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| CPAC immigration reform keynote panel reveals divisions within GOP | CPAC immigration reform keynote panel reveals divisions within GOP |
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| Republicans at CPAC turned to immigration reform on Thursday, with a keynote panel revealing the divisions within the GOP over how to approach an issue which it is widely seen to be losing on. | Republicans at CPAC turned to immigration reform on Thursday, with a keynote panel revealing the divisions within the GOP over how to approach an issue which it is widely seen to be losing on. |
| Congressman Raul Labrador urged the party to stop "flagellating" itself and get on with passing an immigration reform bill, while a party pollster gave a strong warning that immigration was the number one issue for Hispanics and the GOP would continue to lose elections unless it put forward an immigration reform policy. | Congressman Raul Labrador urged the party to stop "flagellating" itself and get on with passing an immigration reform bill, while a party pollster gave a strong warning that immigration was the number one issue for Hispanics and the GOP would continue to lose elections unless it put forward an immigration reform policy. |
| The session (proper title "Respecting Families and the Rule of Law: A Lasting Immigration Policy"), opened with a wave of statements about well-known looming demographic changes, the failures of reform in the past, and possible reform measures including national ID cards and additional guest-worker visas, before getting down to the GOP's real political problem whenever this issue arises: the rhetoric it elicits from certain elements of the base. | The session (proper title "Respecting Families and the Rule of Law: A Lasting Immigration Policy"), opened with a wave of statements about well-known looming demographic changes, the failures of reform in the past, and possible reform measures including national ID cards and additional guest-worker visas, before getting down to the GOP's real political problem whenever this issue arises: the rhetoric it elicits from certain elements of the base. |
| Jenny Korn of the moderate conservative American Action Network – aka the Republicans who would like to win national elections again – states, ever so gently, that perhaps the Republican "tone", "rhetoric" and "verbiage" towards the Hispanic community could be tweaked for the better? Because otherwise Democrats will continue to "capitalize" on conservatives saying, er, racist stuff all the time. American Action Network has a "does" and "don'ts" list on their website to alleviate this very rhetorical problem. | Jenny Korn of the moderate conservative American Action Network – aka the Republicans who would like to win national elections again – states, ever so gently, that perhaps the Republican "tone", "rhetoric" and "verbiage" towards the Hispanic community could be tweaked for the better? Because otherwise Democrats will continue to "capitalize" on conservatives saying, er, racist stuff all the time. American Action Network has a "does" and "don'ts" list on their website to alleviate this very rhetorical problem. |
| Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador was a bit testy in response. "I know tone matters, but we need to stop flagellating ourselves," he says, adding that "we need to be the party of actually solving things", not worrying about rhetoric. | Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador was a bit testy in response. "I know tone matters, but we need to stop flagellating ourselves," he says, adding that "we need to be the party of actually solving things", not worrying about rhetoric. |
| Labrador at #CPAC2013: Rs should"stop blaming" & "flagellating ourselves" 4 tone on immigration & just do a reform bill | Labrador at #CPAC2013: Rs should"stop blaming" & "flagellating ourselves" 4 tone on immigration & just do a reform bill |
| — Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) March 14, 2013 | — Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) March 14, 2013 |
| "So the Republican party doesn't have a messaging problem?" the moderator asks. Labrador says it's mostly because the liberal media keeps covering these panels about the messaging problem that anyone thinks there's a messaging problem. | "So the Republican party doesn't have a messaging problem?" the moderator asks. Labrador says it's mostly because the liberal media keeps covering these panels about the messaging problem that anyone thinks there's a messaging problem. |
| So is there a GOP messaging problem with Hispanics, or is this just some meta media self-invented spiral of shame? The panel ends before this philosophical question can be fully probed, but Republican pollsters Whit Ayres tries to end on an optimistic note: | So is there a GOP messaging problem with Hispanics, or is this just some meta media self-invented spiral of shame? The panel ends before this philosophical question can be fully probed, but Republican pollsters Whit Ayres tries to end on an optimistic note: |
| The number one issue in the Hispanic community is not jobs and the economy. It's the immigration issue. Immigration is that threshhold issue for a great many Hispanic citizens. That is why it is so important to get this issue right. ... We can do much much better in the Hispanic community than we did in 2008 and 2012 and if we do we stand a very good chance of winning the 2016 election. | The number one issue in the Hispanic community is not jobs and the economy. It's the immigration issue. Immigration is that threshhold issue for a great many Hispanic citizens. That is why it is so important to get this issue right. ... We can do much much better in the Hispanic community than we did in 2008 and 2012 and if we do we stand a very good chance of winning the 2016 election. |
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