Sunday, July 01, 2007

DID THE KKK WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY JUST FORFEIT THE HISPANIC VOTE FOR A GENERATION?

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Do you remember Linda Chavez? She's a right-wing ideologue and Republican hack who they'd trot out every now and then to show how multicultural they are. She had come up in the union movement and then sold them out at the first opportunity, endearing herself-- for some reason you can probably guess-- to Ronald Reagan, who gave her a series of sinecures. The Republicans ran her, with no success, for a U.S. Senate in Maryland against Barbara Mikulski who she outed as a lesbian. Eventually Bush's father thought she was anti-labor enough to nominate her to be his Secretary of Labor but she had hired an illegal immigrant and the nomination was withdrawn. As with all discarded Republicans of this type, she wound up at Fox News. Her read on the defeat of the immigration bill is similar to most right-wing Latinos: "There may be some short-term gain from this. But in the long term, it is disastrous for the Republican Party... The tone of the debate, and the way it was framed in sort of an ‘us against them’ way, has done great harm in wooing Hispanics to the party."

People like Chavez, GOP Chairman and Florida Senator Mel Martinez, as well as Bush's Commerce Secretary, Carlis Gutierrez, dread what's in store for their party. More sensible Latinos see it as the one upside of the bill pill of defeat. McCain warned Republicans that "the Hispanic vote is turning against us in very large numbers." And in many states, like Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Illinois, Nevada, Florida, that's the difference between electoral victory and defeat.
“I think it’s bloody for the Republicans,” said Antonio Gonzalez, president of the William C. Velasquez Institute, a Latino-oriented research and policy organization with offices in San Antonio and Los Angeles. “The Democrats said pro-immigrant stuff, and even if they didn’t support it, it was because they said it wasn’t good enough. The Republicans said anti-immigrant stuff and so now they are going to get killed with this.”


Clearly, most Republicans haven't a clue how to address the issue. Even Democrats who opposed the bill are widely perceived as having done so because the bill wasn't generous and fair enough-- which may have been true in a couple of instances but certainly wasn't across the board. Not-ready-for-prime-time-Freddy, in his haste to come across as big a panderer to the extreme Know Nothing wing of the GOP as Tancredo, Hunter and Willard, couldn't wait to frighten simpleminded, backward nativists in South Carolina that Cubans are immigrating to the U.S. to kill us. He's been busy lobbying for billion dollar corporations so much that he's befuddled when it comes to politics and doesn't seem to understand that the Republicans win elections in Florida-- when they do-- for one reason only-- Cubans, a constituency they is more and more up for grabs in recent years as older right-wing anti-Castro fanatics die and younger Florida-born Cuban-Americans get a grip on Republican bigotry. This weekend they're watching this short video clip:



Hillary and other Democrats were quick to point out what a clueless doofus Thompson is. "I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."

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At 2:37 PM, Blogger Anthony Riordan said...

Dear readers and Author,

copy of response to Left Wing Negative Marketing

It is healthy to continue this debate without the connotations of racism. The reverse racism is growing at a clip much faster than the actual racism and in actuality racism has changed and decreased a 100% over the last 20 years and in my life time and experience from business to college to the military I have seen more special rights being passed that allow finger pointing by calling someone a racist that immediately labels organizations and Dams them to society. This is not only irresponsible but it is worse than the current racism going on and is worse than the class war. The greatest success in the fight for greater freedom, greater opportunity and greater equality is only going to come from large groups standing up and demanding that they become a performance organization, a performance worker and demand to be paid what they as an individual is worth versus an out dated hourly system or the evil controlling second government of a union. The freedom of workers and organizations will come when they work so much better than others that less people can do more work and we become industrial athletes with better quality, knowledge and performance. I was a corporate for profit performance contractor for 10 years and saw the evil in non profit organizations all over the US. I saw the evil of Union control and the waste of time and money by making foolish, selfish demands on ownership that only benefits the Union in the long run. We are puppets in so many cases and the arguments between ideologies is so wasteful that if each of us remembered that if we do not judge others, or even other organizations and support the one goal of freedom no matter what the other Ideology is a force of a 100,000 in New England could move in one direction and accomplish incredible things.

I have looked at the positives of many organizations and I have looked and read ideologies from the left and the right and if the left goes left and the right goes right millions of people will meet in the opposite side of the current middle and find it less controlled by politics of negativism and less noise in the air.

I get along great with blacks whites, yellow and orange if they are focused on improving this country, breaking down the elite politicians who have put us in the hands of poll numbers, I get along with Immigrants that will follow the most basic rules of becoming American, speak English and grasp the opportunity to become what you want to become by hard work.

I have found that the liberals are broken up into two camps, true Americans looking for freedom and space from control. The other are wealthy selfish control freaks that only want what they want and because of one desire they will change the laws of this country to be able to stick their face into my face and shove it down my throat not because it is right but because it is a selfish, controlling attitude that have pushed so many to the left. Again, millions of the left wing people can go farther left and meet me on the other side and create a movement of Millions to get what everyone wants and understand that could love an Indian girl and her family and culture but I would rather not live in her teepee, that does not make me racist that is where I feel most comfortable for my life to be fulfilled.

If I believe that God could not have created the earth in 7 days and that the Bible was written 100,000 years after the earth was populated with Humans but I do not believe I was an ape and I do believe that God had other gods to help him I can still believe in the Bible and still Believe we are bound by the 10 commandments non of this makes me against someone that does not believe but i do not want to stop praying in public just because it makes a Liberal uncomfortable, that is racism at its grandist but no one will call it that because it is only allowed to be used by those that have married the traditional meaning of racism. The work Niger is no different. I have used it maybe 3 times in my life and twice it was done this week because it offends people but don't shove it in my face that because your black you can use the word, the war is over, the slavery days was not in my century and now its time to find those African Americans that want to move forward and bring them into our group of Americans with a purpose of creating the greatest community's on earth. The greatest culture, the greatest athletes, the greatest teachers, the greatest natural cures and the greatest community to live in no matter if you decide to live in a black community or a white and if your friends are white or black or aliens from Mars that does not make you racist it is a life choice that God gave us and for people to continue to throw it in our face that we are not intergrated enough is the criminal act that will detroy our country.

Legalized racism by creating special laws not to protect but to give special rights. Gays, the Marriage thing was created for a man and a women so create your own word, your own cultural experience you now get the same basic benefits but stop shoving it in my face that you are different. I have friends that are Gay but they do not walk into my home and tell my children it is good to be gay and that all men should try sex in the ASS because it feels just like a womens sex. A hole in the wall is a similar feeling but I avoid that and do not teach my children to find anything that resembles what a mans parts were intended to go into. If you tell me that it was not intended to be that way and that God did not believe that a man and women were made to go together than your a lier and you are wrong. If you just live your life and stop pushing your need for special rights so you can dress up like a girl because it makes you feel good and you do not see that it is wrong then do not join my group because I do not believe you are correct but I could still be your friend. I just would not want to live in your neighborhood, not because I am racist or afraid of Gays, its because it is not normal and I am not comfortable with another man wanting to touch me. That has happened many times and I kindly say no but do not over react. Still being a Xenophobia Idealist is not even racists. If you believe that its wrong and you want to teach your children its wrong that is again the choice of the Human that was put on this earth to experience their own life and the Government should not be telling me I have to change my life to accommodate anyone else.

Although this has gone way off track I want you to understand something. The power of collective positive action is so strong that if it was done right, every organization no matter what its major make up if they just kept the in your face stuff and the law changing special rights stuff to them selves and worked on getting rid of big government, pushing corporations to more accountable and pay people based on actual effort and worth then we as a community, a state a nation could start a movement away from the everyday Unionized, controlled highways, controlled schools and taxation for other states benefits and other country's before our own, we would change the world.

This is not a message of hate to any message I read today, it is a desperate approach to finding a medium for all New England groups to get together, list only the similar goals first, only the long term goals for the people of our states second and set up a second meeting 6 months later to discuss any contention.

The meeting of the National American Anti Xenophobia Ideologist conference. The conference of a True American Plan. The meeting of the youth for the remembrance of WWII veterans, Mothers and greatest Generation of our latest century. They were forgotten and in time without remembering how we retained our freedoms our children will forget. We must find away to excite them about history, about true hero's, about true leaders and about the art of Educating the mind. Being an american with a great mind, with great work ethics and a solid moral base is the workings of gods on earth. True Gods of all of us are those that can change the world, fight the true battles and like MLK die fighting for what you believe in. The Patriot remembrance March of 2008.

Please become one in a nation that deserves only one people, Americans.

 

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