Pass the chips and guacamole – Ruben Navarrette

Addressing the 1988 GOP convention, Gaddi Vasquez — a Hispanic supporter of George H.W. Bush — said that Hispanics shouldn’t support Michael Dukakis just because he was bilingual. The Democratic nominee spoke Spanish, Vasquez said, but because of his liberal policies, “he doesn’t speak our language.”

Twenty years later, we’re in the midst of a presidential election in which the votes of Hispanics could prove to be crucial this November.

Some of those votes might have gone to Bill Richardson, the first Hispanic to run a credible campaign for president. Now that Richardson has withdrawn from the race, I asked him what advice he’d give any candidate interested in making a play for those estimated 9 million votes.”*

*From: www.indystar.com
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