As the 2012 election season approaches, we would like Republican candidates to know the Hispanic voting block can be salvaged and we know how.  It seems to us, at Somos Republicans, the GOP leadership in states and national organizations have been courting the wrong voters.  We felt we were on the verge of a breakthrough a few years ago when Arizona Senator John McCain, came from behind to win the Republican presidential nomination with a platform that included “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” while his losing competitors had all taken ever harder lines on immigration which insulted us personally and certainly drove away potential Latino voters in droves!

President George W. Bush won more Latino votes than any other major Republican candidate. He realized, as we do, that Latinos are naturally conservative.  And since the American Latino population is the fastest growing segment of the population, we hoped the GOP would attempt to harness that incredible new voting block but they didn’t!