The latino population

[Flake]

I thought it was between 4-5%. Something needs to be done about this in our party. Latinos are Republicans but don't know it. If we focus on the free market over the communist and socialist countries they came from combined with social conservative values. I'm sure they'd support school choice.

Actually Latinos are very socially liberal and about60% of Latinos who immigrate into the United States are from Mexico which we all know is a democracy. Most Latinos in central Florida are of Puerto Rican descent and are extremely liberal except for a select few. Cubans are only significant in population in Dade County abs I have no idea where you got your information saying that Latinos are conservative because polls are very important in determining the positions of many Americans in a representative sample and they say Latinos are liberal too.

[Flake]

It's true that Latinos are not as socially conservative as the stereotype, and that Republicans are not going to win them over by focusing on gay marriage and abortion.  If the GOP continues its hard line on immigration, Latinos will continue to vote overwhelmingly Democratic.  

No one ever said that Latinos were mostly "communist" of "socialist"; they're not, but that doesn't mean that anyone of any ethnicity wants absolutely no public support for the poor.

Yeah true on the hard-line immigration I agree if the GOP continues that it will be a lialbility for them in future presidential and federal elections.

Where are you trying to get at with no public support for the poor? The GOP supports support for the poor but the parties position is you can't place a dependency on federal poverty programs for a very long time. Eventually you have to get a job and be dependent on yourself at some point rather than rely on federal poverty programs.

Well I think he's saying that the more conservative members of your party (like super-ultra-mega conservative) want no public support for those who are poor, and as we have seen in the past in politics, the more inspirational or crazy a speech is, the higher chance it gets a lot of coverage in the media, and it reflects on voters as thats what the party is, because of the (super-ultra-mega) conservative members of your party that is against this. I know a majority of those in this forum have not read the entire GOP platform, and this is a political forum! The average voter has an even lower chance of reading it, including the DEM platform as well. I just think the crazies in your party have a louder voice than the moderate voices in your party. It usually is just whoever loudest determines the parties fates.