Interesting analysis. If true, Hispanics and Blacks will benefit from the politicians they elect. They may get better housing, health care, and education. As a result, they'll advance into the middle and upper classes in large numbers. And, when they do, they will become more like their middle and upper class peers. They'll start switching to the Republican Party, as did Italians, Irish, etc -- formerly overwhelmingly Democratic -- who gained ground economically and began voting to protect that ground. So, it's not all bad for the future of the Republican Party. It's just temporarily bad.

I wish to disassociate myself completely from jb-fourfives, just in case any of my friends read his posts. Don't know who he is or where but he aint me.

Before they can launch a cum back

And once again fuck you royal

And give you a good long hard screw

...start wearing Swastikas and goose stepping to show the world who your party REALLY are and then people will...er..actually forget it...just try being human and stop looking like a pack of short back and sides leftovers from the 1950s...on second thoughts..who gives a rats about the GOP..the party that gave the world the CRETIN FROM CRAWFORD...just crawl back into your neocon hole and die or something will yas! Fascist creeps! You idiots sicken me.Child murdering, warmongering servants of arms dealers and weapons manufacturers. Oh hang on that's not just you guys, Hillary has been in India selling bombs and guns and such like there too.

Yep America the killing Machine. Sales by GOP and Dems. watch the stock go up now by jiminy! I love the smell of naplam in the morning. Country of psychopaths!

AMERICA AMERICA UBER ALLES!

It's possible that both black and latino communities may have a more conservative view of gay rights. But you know what? I'm sick and fucking tired of being treated like a political football due to my sexual orientation. Tired of it. Way tired.

The Republican party has to realize it's ideas are all bankrupt if it is to succeed in the future. And that has more to do with creating jobs, a healthy economy, education and upholding the rule of law, than being able to (yet again) base their appeal on hatred of gays and lesbians.

I cannot help thinking their eventual solution will be tanning spray.

So if the Bush administration's policies that resulted in actions taken by the Telcoms at the behest, directon, and on the payroll of several of the "intelligence agencies" (namely DHS/NSA/CIA [insert acronym]--we don't know all who because it's a "secret") why did Telcoms need retroactive immunity from suit, and why is President Obama still trying to cloak evidence of torture in claims of "executive privilege and state secrets", and why are there still active lawsuits going forward on both those fronts despite all those efforts?

Do you think it's all a vast baseless conspiracy orchestrated by people with nothing better to do and an irrational hatred of GWB? If you think it's all "baseless accusations" by a few loony lefties you're a misinformed idiot. There is so much evidence in the public record of "warrantless wiretaps on Americans" pre-dating and following 9-11 that I won't even waste my time doing your research for you.

As far as illegal rendition (i.e. kidnapping done far from any battlefield), incarceration without charge, torture, and murder--they happened. Whether you morally condone those actions or believe the likes of Yoo and Bradbury gave it sufficient legal "legitimacy" based on their fully discredited legal work is irrelevant (there are by the way still professional ethical proceedings being brought against them that are unresolved). The inquiry is still ongoing in both the legal and political arenas.

@ Old Joe

"Hey RR, God said he knocked down those levies in NO because the dems in LA screwed around with the levy money - God doesn't like dems anymore than repubs.

So what you're saying is that your God if infinite wisdom, compassion, foregiveness and love spited and killed the many (including some innocents for sure) for the actions of a few?

How lovely. Thanks for confirming my faith that there is no God. At least not in the way you Christian cuckoo clocks believe.

I just every person as a person first...not their color. I am speaking in general terms, there are always exceptions. In general, African Americans and Latinos favor Democrats. This is the truth, not bigotry.

It is also the truth that those who want to make their own way, produce and create a life, are mostly conservative. They value freedom to do this.

There are many people of other races who fit this last description. It is not simply whites.

A better categorization would be those who believe in lots of government and those who don't.

Lastly, we all want roads and schools and general stuff. That is a given. Nobody rejects those projects, it's the other programs that is arguable.

Whatever.

“It is true that Latinos and blacks, in general, vote Democrat because many believe in various forms of social welfare and the race issue...but many *other* races, that are extremely productive, like the Asians and indians are not like this.”

You may have actually helped Mr. Greener here.

Greener can add your little expression of condescension and ignorance to the reasons for Republican’s current pathetic and clueless status. You still haven’t learned that you can’t opine for, or assume you know what motivates, those who happen to be different from you. I realize it’s a difficult concept for you to understand; but ALL people are capable of independent thought and will vote accordingly, no matter what you think “they” believe.

Now if you and Greener could only figure out how to exorcise this from your mentality.

Good luck with that!

I love how he sort of waves his hands over the Sotomayor hearings. The GOP played the worst sort of racial politics, and unleashed all the rabid bigots (like Senator Sessions). Right-wing media resounded with cries of "Reverse Racism" "Latino KKK" and "Affirmative Action Hire". It was sickening to watch.

George Bush got 40% of the Hispanic vote, now the GOP is down to 10% approval among Hispanics. How many of those votes did they lose because of the Sotomayor hearings?