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– How do you feel about abortion?
It’s taking a life.
– What should we do about criminals?
Lock them up and throw away the key.
– Do you support raising taxes?
No, the government takes too much already.
– How do you feel about overpaid, well-pensioned government workers with no-show jobs?
It ticks me me off.
– Do you support gay marriage?
Absolutely not.
– How are you going to vote?
Democratic.
Most recent immigrants oppose abortion, gay marriage and big government. The problem is that poor, uneducated people — the Democratic base — are easily demagogued into voting tribally.
A white person can vote for a Republican or a Democrat without anyone saying to him, “HOW CAN YOU VOTE AGAINST YOUR RACE?” But that is exactly how poor Hispanics and blacks are pressured into voting Democratic.
Noticeably, the No. 1 issue Obama had in his favor this year was not his policies. It was that a majority of voters agreed with the statement: Obama “cares for people like me.” That’s how Hugo Chavez got elected.
Running Hispanics won’t help Republicans. Ask Gary Franks, Lynn Swann or Michael Steele if being black won them the black vote.
Promoting amnesty won’t help — ask John McCain, who won about the same percentage of the Hispanic vote as Romney did.
Or ask California’s Hispanics, only 4 percent of whom oppose Republican immigration policies. Their main beef with the GOP is that they think Republicans are “the rich.”
The only hope is to run another appealing Republican candidate in four years — when we’re not up against an incumbent president — and return our immigration policy to one that helps America and not just the Welfare Party.
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