GOP Hispanic Outreach Director Switches to Democratic Party

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GOP Hispanic Outreach Director Switches to Democratic Party

In a letter to friends and supporters, Pantoja said: “I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party. It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others.”

Pantoja specifically cited the recent scandal involving a Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst who resigned amid the disclosure that, for his doctoral dissertation at Harvard, he wrote that immigrants – and Latinos in particular – had lower IQs than non-Latino whites. The analyst, Jason Richwine, went on to argue that Latinos’ descendants were destined also to have lower intellectual abilities than whites.

In his letter, Pantoja said that such views permeate conservative discussions about immigration.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/po...r-switches-to-democratic-party/#ixzz2TUHX8Wlu
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I Love America said:
Hispanic outreach was stupid
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I think it's smart and something to party has to do more of. The Hispanic community has some conservative leanings but if the Republican Party just sits back and expects Hispanic voters to come flocking to them while they put in no effort then they are dreaming.

In California there are groups working with young conservative Hispanics to help groom them to run for local offices with the hope that they will continue to grow into higher and more powerful offices.

I don't care about this one person in Florida switching parties. For all I know the Democrats might have offered him more money and as a capitalist he jumped at the opportunity. I do think it is suicide nationally for the party to ignore Hispanics.
 
maineman said:
Wish like hell that they had supported more reasonable, rational republicans when they had the chance????
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To you and the rest of the Leftist whackos, a "reasonable" Republican is either a compliant little bitch or so Liberal (see also Olympia Snowe) that you cannot tell them apart from Democunts.
 
Boris The Animal said:
To you and the rest of the Leftist whackos, a "reasonable" Republican is either a compliant little bitch or so Liberal (see also Olympia Snowe) that you cannot tell them apart from Democunts.
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. Now ya see... It's just that sort of foolishness that has the republicans doing the mexican hat dance trying to attract hispanics who can see through such bullshit fairly easily!
 
maineman said:
. Now ya see... It's just that sort of foolishness that has the republicans doing the mexican hat dance trying to attract hispanics who can see through such bullshit fairly easily!
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In your twisted society, Conservatives have abso-fucking-lutely no influence nor say in American politics, right?
 
I Love America said:
Define what you consider a "reasonable, rational republican"
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That's not for me to decide. I'm a yellow dog democrat, remember? I woldn't vote for one of you assholes for any reason in the world. Clearly...the question was... What will the republicans think if they become an extinct party... I offered my suggestion for what they might eulogistically think. I personally think that there are a host of republicans past and present that would be infinitely better choices than the current crop of obstructionist assholes, but again.. it's not my decision. If you asked me who would be on my list of republicans to clone and emulate going forward, WERE I A REPUBLICAN, I would say Dwight Eisenhower, Ev Dirksen, Edward Brooke, Oly Snowe, Susan Collins, and Bill Cohen... But that's just me.
 
Boris The Animal said:
In your twisted society, Conservatives have abso-fucking-lutely no influence nor say in American politics, right?
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Of COURSE you have a say... And I would fight to the death defending your right to say it. What you do NOT have is the right, nor, obviously, the ability, to tell hispanic Americans (and black Americans, and gay Americans, and a host of other demographic groups of Americans that currently vote for the democrats) that they should vote for you, just because......

The bottom line is, the Gop really IS the party of the south and of older white folks and, whether you care to admit it or not, you all just don't LIKE wetbacks and colored folks and nancy-boys and anyone who doesn't dress like you or worship like you or think like you. You'd love to have them VOTE for your party's candidates as long as that was the extent of the required interaction..... And the thing is... THOSE PEOPLE KNOW THAT, which is why you will not be getting their vote until you change the very soul of your party. Sorry.
 
Rana said:
Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
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I wonder if Rubio owes him money too? Or if this is another failed relationship with a gay lover?

Boris The Animal said:
So what will Americans do when there is only one political party, as the Demoturds want?
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Oh, yes! Absolutely! Unfortunately, the Republican Party will be responsible for it's own demise, not the Democrats.

Boris The Animal said:
To you and the rest of the Leftist whackos, a "reasonable" Republican is either a compliant little bitch or so Liberal (see also Olympia Snowe) that you cannot tell them apart from Democunts.
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And Ronald Reagan would be considered a RINO to you buffoons today...



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Anyhow, it's obvious the Republican Party shot themselves in the foot with this one...thanks to the recent Heritage report saying hispanics have lower IQ's.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/os-gop-...ered-by-undercurrents-20130514,0,3159554.post
The Republican Party’s new initiatives to salvage and build upon what already had become dwindling Hispanic support is getting battered by undercurrents.

In the latest manifestation of Hispanic frustration to recent conservative currents, former Republican Party of Florida state Hispanic outreach director Pablo Pantoja, of Orlando, announced that he has switched to the Democratic Party in anger over some of the currents in the Republican Party.

This was supposed to be a time when the GOP would create new appeal for the rapidly-growing Hispanic voting block. U.S. Rep. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, seemed to be emerging as what Time declared in February to be a “Republican savior,” and in March the Republican National Committee announced a new Hispanic inclusion initiative.

Then anti-immigration and Hispanic-unfriendly elements on the right rose again in recent weeks -- trashing Rubio’s immigration proposal and other initiatives from Hispanic-favorite Jeb Bush, and offending Hispanics anew.

The latest under-current, the economic report from the longstanding conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation that projects immigrants to be a future $6 trillion drain on America, got pummeled by other economists as stretching, badly, for a conclusion. Then word got out that one of the advisors on that study, Jason Richwine, had written that he considered Hispanics to have low IQs, and the controversial report became a flaming bag of waste in the eyes of many Republican Hispanics.

Heritage tried to distance the report, but not itself, from Richwine, though he later resigned from the foundation. The Republican Party did little to distance itself from The Heritage Foundation. For much of last week social media filled with angry backlash from such respected Republican operatives as Ana Navarro and influential journalists as Maria Elana Salinas . “Heritage is burning itself down,” Navarro tweeted last week.

In an email to Kevin Cate's The Florida Nation blog, Pantoja, a regional coordinator for The Libre Initiative, specifically cited the Richwine controversy as a last straw.
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