Dear Mrs. Romney:

During your party’s national convention, at some gathering, you urged La Raza (that’s what we call ourselves) to get “past our biases” and vote Republican. You emphasized how “important” this election will be for us. Then, like a true Republican wife, you said we’d be mistaken if we thought we’d be better off voting for Barack Obama again.

You do know that we are one of the fastest growing voting blocs in America, and you and your husband and other politicians are trying to pander to us, but hoping other prospective voters aren’t looking.

For many of us, you were simply another poignant example of politicians abandoning us.

Following your script, you then said that “if Mitt Romney wins, America wins.” Aww, what a cute line . . . but stupid!
Your brow beating continued as you advised us to wake up and really look at the issues . . . this time.

To quote you, “You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer.” The answer, according to you, is your husband.

You went on to say that you and Whatshisname, “ very much care about you and your families and the opportunities that are there for you and your families.”

Then you stressed your immigrant roots, mentioning your grandfather who was a Welsh coalminer, as you were aiming to connect with the Latinos in the audience, probably in the back of the room. Or in the kitchen.

Adding to your insensitive remarks, you mentioned Puerto Rico’s first lady then said “you people really know how to party, it was crazy!”

Listen up first lady wannabe: the only Latino votes your husband can count on are coming from rich Cuban Americans in Florida. Maybe some from more rich Cubanos in Texas and that’s about it. Biases? We don’t have no stinkin’ biases! Not when it comes to Republicans, we know who they are and how much they care about the “other Americans.” Seriously, Mrs. Romney, these professed great Americans care more about their horses or offshore bank accounts. Unless they feel we can be used, then they’ll come around (every four years, like clockwork) to offer us “help.”

Democrats aren’t seen as much better by many of us, to be honest.

But let’s be frank, this bit about us being better off with our current president, let me just say that BO is the lesser of the proverbial two evils. Your line about “if Mitt wins -America wins” – methinks you mean, that if your husband wins, white-America wins. Been there, done that.

What do you mean by interjecting that “wake-up” line? Were you implying that we’re on some sempiternal siesta? Maybe propped against a cactus and wearing a huge sombrero? Jesuscristo, first-lady wannabe! Who’s your speech writer?
That immigrant line was a killer. Something about you knowing what it’s like to be the daughter of an immigrant. (If the kitchen workers understood what you said, they probably cringed.) Then you threw out the ever popular, “you people” line to the Puerto Ricans.

The Romneys shouldn’t be surprised that the low support the GOP already had among Latinos will continue to diminish after the convention’s bump wears off.

(Democrats, as you know, use Spanish language ads to target Latino voters, but an increase in deportations and a lack of progress on immigration reform has many questioning the motives of Democrats as well, by the way. The hypocrisy of our legislators saying one thing but doing another is classic American politics.)

So, Mrs. Romney, like your fellow Republicans, you have clearly told us what to expect from the GOP should, eh, you people make it to the White House this fall.

God help us all.

PS: For what it’s worth, Mrs. Romney, should Hurricane Isaac become an omen to remind you and your friends of a Republican Administration’s gross negligence the last time the Gulf Coast was inundated, so be it.

Signed:
Andy Porras