With the midterm elections approaching, liberal Democrats have a simple strategy for reaching out to Latino voters: fear and loathing. The idea is to convince Latinos to fear Republican candidates by telling them how much the GOP loathes them.
It’s insulting. Here you have a constituency that has, in every presidential race dating back to the “Viva Kennedy” campaign of 1960, handed over the majority of their votes on Election Day to Democrats. And all they get in return is an outreach effort that says, “Hey, the other guys are so bad, you have to vote for us.”
Republicans, for their part, play right into the Democrats’ hands by giving them plenty of material to work with.
Consider Tom Tancredo, the former Republican congressman from Colorado. This modern-day know-nothing has long used nativist rhetoric to scare up votes and political donations. In a recent speech to tea party activists, Tancredo again waved the white sheet in discussing President Obama. According to Tancredo, Obama was elected thanks to “people who could not even spell the word ‘vote,’ or say it in English.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/19/1982204/fright-night-on-the-left.html
[Posted by Aaron Mendez]
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