The Hispanic fantasy November 9, 2012, 8:37 am Filed under:
Uncategorized  Another good example of righty Hispanicbating
(fair warning: yes, I’m gonna be using this suffix to coin terms
all over the place) that infantilizes Hispanics: Why Romney Lost
the Hispanic Vote  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.  It can’t just be that Hispanics are, like, just way
too leftist to be attracted to the (R)s. That would be like
saying the Hispanics are real people with actual sets of deeply-
held opinions about things (and also, other human traits such as
prejudices) that could be, like, fundamentally incompatible with
(what passes for) median (R) philosophy.  It can’t be that
Hispanics generally want a National Health Care Thing. It can’t
be that they generally like the idea of affirmative action. It
can’t be that they generally prefer a higher and steeper
marginal tax schedule. I