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Title: GOP glad to have another Bush to attract Hispanics
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
URL Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/1 ... glad-to-have-another-bush.html
Published: Nov 11, 2012
Author: Bud Kennedy
Post Date: 2012-11-11 16:06:56 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 249
Comments: 8
The George P. Bush bandwagon is rolling. But which direction, and how fast? The Fort Worth Republican, a son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, stirred national interest Friday just by filing the paperwork to run for an office, probably Texas land commissioner. "With his name and his Hispanic heritage, it's the perfect time for him to take a larger role," said Republican consultant Juan Hernandez of Fort Worth, back from doing election-night commentary on CNN en Español. "A moreno [dark brown] Bush! What a wonderful combination." Bush, 36, an investor and business consultant, is just beginning his first term in office. He's a school trustee in his first term on the Dallas-based Uplift charter system board, years away from any national role. But Republicans want help after Mitt Romney won only 27 percent of Hispanic votes Tuesday. Back when uncle George W. Bush led " Somos Tejanos" parades, he won 40 percent of Hispanic voters. If the party can't recapture the Bushes' sunny optimism about immigration and Hispanic culture, Republicans won't win. "It's a positive thing to have something besides old white guys like me on the ballot," current Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson told The Associated Press. Patterson, moving up to run against Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, helped persuade Texas Republicans last summer to drop their hard-line immigration platform in favor of a guest-worker plan. Hernandez said Texas Republicans have proved that "we can pass a new immigration platform and take the first step toward reform." Bush and Hernandez are both co-founders of the Hispanic Republicans of Texas PAC, which supports candidates, including Tarrant County Clerk Mary Louise Garcia. "You wouldn't believe how many calls I've had since Tuesday," Hernandez said. "Conservatives -- some very conservative -- are saying, 'I think we need to take another look at immigration reform.' It finally sank in." Hernandez led 2008 candidate John McCain's Hispanic voter drive but said Romney's team "never wanted to focus on Hispanic voters." He did help suggest a few ad messages along the lines of "You deserve better," he said. "I think everybody was surprised at who voted and why," he said. "We didn't believe young people would vote. They did. African-Americans did. Nobody expected so many Hispanic voters." Without them, don't expect to win.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Who could have guessed that leaving the borders open and amnesty could have such results? The guy is a moron. He looks like the village idiot and has a permanent Alfred E. Newman "What? Me Worry?" look on his face. Which makes him exactly like all the Bushes.
There are actually govt agents who spread conspiracy theories among the gullible to help promote the illusion that the govt is all powerful.
I'd rather die then live under another Bush. Fuck that.
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Yeah, that was quite a shock and surprise, wasn't it? Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
While I am certainly not a fan of Jesse Jackson he did say something one time I agree with wholeheartedly---"Stay out da Bush's!" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
For once in his sorry life, JJ comes out with some truth. Well done, poverty pimp. Now STFU, and go far, far away. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Nobody expected "terrorists" to fly commercial jets into the wtc, either. Just ask Condolingus Rice.
Don't blame me. I didn't vote.
Well done, poverty pimp. Now STFU, and go far, far away. That would be a good thing if Jesse would just go away and shut up. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Nobody expected so many Hispanic voters
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: hondo68 (#1)
Who could have guessed that leaving the borders open and amnesty could have such results?
#5. To: titorite (#3)
I'd rather die then live under another Bush. Fuck that.
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
#7. To: hondo68 (#1)
#8. To: Lod (#6)
For once in his sorry life, JJ comes out with some truth.
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