Comments on: The Party Of Immigration, Imperialism And Insolvency Rides Again http://larison.org/2007/05/19/the-party-of-immigration-imperialism-and-insolvency-rides-again/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: cyrus http://larison.org/2007/05/19/the-party-of-immigration-imperialism-and-insolvency-rides-again/#comment-6648 Sun, 20 May 2007 00:06:53 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/19/the-party-of-immigration-imperialism-and-insolvency-rides-again/#comment-6648 The GOP under Bush has stated repeatedly, using various circumlocutions, that it would rather lose elections than win solely on the basis of white voters. Ensuring this happens will be among the few accomplishments of the Bush administration. So thank you, Jorge Arbusto jr. Your party deserves defeat, and you've secured it for the next few decades, at least. Too bad you've had to deal a possibly fatal blow to the United States in the process. Oh well, it was increasingly a place I couldn't bring myself to love anymore. The GOP under Bush has stated repeatedly, using various circumlocutions, that it would rather lose elections than win solely on the basis of white voters. Ensuring this happens will be among the few accomplishments of the Bush administration. So thank you, Jorge Arbusto jr. Your party deserves defeat, and you’ve secured it for the next few decades, at least. Too bad you’ve had to deal a possibly fatal blow to the United States in the process. Oh well, it was increasingly a place I couldn’t bring myself to love anymore.

]]> by: Sephiroth http://larison.org/2007/05/19/the-party-of-immigration-imperialism-and-insolvency-rides-again/#comment-6647 Sat, 19 May 2007 23:41:34 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/05/19/the-party-of-immigration-imperialism-and-insolvency-rides-again/#comment-6647 David Frum: "Over the years, the Republicans have done not too badly with Hispanics, typically winning about 35%-40% of the Hispanic vote" The only reason that the GOP receives 30%-35% of the "Latino" vote (not 35%-40%) is by conflating Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans and South Americans together into this artificial ethnic construction called "Hispanic." Interestingly, all of the aforementioned groups <i>save Mexicans</i> do vote GOP at around at 35% clip (Cubans are much higher). Mexicans on the other hand only give about 18-23% of their votes to Republicans, a percentage that hasn't budged in decades and shows no sign of any potential increase. It's darkly humorous to scan some of the larger "right-wing" blogs and watch them as they contort themselves into knots in their attempts to explain how Mexicans are a "natural" GOP constituency, among the reasons being that they "go to church and join the military," as if this were an exclusively conservative trait. Somehow blacks have done both in large numbers for decades and miraculously 85% still vote for the Democrats! David Frum:

“Over the years, the Republicans have done not too badly with Hispanics, typically winning about 35%-40% of the Hispanic vote”

The only reason that the GOP receives 30%-35% of the “Latino” vote (not 35%-40%) is by conflating Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans and South Americans together into this artificial ethnic construction called “Hispanic.” Interestingly, all of the aforementioned groups save Mexicans do vote GOP at around at 35% clip (Cubans are much higher). Mexicans on the other hand only give about 18-23% of their votes to Republicans, a percentage that hasn’t budged in decades and shows no sign of any potential increase.

It’s darkly humorous to scan some of the larger “right-wing” blogs and watch them as they contort themselves into knots in their attempts to explain how Mexicans are a “natural” GOP constituency, among the reasons being that they “go to church and join the military,” as if this were an exclusively conservative trait. Somehow blacks have done both in large numbers for decades and miraculously 85% still vote for the Democrats!

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