Conservative Activist Advises GOP: Ignore Hispanics, Go For White Voters Instead.
Source: Mediaite
by Andrew Kirell, May 29th, 2013
The Republican Party should ditch any attempts to reach out to the Hispanic vote and instead focus on courting more white voters. That’s the advice of longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.
While appearing this week on the Focus Today radio program, Schlafly told host Perry Atkinson that the recent attempts by the GOP to reach out to Hispanic voters through immigration reform constitutes a “great myth” because immigrants are unlikely to vote conservative anyway.
“The Hispanics who come in like this are going to vote Democrat,” she said. “There isn’t the slightest bit of evidence that they are going to vote Republican.”
“The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes — the white voters who didn’t vote in the last election. There are millions of them. I think when you have an establishment-run nomination system, they give us a series of losers, which they’ve given us with Dole, McCain, and Romney and they give us people who don’t connect with the grassroots.”
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Who are the grassroots, the bigots and racists? Why doesn't she just tell them to also avoid going after the AA vote, the gay vote, the Asian vote, etc.
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I forgot that this woman even existed. I remember her from my childhood, she apparently hasn't changed her tune much.
...? I recall Archie Bunker talking about how, "Phyllis Shoefly...", was going to set things straight.
Deep inside the dark heart of the Tea Party is outright racism against, largely, the AA block but not limited to them.
They thought they could get significant numbers among hispanic voters, but they were wrong.
It's a failed strategy, and it looks like they're going to step it up a notch.
Not that it would be a bad thing..........
Hugs to you and the furry babies.
Their major problem is within their own ranks. They both have to contend with the wacky Tea Party bunch. Boehner definitely can't contain them or make them agree to work with the Democrats. I don't envy the guy's job. McConnell is up for reelection and he keeps veering right to avoid being primaried by the T.P. He also has to contend with kooks like Paul and nasty ones like Cruz.
Apparently, she's still around spreading her unique kind of joy.
Yeah, they better be careful with those pillowcases.
Don't say or do ANYTHING that would discourage the Rethugs from embracing this strategy! 
Let them sink themselves. They won't see the inside of the WH in decades with that strategy.
Glad you're here! That woman always amazed me. She was out there - as a businesswoman (well, of sorts), commanding big speaking fees and enjoying a high public profile and really getting ahead in the world, building her professional reputation and fame and fortune, taking FULL advantage of everything for which feminists had been fighting! For access. For equal access and equal treatment, breaking barriers down for women so that we could achieve in our own right, and be defined by and as ourselves instead of strictly in regard to whether we did or did not have a man, and to have the doors open and the playing field a little more level so we had a chance to work and expand and achieve and become and express, to NOT have to be hostage to the kind of gonads we had. Especially regarding personal choices, career choices, and life choices.
And all she wanted to do, and clearly still does want to do, was/is to undermine the feminist movement, turn the clock back at least 80 or 90 years (or decades, or more!) and drag the rest of us women and those who love us back to primordial times. Probably, preferably, to when women were property and we didn't have to bother our "pretty little heads" about any of this stuff. I just found that - well, dumbfounding! Seriously, phyllis? You're out there writing books and giving lectures and going on TV and making a fortune and actively influencing policy - that would relegate women to pink collar jobs only, with no opportunity for advancement or to be paid a living wage (especially many female heads-of-households who have no partner to help with the workload) because we womenfolk really all belonged at home with the kids and out of the workforce. So why aren't YOU home too, then? Instead of carrying on in the limelight all the time?
This woman literally built a career trying to prevent generations of women coming up after her from having the opportunities and choices she had. And she sure threw a lot of weight behind the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment. She did everything she could to slow down progress, if not stop it altogether and then roll some of it back.
That said... I hope the GOP does everything she tells them to do! Stick with whites only! Stay true to that diminishing demographic! All the better for the rest of us.
She is of a generation who lived through the blatant sexism of that era. Why would she oppose something that would help her and all women?
...Phyliss Schafly has said she thinks women are inferior to men and should not have equal rights. I know, I know.... a normal person has no response to such idiocy as this. They were both probably dropped -- often -- as infants. (I think it's instinctual attempt on the part of mothers to preserve the species when they know they spawned a psychopath.)
- But in any event, I now defer to a man who knows how to talk to ladies such as this:
I wish you much success in this endeavor.
Things like this shows further proof that the Republican Party should change their mascot from an Elephant to a Dinosaur with a teabag! They are very close to extinction but they don't know it yet!
She's very, very smart. You should make her your RNC chairman in fact.
Stick to it TeaPukers!!!
white voters she is talking about, interact socially with minorities. They are color Blind and not racists. A lot of them don't care about her racist views and white supremacy. Many young Whites go about their business of making a living and don't see their friends as a threat to them. In fact interracial marriage has been on the rise. Look at Obama, he is a product of interracial marriage. They only see Americans and not Hispanics or Blacks. She might be talking about their mother, sister, brother or kids. She might be talking about their best friends. America has changed for her and she can't adjust. Look who is coming to dinner.
I've always tried to be this way and keep getting better at it as time goes on. When I travel to large cities I see it even more. With people much younger as well. Martin Luther King's dream that his children and his children's children be judged by the content of their character (rather than the color of their skin) is becoming more and more a reality. We still have a long way to go. Especially toward economic fairness. But thinking of how much we've accomplished gives me the hope I need to continue the struggle.
Like you said, they are not all rednecks.
It's not part of the Republican platform.
She might have added that they should avoid going after the women's vote too.
