Longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is urging the Republican Party to stop trying to reach out to minorities, particularly Hispanics, and work on its relationship with white people. She believes that attempting to reach out to Hispanics is a wasted, futile effort because they will never vote for conservative values anyway. According to Mediaite, Schlafly said:

“The Hispanics who come in like this are going to vote Democrat. There isn’t the slightest bit of evidence that they are going to vote Republican. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes — the white voters who didn’t vote in the last election. There are millions of them. I think when you have an establishment-run nomination system, they give us a series of losers, which they’ve given us with Dole, McCain, and Romney and they give us people who don’t connect with the grassroots.”

In other words, by attempting to reach out and appeal more to Hispanic voters, all the GOP is doing is hurting themselves. Her opinion is that Romney lost because of an unusually low turnout among white voters, though white voter turnout was only 2% lower in 2012 than it was in 2008.

The white vote in the 2012 election was 16% higher than the Hispanic vote, however. From 1996 to 2012, the white share of the vote did drop, from 82.5% to 73.7%. While it’s true that both the black and Hispanic vote shares went up, whites still have a majority of the vote share.

The “grassroots” that she speaks of is basically the Tea Party movement and people like Sarah Palin. At CPAC, Schlafly openly called McCain and Romney “losers,” along with Bob Dole, saying that they were establishment candidates too close to the center of the political spectrum and didn’t embrace conservative values. She believes that if they would stick more to Tea Party values, they should start winning the country back. However, according to Rasmussen, the Tea Party movement only makes up 8% of the population now, compared to 24% in 2010. It’s hard to understand how anybody could think that embracing the Tea Party’s values, moving even further towards the fringe, will bring the GOP back to national relevance.

Schlafly has long been critical of the growing Hispanic population here, saying in 2012 that the growing number of minority births in the U.S. was “not a good thing,” that immigrants “do not share American values,” and that we’re in danger of being overrun by uneducated and un-American immigrants.

The American “values” that she’s talking about are the values of the 1950s family symbolized by shows such as “Ozzie and Harriett,” a self-sufficient, independent, nuclear family. To her, Hispanics are used to being dependent on government and will never understand the Republican ideal of limited government and what it is to be self-sufficient.

The problem with all of this is that Schlafly is continuing to support the very “values” that are bringing the GOP down and hurting the rest of the country. White supremacy is one of the “values” that she espouses if she believes that trying to get more whites to the polls will get a Republican elected. Feminism is at the core of what’s destroying America, and immigration will only make the country as a whole more dependent on government, not less. She also believed that Sarah Palin was “right on every issue” in 2008.

Unfortunately for her and the GOP, these are the problems, not the solution. The U.S. is becoming a different place and it’s time to understand that, and change with it by attempting to make those changes work, not fight harder against it by clinging harder to outmoded and outdated “values.” The truth of the matter is that the GOP has moved ever further to the right since Reagan was in office. It doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on; the further toward the fringe you go, the less appeal you will have to the general population.

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