Last Sunday there was a "news" story in the St. Pete Times (Florida's second most liberal paper after the Palm Beach Post) that reads much more like an Op-Ed aimed at putting fear in the minds of all non-Hispanic Conservatives than it reads "news." This is just another example of a key tactic being employed throughout the MSM and the Corporatist wing of the GOP. It is nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt to use political correctness as a tool for silencing those of us who are opposed to our nation being picked apart by "multiculturalism" much like and expensive car parked overnight in a bad neighborhood will surely be less of a car by morning.
Make no mistake about it, many of our supposedly Conservative "leaders" along with their leftist-elite de facto conspirators are hell bent on performing the societal equivalent of broken windows experiments upon us. They're hoping we won't notice that a byproduct of their need for cheap labor or desire for creating new, compliant voting blocs will surely be the wholesale transformation of our culture, and with it will come the destruction ofthe very things that made and have kept us a great nation.
Let's take a look inside the mind of a couple of clueless reporters, Jose Cardenas and Adam Smith:
"Here's something Florida Republicans a year ago never dreamed possible: a Democrat representing heavily Republican Little Havana in the state House.
Of course they wouldn't have dreamed it. Now, why don't our intrepid reporters tell us right away how the demographics have shifted in that barrio? Folks, here's a hint: "Little Havana" isn't majority Cuban anymore. Every day it becomes more and more of a hodge-podge slum made up of various lower-class, government-dependent imports from Central and South America, the very sort of imports that, once they access our franchise, will vote consistently Democrat. These newspaper shills are counting on readers to grow tired of the story and stop reading. They start by claiming the Little Havana is a GOP stronghold and end by pointing out that it isn't.
But that's precisely what happened on Election Day, as Democrats in Florida and across the country gained ground among Hispanic voters. If the trend continues, it could have far-reaching political implications.
No it isn't "precisely what happened." Far from it. Toward the end of this article, there are hints that the reporters understand what went on, but just don't get around to reporting it. It would not help them advance "the cause" they favor; that is, the cause of mass immigration. They never get around to pointing out clearly that actual turnout data indicates that for the first time since the Reagan revolution GOP turnout was depressed across the board. The election had no far reaching political implications unless all GOP turnout has been permanently affected. That's highly unlikely.
On Election Day, for the first time since 1976 - when Jimmy Carter got at least half of the Hispanic vote here - the Democratic candidate on the ballot's biggest race got at least an equal share of their vote as the Republican, said Sergio Bendixen, a Democratic pollster in Miami.
Let's all just ignore the fact that the "equal share" was an historically unrepresentative one.
Democrat Jim Davis and Republican Charlie Crist each got 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to television network exit polls.
Exit polls are notoriously irrelevant. With the growing influence of absentee and early voters on election outcomes, polling people on election day, particularly as they leave polling locations, captures an ever-decreasing part of the whole picture.
"We now believe we are in a position to be much more aggressively competitive within the Hispanic community as a result of this success," said Luis Navarro,executive director of the Florida Democratic Party.
Now, would we expect him to say anything else?
Another exit poll by the nonpartisan William C. Velasquez Institute found that Davis received 53 percent of the Hispanic vote and Crist received 42 percent. The poll also indicated that two-thirds of Hispanic voters cast ballots for Democrats in their congressional races.
This is misleading on two counts: 1) It fails to note that one fifth of Florida's registered voters' Congressional intentions went uncounted because their Congressman was unchallenged in the general election; and 2) the reporters don't point out that the
William C. Velasquez Institute is a race-baiting, pro-Hispanic, reconquista front group.
"The question is whether this is a trend or is it a reaction in '06 to A) the immigration issue or B) the anti-Republican feeling nationwide," said the institute's Alvaro Fernandez.
My question for Mr. Alvarez is: How important is finding results that skew your way to the prospects for your next Paycheck?
Nowhere was the swing for Democrats more evident than in Miami-Dade County,where Democrat Luis Garcia was elected to the state House in a district that includes Little Havana and that historically has been dominated by Republicans.
Here is presented a new version of the "Prop 187 killed the GOP in California" false meme. In California, the non-Latino white middle and upper middle classes have been fleeing since the court ruled - in declaring Prop 187 unconstitutional - they must bear the disproportionate burden of public service costs for illegal aliens and their misbegotten anchor babies.
The original Cubans in Little Havana are being replaced by lower class recent balseros and other low-skilled, low-wage social burdens we've imported from the Southern Hemisphere. It's going to elect Democrats from here on out. Hialeah has had a Democrat mayor for what, 20 years? Fact errors and omissions like this would have earned me an instant "F" in my college journalism courses.
Like Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is married to a Mexican immigrant and speaks Spanish, President Bush has made Hispanic voters a priority. Bush got about 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004. But exit polls last week showed that Republican candidates for the House of Representatives received only about 30 percent of the vote, while Democratic candidates got 69 percent.
These guys just don't get it that they're not comparing mangos to mangos. Never mind that that they're trying to read tea leaves grown in a banana republic where nothing makes sense to those in possession of American sensibilities anyway.
This week President Bush named Florida Sen. Mel Martinez general chairman of the Republican Party, a move seen by both Republicans and Democrats as an attempt to woo Hispanic voters back.
Woo them back? Let's examine what that really means: If we're generous and grant that Martinez at the helm of the GOP means a 5% bump in the Hispanic vote, and conservatively estimate that in the process he jettisons 5% of the White vote, it means that the GOP is hoping to increase its representative share of 8% of the electorate by 5% while decreasing its representative share of 80% of the electorate by 5%.
So, in this best case Mel Martinez scenario the GOP gains four Hispanic votes for every 1000 cast and loses 40 votes for every 1000 cast. Since when is intentionally striving to attain a net loss of 3.6% of the vote a "good thing" in politics?
"Democrats should be happy that this vote swung back our way," said Simon Rosenberg, president of NDN, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C. But "if there isn't comprehensive immigration reform there will be consequences for Democrats because then we will look like Republicans."
No, if there is "comprehensive immigration reform," you'll piss off just as much of the majority as the Senate did - maybe more. But I suppose they're your race baited talking points, so I won't quibble your with idiocy any Further.
In contrast to Hispanic voters around the country, who tend to vote for Democrats, Florida has long been an anomaly because of its Cuban-American bloc that prefers the Republican Party. But not since 1996, when many Hispanic voters across the country were turned off by heated Republican rhetoric over welfare reform, have Florida Republicans fared so poorly with Hispanic voters. Al Cardenas, former state GOP chairman, said it was a direct result of the immigration debate.
"There was a lot of rhetoric during this campaign season that hurt the sensibilities of some Hispanics and the end result was a predictable step-back," Cardenas said.
And there has been a lot of
invading going on for the last 40 years that has disgusted much of the majority and led hundreds of thousands of people, my family included, to abandon their life-long homes in order to maintain American standards of living and pass along an unbastardized cultural heritage to their children. I believe that in the minds of our leaders my family's long-term best interests should carry more weight than any foreign born's, regardless of their immigration status. And when half of any new ethnic bloc is here in violation of and disregard for our laws, I care less and less about how my antipathy appears to people who are naturalized but champion the "rights" of a class of people who should not be here. Do you get that, Al?
Rosenberg said the firm stand on illegal immigration by some Republican candidates could harm their party long term in Florida and some Southwest states. He compared it to California in the 1990s when then Gov. Pete Wilson promoted a ballot initiative that, before it was overturned by the courts, denied most public services to undocumented immigrants.Some political observers say Wilson doomed the Republican Party among Hispanic voters in California, causing Democrats to eventually dominate state government.
We've already been over it. It's a travesty that Pete Wilson is continually demonized for the result of the voters' intent being tossed aside by the courts. It boggles the mind that so many people buy into the silly notion that a constitutional amendment aimed at curtailing illegal immigration that passed with a significant margin is the reason California is now a blue state. I guess it is true that people will believe anything if you tell them to believe it often enough. Grey Davis knew what he was doing when he refused to appeal the lower court's decision: He was intentionally making the Hispanization of California permanent in order to make it a blue state. Period. It worked.
There are strong inferences that must be considered by GOP leadership before it goes along with President Bush's desire to have Mel Martinez be the public face of the Republican Party. The GOP basically has written off California, but it expects a different result if it Mexifornicates the entire nation? Give - me - a - break!
In Florida, increasing diversity within the Hispanic community has gradually improved Democrats' chances at the votes of Hispanics, who make up about 12 percent of the electorate South Florida remains largely Cuban-American. But Puerto Ricans and Hispanics from Mexico and Central and South America who are more inclined to vote for Democrats have increasingly moved to the state, particularly to Central Florida.
For example, while there are 736,000 Cubans and 90,000 Puerto Ricans in Miami-Dade County, according to the U.S. Census, in Orange County there are 115,000 Puerto Ricans but only 16,000 Cubans.
Here lies the real story: Except for a dwindling number of hold-outs who hate the Democrat party for JFK's abandoning them at the Bay of Pigs, Hispanics vote predominately for Democrats. Why isn't this at the top of the story? What agenda might these ethically-bastardized media folks be wanting to convey?
Shhh. Be very, very quiet. We don't want the natives to notice they're being disenfranchised in the name of cheap labor and votes!
"I think what has been happening in the last couple of decades, a large influx of non-Cuban Latinos have been moving to the area," said Annabelle Conroy, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. "They don't have the attachment to the Republican Party that Cuban-Americans do."
In South Florida, increasing diversity in the Hispanic population also was one reason Garcia said he won his state House seat.
He pointed out that a well-known Cuban restaurant former President Ronald Reagan visited in the 1980s to promise that Cuba would be freed from Castro is now a Mexican restaurant.
So, La Esquina de Tejas is now a Mexican restaurant? I guess the Cuban power brokers eat somewhere else for lunch, then drive home to Kendall or Doral or something. There isn't "diversity" in Dade County. There are only pockets of cultural "singularity" whose residents seeth with disdain for those living in the other balkanized enclaves around them. I know there are some who find such things "refreshing," but it offends my sensibilities to witness the denigration of my heritage. I've lived in Miami. There's nothing there for any American soul whose attachment to the sacrifices his forebears made is still strong; there is an expectation there that American's must assimilate to them, not the other way around. And Mel Martinez wants their votes. The GOP will lose mine permanently in the process.
In addition to demographic changes, Garcia and Navarro, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, said the party launched an unprecedented media campaign statewide to try to get more Hispanic voters. In South Florida, the party ran Spanish-language radio and television advertisements highlighting to Cuban-Americans issues of concern to all voters, such as property insurance.
"Our voters are getting more sophisticated. They will vote on candidates and issues" besides those related to Cuba, said Garcia. "Keep in mind that this is not Little Havana anymore. It's like little Latin America now."
Using one election as a gauge of increased sophistication is like having one botox treatment and claiming to have had a face lift.
Along the Interstate 4 corridor, the advertising campaign featured bilingual spots targeting non-Cuban Hispanics on economic issues. But not everyone sees gloom for the Republican Party among Hispanics in Florida. While Hispanics in Central Florida voted predominantly for Democrats, Crist still received 70 percent of the Cuban vote in Miami-Dade County, said Dario Moreno, director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.
Let's not remind Dario that it wasn't all that long ago, before any of the Marielitos earned the vote, that the GOP always carried a guaranteed 90%+ of the same demographic. What a shocker! Who knew that people who grew up in a socialist country would end up leaning leftist when given the right to vote in the nation in which they found a home...one in a community that really wasn't all that different from the corrupt place they left. It's just easier to buy nice stuff in Miami than it is in Havana.
What made the difference in Miami-Dade, he said, was that some Cuban-Americans did not go to the polls because they were disenchanted by infighting among Republicans For the first time since I've been doing this..." he said, "Cuban voter turnout was low."
Another nugget of truth gets buried at the bottom. Nope, no hidden agendas to see here. Move along.
Cardenas said Republicans already have taken the first step toward getting theHispanic vote back in Florida and elsewhere. "My sense is just as we did after 1996, we're going to make a comeback if we're smart about it," Cardenas said. "And the choice of Mel Martinez will go a long way to doing that."
Right, Al. And the trade off will be poison to the GOP base.
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