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GOP Ignoring Latino and Gay Voters?: ‘No Idea Why They’re Behind the Times On This’

Feb. 4, 2013 10:10am
Latino, Gay GOP Groups Put On Standby While RNC Retools Its Messaging

Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus gavels the Republican National Convention open in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

After heavy losses and few gains in the general election, Republicans and conservatives realized one thing: their message isn’t resonating with most voters. Where they disagree is if the problem is how they’re pushing the message or if they’re doing anything to actually broaden the party’s appeal — notably when it comes to Latino and gay voters within the Party.

At the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting last week, newly-reelected Chairman Reince Priebus made clear he’s in the camp that believes Republicans simply need to deliver the message in a new way. He said the party needs articulate its “timeless principles … in ways that are modern … relevant to our time and relatable to the majority of voters.” He also said the party should embrace technology like “Skype-based training sessions and Google hangouts.”

Details on exactly how the RNC plans to do any of this are scant at the moment. The organization is still in a “reviewing phase,” having put together a fact-finding commission called the “Growth and Opportunity Project” back in early December. The group was tasked with coming up with a list of recommendations to build membership in the GOP.

Glenn McCall, a black Republican and the RNC’s committee chairman in South Carolina, is one of five co-chairs on the project. He’s specifically in charge of overseeing its findings on minority and women voters.

“We need to engage them in a meaningful way,” McCall told TheBlaze, “asking them to come to the table. It’s not about outreach. It’s truly engaging the community.” He also said the way elected Republicans talk about issues that affect minorities and women “could use updating.” Indeed, a memo recently sent out to congressional Republicans by the Hispanic Leadership Network advised the party on “tonally sensitive messaging” in discussing immigration, according to the news site BuzzFeed.

McCall said the project’s recommendations on broadening the GOP’s demographic appeal are due in a report to Priebus in early March.

There are, however, groups of voters who routinely feel ignored by the party, even within the party itself: Latino Republicans and gay Republicans among them.

“Did you see me or any Hispanics at this [winter meeting]? No,” Alci Maldonado, president of the National Republican Hispanic Assembly, told TheBlaze. “To my knowledge, no [NRHA] chairman from any state was in that meeting.” The NRHA is a grassroots organization that recruits Latino voters to the GOP, originally formed by the RNC in 1974. The two groups are no longer directly affiliated, though Priebus is a member of the NRHA. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is also a member.

Asked why she wasn’t invited to speak at the meeting, Maldonado said she had “no idea, to be perfectly frank,” adding that she had “no idea why they’re behind the times on this.” An RNC spokesperson said invites to the meeting were only sent to members and that there were “several Hispanic members” who conducted a panel discussion on the GOP’s efforts to engage Latino voters.

“They have not taken advantage of us to the full capacity,” Maldonado said. “They could put us at a roundtable. But I’m the last person to know when they’re having a meeting.”

Obama also won the gay vote by a handy margin. Gays voted for him 3-to-1. Jimmy LaSalvia, co-founder of the gay Republican group GOProud, said its time for the GOP “to take their heads out of the sand and admit that gays exist.”

“Too many Republicans simply write off gay people as the unreachable 47 percent,” LaSalvia said. “So they just ignore gay voters and addressing how issues affect them.” He said GOProud has a “good relationship” with the RNC and they’ve talked recently about gay voter outreach. No additional plans, however, have been made for the groups to collaborate on messaging or otherwise.

“I would love to help and look forward to seeing how the RNC decides to move forward,” LaSalvia said.

Like Priebus, Rae Chornenky, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, believes the problem isn’t the GOP’s message itself but more so a matter of the party not using media effectively to communicate with women voters. In the general election, 55 percent of women voted for President Obama.

“We are examining those methods of communication,” Chornenky said. “And we’re examining other ways, very simple, obvious things.” She said her organization wants to purchase more air-time in local markets, “making sure that we do have some type of media availability to get the message out.”

She also said Republicans “don’t quite get the media coverage” Democrats receive. Asked if the conservative media have not provided a balance on this front, Chornenky said no but that complaining about it isn’t helpful to the GOP’s cause. “Energy really can’t be wasted waiting for some sort of true balance to occur,” she said. “It’s up to us to put the boots on the ground, or the heels on ground and get out the message ourselves.”

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  • Fubared
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:16am

    And yet the only plantation exists on the left. Odd that.

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  • ontopp123
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:16am

    I think the message is lost on these people who vote for gov taken your freedoms and rights no matter what race or sexual intrest are it always struck me as odd that latinos who are very religious would vote for dems and has always annoyed me how still to this day americans are split into groups we seem to be into pc this pc that but still first thing in every election is the break down of just that

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    • CathyvanDyke
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:38pm

      Through appeasement policies … In the past four years Barack Obama has won over major networks, Blacks, Muslims, Illegals, gays, entitlements and Hollywood in a deceptive effort to get elected and … it worked.

      Alexis de Tocqueville:

      “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

      “Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:16am

    I’d challenge the….well I won’t impose a label, I will simply note what I believe to be one of the “code” words. “NEOCON”!!! When some of you use it I keep picturing the Lost In Space (no pun intended, but still, I don’t care who you are, that’s funny) Robot with Flasing Red Lights and “DANGER!, Will Robinson!”
    All of you out there of THAT Stripe–”Beware the Neocon, my son, the teeth that tear, the claws that catch, but most of all my son beware, of the fumerous Bandersnatch!”
    All you guys agreeing with the MORE LIBERTARIAN, vector.

    If you want MY rational attention what I want to see is how you plan to bridge the Major Gaps.

    “Death to the Neocons”, In my reading, generally equates to “To He ll with Israel” as well as “Leave da Sandyknickers be and they’ll go away.” Christian Conservative Limited Government types don’t usually, in my reading, buy either of those. What’s your COMMON Ground?

    Christian Constitutional Conservationists see clearly the SSM Agenda is REALLY about using THE STATE to SILENCE anyone who says “That’s SIN!” You “Anti-’Neocon’”s DOWN with letting the Prhomos call the tune? Or do you REALLY think that the Phromos are worth more votes than “The Religious Right”?
    I’m AGIN The La Raza Reconquista and Their Aztec Anschluss, and ANY “Amnesty” for their Non-Enculturating Quislling 5th Column Kin. You “Anti-’Neocon’”s DOWN with Shamnesty?

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  • EVANROOD
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:05am

    If that is truly the question, then I say YES, let’s ignore them! Just like I say, “ignore the Congressional Black Caucus”!!!! Or any other group, for that matter, that has to add something to the simple and proud statement that, “I am an American”! To think even for a minute that paying added attention to someones ethnicity, or lifestyle choice is going to pay off at the poll is simply ludicrous!

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    • civilwarcometh
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:15am

      This is off topic but. I have been getting a firfox and a google chrome warning when i try to log on to Breitbart/teapartycommunity or The blaze. Someone else on another site said they are trying to keep people off of conservative sites…Anyone lese getting these notices?

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    • EVANROOD
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:35am

      Civil! Was my post really that exciting?

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    • civilwarcometh
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:49am

      Your post sounds just like mine down below. So yeah i liked it.

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  • Beachmastermax
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:03am

    If you want to get the Latino vote all you have to do is agree to turn the country into Mexico. If you want the Sodomite vote all you have to do is give them unlimited access to your child’s upbringing. If you want the Black vote all you have to do is agree to support all Baby Mammas and give them a raise everytime they have another bastard. We need two parties doing this.

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    • The Big Mick
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:44am

      got it in one, MM.
      The Question THEN beomes, and I haven’t seen any of them attempt an answer yet…
      WHY would the “Libertarians” and the “Anti-’Neocon’”s be DOWN with those two things?
      Do they really think that alienating Christian Constitutional Conservationists by appeasing the La Raza Reconquistas and the Phromos will net them MORE votes? That would seem counter-intuitive, given % of Population and % of Likely Voters.
      Or is this REALLY a function of THEIR (Libertarians, Anti-Neocons) commitment to THEIR Agenda, and an indication of the disdain they really have for Christian Constitutional Conservationists?
      I continue to believe it is in the Libertarian’s and Anti-neocons’ best interest to seek common interest with the “Religious Right” and the fact they continue NOT to makes me wonder what their agenda really is.
      Why aren’t any of them asking the Question “Who is more able to move toward the other here?”
      Christians are STUCK, Theologically, with certain principles. I would think the more Open Minded Libertarians could, if they chose, find ways to ARGUE AROUND THAT, to nudge Christians to a Common “Radically Limited GOVERNMENT” position.
      As a Theistic Anarchist I theorize it is possible. But nobody seems to be working at it.

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    • Beachmastermax
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:34pm

      I think if the GOP primary was just say Michelle Bachman vs. Romney, she would now be President.

      The GOP is not interested in winning the election if it means she wins.

      They, those you speak of and the progressives, have the “divide and conquer game down pat. You watch, Ronald Reagan could descend from the air before our eyes and run in the next presidential primary and the GOP would finance and run 10 candidates and accuse him of sexually harassing good looking angels in heaven to beat him and get their guy in. The ultimate goal of the GOP is, Ronaldus Magnus, never again!!!!!

      They are drugging the little future “Ronnies” as soon as they are identified in public schools.

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:02am

    The problem isn’t the Republican message, the problem is the voter and their demand for more free stuff, or in the case of the Hispanics, open borders and ignoring our laws.
    The gays are just looking for approval, and anyone that wont bow to their distorted life style is hated.
    The Dems use that, they will go to no ends to approve any immorality if it means a vote, and funneling income tax money to their voters is now an art for the Dems.

    Making your self another version of a progressive, is not what the Republican party needs, IMHO.
    This new approval of lying and stealing will have it’s own bad end, it always does.

    Immigration would not be a problem without the government demanding tax payers foot the bill for illegals and their families.
    If they had to pay their own way, most would stay where they are. I think we are the only country that allows illegal entry as a promise of citizenship. That’s what the Democrats advocate for their votes.

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    • CathyvanDyke
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:47pm

      Progressive Republican who are elected into office tend to vote along with the Democrats on the issues. Conservative Republicans would be in the minority. The plan is brilliant. A one-party system deceptively disguised as two.

      Conservatives must establish another party with CLEARLY DEFINED POSITIONS. VETTED Conservatives candidates can then run against Progressive Republicans and Marxist Democrats and if elected Conservative voters will have a voice in both the Congress and the Senate in 2014. A Conservative must be in the Presidential running in 2016 … a Conservative who has the ability to lead the Republic in regards to domestic and foreign policies.

      pragmaticpatriot
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:52pm
      “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”
      ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

      FAILED: Rand Paul’s amendment to prohibit transfer of F-16s and tanks to Egyptian government; ROLL CALL VOTE
      January 31, 2013
      http://www.therightscoop.com/failed-rand-pauls-amendment-to-prohibit-sale-of-f-16s-and-tanks-to-egyptian-government-roll-call-vote/

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  • Some Chicken Some Neck
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:58am

    GOP is DOA. RIP.

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:53am

    Latino and LGBT voters are doing themselves a disservice by listening to the party opposition to same sex marriage and the calls for immigration reform.

    put simply, the SOCIAL issue of LGBT life is not consistent with the majority of voters. But in a small government situation social issues aren’t going to be controlled by the Federal government.

    and as for immigration, even illegals who are here now want to live safely. And those who want to be able to stay have to understand that is the right of a citizen. attempts to leave things ‘as they are’ which includes an amnesty now without closing the border simply perpetuate the limbo state in which they live now, while cheapening citizenship.

    the Left are not truly in favor of either group, instead seeking to pigeonhole their groups and provide economic disincentives to be productive and responsible citizens, perpetuating and expanding the welfare state that has propelled them into power and offers them (the ‘progressives) with the only chance at realizing the fundamental changes they seek… changes that ultimately destroy everything, but that for the duration of their existence confer power and wealth to a select few… a much smaller fraction than the 1% they decry.

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    • Xyskalla
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:00am

      The GOP aren’t the ones who sent thousands of guns to the Mexican drug cartels that were used in the murders of hundreds of Mexicans. I don’t know how any Mexican could have voted for Obama after that.

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  • justangry
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:50am

    Not to mention they are ignoring the Libertarian, constitutionalists, and Tea Party voters. Seems to me the neocons running this miserable party ignore everyone’s concerns except their Bolshevik counter parts they PRETEND to hate controlling the DNC.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:49am

    Sorry, I will not compromise my values to appease gays or Latino’s. I don’t support gay marriage and I will never support gay marriage. Your sexual deviancy should be kept private, but you all chose to make it public and expect us to accept it.

    As far as Latino’s or any other nationality, if you are illegal, I will not support you getting a break because you came through the back door. Those who came in our front door and have been doing everything correct will get my support. If you are a legal Latino and you are for amnesty of your illegal brothers and sisters, then I am against you.

    The Conservative party is going to squash the GOP cow-towers and appeasers. Then we will have a Conservative – Democrat party.

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  • Chuck Anziulewicz
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:48am

    The GOP may not “Go Gay” anytime soon … but eventually they’ll have to come to grips with the fact that vilifying Gay Americans is no longer a vote-getter for them. Back in 2009 a CBS News survey found that while only 18% of Americans over the age of 65 supported marriage equality for Gay couples, 41% of American under the age of 45 supported it. That was FOUR YEARS AGO, and the generational shift in attitudes among young people toward their Gay friends and family members is accelerating.

    Even conservative columnist Andrew Stuttaford grudgingly acknowledged this: “I fully understand (even if I do not agree with) the idea that same-sex unions are a threat to conventional marriage and I fully understand those who argue that opposition to gay marriage is a fundamental principle too important to be abandoned for reasons of political expediency, but these findings should, I reckon, at least be some sort of warning to those who assume that the GOP’s current position on this issue will continue to be a vote-winner.”

    30 years ago most Americans were not aware of any Gay friends, family members, or co-workers. Today most Americans ARE aware, and they have become dramatically more accepting and supportive of the Gay people and Gay couples in their lives. And social networking sites like Facebook have made the proverbial “closet” virtually obsolete. The Republican Party ignores this growing acceptance at their own peril. The economy is important, yes … but your f

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    • Beachmastermax
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:09am

      Marriage is not an institution that is promoted by the culture and defined by God for the adults involved and their own selfish motivations. I is an institution created for the chilldren and the health of the civilization as a whole. The GOP should just stand behind truth. It will always prevail.

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  • The Big Mick
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:47am

    Considering the premise…………yes…
    1. I don’t give a Grand Coulee Dam what happens to the Rocky Feeler, Robber Baron, Gilt Bird Cabin, Inside the Beltloop, Ruling Class Aristos of the Conservative Free GOP. Unless the Guillotine is an option.

    2. Don’t give a GCD about the Prhomo’s Agenda, other than I will NOT be SILENCED by them and will RESIST their attempt to use the Imprimatur of the State TO Silence me, seeing as how I believe their Perversion to be a kind of Debauched, Depraved, and Degenerate IDOLATRY.
    3. DO give a D amn about the La Raza Reconquistas Aztec Anschluss, but only in these sense of reminding Patriots that the Traditional Welcome for an INVADER is not Amnesty but a Bullet to the Non-Enculturating, Non-National Language Speaking Head.
    Likewise all their Non-Enculturating, Non English Speaking, Quisling 5th Column Kinfolk in da barrio.

    Considering….yeah, that about covers it.

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  • barber2
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:44am

    I think the Republicans should stand for fiscal responsible policies and stop trying to appeal to every ” different” group in America. It is a major concern that the Democrats are creating a dependent class of entitled , angry, incompetents . The radical Democrats are destroying everything that this country was founded to provide and no one seems able to hold them accountable. The MSM has much to do with this successful destruction of American values. We need to curb the deficit . Republicans need to educate the public, get some decent spokesmen and more media outlets.

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:36am

    “Republicans and conservatives realized one thing: their message isn’t resonating with most voters.”

    I am CONSTANTLY surprised at the carelessness most “journalists” [even conservative] regard
    word usage.

    [1] “Heavy” losses? Really? 50+% didnt vote for communism [including those who sat home]

    [2] “…message isn’t resonating with most voters.” — not resonating with “some” voters or not resonating with “enough” voters would be accurate —– using the word “MOST” is flat out exaggeration and false.

    [3] What percentage of the voting population is “gay” ?

    Everyone knows the Communist regime is BUYING votes with foodstamps, phones, housing, welfare, unemployment [4 years worth], illegal amnesty and refusal to prosecute, etc.

    No MESSAGE in the world is going to TRUMP giving these people free taxpayer money.
    IF voters were ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING the fallout of The Kenyan Boy-King’s policies
    without being propped up at taxpayer expense the situation would be entirely different.

    CUT OFF the free money spigot and see what you get.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:58am

      The overly compassionate alleviation of people’s RESPONSIBILITY for THEIR OWN WELFARE
      has bankrupted this nation.

      Ben Franklin knew.

      “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

      - Relating to prices and the poor, 1766

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:34am

    Does not matter!!!! The people have been brainwashed by our schools/media and entertainment and the open borders don’t help either. You can’t sell America to people who DON’T like America. Until we clean our country of this filth America is gone and will never return.

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  • momrules
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:34am

    So the Republican Party needs to move *forward*. It sounds like they want the R’s to become just like the Democrats.
    As the Republicans continue to bend their principles they will continue to lose the backbone of their party.
    Maybe they should just boo God too. That should help them get them the atheist vote.

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    • walnutportconservative
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:47am

      As the republican party loses backbone… it loses me.
      I’m ready to bail on the party, and will not send them a dime.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:38pm

      @LQTM
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:44am
      Yeah, besides, deep down, the Demonrats are racist, in particular against blazers: http://www.burntheblaze.com/
      —————————————————–
      It would really be funny for The Blaze to go after the webmaster of this site for content
      scraping. Also report them to google for duplicate content violations.

      What a joke. Marxists can go F themselves.

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  • DreamOnLibs
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:33am

    After the last two elections, the Reps. need to focus on not loosing their base. No need to vote Rep. if the party is acting like liberals…

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:57am

      Bingo.

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    • truthnstuff
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:08am

      Scruuuuuu U GOP. You got my vote for the last time when I held my nose in 2012. The patriots in the GOP need to decide what party to get behind, Libertarian or Conservative. I think enough Republicans have been pizzed off and it’s time. Rove, Preibus, and rest of the DC establishment bent over once too often. Not another penny for you!

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  • Strat-M16
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:32am

    Standing for the principles of God and law, require we summarily cashier homosexuals and illegal latins from our recruiting strategy, which is a Conservative view, not a GOP view. Pandering to them makes us like the Progressive/fascist we are fighting against.
    We can’t “out-lib the libs.”

    Bottom line, we lose. They win. It’s just a matter of time. Welcome Jesus, see you soon.

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:32am

    The GOP is finished. The GOP will not play the game that the DNC has created. The DNC has created an environment where lies are truth, down is up, etc. The GOP is talking about passing a budget while barry is on the campaign trail to promote gun control. Two different games – and no one paying attention to the GOP game.

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  • Chuck7884
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:30am

    A Gay Voter is a happy voter! .You cannot Change words to suit your needs.

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  • gauge
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:23am

    Personally, I can’t wait to see the democrats and libertarians who voted for Obama, to get exactly what they asked for.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:21am

    No the GOP is not ignoring Gay and Latino voters. The Dems do a better job of “explaining” (lying about their position) than the GOP does. That, IMO, is the problem with the GOP does a horrible job explaining things. If you tell people that by reducing taxes you will create jobs, most of the uninformed voters can’t make the correlation. “How does reducing taxes create jobs? That doesn’t create jobs.”

    I will explain. When taxes are reduced, it puts more money in your pocket. When you have more money in your pocket, you spend more. When you send more, you create a demand for goods and services (good reason to buy American). When you create a demand, more people are needed to fulfill that demand. A need for more people creates jobs.

    Reaganomics 101.

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    • naughtycal
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:38am

      Actually the democrats lie about the Republican position and the Republicans don’t defend themselves.

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    • huey6367
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:44am

      @NAUGHTYCAL

      You are correct about that. I think we are both right.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:46am

      The Bush Team did a better job at reaching out to the Hispanic community. They were on shows on Univision & other Hispanic networks all the time.

      It is not that f/cking hard.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:57am

      The GOP need to start campaigning like the Dems.. not just during the campaign season but 24, 7, 365. What it boils down to is freedom. That is a message all demographics can find appealing. If the GOP start pandering, they’ll lose. No one is as accomplished at promising government goodies as Marxist Fascists. What the Statists are exceptionally poor at is advertising freedom. They need to highlight the failings of government, the oppression of government, the incompetence and reality of government programs. As for Latinos, they need to be wooed by showing that there are Hispanic organizations that are against illegal immigration. The GOP needs to highlight and support legal immigration, and do so with verve, gusto and passion.

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    • qualityrkc
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:07am

      Reagan raised taxes every year he was president.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:17am

    “Too many Republicans simply write off gay people as the unreachable 47 percent,” We’re pretty slack on courting the pedophile voter too. We better get with it.

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:16am

    This pandering to certain ethnic group’s is what has destroyed this country. We have divided this country and until we unite as one again you can kiss America bye…..

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    • Mudd
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:09am

      I agree, too bad so many people on both sides of the spectrum don’t see that we’ve been divided and conquered by the very people who, every four years, pledge to unite us.

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  • Kupo
    Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:14am

    I believe that the only chance the GOP has is through embracing more of a libertarian platform.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:20am

      True.

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    • The Big Mick
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:33am

      Why isn’t the only chance for The Libertarians to embrace a more Christian Conservative Platform?
      Or are the PseudoLibertineAryans too wedded to their KiddiePorn and Pot to find common ground with DC Resistant Christians? Hate SaraCuda to much to find overlap with “Common Sense Conservatism” DISempowering Washington?
      Or is it the Buckyballing Flat(ulent) Pat Earth, Paul Potter ISOLATIONISM that you can’t compromise on?
      If Libertarians had half as much brains as they SHOULD have, and were as Open Minded as the claim to be, they would be pursuing every Rapprochement with Conservatives of Every Stripe that they could, deemphasizing the points of divergence and selling the points of congruity as hard as they can.
      And I challenge the Christian Constitutional Conservationists to do the same.
      FIND COMMON GROUND in the Resistance to Collectivist Statist Redistributionism.
      CREATE a Shared Manifesto and Set of Principles.
      Me, I’m the World’s Only Known Self-Confessed Theistic Anarchist myself.

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    • Ajohn
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:38am

      I tend to agree with you KUPO, even my most liberal friends agree with Libertarians on several issues and Conservatives on most. However winning is about “outreach” (a word I have learned to hate) and the promises made. Democrats cater to both Latino and Gay demographics, even though they may not deliver, they still get the vote. It is curious that promises made in many ways cause conflict among the targeted audiences, but it seems not to matter. they have heard what they want to hear and vote accordingly.

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    • ProudCapitalist
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:53am

      Except for open borders, until the welfare state is completely gone. The current platform is based on a concept of a Natural Right to Migrate, which would allow anyone, anywhere to come into the country.

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    • Kupo
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:23pm

      @Bigmick and AJohn

      Please notice I said “more of a libertarian platform”, meaning I’m not expecting them to go full blown libertarian, but merely shifting their stances at least somewhat in that direction.

      Supporting libertarianism doesn’t mean that one has to support things like drug use or prostitution, etc. All it means is that you believe that people should have agency over their own persons. God created us with the gift of free will. Why should God give us such a thing only for government to strip it away?

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