Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans "If only Republicans relented on their Neanderthal views regarding the immigration rule of law, the message will run, they would release the inner Republican waiting to emerge in the Hispanic population. "
"And a strong reason for that support for big government is that so many Hispanics use government programs. U.S.-born Hispanic households in California use welfare programs at twice the rate of native-born non-Hispanic households. "
"The idea of the 'social issues' Hispanic voter is also a mirage. A majority of Hispanics now support gay marriage, a Pew Research Center poll from last month found. The Hispanic out-of-wedlock birth rate is 53 percent, about twice that of whites. "
In short, Democrats have already done so much damage to them they're little different than African Americans.
GOP Faces Steep Climb With Young Voters A leftist education system that teaches propaganda instead of truth means young adults even more susceptible to envy, fear, blame and a lack of personal responsibility.
Politics: Time for the GOP to rethink abortion politics "But that gets us to the other problem. It doesn't. This is where we get to the practical realities of abortion politics. I can't even begin to imagine what right-to-life groups have spent over the past 39 years to elect pro-life candidates to every office imaginable at every level of government. It must be astronomical. What has it accomplished? Abortion is still legal in all 50 states because Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land. So all those pro-life senators, congressman, state legislators, county commissioners and drain commissioners they worked to elect? Many of them won, but not a single one of them placed a meaningful restriction on abortion."
"Look, if I were the governor of my state and I was handed a bill banning abortion, I would sign it. That's because I think those children deserve protection under the law. But I would be under no illusions that my action would really save the lives of any children. The people who have labored for years on behalf of the right-to-life cause should be under no such illusions either. For all their insistence that every Republican candidate for every office take a pro-life stance, they have accomplished nothing toward their goal."
As the author briefly mentions, his often excellent points also apply to the hysteria and fear mongering of the Left. Abortion and birth control were never in danger of going away, but to the herd animals that too many women are, it sold.
Meanwhile, try to have a conversation with a "pro-life"r and it's as frustrating as getting a "pro-choice"r to explain why men can't relinquish their financial responsibilities if they want the abortion. As the author effectively points out, despite the intractable "IT'S MURDER" one gets when trying to have the discussion, insisting on anti-abort candidates has accomplished squat.
An important lesson from the left:
GOP: Respect Women or Keep Losing by Kirsten powers "Republicans ridiculed 'The Life of Julia,' but it was a brilliant campaign outreach tactic that showed how a Romney administration would affect women in a way that left nothing to the imagination."
Short version of this piece translated from Lib-speak to truth: Women are trained to be stupid, fearful, misandrist cows, and so to always support daddy government. Another constituency Democrats have actively destroyed for their gain. That's the real war on women.
Obama’s Dirty Little Secret to Winning the 2012 Presidential Election "The president didn’t win with a ‘magnificent’ get-out-the-vote operation. It was his relentless negative ads that discouraged and disillusioned the Republican and independent voters Romney needed"
"For instance, there’s no basis for the common claim Obama won through a superb, unprecedented, supremely effective get-out-the-vote effort by the Democrats. Even downcast Republicans have hailed the opposition’s turnout operation as magnificent, but they fail to note that it resulted in far fewer voters showing up for President Obama."
"This Democratic investment in negativity may have helped Obama win his bare majority of a radically shrunken electorate, but it also contributed powerfully to the sour national mood [...] the apparent success of this strategy makes it increasingly likely that future campaigns will follow the Obama example and pursue victory by alarming and discouraging, rather than inspiring and motivating, the already gloomy populace of a preternaturally pessimistic nation."
Envy, fear and blame won. Go team leftist! But despite the stupid and fanatical who were fooled again, Republicans could have won this with a non-milquetoast candidate whose strategy wasn't to coast on Obama's ruined economy.
Five Things We Did Wrong And Four Things That Went Right All good points.
One downside to her upside: Republicans just reelected Boehner as Speaker. More status quo establishment deals for scraps off the Democrat corruption table to come.