Monday, November 19, 2012

Republican Outreach Leaves Immigrants, Minority Groups Skeptical


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/republicans-minority-outreach_n_2156114.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

BALTIMORE, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Latinos, African-Americans and other minorities who helped President Barack Obama win a second term are skeptical about enhanced Republican outreach to their communities, but also say the future of the coalition that shaped the 2012 election may be fragile.
Top Republicans rushed to do damage control last week after Mitt Romney blamed his election loss on what he called an Obama strategy of giving "gifts" to blacks, Latinos and young voters - groups instrumental to the president's re-election victory.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and other Republicans warned that the party could not broaden its appeal unless it stopped insulting the very voters its was trying to reach.
"We have to really question their motives and how they're tokenizing these faces of color," Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, told activists and organizers at a conference on racial issues in Baltimore this weekend.
the republicans have not learn from their failure they just put the pedal to metal and continue with same failed strategy and call it remodeling their party, read all you see about this subject and i dont't think you can walk away without seeing same crap different day. 
She said Latino voters and other minority groups remained on guard given the Republicans' reluctance to embrace immigration reform and other substantive issues. She said it had not escaped notice that most delegates at Republican convention were white despite the inclusion of Latino speakers.
they are not speaking a good game, because it's the same one with a title change, they underestimated before and are still in that loop, nothing has changed as far as intent, road taken just a sharper turn to the right.