I said before that I thought Rubio should have been the VP nominee. I think the Republicans made a HUGE mistake in selecting Ryan. I do like his budget, but the main reason they selected him was they thought he could deliver Wisconsin, period. I think Robio COULD have delivered FL and more of the Hispanic vote.

I think Wag's point was by calling it "reverse discrimination" you're implicitly buying into the idea that only whites can discriminate against others.

Are preferential admission standards BS? Yes, and they should be done away with.

But, at the same time, I'm a white guy that got into Michigan undergrad. There were lots of white guys on campus. I had a few white guy friends go on to top law schools -- Michigan, Northwestern and even Harvard (he's a Jew, but I don't think they get preferential treatment in higher education). If you can't get into these schools, your resume just wasn't good enough. No excuses, play like a champion. And anyway, the cream rises to the top eventually: I know a multimillionaire lawyer that went to Cooley.

But, back on topic, I too think Hispanics should be the targeted group. Many of them are entrepreneurial as well, a key component of the Republican base.

Still, you gotta drop the hostility towards immigrants. Even if they are legal citizens (they have to be to vote) I'm sure they don't want their uncle/cousin/whoever getting deported.

If I was leading the party, I would try to actually leapfrog the Democrats and introduce more extreme versions of immigration reform. And then, as you said, work to build up more younger Hispanic Republican leaders.

I really don't see the Reps as being any more hostile toward immigrants than Democrats, they're just branded that way by the media.