When policy and election politics collide. Did the Conservative base's nativist zeal for anti-immigrant rhetoric cost them the crucial Latino vote and majority power for generations to come?

But perhaps the real casualty of the GOP’s immigration meltdown is the Rovian model of Republican politics. Part of the near-mythic aura of infallibility surrounding Rove stems from the sense that his tactics seem to defy all known political laws—that it shouldn’t be possible to reach out to minorities while fanning the flames of a base that is often hostile to them. And as it turns out, it probably isn’t.

Dishonesty and misrepresentation.

"Conservative base's nativist zeal for anti-immigrant rhetoric"

I have heard zero "anti-immigrant" rhetoric from conservatives.
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possible to reach out to minorities while fanning the flames of a base that is often hostile to them."

Pathetic. Reaching out to "minorities" has nothing to do with reaching out to illegal immigrants.

I promised myself not to waste time with anything but on sentence responses--at most--to stuff this stupid, but I slipped up and I've already written it so....