You can't seem to accept the fact that people can have legitimate differences of opinion.
"American". By every definition I have used since kindergarten EVERYONE in the Americas is American. Half my mon's sisters were Canadian, half were US. All of them and all Canadians and others in the Americas have alwasy been "Americans".
This is a debate like people from my Fundamentalist background claiming that only Protestant Fundamentalists are "Christian" and that Mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics and Coptic Catholics are not "Chrisitan".
There is a broader meaning to the words "American" and "Christian" that is used by most people. Then there is a narrower meaning to each word.
Should Rove be criticized if he appears before Catholics and includes them as "Christians" ?
The problem is that we KNOW what definition he is using.
No. It's not "legitimate differences of opinion" that I cannot accept. It's the pandering to a very extreme group that is dedicated to the undermining of our distinctly American culture and our national sovereignty.
La Raza are fellow travelers with Mecha and the Aztlan advocates. Rove should not be pandering to a group such as this. It's up to them to prove that they hold to the American idea.
"Should Rove be criticized if he appears before Catholics and includes them as "Christians" ?"
Rove should espouse conservative ideas and agitate for them. That's all I ask.
From Polipundit:
Those New Republican Voters? LOL LOL
Karl Rove (Republican) at the La Raza conference:
“But he drew scattered boos when he highlighted Bush’s recent approval of $1.9 billion in funding for more border security, including deployment of National Guard troops, and was disrupted twice by hecklers who unfurled antiwar and anti-Bush banners.”
Bill Richardson (Democrat) at the La Raza conference:
“New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson outlined his own immigration plan — which was strikingly similar to Bush’s. Unlike Rove, however, he was not booed when he promoted tougher border security to crack down not only on illegal immigrants, he said, but also on drugs and violence.”
Interesting. So by 'American' you mean anyone living in either North or South America? Typically, when people in the U.S. say "American" they are refering to U.S. citizens. Are you a U.S. citizen? (Just curious as to where you got this very un-American way of defining 'American. LOL)