Lleauric
11-01-2008, 11:27 AM
Don't blame Bush for losing this election and for the destruction of the Republican Party as a force for a generation.
No... go back a bit deeper for the REAL cause.
Back when the war in Iraq was a killing issue in 2006, the giant brains of the Republican Party and Conservative movement decided they needed a counter issue, something to talk about besides Iraq.
Viola, the Great Immigration Cause was born. Pushed by Conservative think tanks, Pundits, Radio Hosts, Publications, Cable Networks and Bloggers, this became the cause celeb.
But it was badly handled. Instead of concern and national security issue, it became a race thing. Conservatives went to the old Playbook and pushed it like it was Abortion or Gay Marriage, a wedge issue.
Rove and Bush screamed. They protested and hollered. Why?
The Realist in them realized what was happening.
Bush had won pretty close to 50% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. He had made key and Hispanic appointments and their was a concerted effort to put a brown face on the Republican Party. People who looked at the numbers saw this was critical.
McCain saw this too, and engineered a hostile halt to the madness, trying to save what he saw coming as a potential deathblow to his future campaign.
But too little, too late.
The Seans, Rushes, Anns, Michelles and Lauras did to the hispanics what the party did to the Afro Americans and Gay people.
Demonized them.
And so, instead of building on a growing demographic and possibly getting 60% of the Hispanic vote with a Southwestern Candidate from a border state, The Republican Party will be LUCKY to get 25% of the Hispanic vote.
Think about it. What would Obama, or any Democrat, have done if Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico were off the table?
And it gets worse. Arizona would have gone blue as well if not for it being McCains home state.
If you are a Conservative looking at that map, and what it looks like in the future, you have nothing to feel good about.
New England is to Democrats what the South used to be to Republicans.
The Mid Atlantic is going blue as Virginia and North Carolina are slowly but surely totally slipping away. Florida gets bluer and bluer with each passing year. In 2012 Georgia will be a battleground state. And almost the entire Southwest of the United States is gone for a generation.
No... go back a bit deeper for the REAL cause.
Back when the war in Iraq was a killing issue in 2006, the giant brains of the Republican Party and Conservative movement decided they needed a counter issue, something to talk about besides Iraq.
Viola, the Great Immigration Cause was born. Pushed by Conservative think tanks, Pundits, Radio Hosts, Publications, Cable Networks and Bloggers, this became the cause celeb.
But it was badly handled. Instead of concern and national security issue, it became a race thing. Conservatives went to the old Playbook and pushed it like it was Abortion or Gay Marriage, a wedge issue.
Rove and Bush screamed. They protested and hollered. Why?
The Realist in them realized what was happening.
Bush had won pretty close to 50% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. He had made key and Hispanic appointments and their was a concerted effort to put a brown face on the Republican Party. People who looked at the numbers saw this was critical.
McCain saw this too, and engineered a hostile halt to the madness, trying to save what he saw coming as a potential deathblow to his future campaign.
But too little, too late.
The Seans, Rushes, Anns, Michelles and Lauras did to the hispanics what the party did to the Afro Americans and Gay people.
Demonized them.
And so, instead of building on a growing demographic and possibly getting 60% of the Hispanic vote with a Southwestern Candidate from a border state, The Republican Party will be LUCKY to get 25% of the Hispanic vote.
Think about it. What would Obama, or any Democrat, have done if Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico were off the table?
And it gets worse. Arizona would have gone blue as well if not for it being McCains home state.
If you are a Conservative looking at that map, and what it looks like in the future, you have nothing to feel good about.
New England is to Democrats what the South used to be to Republicans.
The Mid Atlantic is going blue as Virginia and North Carolina are slowly but surely totally slipping away. Florida gets bluer and bluer with each passing year. In 2012 Georgia will be a battleground state. And almost the entire Southwest of the United States is gone for a generation.