Saturday, July 13, 2013

Winning More White Voters Won't Save the GOP


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113782/immigration-reform-2013-white-voters-wont-save-gop

After Election Day, the conventional wisdom was that the GOP needed to make gains among Hispanics to win in 2016. Fox News' Brit Hume and Sean Hannity, for instance, quickly assessed the GOP needed to cave on immigration reform.
 Half a year later, Hume and Hannity have flipped. Hannity doubts that immigration will help Republicans, while Hume says the demographic arguments are “baloney,” since the Hispanic vote is “not nearly as important, still, as the white vote.” Hannity and Hume aren’t alone.
 Rush Limbuagh, for instance, says white voters stayed home because the Republican Party didn’t stay conservative enough. And as MSNBC’s Benjy Sarlin put it, “you can hear the ‘missing whites’ thesis everywhere if you look for it.”
 That thesis has led conservatives to embrace a different electoral strategy than their more moderate counterparts: more gains with white voters. 
you know that party of stupid thing seems to really hit the nail on it's head, after all the things they said they would and would not do and say and not say with different words all the money they allegedly spent on classes on how to talk to the other Americans who speak english and those Hispanics that can speak english, that was the first strike. 

deciding they only need to change the verbiage not the rhetoric, strike two, then going about their same agenda as if these things were not going to work and keeping their values was the key, strike three.

now future screw ups, all of the above again.  still ignoring and offending all those they said they needed because that is why they lost so many times, not ever giving any thought to all of their base was not on the same page or after their exploits didn't want to be on that page.

do they say, they need to get more White voters?  it's official they definitely have a problem with math.  no abortion increases that disproportion of White babies and other babies, oh forgot they don't believe in science.