RNC Puts Asians in Ad Meant to Reach Latinos

As if the GOP's relationship with the latter wasn't awkward enough

If the Republican outreach to Latinos keeps stumbling, the following is a reason why.

Hypervocal points us to a Republican party foul, flub and/or faux pas on the part of the Republican National Committee that saw it using images of Asian kids in an online campaign dubbed "RNCLatinos" aimed at attracting more Hispanics to the GOP.

While the stock photos of kids looking gleeful and upbeat was tagged with the words "Asian," "Japanese," and "Thailand," that fact was apparently missed by the folks at the RNC who are now undoubtedly looking a bit, well, red-faced.

As Hypervocal sarcastically points out, the error compounds the already strained effort by Republicans to convert Latinos to their cause: "As it stands now, Obama only holds a 43-point lead among Latino voters."

Can Republicans ever hope to close the gap between themselves and Hispanic voters?

[Neo_NtheMatrix]

This is okay. obysmal puts Americans in adds meant to reach illegals.

[ir0nw0lfe]

That was funny!

[Bobolinsky]

Anyone else getting deja vu from this story?
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It's a stock photo at http://www.shutterstock.com/s/friends_group_i...
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Notice the file name?
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I think intent is clear here. Some bumbling web designer searched for a photo of children that showed "diversity". Shoot. I wouldn't even be surprised if that web designer was latino.
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Either that or this is "code" for what?

[Isaac-Asimov]

He might have been trying to show diversity, but the problem here is this; there's no diversity in the picture. Everyone in it is one form or another of Asian, which makes them all the same ethnic group.

[Bobolinsky]

Ok. So my point remains...
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Either this is an example of ineptitude on the part of a web designer coupled with no one taking a second look at it except Politico.com and Media Matters....
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OR
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The RNC is attempting to send a coded message to the Asian community at the expense of the latinos.
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I'm going to apply Occum's razor to this one... and be done with it.

[Isaac-Asimov]

This is obviously code for: "We have your children, and unless you send us fifty trillion dollars you'll never see them alive again."

We've decided to venture into the hostage taking business, duh.

[Bobolinsky]

LOL... I'm rarely surprised. Good one Isaac.

[FollowTheMoney]

Ops.

[dustyoutlaw]

"Politicians they all lie, just to get your vote
Say they'll make things better, every time they don't
All about the money, they steal their friends
Been the same stinking way, since the world began"

From the Song "Dance in the Rubble" written by the author using the screen name "dustyoutlaw". All rights reserved.(as if a politician cares about our rights)

[dustyoutlaw]

correction:" All about the money, they steal for their friends."

[Dash-Riprock]

"Can Republicans ever hope to close the gap between themselves and Hispanic voters?"

Republicans seem to have always had a problem "closing the gap" with any minority.

[dustyoutlaw]

The easiest way to be racists is to claim your not racists. But the reality is that the GOP is the party of white racists. There are plenty of minority racists but most of them don't vote. The right wing does.

[Fuchsia]

Liberals are the worst racists.

[CanadianIndy]

Yet another example of how out-of-touch the leaders of the Republican Party are with "Amercia."

[BigPoppaPhat]

Mexicaians

[Kelly_LeFooka]

The RNC needs to fire their PR director. And while they're at it, send Palin on a permanent vacation.

[Bobolinsky]

Ummm... I don't think the RNC is liking Palin much these last 3 years. You know since she helped derail GOP plans for electing their preferred candidates in the mid-terms. In fact, I don't think there is any affiliation between the RNC and http://www.sarahpac.com/

[Cornbread]

No to many getting Goverment help shouldn't be here anyway

[Bobolinsky]

Are you talking about the RNC, Asians, or latinos? Does not compute. But I'll go out on a limb and conclude that you don't like latinos. That's nice.

[Truthinesss]

Pretty sure stuff like this isn't why the president holds such a large lead. How many do you think seen this and was offended by the Republicans webpage PR whatever it was? It's because of the party stances the gap isn't closing.

[Truthinesss]

**webpage OR whatever

[renee]

It's not a good idea from both sides to get to comfortable, right now romney and obama are tied, but obama might win with the hispanic vote at the end.

[Fuchsia]

Why should we care? Most shouldn't be here to start with.

[Bobolinsky]

???

[Fuchsia]

Big deal! Most Hispanic persons have some Asian blood in them.

[CoolArrow]

Utterly false.

[Bobolinsky]

?

[msantora]

Hispanic is a cultural identity...individuals who identify as Hispanic can be of any race.

[Fuchsia]

Actually, if you trace back far enough. The aboriginal people came from Asia long before the Spaniards took over Latin America and interbred with them. Okay, maybe the word most was off since there are Hispanic people in Europe who were not related to anyone involved in the colonization.

[CoolArrow]

Only one kind of middle class "latino" votes Republican. They are called Batista-sympathizing Cuban-Americans.

[Bobolinsky]

Way to overgeneralize Coolarrow. Your condescension toward latinos ability to think for themselves. And nice overgeneralization of Cubans too. I noticed the vitriol in your comment toward Cubans that oppose Totalitarianism. This comment told me so much about you. Makes me proud that we rarely agree.

[LaserWhite]

What if the DNC put white kids in their ads to reach out to the white republicans? would there be a reaction?

[Thunderchicken]

I'm starting to wonder about the editing on this site. Maybe they should have included a link to the actual ad.

[Keyjo]

To Republicans, if you ain't white, you all look alike!