In their effort to give the political equivalent of fellatio to
Christianists and Tea Party in the GOP base, all of the GOP presidential nominee candidates have gone out of their way to demonize and denigrate gays, Hispanics, non-Christians, and many others. And as this
Fox News Latino Poll - yes, even Fox news could not give positive spin to the results - shows, the targets of GOP venom are listening. Here are how Andrew Sullivan sums things up:
[O]n the left, the columns show Obama's edge over the GOP nominee in 2008, when exit polls showed McCain losing this constituency by 36 points. On the right, those columns show Obama's advantage over Romney among Latino voters. "Those people who don't think that Latinos will vote for a Republican need to take a look at Puerto Rico"? Let's be serious -- Romney drove Latinos away to curry favor with his right-wing base. A primary win doesn't change that fact.
In their effort to give the political equivalent of fellatio to Christianists and Tea Party in the GOP base, all of the GOP presidential nominee candidates have gone out of their way to demonize and denigrate gays, Hispanics, non-Christians, and many others. And as this Fox News Latino Poll - yes, even Fox news could not give positive spin to the results - shows, the targets of GOP venom are listening. Here are how Andrew Sullivan sums things up:
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