOP got crushed last week and none of them have to do with the decline of the Hispanic vote from 2004. That election was an aberration, one that was mis-quantified first as 44%, then 40%, then 38%. These numbers bounced all over the place in various post-election analyses because the figures came from exit polling, which thanks to increases in early voting and absentee voting, are being made less and less reliable each election cycle. Campaigns and local partisan efforts specifically target their base for get-out-the-early-vote operations, which deflates election-day turnout: An increasing percentage of the most strategically important voters have already voted by then. Only in districts in which Hispanics are a true swing factor in the final total would they be subject to such intense courting. Since Hispanics represent only 6% to 8% of the electorate, those districts are few and far between. The Republican Hispanic vote is going to remain perpetually capped at between 30% and 35% in the same manner that the Republican Black vote is stuck at about 8%. Furthermore, as Cubans (the only loyal GOP Hispanics) get over their hatred for JFK, they're going to slide to the political left of center where they, based on their cultural tendencies, belong, so the GOP Hispanic vote is likely to decline...and immigration restrictionists like me will be blamed for causing natural declines in the Republican Hispanic vote.
The cold fact of the matter is that the ethnic and cultural economism and body politic of the Hispanic mean leans more to the left than our nation's majority ethnicity does. Naturalized and domestic-born Americans of Mexican descent in particular are likely to behave as an intransigent bloc resistant to GOP efforts to woo them. At least this will be the case as long as Republicans as a whole desire less government.
Call me all the names you like, but I'm not going to stop pointing out that the proponents of mass-immigration from the third world are hell-bent on making us a more stupid nation. The Mexican government is counting on it as it seeks to keep Mexicans, especially those who are American citizens, loyal to Mexico first. Part and parcel of this scheme requires faithful Mexicans in America to maintain their cultural antipathy for education. For the foreseeable future...at least throughout my lifetime and probably my child's...the Hispanic vote will remain more desirous of and likely dependent upon government programs. They'll want more of them so they'll vote more often for Democrats.
The Republican share of the Hispanic vote last week was at about the level we can expect going forward. Check out what Thomas Sowell has to say about the issue and I'll follow it up with my top ten list of reasons why the GOP got hammered.
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The cold fact of the matter is that the ethnic and cultural economism and body politic of the Hispanic mean leans more to the left than our nation's majority ethnicity does. Naturalized and domestic-born Americans of Mexican descent in particular are likely to behave as an intransigent bloc resistant to GOP efforts to woo them. At least this will be the case as long as Republicans as a whole desire less government.
Call me all the names you like, but I'm not going to stop pointing out that the proponents of mass-immigration from the third world are hell-bent on making us a more stupid nation. The Mexican government is counting on it as it seeks to keep Mexicans, especially those who are American citizens, loyal to Mexico first. Part and parcel of this scheme requires faithful Mexicans in America to maintain their cultural antipathy for education. For the foreseeable future...at least throughout my lifetime and probably my child's...the Hispanic vote will remain more desirous of and likely dependent upon government programs. They'll want more of them so they'll vote more often for Democrats.
The Republican share of the Hispanic vote last week was at about the level we can expect going forward. Check out what Thomas Sowell has to say about the issue and I'll follow it up with my top ten list of reasons why the GOP got hammered.
Townhall.com::From champs to chumps::By Thomas Sowell
"If the people in the White House do not understand how outraged their supporters were at this year's attempt to pass an amnesty bill for illegals -- virtually guaranteeing that even more millions will come -- then it is hard to know what message they got from the Republicans' recent debacle at the polls.So, here's my list. I might order these a bit differently if I thought about it long enough, but I think I cover most of the bases:
Immigration was not the only issue but it was part of the more general issue of betrayal, which includes the Republicans' runaway spending, among other things."
- Iraq - How I long for the time in which we had the intestinal fortitude to go in and kick ass so bad that even those who would like to martyr themselves are given pause. Except for the initial battle plan, this is a complete mess. And it's Bush's fault.
- Immigration - The governing majority party will never do well when folks in Nebraska are complaining about culturally incompatible mobs suddenly popping up amongst them and the major networks are showing footage of aliens marching with foreign flags on American soil.
- Spending - "Big-Government Republican" is supposed to be an oxymoron, you morons.
- Education - Get your stinking commie "No-Child-Left-Behind" hands off my kid! Got it?
- McCain-Feingold - Mr. President, did you know that you're allowed to veto legislation that violates the first amendment?
- George Bush - At some point, no matter how intelligent a person actually is, his inability to articulate in proper english stops being quaint. These days, even the most loyal Neo-Conservative Bush-ites cringe at the announcement of a Presidential addresss or press conference.
- Donut Hole - What a great idea to make old folks start paying full-freight for their prescription meds each year about the time the election rolls around! Not.
- Jobs - It doesn't matter how low the unemployment figures go if you're not considering those who have either become underemployed, quit looking for work or whose wages are being artificially kept static thanks to offshoring, inshoring and other factors. There are no rose-colored glasses effective at blinding people to their own situations no matter what the economists and statisticians are telling them.
- Honesty - This is from my gut. People are getting sick and tired of having to obfuscate their true feelings out of fear that they're going to violate the mandates of political correctness. When the President starts calling citizen volunteers like The Minutemen ugly names and stops talking about putting a halt to gay marriage, it looks as though the White House is soaked in a load of PC dung. And it probably is.
- Ethics - Not only have to many elected Republicans become greedy whores, they've also taken up the habit of straight-faced lying to the public by trying to redefine words to make them sound more palatable, i.e., Amnesty.
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Labels: Immigration, Losers, Republicans, Stupidity
