[blockquote] “I assume that some Republicans think there is a new group of people that would become their base. If they just got rid of these pro-lifers, if they just got rid of this religious crowd, if they just got rid of the Christians, if they just got rid of these gun nuts.”[/blockquote]
These Republicans are confounded. Jeb Bush just said ""Immigrants are more fertile and they have more intact families, ...and they love families, and ...they bring a younger population." That sounds pretty pro life and if they think Mexicans are anti gun they are nuts. Here ya go Pubbies, these folks are ready to dump God and guns?
[blockquote]The Pew report found both a deep sense of piety and relatively low sacramental practice among Hispanic Catholics. While the Sunday Mass attendance rate is 6 percent lower than that of the non-Hispanic white population, 86 percent of Hispanic Catholics—and 39 percent of Hispanics who do not identify with any religion—have a crucifix or other religious object in their home. Seventy-nine percent of Hispanic Catholics seek the intercession of the Virgin Mary or of the saints during times of trial, and 64 percent pray daily.
Remarkably, 54 percent of Hispanic Catholics identify themselves as charismatics, and 51 percent believe that the Second Coming will take place during their lifetimes. Charismatic Hispanic Catholics are more likely than non-charismatic Hispanic Catholics to believe in transubstantiation, go to confession, pray the Rosary, and serve in a parish ministry.
“In the 1970s and 80s what had a huge impact on the Latino was the Protestant Pentecostal movement,” recalls Msgr. Herberto Diaz, a priest of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas who serves as president of the National Association of Hispanic Priests, which Archbishop Gomez led in the 1990s. Msgr. Diaz told CWR that “many Latinos began to leave the Catholic Church in droves due to the [Pentecostal] movement because it offered a more expressive form of worship.… In the Diocese of Brownsville we responded with the [Catholic] charismatic movement and the Cursillo retreats that brought many of our Catholics home.” [/blockquote]
But that's not it. Mexicans and other Hispanic illegals are coming from a virtual hacienda system and have no concept of independent responsibility. To them the Democrats are not only more lenient and caring they are politically dominant. What more could a peon ask for?
Continuing this illogic, by dropping God and Guns what do they expect the 30%+ current Latino Republicans will do? The only answer is, and I believe this is where Rush was going, the Republican PooBahs are willing to sacrifice America on the Democrat alter as long as they keep their money and perks.
