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To GOP Who Say We Need To Support Sotomayor Because She’s Hispanic….

By: Josh LeGuern (Diary)  |  May 26th, 2009 at 03:58 PM  | 

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Why aren’t you supporting Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist for the senate? If this is about race and appealing to Hispanics and proving to Hispanics that we are not anti-Hispanic, Why are you supporting what we supposedly need to rid ourselves of: an old, white, white-haired man over we we supposedly need: a young, attractive minoirity?

The reason of course is the whole identity argument in politics is one big gigantic fraud. Liberals don’t care about race when it all comes down to it. They care about their agenda, part of their agenda is to coalesce minorities into one lock step voting bloc, and if a minority steps outside of that agenda they masacre them.

The irony of the arugment as put forth by people like Meghan McCain, Colin Powell, and David Frum is that women and minorities are usually amongst the most conservative in the Republican Party (and outside of it) look at Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, who’s looking to replace the moderate Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the senate. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is someone many people see as the potential leader of the conservative movement. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who might have been the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court had there not been an all out race to assassinate his character. And who could forget what Justice Clarence Thomas called, “a virtual lynching” as he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush. Even many gay Republicans are usually conservative. Tammy Bruce and Al Rantel, both talk radio hosts on KABC are openly gay and Rantel is so conservative that he refused to vote for John McCain in the general presidential election (He’s out due to a hip-replacement right now, but I’m guessing . It was Palin who gave Bruce the confidence to vote for the ticket. Recently Meghan McCain’s beloved Log Cabin Republicans experienced a schism because a group of them felt the LCR became too liberal. They launched the conservative gay group GOPride.

Diversity in the GOP is found in the conservative movement, but we don’t flaunt it. I have argued in the past that in today’s climate it might do us some good to do so. But there is a reason we do not. Liberals argue that a metling pot is not ideal for society and that we should instead strive to live in a salad bowl. Their argument is we should celebrate eachother’s diversity and accept eachother’s differences. Sure. We should accept eachother’s physical differences and we should take pride in our different heritages. I do not think we should become a “salad bowl” though. In a salad bowl a piece of lettuce is still a piece of lettuce. A tomato is still a tomato. A green pepper is a green pepper. Take any of these components out of the bowl and it is what it is, it’s not longer a salad. We need to be a melting pot. If something is thrown into a melting pot it becomes apart of the mixture and if you pour the mixture out of the pot it is still what the mixture is.

America is a country not bound together by ethnicity but by ideals of freedom and liberty. This is why it is so important to oppose Crist, Obama, and Sotomayor becuase they do not understand the ideals of freedom and liberty though all three of them have clearly benefitted from them. It is why it is so vital we support Rubio, Williams, and Palin because the three of them DO understand liberty and freedom and what it is to be an American. They understand that if we stand for the principles that we were founded on, everyone benefits.

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  • jeffreywturner

    Perhaps we should consider hilighting how the SCOTUS ramifications of her appointment are actually opposite the will and out of the mainstream for most Hispanics in the US. (ie: on abortion, same-sex marriage, etc.)

  • Swamp_Yankee

    n/t

    • Streiff

      I can’t imagine someone somewhere not saying this, but I haven’t seen this notion put out there by anyone of significance.

      • Josh LeGuern

        made the statement.

        I am pre-empting many in the senate as my guess is alot of them will take this position.

      • Mike gamecock DeVine

        RUSH: Look, let me tackle something head on here, because the last caller addressed it. We’ve had two callers now who said, “Hey we need to support Sotomayor because if we don’t, the Hispanics are going to hate us, and we’re going to need the Hispanic vote.” The Republican Party, when it wins, does not do identity politics. The Republican Party doesn’t out and say, “Okay, we got this policy for Hispanics, this policy for blacks, this policy for whites, this policy for the rich, this policy for the poor.” That’s not how Republicans win; it’s how Democrats win. Now, folks, you people are going to have to face reality. If the Republican Party did not get the Hispanic vote last time, with the architect of amnesty for illegal aliens as our nominee, what makes you think there’s anything we could do to get the Hispanic vote along those lines?

        We can’t stop Sonia Sotomayor. The opposition to her ought not be based on stopping her. That might happen anyway, because the more people look into her record, you’re going to find out what I mean when I referred to her today as a reverse racist, and you can see in the Ricci case that’s currently before appeal on the Supreme Court with the decision coming in late June. She sided against a white firefighter and was admonished in her reasoning by a Clinton-appointed Democrat judge for not even addressing the constitutional issues. She ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded.
        That’s what I mean when I refer to her as a reverse racist. Obama himself is one. The chip on his shoulder that he brings to office, if people just listen to what he said over the course of his career, it’s unmistakable. I know the media’s going to harp on this reverse racist stuff and I just want all of you to know that I am perfectly willing to back it up and I’m proud that I said it. It happens to be true. Reverse racism is what affirmative action is, and no racism is good. The original majority white racism was bad that we dealt with… If all this racism really existed how did she get where she is? That was my whole point in the first hour. Her personal story is very compelling. She overcame all kinds of odds. But they weren’t as bad as Obama wants us to believe.

        She came to realize her wildest dreams during the Reagan years and the Bush years and the Clinton years. Supposedly when this country was imperfect and unjust and immoral, according to Obama. But to go get the Hispanic vote, that’s the view of moderates: “Hey, look at us! We don’t hate you.” The premise that we hate Hispanics is wrong in the first place. George Bush had them all over his administration, and the liberals tried to destroy every damn one of them. The two most prominent were Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales. And it doesn’t have anything to do with Hispanic. It has to do with liberal versus conservative — and the media is going to side with the left, and the Democrats are going to try to destroy any conservative or Republican who’s going to be success, particularly minorities, particularly Republican minorities.

        Ask Clarence Thomas. Ask Ken Blackwell in Ohio. Ask Thomas Sowell. Ask any number of black conservatives if they are treated at all like liberal minorities are, and they’re not. So the idea that we can go out there and support Sotomayor and somehow this is going to be remembered in about two or four years, “Oh, yeah, the Republicans supported her.” If our number one Hispanic supporter, John McCain — author of amnesty for illegals, running against his own party on the issue — was not able to get the Hispanic vote, then please explain to me how supporting Sotomayor is going to accomplish it. This is what’s wrong with our party. We accept the premises of the left and then we very defensively and cowardly proceed on the basis of those premises, that we’re somehow mean-spirited, extreme, wacko, racist, sexist pigs, and we’re not.

  • Common_Cents

    I hope we aren’t that dumb to fall for that banana in the tail pipe.

  • penguin2

    It is obviously not about supporting race or diversity. Look what the Dems did to Dr. Condolezza Rice.

    I despise them for the hypocrites they are. The support of the minority groups en mass for the Dem party has only enslaved them and not brought them independence, nor freedom.