A GOP Hispanic Heroine
Neumayr, George
"A GOP Hispanic Heroine" To everyone, that is, except the Republican Party BY GEORGE NEUMAYR Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, calls the Hispanic vote "our mission and our goal,"...
...The 1998 Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Lungren even went on television to oppose it...
...Ramirez is now sponsoring a group called Democrats for Garcia...
...Republicans should approach the Hispanic vote the way Reagan did, in a principled way," says Unz...
...But the party's hesitancy about supporting her campaign may cost it the chance to turn her into a role model for Hispanics who haven't yet made that switch...
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...That is a good indication Maria could win," says Ramirez...
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...Filner, not recognizing his opponent, approached him in Calexico the day before the primary and attempted to engage him in conversation...
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...It was liberal Republican Pete Wilson who ruptured the party's relations with them...
...They are too comfortable with their statistics and pollsters," he says...
...We call Filner El Perico—the parrot...
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...Party officials, for example, told Unz to drop Proposition 227, his initiative to dismantle bilingual education...
...I asked her in early summer if Republican officials were pouring resources into her campaign...
...I doubt that Republicans are going to get too many votes by just mumbling a few words in Spanish," he says...
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...Filner is so liberal that his Demo- I cratic opponent in the primary has endorsed Garcia in the general election...
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...Moreover, he said, she is "a full-time mother," with little training as a Republican candidate...
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...A GOP Hispanic Heroine To everyone, that is, except the Republican Party BY GEORGE NEUMAYR Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, calls the Hispanic vote "our mission and our goal," a project that Republicans "in every way and every day" must pursue...
...His-panics voted strongly for Proposition 22, the successful 1998 initiative to protect the traditional definition of marriage...
...Zarefsky is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where he has taught for over 30 years...
...She—gasp!—hadn't even been to "candidate school?' Couldn't Republicans win long-term points with the Hispanic community if they made a high-profile effort on behalf of a Hispanic candidate, even a losing one...
...Republicans then went into pander-mode, but it didn't help...
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...But Ramirez says that few Hispanics are aware of his record...
...Filner knows nothing about the values of this community," says Danny Ramirez...
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...Hello, Senor," he began, remembers Ramirez...
...Hispanics are "Reagan Democrats," he notes...
...Gerald Parsky [the multimillionaire investment banker who serves as the White House's chief political adviser in California] will give an appointment to anyone with a Hispanic surname, but he doesn't understand them...
...Garcia, he said, probably can't defeat Democratic incumbent Bob Filner...
...He looked like a tourist or a snow-bird practicing a few words in Spanish," says Ramirez...
...Earlier this year, the House approved, 406-2, a congressional initiative to curb child pornography...
...I don't care about political labels," he says...
...Principles, not pandering, will appeal to them...
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...He didn't think the race was worth the trouble...
...You can't tell Hispanics that you are going to remove 300,000 of their children from California schools—which Proposition 187 would have done if implemented according to its letter—and expect to get their votes...
...Filner was one of the two votes against...
...Filner, a former radical history professor from San Diego State, boasts one of the more outlandish liberal records in the House of Representatives...
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...Wil- III son's aggressive support for Proposition 187—the 1994 initiative on social services for illegal aliens, which many Hispanics saw as nativist—gave His-panics an urgent motive to register Democrat...
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...One GOP insider recalls a ludicrous presentation on Hispanic outreach at a meeting for Republican donors in Palm Springs...
...Hispanics, as economically liberal and socially conservative, represent the opposite of the country club agenda for the party...
...Yes, yes, Republicans desperately want the Hispanic vote...
...Ronald Reagan fared fairly well with Hispanics, getting 40 percent or more of their votes...
...Republicans also ran away from the pro-marriage Proposition 22...
...Ironically, the white, out-of-touch, nonbilingual candidate in the race is the Democrat...
...But "even if Republicans throw her a life preserver, it may not be inflated," said a GOP consultant skeptical of the party's Hispanic outreach...
...Hispanics voted in favor of traditional marriage more fervently than any other group in the state...
...But it, too, passed overwhelmingly...
...Maria Garcia is a former "Reagan Democrat"—she switched parties in the 1990s because of the Republicans' socially conservative, pro-life plat-form...
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...The congressional district, while heavily Democratic, is undeniably conservative in moral outlook...
...Hispanic registration doubled between 1992 and 1998, notes Unz...
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...True, they speak often enough of "Hispanic out-reach" But their outreach appears to be more rhetoric than reality...
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...Is the party of Gerry Parsky listening...
...He has nothing in common with us...
...Short-term, quick-fix thinking seems to define their effort...
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...Hispanics still see the Republicans as the party of the rich...
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...Filner, a white liberal from the Barbra Streisand school of moral and political philosophy, isn't exactly a poster boy for the Mexican Catholic values of his district...
...He has no business running in this district...
...But over the next 10 years, that's exactly what happened, as the Muslim separatist struggle in the south continued to grow and the U.S...
...While not wanting to speak ill of them, she said that only a few party officials had contacted her...
...The MNLF—moro is the term for a Filipino Muslim—had battled on and off with the Philippine government 28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2002...
...Therefore, it stands to reason that California Republicans and national Republicans are enthusiastically backing her campaign, right...
...Gray Davis ended up getting over 70 percent of the Latino vote—and the initiative passed...
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...and asked him if Republicans intended to make a special effort on behalf of Garcia, since, after all, she is one of the party's few Hispanic candidates...
...She is not the right sort of Hispanic...
...Consider the example of Maria Guadalupe Garcia, running in California's 51st Congressional District...
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...Most Republicans don't even know who Garcia is...
...She is one of the few Republican His-panics running for office this year in the state...
...What's more, she is running in a largely Hispanic district that runs along the border, from the beaches south of San Diego to Arizona—prize political real estate that could be a gate-way for new Republican registrations...
...But then, country club Republicans may not really want to understand them...
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...Are Hispanics not entering the party because it is too conservative...
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...My heart is not there," he says...
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...After speaking to her, I called a party official Hispanics—economically liberal and socially conservative— represent the opposite of the "country club" agenda...
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...In the primaries, pro-lifers Garcia, Willie Durazo—who lost to Garcia in the Republican primary—and Ramirez got more votes combined than pro-choice Filner...
...A Republican assemblyman stood up and tried to argue that Hispanics were more pro-abortion than the general population—a deluded wish exposing a seemingly willful ignorance of a group crucial to the party's success in the state...
...Hayworth of nearby Arizona were enthusiastically sup-porting Garcia...
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...The one element of the Republican message that could appeal to Hispanics—its social conservatism—is almost entirely muted...
...He has received 100-percent voting ratings from Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League and the Human Rights Campaign...
...15 Fallacies in Reasoning 16 Validity and Fallacies Reconsidered 17 Assembling a Case 18 Attack and Defense I 19 Attack and Defense II 20 Language and Style in Argumentation 21 Arguments between Friends 22 Arguments among Experts 23 Public Argument and Democratic Life 24 The Ends of Argumentation NO-RISK MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE...
...I asked Ramirez why he isn't Republican...
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...Ramirez, a business owner, lives a mile from the Mexican border in a community called Calexico...
...Is he surprised that Republicans would let this opportunity pass...
...Maria Guadalupe Garcia is one of us...
...That might change in September, said one party source, noting that San Diego Congressmen Duncan George Neumayr is a writer in Southern California...
...As a telegenic, articulate mother of six who ran in the primary while pregnant, Garcia is a magnet for the very soccer moms and Hispanic females the party claims to want to reach...
...He observes that Filner can't hold a conversation with many of his constituents...
...He cast votes in favor of partial-birth abortion and homosexual adoption...
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...They considered it political poison...
...Before that, conservative Republicans like Bruce Herschensohn, who ran against Barbara Boxer in 1992, could count on 40 percent or more of the Hispanic vote...
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...If the party is anti-immigrant, they are not going to get the immigrant vote," says Ron Unz, the millionaire opponent of bilingual education schemes and a former Republican candidate for governor...
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...They are looking at the party registration sheets and not at the conservative values of the district?' As of press time, the party hadn't decided whether to spend real money on the race...
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