Texas GOP Latino Leader Leaves Republican Party Over Cain Electric Fence Remarks

From the Texas Director of SOMOS REPUBLICANS who is leaving the Republican party due to lack of Republican leadership in moderating extreme anti-Latino rhetoric:

GOP leadership: Beyond Reprehensible

How much distance has been travelled <sic> since President George W. Bush left office? To us at Somos Republicans, the answer is, “Way too much!” We fear that for most of the Republican Party, the answer is, “Not far enough!!”

Today, we find the Republican Party has strayed from its roots and its founding principals so far that they can no longer be seen. We saw this yesterday, in the glare of broad daylight, when a leading presidential candidate, Herman Cain, not once, but twice, advocated for the murder of innocent people and that was met with cheers!Somos Republicans, America’s largest organization of conservative Hispanics, was alone in its criticism of this loud mouth hateful bigot. He says he was “joking.” Nobody here is laughing! The fact the GOP allows and applauds such outrageous thoughts is beyond reprehensible.

To us, the idea of allegedly “Pro-Life” people shouting for the un-Constitutional use of deadly force is unbelievable. Then, too, we shouldn’t be surprised since Republican leaders have been advocating for the nullification of the American Constitution in states like Arizona, Georgia and now Alabama. When did Republicans, once synonymous with “conservative,” become so liberal as to attack their very own Bill of Rights in the 4th and 14th Amendments?!

Where is Republican leadership? Where has the guiding principal of “Morality” gone?! If the Republican Party cannot or will not rebuke this hateful bigot and others like him who wear the mantle of “Republican” then perhaps the time has come for a rebuke of the Party itself! <...> http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-hispanic-republicans/2011/10/17/long-life-texas-gop-latino-leader-leaves-republican-party-after-herman-cain-advocates-the-death-of-immigrants/">Tucson Citizen

Every day those candidates are out there running their mouths is another day of alienating potential voters.

Is the Obama campaign paying attention here?

After 187 and 209 in CA, Latinos fled the republicons in droves. Result? They currently hold ZERO statewide offices.

if they did because they'd be "abandoning the base".

I question that they don't object to the hateful rhetoric directed at other groups?

blah, blah, blah...stay with the Repukes.

Starting to wonder if perhaps Cain isn't some GOP robot or something...