So Andrea Mitchell on her program yesterday on MSNBC I think ran a clip of a Mitt Romney ad seeking HispanicLatino support.  I guess that was what he was doing.  It might have been an old ad when he ran for governor or senator.  Three weeks after saying if Congress passed the Dream Act he as President would veto it, the idea of a Romney commercial seeking HispanicLatino votes is indeed an illusion.

True, not all HispanicLatinos support the proposal to assist college-age students who are in the country illegally, most for no fault of their own.  But whether a majority of HispanicLatinos support the Dream Act is not as important as what Romney’s sentiments represent: A red target that he and the other Republican candidates have painted on the backs of all HispanicLatinos.

More interesting than ascertaining if most HispanicLatinos support the act is determining whether any of the dreamers, as I call these holders of our future, are or were the children of the subcontracted undocumented workers that used to take care of Romney’s lawns and shrubs.  I presume the well-resourced Obama campaign is looking into this matter, as well as to the possibility that Romney’s investments in more than 70 companies that led to workers losing their jobs might have included any HispanicLatinos.Writing this, I am struck by the material that the Republicans are giving the Democrats.  I guess GOP strategists have concluded that President Obama’s failure to seek positive immigration reform – a failing that rankles the dreamers – will be enough to unhinge enough HispanicLatinos who rallied to his cause in 2008.  But, really, is the option left for eligible HispanicLatino voters to cast a ballot against Obama and thus help Romney who is against immigration reform and the Dream Act and tolerates discrimination and anti-HispanicLatino rhetoric and legislation aimed to suppress the HispanicLatino vote?  Hey, guys, the dreamers are students who want to go to college.  They ain’t dumb.  Neither is the rest of the HispanicLatino community.  I doubt you can get any of them to stand on an overpass of a freeway holding Romney for President signs.

Already, it would take a mighty miracle to turn around the HispanicLatino vote.  The only question remains if the Obama campaign can maximize it at the polls.

If Romney while at Bain Capital cost any HispanicLatinos their jobs, he might have to absorb a nifty little Democratic ad that has them being forced out of their jobs back then and not being able to get hired for the jobs of the future.

If the Romney ad yesterday – was it a mirage? – was the beginning of his attempt to join the ranks of the dreamers, he instead should look around for a group of illusionists.  A meaningful share of the HispanicLatino vote ending up in his corner is nothing less than fantasy.

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