Latinos for Reform is a front-organization of the right that is airing ads advising Latinos not to vote. They are not asking Latinos to vote for Republicans (essentially a lost cause), they are asking them not to vote at all. After the few Republicans who supported Bush’s effort at immigration reform decided to reverse course under Obama’s leadership, they want to pin all the blame for inaction on the Democrats’ broken promises. ‘Don’t Vote,’ they say, so that you can make sure your vote isn’t taken for granted.
This is infinite cynicism. John McCain famously cussed out John Cornyn for his obstinacy on immigration reform back when Bush supported it.
At a bipartisan gathering in an ornate meeting room just off the Senate floor, McCain complained that Cornyn was raising petty objections to a compromise plan being worked out between Senate Republicans and Democrats and the White House. He used a curse word associated with chickens and accused Cornyn of raising the issue just to torpedo a deal.
Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. “Wait a second here,” Cornyn said to McCain. “I’ve been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You’re out of line.”
McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).
“[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn’t be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.
Now he wants to build the dang fence. Who broke a promise? Who flip-flopped? Who is using Latinos as piñatas in this election?
a curse word associated with chickens
I can’t remember what curse word it was. Chickenshit? Peckerhead? Cockface ?
Chickenshit maybe.
I’ve been highly critical of the plantation politics of the Democratic Party and their inaction and cowardice on immigration reform, but as Bill Maher uncharacteristically but eloquently said recently to his largely liberal audience about their disappointment with the President and seeming willingness to sabotage him and the Democratic Party, “There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a dangerous enemy.” As I’ve said before, there is no group in this country who has more legitimate grievance with the Demiicratic Party than African Americans. But we understand that we would be cutting off our noses to spite our face to allow Republicans to gain power. The most recent example of African Americans exercising grievance politics to send a message to the Democratic Party was in the Maryland gubernatorial race when PG County, home to the largest Black middle class in the country, voted for Ehrlich & Steele in response to Kathleen Kennedy’s stupidity in choosing a white Republican as her running mate. Maryland also came close to electing a Republican senator 4 years ago when the state Democratic Party gave Kweisi Mfume their asses to kiss in the primary. Then newly elected Senator Obama came to the state and helped salvage the seat. Latinos have to adopt the same long view and maturity. What I’ve essentially been telling Latinos I encounter when canvassing is that if they want to sit at home and empower a party that wants to strip their American born children of their citizenship and round them up and bus them across the border, enjoy the damn ride!
PS: WTF is up with all the Sarah Palin adds on this site?!
It’s BooMan’s way to bleed her campaign funds.
Democratic media buys support Republican media companies.
Republican web media buys randomly support liberal websites.
I’m getting some Sestak and Schwartz ads today, along with some Palin PAC stuff.
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seriously, I’m not Latino, but this would be the equivalent of say, Ron Christie or Armstrong Williams telling Black folks not to vote. No Black person, though, who ever utters, ‘ you shouldn’t vote’ needs to be taken seriously. I don’t know how many insults need to come the Latino Community’s way from the GOP, Angle in particular, for them to know what time it is for this election. They’ve shown them who they are…just believe it and respond accordingly.