http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/OPINION/712130427/1002/OPINION
"The GOP has to do a better job of appealing to Hispanics, and events such as the Univision debate can only help. Hispanic voters needed to hear Mitt Romney acknowledge that Hispanics contribute much to society as "family-oriented and people of faith" who serve in the military and start businesses. They needed to hear John McCain insist that "some of the rhetoric that many Hispanics hear about illegal immigration makes some of them believe that we are not in favor of nor seek the support of Hispanic citizens in this country." They needed to hear Mike Huckabee decry a circumstance where "a person who is here legally, but speaks with an accent, is racially profiled by the public." And they needed to hear Rudy Giuliani credit Hispanic Americans for possessing the "basic values that make us better, values of family, values of hard work, getting a good job, education as the way to success."
Some people might call those kinds of statements pandering. Others have a different term for it: the truth."
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