If I agree with anything the pundits are saying about this election, it would be that the intra-GOP division about “hispanics” is indeed hurting them. To counter PaleoPat, country club GOPer Monica Charan writes:

Why Romney Lost the Hispanic Vote

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No, the margin of victory for Obama came from Hispanic voters. “A big reason I will win a second term,” he told the Des Moines Register just before the election, “is because the Republican nominee and Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community.”

It gives me no pleasure to say that I’ve been warning of this for many years. Conservatives and Republicans simply must address Hispanic voters in terms that do not sound hostile. As Senator Marco Rubio put it to Juan Williams, “It’s very hard to make the economic argument to people who think you want to deport their grandmother.”

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Freetoken’s shorter version of the GOP conundrum: Either you stop hating on brown people, or they’ll not vote for you.