OPINION: Pro-Arizona immigration law rhetoric will haunt Republicans

By at 26 August, 2010, 8:53 am

Republican Party candidates who won Tuesday’s pimary elections have gone so far to the right on the immigration issue, that they may have shot themselves in the foot… Look at what happened in Florida and Arizona, the two states with heavy Hispanic populations that held primary votes Tuesday for November’s mid-term congressional and gubernatorial elections. In both states, some of the most closely watched Republican primaries were won by hard-liners who support Arizona-style anti-immigration laws, or by moderates who shifted to the right and backed tougher anti-immigration laws shortly before the vote under pressure from the conservative wing of their party. How are these Republican candidates going to woo Hispanic voters in November? Granted, Hispanics nationwide vote heavily Democratic — President Barack Obama won

67 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry had won 59 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004 — but Republican candidates in most of the country’s largest states can’t win without a sizable minority of the Latino vote. You don’t have to be a political wizard to figure that Democrats will put out ads in Hispanic media in coming weeks painting Republicans as the anti-Hispanic party that wants to enact Arizona-styled laws throughout the country and that is calling for denying U.S. citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented residents. And they will have plenty of primary-race TV footage to back up their claims.

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Ken Viva August 26, 2010

Wake up America!
Support Arizona!

Benito August 27, 2010

The Republicans are so funny, when the economy is good you say let’s all celebrate “Cinco de Mayo, my brothers” but when the economy is down “it’s all your fault, you damn immigrant”. When most Americans (with Latin America roots) go to the polls this November we will remember that the GOP has gone on a nationwide rant in proposing and passing several anti-immigration legislation (that our US Courts continue to strike down) and have continue to blame the immigrant for the flat economy or worse. We will remember who stands with us and who stands against us, so trying to stop it now is somewhat funny, but go ahead, you will not change our minds. Plus the more radical of the GOP are now attacking our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, in a misguided attempt to garner some much needed votes, they really are fools, and leading the GOP towards obscurity because they are no longer a party of ideas, just of empty suits. Your hate made you do it, in November; you will reap what you have sown. I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would say about todays GOP, he unlike the current GOP was a man of ideas.

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