they look at them as an opportunity for tokenism. and this party that is supposedly against affirmative action, their way of outreach to latinos or african-american is find one so conservative that no others would vote for them and say look at this, vote for them. i mean, it doesn t work. mark, you ve watched the republican party drift in this direction and take active steps in this direction and those primaries where mitt romney thought his job was to sound as tough as possible on any form of opening of immigration in any way on the southern border and there we saw another texas governor rick perry with a more expansive view of this than the rest of the people in his party than the texas governor who ran before him as president. for republicans do you have to actually live on that border to
rick perry for providing in state tuition for children of immigrants, it s quite clear why we have a problem and demographics is destiny and republicans continue to claw their way to the problem unless we get this thing turned around. bill o reilly thinks the solution is get rid of paul ryan. the republican party has to rethink strategy. in hind sight, marco rubio would have been the best choice to run with mitt romney. it s not a knock on paul ryan. he did very well. it s just that the gop needs to send a powerful signal to hispanic voters that the party respects them. he thinks it s about signals. he think it s about having a spanish name on the ballot. you don t have to do anything on policy. and you don t have to do anything on tone. i think mark got to a really good point.
white establishment tonight? tragic. bill o reilly and the white establishment are founding their powers fading. yeah, it s fading. i will concede to bill o reilly absolutely the the minorities who are taking over the country want stuff. they want to not have voter id laws, they want the respect of being treated like americans even if they might have an ak sent. they want to not be labeled welfare queens. they want things. they want to vote. fancy that. the problem that the republican party has is that when they look at minorities, they either look at them as a threat that s taking over the country, that ascribe to the minority s power that trust me, we don t have, or they look at them as an opportunity for tokenism. and this party that is supposedly against affirmative action, their way of outreach to
that s 600,000 hispanic youth every year. do you really think this party wants to spend the rest of the next 15, 20, 40, 50 years in the political desert? if they do, great. here s your moment. if they don t, you ve got to get real with the new reality. nbc exit polls found the share of the white elect toert fell, while the latino electorate jumped. an overwhelming 71% went for obama compared to mitt romney s 27%. that is the lowest performance for republicans in eight years. john mccain got 31% four years ago, george w. bush got 40% in 2004. exit polls show latinos are becoming a solid democratic voting black. in 2004, 42% of latino voters called themselves democrats and 31% returns.
know what our new reality is? every month 50,000 hispanics turn 18 years old, every month. that s 600,000 hispanic youth every year. do you really think this party wants to spend the rest of the next 15, 20, 40, 50 years in the political desert? if they do, great. here s your moment. if they don t, you ve got to get real with the new reality. nbc exit polls found the share of the white elect toert fell, while the latino electorate jumped. an overwhelming 71% went for obama compared to mitt romney s 27%. that is the lowest performance for republicans in eight years. john mccain got 31% four years ago, george w. bush got 40% in 2004. exit polls show latinos are becoming a solid democratic