{"id":5184,"date":"2014-04-02T02:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2014-04-02T02:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:52:55","slug":"rand-paul-makes-sense-on-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul makes sense on outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Listen up, tea party wing of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

One of your own is making sense on ways your party can reach out more effectively to a growing minority of voters in the United States.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/04\/rand-paul-gop-must-get-beyond-deportation-105241.html<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a possible candidate for president in 2016, says the GOP must get “beyond deportation” if it hopes to attract Latino voters.<\/p>\n

Think about that. So many leading Republicans were saying during the 2012 presidential campaign that deportation — or “self-deportation,” as Mitt Romney called it — was one way to rid the country of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is, the Hispanic community, the Latino community is not going to hear us until we get beyond that issue,\u201d Paul said this week.<\/p>\n

Who wants to wager whether the Republican Party is going to heed this sound advice? I’m not yet willing to believe the tea party wing of the GOP — the minority within the party with the loudest voice — is going to take the bait.<\/p>\n

I do admire Paul, though, for telling the harsh truth to his GOP tea party brethren. Indeed, another key member of that wing of the party — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas — is an immigrant himself. The Texas Cruz Missile, though, keeps talking tough on immigration, brushing off efforts to reform the system in a comprehensive, constructive way.<\/p>\n

Keep driving home the message, Sen. Paul. Maybe one day they’ll get it. Then again, maybe they won’t.<\/p>\n\n

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