If the GOP Is This Stupid It Deserves To Die
Ann Coulter lays it all out - if you, and by extension Republicans in Congress don’t agree with her point of view, particularly on immigration, then the GOP deserves to die.
Democrats terrify Hispanics into thinking they’ll be lynched if they vote for Republicans, and then turn around and taunt Republicans for not winning a majority of the Hispanic vote.
This line of attack has real resonance with our stupidest Republicans. (Proposed Republican primary targets: Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio.) Which explains why Republicans are devoting all their energy to slightly increasing their share of the Hispanic vote while alienating everyone else in America.
It must be fun for liberals to manipulate Republicans into focusing on hopeless causes. Why don’t Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners?
As journalist Steve Sailer recently pointed out, the Hispanic vote terrifying Republicans isn’t that big. It actually declined in 2012. The Census Bureau finally released the real voter turnout numbers from the last election, and the Hispanic vote came in at only 8.4 percent of the electorate — not the 10 percent claimed by the pro-amnesty crowd.
The sleeping giant of the last election wasn’t Hispanics; it was elderly black women, terrified of media claims that Republicans were trying to suppress the black vote and determined to keep the first African-American president in the White House.
She, of course, has it completely backwards and ignores evidence that undermines her premise.
Even many Republicans realize that changing demographics threaten Republican strongholds, including Texas and could turn those states into battlegrounds, further limiting the party’s reach beyond a regional party.
Republicans have repeatedly engaged in a war on women, looking to undermine their right to choose. They have voted innumerable times to restrict the right to abortions, engaging in more votes at the state and federal level than any number of jobs bills that would help improve the economy.
Republicans have repeatedly engaged in efforts to restrict access to the polls, including various efforts to require identification to vote. Now, while I tend to agree with efforts to show some form of identification to prevent fraud or abuse, Republicans take this further and are looking to depress turnout in minority areas.
As for why there might be a decline in Hispanic voting in the past national election could be that those voter depressing techniques are starting to hit home - the size of the Hispanic population isn’t declining. In other words, ignoring the Hispanic community is done at your own peril.
The reason that the GOP would deserve to die is because its current composition in Congress has steadfastly refused to compromise on pretty much everything. Negotiations and compromise are verbotten. Cutting deals is sufficient to demand calls for excommunication from the rank and file.
And this brings me back to Coulter’s reasoning that the party deserves to die. She thinks that those who are willing to compromise and work out an immigration deal are the reason that the GOP should die out. Instead of those obstructionists who refuse to do any manner of governance unless they get their own way and have in the past allowed the debt ceiling to be exceeded resulting in a credit rating loss for the US Government, Coulter takes her ire out on Republicans who realize that compromise and governing go hand in hand.
Coulter’s approach is to marginalize a fast-growing population and instead claim that the amnesty approach is nothing more than a sop to big business and that the GOP wouldn’t benefit from reaching out to the Hispanic community. Moreover, Coulter’s approach will pretty much alienate everyone who isn’t solidly social conservative or a Tea Partier.
In other words, she’s preaching to the same tired old party that keeps talking about outreach with one hand, but holding up Not Wanted sign with the other.
The Not Wanted sign is the one that Coulter keeps waving around wildly. She just doesn’t realize it.
UPDATE:
As an aside, when I quoted Coulter’s quip she relies on quotes/research done by Steve Sailer, who happens to be from the VDare crowd - not exactly the most reliable of sources when it comes to, well, anything. See here, and here for a sampling.