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In January, Jeb Bush urged the GOP that they should reach out to the Latino community if they want to stay relevant.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is calling on conservatives to step up their outreach to Hispanic voters if they want to remain politically relevant.

Former President George Bush in a speech said that the Tea Party suffers from nativism which drew the ire of Laura Ingraham. And other mainstream Republicans also began to make the same argument including Newt Gingrich: 'Moderate' Republicans try to do outreach with Latinos. Lots of luck with that.

Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate and a thought leader inside the party, talks about creating a zone between amnesty and mass deportation.

It appears that that message has fallen on deaf ears. KTRH: Tea Party Leader Makes "Racist" Remarks, Says Texas Has Too Many Hispanic Lawmakers

Rebecca Forrester the co-founder of "Women on the Wall" said that "part of the problem" behind the inability of the Texas legislature to pass a crack down on illegal immigrants is "because Texas has... 36 Hispanics in the legislature." Too many, she suggests, to pass a meaningful reform bill as the matter is "too close to them."

It's a remark that Luis Vera, the National General Counsel for LULAC says crosses the line."There was no reason for that comment, we can disagree on being Democrat or Republican but she's drawing it straight down racial lines and nothing else," says Vera.

The comments are also sparking condemnation from Hispanics in the legislature like State Representative Armando Walle. "We are proud Americans and many of us were born in this country and have generations and generations in this country and that type of mentality doesn’t deserve a response," says Walle.

Meanwhile Felicia Cravens with the Houston Tea Party says the comments made don’t reflect the Tea Party movement as a whole, as "Women on the Wall" is a fringe group.

"When people start slapping a Tea Party label on things it causes confusion and it makes the message less clear," she said.

You can always count on Republicans to claim that the racists in their midst are fringers. If the Tea Party or the GOP was trying to engage on an honest level with the Hispanic community they would have willing partners in the Democratic Party to get a deal done, but FOX News and AM hate talk radio will never allow that to happen. Limbaugh and his pals torpedoed Bush's push for immigration reform in 2007. And Rebecca Forrester clearly is the wrong woman to help bridge the gap.The base of the GOP will never allow a meaningful dialogue on immigration reform and it's too bad because America would benefit greatly along with millions of Latinos.