Krikorian discusses how to get immigrants to "vote more like other Americans, i.e., more Republican"

February 17, 2010 11:18 am ET by Media Matters staff

In a February 16 NRO post, Mark Krikorian denounced the American Principles Project's effort to appeal to Latinos through its new Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, which will be "[e]ncouraging increased support and advocacy among conservatives for comprehensive immigration reform." Krikorian wrote:

I wasn't at today's press conference announcing the new effort, but the reporters I've spoken with said promoting Obama's plan for amnesty and increased immigration ("comprehensive immigration reform") was a major topic. If the point is to increase the Republican share of the Hispanic vote, this sure isn't going to help; the only thing that will is closing down mass immigration so that -- as we saw the last time we did it -- immigrants and their children will Americanize over time and vote more like other Americans, i.e., more Republican.

h/t ChasLicc

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- by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 17, 2010 11:36 am ET)
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  I like stuff like this. It would be funny if it was an off-the-cuff remark made by a jet-lagged or drunk Krikorian to an unexpected reporter's question.
  
  But this is something he actually wrote down, probably had time to review, pass by another set of eyes. Tone-deaf teabagger.
  
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- by shaggles (February 17, 2010 11:43 am ET)
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  What?
  
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- by Good Creon (February 17, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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  I find that offensive, because it implies that when I vote for Democrats I'm being un-American. Perhaps this mindset is why Republicans can't get votes outside of the white demographic.
  
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- by 1st Republic 14th Star (February 17, 2010 12:09 pm ET)
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  I'm a member of Sons of the American Revoloution, Society of the War of 1812 and Sons of Union Veterans.
  
  I'm about to join the Society of Colonial Wars.
  
  What's all that mean? That my ancestors have been in what are now the United States since the 1600s -- roughly 10 or 11 generations.
  
  It might surprise Krikorian to know that my family has no history of voting for Republicans or any of their predecessor parties.
  
  So, when Mark Krikorian says he's going to get recent immigrants to vote "more American," I think it does not mean what he thinks it means.
  
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  - by bintx (February 17, 2010 12:24 pm ET)
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    Hey, we may be related! I'm eligible for DAR on both sides of my family. Dad's family traces back to New Jersey in the 1600s and my Mother's family traces back to the Hancocks of Virginia pre-Revolutionary War. In addition, my father's paternal grandmother and my mother's maternal great-grandmother was half Cherokee [I know this as fact, so whoever it was who accused me of being one of the crowd who likes to claim Native American bloodlines . . . you're wrong.]
    
    I'm about as "American" as you can get. I sometimes vote Republican and sometimes vote Democratic and sometimes, I've even voted for an Independent. My 97 year old, very American, very conservative grandmother would DIE before she voted for a Republican. My 80 year old father votes for the candidate, my mother votes for Democrats and my brother votes straight party Republican. Which one of us is "more American"?
    
    The Constitution makes no provisions for political clubs. I vote for the candidate I find most qualified and, in some cases, least dangerous.
    
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- by progressivevoicedaily (February 17, 2010 12:46 pm ET)
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  Wait a minute...how is Obama getting 6 million more votes a demonstration of most americans voting Republican??? Thats the entire population of all the red states minus Texas. HAHAHHA!! This is why the congress is so screwed up. We give just as much leverage to a Senator from North Dakota as we do from Florida. 20 times the population in Florida than in North Dakota. Sh8t just don't make sense
  
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