Why did the GOP lose the Asian-American vote?
If the Republican Party can’t win the support of the immigrant group with the strongest family values and the most success in achieving the American dream, what can it say to the Hispanics, the immigrant group with the least success in achieving the American dream?
I do not mean to be glib. The issue requires study. But I will venture a guess: Asian-Americans, like any other immigrant group, come here with the hope of bringing family members with them. Tough enforcement of immigration laws makes life as hard for them as it does for any other immigrant group, and frustrates their hope of reuniting families in America. The result of our present immigration laws is that we fail to keep out the illegals we don’t want, and make it harder to absorb the skilled and energetic immigrants we do want. There will be endless discussion during the next few months of Romney’s mistake in moving to the right of Rick Perry on immigration during the Republican primaries, and I will leave the detailed parsing to the professionals. I hope the professionals talk to Asian-Americans first.
America is unlikely to tolerate ethnic quotas (Asians in, Hispanics out). There are plenty of bright Hispanics as well (with 25% unemployment in Spain, German firms are recruiting Spanish engineers to fill the 30,000 job openings for engineers in Germany). But there is a sensible way to encourage the kind of immigration that boosts economic growth and discourage the kind of immigration that impedes economic growth.
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In other words, you don’t know either, so you’re reduced to lying….as usual. It is the liberal way, after all.
xblade on November 11, 2012 at 9:56 PM
While you were playing on your playstation at home. Guess it would have been better to nominate Palin who would have lost but given Obama a landslide win eh?
Zaggs on November 11, 2012 at 9:57 PM
Speaking of my experience with Asian-Canadians, they are practical people in general and will vote for free stuff if it is offered. They don’t really care if we want to abort our children or permit gay marriage. Their values begin and end with their own families and extended community.
I suspect that if there are significant tax hikes on the middle class, the cost of free stuff will be outweighed by the outrage of having to pay higher taxes. We will see, I suppose.
Mitsouko on November 11, 2012 at 10:01 PM
How many of you realize how offensive and off-putting this whole constant “free stuff” meme is, really?
Genuine on November 11, 2012 at 10:07 PM
I worked in San Francisco for many years and have known many Asians. They don’t give a flying f— about global warming or green energy and are usually mildly Buddhist or Christian.
They have been told for decades by the media, academia, and the Democrats that Republicans are monstrous racist scum and that voting for them makes you an “Uncle Tom” no matter what your ethnicity. So, they believe it. It’s what people have been programmed to think and it works because leftist power in American institutions is overwhelming.
There is no moderation in liberal, left-wing views. There’s no “two sides to the story” or rational, adult perspective. The “white man is the devil,” as Louis Farrakhan likes to say, and conservative philosophy is the tool of the “devil.”
It’s nearly impossible to get conservatives and Republicans to even acknowledge this much less protest against it so it’s not going to change. White conservatives are going to continue to be uniquely singled out in America as figures okay to attack and abuse. And that means the future in America is likely to become bleaker, bloodier, and more violent, especially for passive, dispirited whites.
Django on November 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM
I’m sorry, what did Obama campaign on again other than “Mitt Romney is the devil” and free birth control and phones?
jawkneemusic on November 11, 2012 at 10:11 PM
Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants
43% on welfare after 20 years
Django on November 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Ask the DNC, ask dailykos, ask DU.
Do not ask the productive man who is impugned while providing sustenance for the slothful.
And please let us know when you start suffering so that we can enjoy another modicum of schadenfreude.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Speaking of moderates, Dole got 44% of the Asian vote, and Pappa Bush got 55%. Since you folks like to pretend she was the candidate last time, Palin the conservative goddess in 2008 received 35%.
xblade on November 11, 2012 at 10:15 PM
He won the crowd who believes they are owed something for nothing. The rest of us voted for Romney while others stayed home.
jawkneemusic on November 11, 2012 at 10:15 PM
Who is offended, exactly?
Mitsouko on November 11, 2012 at 10:19 PM
That’s all well and good I suppose. I just rather don’t like losing elections. I don’t post much but the constant name calling and demeaning here the last few days,not just of people who didn’t vote republican, but any republican even who isn’t red enough, it’s not “gaining” anyone at all, I don’t think.
Genuine on November 11, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Yeah, the truth is like that sometimes. Nothing a new Obamaphone can’t fix.
xblade on November 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Funny, that’s exactly what the dems have been doing for the last decade at least. It’s working pretty well for them.
xblade on November 11, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Then be gone with you reprobate. Post no more. You ain’t worth a damn anyways.
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 10:23 PM
See? Listen to you guys…
Dude, conservatives need allies right now, not for everyone to toe the line or get the hell on away over to the other side. You might consider the possibility that you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Do you honestly feel like, if the things you guys are saying around here were broadcast for every American to see, that it would gain more support for the Republican party than it would lose?
Genuine on November 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Oh dear, the weeper is concerned.
Don’t dismay patriot. If a message of equality of opportunity, individual liberty, and individual responsibility is no longer in style, then it is time to give the left everything they want.
High taxes, more regulation, expensive energy, reduced speech, increased sexual depravity, etc. etc.
We have been told for decades that the aforementioned things were true patiotism and morality.
By all means, let’s give it a go. 100%. Make it so. Go for it!
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 10:37 PM
I’m certain you will be equally concerned when it all fails and you and those you “love” are suffering.
May you suffer immeasurably having obtained everything you desired
tom daschle concerned on November 11, 2012 at 10:38 PM
So true. Politics has never been more vicious than on the Left during the Bush years, and then during the Palin nomination.
WisCon on November 11, 2012 at 10:39 PM
There is no doubt in my mind that Asian Americans would agree that they voted for free stuff. They have no negative associations with striking a good bargain.
When it becomes in their self interest to vote Republican, they will do so. I base this on my own experience in Canada with Chinese-, Indian, Indo-Guyanese, Vietnamese- and Korean Canadians, many of whom voted Conservative when they realized that both their business and personal income taxes would be cut.
Mitsouko on November 11, 2012 at 10:41 PM
LOL. You are a joke. You give that same response to everything.
bluegill on November 11, 2012 at 10:46 PM
That’s my experience as well.
njrob on November 11, 2012 at 10:54 PM
This is 100% true. The bolded part is key,
It’s the same thing young people, regardless of race, hear in school and in the media. Republicans are racist, old, rich, bigoted white guys who hate non-whites.
We need to be more assertive in protesting against this propaganda. Whites have become too willing accept the idea that being white means you should feel guilt and should put up with the double standards. It’s sad to see people so scared of pointing out and fighting against the glaring, pervasive anti-white propaganda of the left.
bluegill on November 11, 2012 at 10:57 PM
What the GOP needs to do is support actual freedom and liberty, support states rights not just when it suits you. Support the ultimate and original minority – support the individual. Like free speech, you don’t have to like what they say but you should support their right to say it. Now just do the same with supporting people’s right to live their lives the way they see fit. If you really are fiscal conservatives you should realize that we have to cut both entitlements and “defense” spending. Start supporting constitutional rights by telling politicians that the NDAA, patriot acts, the TSA policies, SOPS/pipa, drones over the USA and etc are counter to freedom and liberty.
Strart embracing the liberty movement because true liberty is the only thing that can compete with “free stuff”.
MoreLiberty on November 11, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Well, the propaganda is backfiring now after Romney won with young white voters — some people just don’t like to be scapegoated and denigrated and will vote accordingly. Over time the white vote will continue to consolidate around the Republicans if they get smart, embrace community organizing, and go back to a more populist tone in places like Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
But we also have to remember that the Democrat party — and the Left in general — is ran by white people. The colleges, the media, the donors, the infrastructure, is predominately white, college-educated, and part of the New York/West Coast establishment. Charges of “racism” and the like are mere tools to terrorize and shame the increasing number of whites leaving the Democrat party to stay while also trying to decrease our share of minority votes — we all know this.
What’s important going forward is shaming what white Americans remain in the Democrat party — outside the infrastructure — for supporting this rhetoric and for conservatives to start re-capturing key cultural institutions. It’s crucial the electorate be reminded 24/7 that Democrats hate white America and that their colleges and media arms are just transmission belts for anti-white hatred.
Punchenko on November 11, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Most Asian philosophies are pretty gosh darn collectivist. This was an election about collectivism vs. individualism. Why are we surprised Asians voted for the collectivist?
bitsy on November 12, 2012 at 12:18 AM
As I said in another thread, back in Sweet Home Chicago which is chock-a-block bursing with community organizers, David Axelrod was/is the best I have ever seen (sorry Mr. O).
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 12, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Look, our problem with minorities is simple, but not easy to fix.
The problem is with simple identification. In the past few days, I’ve seen NUMERABLE comments, on multiple conservative websites, where people on our own side complain about African Americans, or Hispanics, or single women. The sentiment that we could never win these groups and shouldn’t even try is pervasive, it’s everywhere!
Well guess what people, there are conservative minded African Americans, and Hispanics, and Asians, and single women, and Tongans, and so on and so forth. Why do I know this, because I’ve met them! Walk around in enough circles and you’ll discover conservatives in every walk of life. Heck, I’ve even met conservative furries, and they’re the Internets black sheep!
But, guess what. These people, “READ,” this stuff. Oh sure, these groups obviously aren’t the target market, but when people are dissatisfied with their current political party, they research others.
So, when people drop by a site like Hot Air to test the waters, and then see comments dismissing every non-white non male as a lost cause, how do you think that makes people feel!?
All year long, we all have been infuriated by the accusations of racism the media has been throwing at us, and indeed we are not racist, but after reading comments like that somebody could very easily jump to that conclusion.
What we NEED to do, what we HAVE been needing to do for over a decade now, is to grow the party, to gradually turn every racial demographic in America into a swing block that could go either way.
Instead we dismiss the notion, and make it extremely easy for the clowns at MSNBC to paint us as a bunch of old white racist monsters.
Like I said, it’s a simple problem, but there is no easy solution. When a bridge has been burnt, it takes quite awhile to rebuild it.
Thats the thing though, even making an effort to rebuild it would be immensely helpful. Improve just a little among Asians, among Hispanics, and among African Americans, and suddenly you’re looking at a whole different electoral ballgame.
I mean, heck, in 2004 George W. Bush practically painted the nation red, and that was largely due to making a slight improvement among Hispanic voters.
That alone I think, would be motivation enough to convince minorities that conservatism is in their best interest.
WolvenOne on November 12, 2012 at 2:40 AM
Charge admission.
Count to 10 on November 12, 2012 at 6:59 AM
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