Well it finally did happen, and I can’t believe the GOP was so stupid they didn’t see it coming. Latinos are leaving the Republican party by the truck-load. A new Washington Post Poll shows support for Bush and the Republicans slipping dramatically.

I’m shocked that it happened so fast, but I’m not shocked that it happened. Any GOP strategists should have taken a page from the California playbook. A popular initiative controversy that occurred here about 10 years ago known as proposition 187, should have tipped them off. In that initiative, all illegal immigrants were to be bared from public services including schools. The protesters came out in droves. I was actually in high school at the time and marched in the protest. I knew many of the Latinos in the school at the time, but I had no idea there were so many that would stand together, (just an observation, but people look truly more powerful when you see them together stand firm).

Needless to say the initiative galvanized Latino and White voters. What was truly interesting about this process was that it helped unpopular Governor Pete Wilson get reelected. This short-term …