Hispanics Democratic in primaries, GOP alienating?

The Funny Truth about McCain is that the STRAIGHT TALKER has changed his STRAIGHT TALK and is now saying what the GOP Conservatives want to hear about Illegal Immigration, And its FUNNIER that he expects Hispanics / Latinos to vote for the same GOP Republicans who are against them?
I Don't think that the Hispanics are Follies to vote Republicans based on McCain, SAYING in HIS OWN WORDS, "THAT HE WOULD VOTE AGAINST HIS OWN IMMIGRATION BILL".

WE ARE NOT FOLLIES.

Mr. Silva writes about the "Republican Party's anti-immigraition (sic) faction." WRONG!!!! It's anti ILLEGAL immigration. Come on. We trust the Tribune to report accurately. No one is opposed to legal immigrants. All of us have forebears in that category. Many Hispanic legal citizens also dislike the idea of illegal immigrants who compete with them for jobs or take benefits that they have paid for through their tax dollars. Can't the media differentiate between the two?

I hear John McBush is going to ask John Kerry to be his Veep running mate.

Is this true?

THAT HE WOULD VOTE AGAINST HIS OWN IMMIGRATION BILL".

WE ARE NOT FOLLIES.

Posted by: Funny Truth | March 8, 2008 9:44 AM

True to course...he wants to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich and famous that he voted against. What is it that the rabid right called that?
I actual voted against that before I voted for that.

The GOP believes in legal immigration not illegal immigration.
Not all Hispanics are for Democrats. I know many legal ones who belong to the Republican Party they played by the rules and want illegals to do the same.
This call for instant citizenship is Democrat election year pschobabble.
Al Gore and Bill Clinton allowed 2 million to be citizens overnight in the 2,000 election which W won fair and square not selected but elected.
Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Al Gore and Bill Clinton allowed 2 million to be citizens overnight
Posted by: Jerry White | March 8, 2008 10:31 AM

With an estimated 16 million illegals...that would mean you guys let the rest in. As a matter of fact, the holy spirit of the right, Ronnie Raygun gave amnesty to them.

"sanford" writes,

"Mr. Silva writes about the "Republican Party's anti-immigraition (sic) faction." WRONG!!!! It's anti ILLEGAL immigration... Can't the media differentiate between the two?"

Sanford, the media IS capable of differentiating between these two very different things. But it CHOOSES not to, because lying about Republicans best serves the interests of the Democratic party, and best salves the bleeding-heart consciences of leftwing reporters.

Don't expect fairness, accuracy, or even good spelling from the media, when politics are involved.

Well who wouldn't expect the vice president for Hispanic issues of the New Democrat network to rail against legitimate immigration control?

The fact is that the latest head to head polls show McCain taking a lot of lower income white independent and Democrat voters from either Obama or Hillary.

A McCain renunciation of his misguided amnesty proposal would only accelerate that trend.

"...78 percent of Hispanics who have voted in presidential election contests have voted Democratic."

- AR

I'm going to guess the other 22 percent were Cuban.

Many of the Hispanics vote in states that aren't in play in November.

FL and TX are going to the Republicans. IL and CA are going to the Democrats.

So if I'm McCain, I keep talking about building a wall - which plays to his base - instead of trying to remind Hispanics that he voted for amnesty.

Republicans just don't get it.... Listen, 'illegal food harvesting and processing' has been going on for DECADES in this country - long before illegal immigration became a heated topic of debate. By that I mean this: we ALL have eaten 'illegal' produce picked by illegal hands. And how about illegal meat (processed by illegals in the slaughter houses). Or how about 'illegal' California wine, made by grapes picked by illegal harvesters? We ALL have been, for decades, CONSUMERS and BENEFICIARIES of illegal labor or processing.

We've all been aware of this for years--Democrat, Republican, or whomever--that it was some 'other brown person' in those fields harvesting our fruits and veggies. That can, and perhaps should, make us ACCOMPLICES or ACCESSORIES to this very crime that we now decry. It would, at the very least, teach us a lesson on how NOT to hypocritically and conveniently make distinctions between 'legal' and 'illegal' immigration WHEN IT SERVES OUR OWN SELF-RIGHTEOUS POSITION!! Therefore, Republicans ARE NOT the judicious conscience (of our society) that they're pretending to be.

Illegal maids (hotels)
Illegal seamstresses (clothes)
Illegal slaughterhouses (meat)
Illegal harvesters (fruits and veggies and wine).

We, as Americans, are illegal through-and-through, because almost every sector of our postmodern society is tainted with CHEAP and, yes, many times illegal, labor. Illegality has permeated our very existence, and we cannot vilify either the illegal laborer or the illegal company that hires them WITHOUT ALSO IMPLICATING OURSELVES IN THE VERY CRIME WE ARE PURPORTING TO SELF-RIGHTEOUSLY 'CLEANSE' FROM OUR EXISTENCE!