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June 26, 2014 01:43 PM UTC
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I had forgotten all about the ICE database scandal and Beauprez's disgusting anti-immigrant ads from 2006.
What a douche.
I would imagine that Team Hick is putting together a collection of the greatest hits from BWB to run in their ads. We should expect to see the horse's ass ad again, the ICE scandal, the warnings about Sharia law, the global warming denials, and all of the other crap he has generated over the past decade.
Hopefully, at least an outside group will. I'm fairly certain the Hick campaign is going to stay relentlessly positive. Maybe they will work some of these issues into a humorous ad or two.
We'll see.
Or an apology.
I really hope he stops with the apologies.
I think it was Benjamin Disrael who said, "Never explain. Never apologize."
My dear, late, Reagan Republican friend Bob used to say, ""When you're explaining, you're losing."
False propaganda. Latinos are natural conservatives.
Uh, huh. Just like blue collar (and increasingly white collar, low wage) workers are much better off electing Republicans that will take away their health care, eliminate unemployment insurance, keep the minimum wage as low as possible, and add to the deficit by giving billionaires and corporations more tax benefits…
That's the winning ticket!
Ummmm . . . WTF?!? . . .
You mean, like dumbasses are "natural" Republicans?
. . . you're a "natural" douche, Moddy.
Stereotyping much Moddy? Do Latinos all believe the same things? Do they vote as a bloc?
They will if the GOP does to the Latino community what they've done to the African-American community.
Yet most of them vote Democratic. Go figure.
http://spectator.org/articles/37864/hispanic-conservatives
Garbage "source," cited by a garbage poster.
For every one Brian Sandoval, your party has at least 10 or 15 Tom Tancredo's, or Sharon Angle's, or Steven King's (the one from Iowa, not the writer or the Mesa Sheriff elect), or Chris McDaniels, or Dan Patrick's.
Once again, most Latinos vote Democratic. Go figure.
Another great resource for conservative Hispanics:
http://www.thelibreinitiative.com/?language=en
Hey Moddy, you seem to know as much about "Latinos" as you do about Scott Gessler and his chances of being our next Governor . . .
I'll bet he knows all about "The Negro" too.
Gee, Moddy, looks like you landed on your feet with the Beauprez campaign despite disowning him as a crazy that you'd never voted for!
How's the job of Chief Propaganda and Disinformation officer pay?
Quit spamming the board, loser.
If you want to attempt to recruit Latinos to your sick, twisted loser of a politcal party, start your own blog,
There are plenty of conservative Latinos, as well as moderate, liberal, and every other shade of political belief. All the stats I remember were that most Latinos like the Affordable Health Care Act, and are generally in favor of taking care of poor and disadvantaged people.
More compassionate, in other words. That tends to land them on the Democrati ticket.
Latinos also overwhelmingly believe climate change is caused by humans and that our government should be taking decisive action.
Hate to sound like a broken record but no matter how many posts you contribute about how conservative Hispanics/Latinos are, most of them vote Democratic.
This was said to me by a tea party activist yesterday: "Elliot, it must be a full time job for you justifying an Illegal Alien wife and a couple of Anchor Babies"
ftr, my wife is a permanent resident
I hoped you responded: "Gee, it must be a full-time job justifying your bigoted ignorance — asshole!"
I responded by screen grabbing the comment and posting it on key pages so people would know the guy is a dick
Thing is that this isn't isolated. On Friday night one person suggested my wife committed marriage fraud by marrying me (despite fact that we have been together for years and have multiple kids) Others have supported these comments. Things are getting really ugly in general.
Now none of this is going to make me vote Dem. But that isn't the point: it will make many others, who are subjected to similar crap, vote that way. And this is why the GOP's outreach has a LONG way to go
(This was on Shawn Mitchell's wall although he was not involved in this)
"Beth wrote: "Hey Elliott do something about that ginormous chip on your shoulder. You are an ugly, hateful person and I am betting your wife married you only to remain in the US. There is nothing redeeming about you.""
https://www.facebook.com/shawn.mitchell.14/posts/10152184336958671?comment_id=10152184944428671&offset=0&total_comments=183
Comment was either deleted, I was blocked, or both.
Wow, Elliot. I know I've taken a few shots at you, but at least from what I know of you on this site, you are surely none of the above.
Beth is not a nice person, nor a particularly good judge of character.
Yeah – it isn't that people are taking shots at me. Rather it is that the form of these shots (directed at my wife/kids) seem to prove the OP's point.
Really sorry that this is happening to you but you do know that these people, like so many on the right, are bigots so what else do you expect from them? You may not agree with us silly libruls about much but you also must know you're not going to hear that kind of thing from us. When you get tired of hanging with schmucks you can always hang with us.
I'm going to be on the right wing side for the long-term but that isn't going to stop me from being really good friends with a whole host of not prominent/very prominent libs/progressives.
I think here the issue is that some on the right want to deny that there is a problem with our attitude towards immigrants, and that is just a localized problem. I really disagree about that. I think the problem is much more endemic, and much more severe, than people admit. And until we get it addressed, the you all on the left will justifiably beat us over the head with it. As again, you should.
Yes it is endemic. That's the point. It's a lot more than "some" on the right. Republican pols wouldn't appeal to it if it was a matter of only a few of their base. They appeal to it because they know just how endemic it is.
At some point, and this is not comparing the right to Nazis or anything in terms of degree, people have to decide what constitutes a deal breaker even if you agree with other policies, what's a step too far even if you want the trains to run on time, so to speak.
And it's not as if your choice is between those conservatives, an ever increasing percentage of which are your family's enemies, and liberals. You can fit the true liberals among elected Democratic lawmakers and execs into a phone booth. The Democratic party is overwhelmingly centrist now, center right by the standards of Eisenhower's era on economic issues. Just sayin'.
Even as they continue to insist vigorously that they're "not racist."
I think the GOP wil have gone the way of the Whigs in another 20 years, tops.
Deeply sorry that you and your family were subjected to such callous, ignoorant ugliness, Elliot,
FWIW, some prominent GOP officials have personally contacted me to say they are disgusted with this
That is completely awful. That's an ignorant, hateful thing to say, and her statements about you as a person are completely untrue.
I understand this still won't make you vote Democratic, and I also understand that those GOP officials will never say they're disgusted about those statements in public. They'll continue to cater to the hate-filled fringe. Do you really think they'll ever stop?
I have no doubt you're a valuable resource for the GOP, Elliot, but I really wish you'd consider coming over from the Dark Side. You could do a lot more good for the people you care about, and encounter a lot less resistance to it. But a fight in vain can still be a noble one, I suppose.
Thanks. Again though, I brought this up because it proves the OP's point.
(and by that I mean that ditching Tanc would not be enough for GOP on latino outreach – not that the the GOP needs to embrace Obamacare. instead the GOP base needs to stop being absolute dicks to immigrants)
Yes. But I'm afraid there's as much chance of that now as there is of you becoming a Democrat.
Both parties have racist dirt balls and racism is non partisan.
Yes, sadly that is true. It is also, sadly, true that for over the last fifty years one party has been particularly diligent and remarkably adept at zealously currying to racists and bigots with its official policies, platforms, and pronouncements.
Most of the Dem racist dirt balls left the party a long time ago. While there are all kinds of dirt balls, including racists, everywhere, including in both major parties, all religious, racial, national and ethnic groups, etc, there is absolutely nothing like an equivalency between the percentage of flat out proud unapologetic racists and bigots on the right and on the left. That's just like saying saying that nothing gets done in Washington because extremists on both sides are equally to blame. Bull.
There is a huge difference and that difference is the reason why Dem pols don't feel the political need to appeal to their base via bigotry, racism, xenophobia and homophobia. Republican pols quite routinely do and have done for decades. That's why liberal blogs aren't full of racial slurs. That's why Republican pols refuse to say a word about the racist garbage that spews forth from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh and friends. They know their base would be mad at them. There is no equivalency.
That used to be true, JBJK16. But can you really say that about both parties now? Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us about racist statements and actions (Voter ID laws) that the Democrats have engaged in over the last few decades? 'Cause boy oh boy, would I have a list for you about your friends the Republicans…….
A prominent Pueblo Latina activist, , well-educated, articulate, etc, happened to be in Douglas County awhile back.
While shopping, this white woman came up to her and asked if she could help her to find a cleaning lady.
In Pueblo, Latino canvassers were routinely yelled at and told that they should go back to Mexico. Thes canvassers are citizens, whose families have lived in SE Colorado way befoe the Mayflower, or at least before Pueblo's latest waves of Slavic, Irish, and Italian immigrants.
It's going to take leaders of both parties, including extremist Tea Party people, busting stereotypes and advocating tolerance, before this gets any better.
I hope you asked him if "patriots" believe in the Constitution, because the Constitution doesn't mention "anchor babies." Just "citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Oh – about all of these people are strict constructionists until birthright citizenship comes up. Then suddenly they go living constitutionalist on you.
For a party that touts their "principles", too many members think they can simply bend and twist any concept until it suits their rage du jour. Thus if science displeases, toss it out. Facts don't support you? Make up your own.
Makes for neck-snapping turnabouts on inviolable principles or positions.
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Both Ways Bob Beauprez!
Families should always be off limits in political discourse. But watching some local races here in the hinterland (and the Mississippi senate race nationally), some of these baggers are not only dedicated to their flawed principles but also quite ruthless as well.