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	<title>Comments on: The Hispanic Vote.</title>
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		<title>By: $peciallist</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-142</link>
		<dc:creator>$peciallist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>illegals are leaving due to the city finally enforcing some of those Laws laying around collecting dust.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>illegals are leaving due to the city finally enforcing some of those Laws laying around collecting dust&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: $peciallist</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-141</link>
		<dc:creator>$peciallist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and you like beer.......5&#039;s</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and you like beer&#8230;&#8230;.5&#8242;s</p>
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		<title>By: roscopico</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-140</link>
		<dc:creator>roscopico</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some of the above posts point fingers at mexico as a primary culptit, I don&#039;t know if anyone knows the extent to which this is true.  I only bring this to mention since at least in my experience as many central americans as mexicans end up here in the land of Cheese and Beer.  
All semantics (Mexican. Hispanic, whatever) aside, people more reasonable than I have in the past expressed a very real concern about social monetary liabilities for school, medical, welfare, etc.  I have seen nationally published articles as well regarding an outflux of border-hoppers.  Is this an effect of tightening employer regulation w/r/t citizenship check, or lack of grunt work in fly-by-night home construction (or similar work)? 
Our neighbors to the south are for the most part the most sincere honest workers you might hope to have the privilege to employ or work for.
At least here in the land of Cheese and Beer.  And only by my experience.
I do believe it is in our best interest as a nation to repeal or amend the bad part of the 14th amendment that makes any baby dropped on American soil an American.
We are the only nation to adopt erstwhile illegals but for the fact they fell at our feet.
We are the melting pot, yes.  But our responsibility is first to our citizens.  

Best wishes, $pecialist,
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of the above posts point fingers at mexico as a primary culptit, I don&#8217;t know if anyone knows the extent to which this is true.  I only bring this to mention since at least in my experience as many central americans as mexicans end up here in the land of Cheese and Beer.<br />
All semantics (Mexican. Hispanic, whatever) aside, people more reasonable than I have in the past expressed a very real concern about social monetary liabilities for school, medical, welfare, etc.  I have seen nationally published articles as well regarding an outflux of border-hoppers.  Is this an effect of tightening employer regulation w/r/t citizenship check, or lack of grunt work in fly-by-night home construction (or similar work)?<br />
Our neighbors to the south are for the most part the most sincere honest workers you might hope to have the privilege to employ or work for.<br />
At least here in the land of Cheese and Beer.  And only by my experience.<br />
I do believe it is in our best interest as a nation to repeal or amend the bad part of the 14th amendment that makes any baby dropped on American soil an American.<br />
We are the only nation to adopt erstwhile illegals but for the fact they fell at our feet.<br />
We are the melting pot, yes.  But our responsibility is first to our citizens.  </p>
<p>Best wishes, $pecialist,<br />
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		<title>By: $peciallist</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-139</link>
		<dc:creator>$peciallist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Atrocious Speling.....

what&#039;s your take on Hispanics?</description>
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<p>what&#8217;s your take on Hispanics?</p>
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		<title>By: roscopico</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-138</link>
		<dc:creator>roscopico</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mary, or some sh17?</description>
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		<title>By: $peciallist</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-137</link>
		<dc:creator>$peciallist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sp</description>
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		<title>By: Scope</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-136</link>
		<dc:creator>Scope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>by a few!</description>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-135</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>but you make others that look like you&#039;re accusing us of racism...I particularly like this point:

&lt;blockquote&gt;We need to bring them our pro-family message, we need to talk about the importance of faith in our party and traditional values.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The problem here is that people who continuously harp on reaching out to Latinos because they are with us as cultural conservatives are the very slimeballs who are working overtime to minimize colturally conservative influences in the party!

But when you go into crap like the following...it looks to me like you&#039;re accusing us of xenophobia:

&lt;blockquote&gt;We need to tone down the immigration rhetoric, not change our policy. When there are morons who talk about Hispanics wanting to “come in here and soak up our social services,”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That&#039;s the biggest problem with illegal immigration...and immigration as a whole...We have people collecting social security and Medicaid who have never paid into the system, taking up hospital beds and filling up emergency and not paying for the services they receive that drives up the cost to us all...legal immigrants included...Are you saying we should ignore the truth of this because the Media will demagogue this issue?

Then you chime in with this gem:

&lt;blockquote&gt;we need to let legal Hispanics know that illegal immigration puts their future in jeopardy. We need to talk to them about the importance of enforcing the laws on the books. We also need to sit down with hispanic people and talk to them about their thoughts and concerns&lt;/blockquote&gt;

As if we&#039;re not doing just that already! I know the perception is that we&#039;re not because the so called objective press, John McCain, LaRaza. LULAC etc have perpetuated this lie to benifit themselves...but we are doing exactly what you say here yet you want to act as iff we&#039;re not...as if we don&#039;t think hispanics aren&#039;t worthy of our consideration...you may not say we&#039;re xenophobic per se but you imply it in almost every paragraph!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>but you make others that look like you&#8217;re accusing us of racism&#8230;I particularly like this point:</p>
<blockquote><p>We need to bring them our pro-family message, we need to talk about the importance of faith in our party and traditional values.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem here is that people who continuously harp on reaching out to Latinos because they are with us as cultural conservatives are the very slimeballs who are working overtime to minimize colturally conservative influences in the party!</p>
<p>But when you go into crap like the following&#8230;it looks to me like you&#8217;re accusing us of xenophobia:</p>
<blockquote><p>We need to tone down the immigration rhetoric, not change our policy. When there are morons who talk about Hispanics wanting to “come in here and soak up our social services,”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s the biggest problem with illegal immigration&#8230;and immigration as a whole&#8230;We have people collecting social security and Medicaid who have never paid into the system, taking up hospital beds and filling up emergency and not paying for the services they receive that drives up the cost to us all&#8230;legal immigrants included&#8230;Are you saying we should ignore the truth of this because the Media will demagogue this issue?</p>
<p>Then you chime in with this gem:</p>
<blockquote><p>we need to let legal Hispanics know that illegal immigration puts their future in jeopardy. We need to talk to them about the importance of enforcing the laws on the books. We also need to sit down with hispanic people and talk to them about their thoughts and concerns</p></blockquote>
<p>As if we&#8217;re not doing just that already! I know the perception is that we&#8217;re not because the so called objective press, John McCain, LaRaza. LULAC etc have perpetuated this lie to benifit themselves&#8230;but we are doing exactly what you say here yet you want to act as iff we&#8217;re not&#8230;as if we don&#8217;t think hispanics aren&#8217;t worthy of our consideration&#8230;you may not say we&#8217;re xenophobic per se but you imply it in almost every paragraph!</p>
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		<title>By: Scope</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-134</link>
		<dc:creator>Scope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is obvious that sometimes some just like to argue or dabate so they look like they are smarter or elders and can say what they want.  When does the nasty and insiulting arguing end.  Can some of you not just move on to a thread you do have something more positive to say about or contribute to???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is obvious that sometimes some just like to argue or dabate so they look like they are smarter or elders and can say what they want.  When does the nasty and insiulting arguing end.  Can some of you not just move on to a thread you do have something more positive to say about or contribute to???</p>
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		<title>By: Josh LeGuern</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-133</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh LeGuern</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ya&#039;ll are just being silly now. I don&#039;t think pro-border security conservatives are xenophobic, but our behavior can give the media ammo to paint us that way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya&#8217;ll are just being silly now. I don&#8217;t think pro-border security conservatives are xenophobic, but our behavior can give the media ammo to paint us that way.</p>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-132</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Aaron Gardner</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-131</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Gardner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is my response to his idiotic statement from November 24th...although you can&#039;t really tell after it go ported over from RS3.0

&lt;blockquote&gt;The converse of this is that white people won’t relate to some young black guy with nappy hair, and this would be seen as a racist comment, as it should be. With that in mind I think you should watch what you say in this regard.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

He was wrong then and he is wrong now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is my response to his idiotic statement from November 24th&#8230;although you can&#8217;t really tell after it go ported over from RS3.0</p>
<blockquote><p>The converse of this is that white people won’t relate to some young black guy with nappy hair, and this would be seen as a racist comment, as it should be. With that in mind I think you should watch what you say in this regard.</p></blockquote>
<p>He was wrong then and he is wrong now.</p>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-130</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-128</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;And what about Blonds?…are they really that Dumb?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>And what about Blonds?…are they really that Dumb?</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Aaron Gardner</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-127</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Gardner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-126</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Xenophobe is the Rhetoric the left uses to define us...Stop smearing your fellow Republicans with Leftist epithets!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xenophobe is the Rhetoric the left uses to define us&#8230;Stop smearing your fellow Republicans with Leftist epithets!</p>
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		<title>By: AceInTX</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-125</link>
		<dc:creator>AceInTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: $peciallist</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-124</link>
		<dc:creator>$peciallist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I don’t understand why we can’t embrace minorities who are good solid conservatives out of fear that we’ll be tagged with wanting to pursue tokenism.

It’s time we give voice to minorities in our party and stand behind them, the media is extremely hostile to black, hispanic and other minority Republicans.

Minorities are going to relate to someone who is like them, not some old white guy with white hair. We need to embrace blacks, hispanics, and women in our party&quot;....Josh LeGuern Monday, November 24th

Josh?....can we just call everyone ...Voters?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I don’t understand why we can’t embrace minorities who are good solid conservatives out of fear that we’ll be tagged with wanting to pursue tokenism.</p>
<p>It’s time we give voice to minorities in our party and stand behind them, the media is extremely hostile to black, hispanic and other minority Republicans.</p>
<p>Minorities are going to relate to someone who is like them, not some old white guy with white hair. We need to embrace blacks, hispanics, and women in our party&#8221;&#8230;.Josh LeGuern Monday, November 24th</p>
<p>Josh?&#8230;.can we just call everyone &#8230;Voters?</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron Gardner</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-123</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Gardner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You didn&#039;t do a very good job of separating the two issues at all.  Sorry but that just is the way I see it.

If your idea of &quot;reaching out&quot; to Hispanics is to make a small list of trivial points about there cultural impact on America, instead of talking to them about how conservative values are the same values that they already employ in their private lives, well I hope you don&#039;t get elevated either.

By the way your last sentence seems to infer that I believe we can make it with just whites, I never said this of course.  So why are you trying to label me as a xenophobe?  That doesn&#039;t seem very inclusive to me, infact it borders on you trying to call me a racist.   I suggest you reconsider that last sentence and set yourself straight, pronto!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You didn&#8217;t do a very good job of separating the two issues at all.  Sorry but that just is the way I see it.</p>
<p>If your idea of &#8220;reaching out&#8221; to Hispanics is to make a small list of trivial points about there cultural impact on America, instead of talking to them about how conservative values are the same values that they already employ in their private lives, well I hope you don&#8217;t get elevated either.</p>
<p>By the way your last sentence seems to infer that I believe we can make it with just whites, I never said this of course.  So why are you trying to label me as a xenophobe?  That doesn&#8217;t seem very inclusive to me, infact it borders on you trying to call me a racist.   I suggest you reconsider that last sentence and set yourself straight, pronto!!</p>
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		<title>By: 6eorge Jetson</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/01/12/the-hispanic-vote/#comment-121</link>
		<dc:creator>6eorge Jetson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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