Posted on 06/15/2007 11:40:49 AM PDT by goldstategop
Now, he's really gone too far.
Republican Party Chairman and Florida U.S. Senator Mel Martinez needs to get out of politics before he single-handedly (well, actually with the help of President George W. Bush and other Senators like Jon Kyl) destroys the Republican Party forever.
Today's Wall Street Journal Washington Wire reports that--despite the GOP's jilted lover stalking of the Hispanic vote (including such tactics as the Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill)--more Hispanics than ever identify themselves as Democrats rather than Republicans. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds that they identify 51% to 21% as Democrats to Republicans.
But, instead of facing the music that open borders advocacy doesn't help the GOP even from a pragmatic, vote-whoring point of view, Martinez instead BLAMES America for "past foreign interventions in Latin American countries" for the downward decline in Hispanic GOP identification. And, Martinez maintains, "a skillful 2008 Republican candidate can recover.
Sandinista, er . . . GOP Chairman, Senator Mel Martinez
HUH?????!!!!! Ronald Reagan is turning over in his grave . . . again.
The last American "foreign intervention in Latin America" was when we supported the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters--the Contras--against the Communist tyranny of the Sandinistas, headed by Gucci-glasses, pre-Lasik Daniel Ortega. We need to "recover" from that?!
If only we had listened to Oliver North in Nicaragua's elections, last year, and had another "foreign intervention in Latin America." But we did not, and Daniel Ortega (now Lasik-ed) has returned to power.
And, guess what? Our lack of "foreign intervention in Latin America," this time around, didn't help the GOP, Senor Martinez.
But it did lead to this . . .
Mr. Martinez, time for you to say Adios . . . before the rest of America says Adios to you and your party.
Oh, and by the way, that same Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that fewer than 30% of members of both parties--the GOP and the Democrats--call the Senate immigration amnesty bill "acceptable."
Like I said, take the hint, Mr. Martinez. Say bye-bye. Please.
To use, thanks.
How about Rep. Adam Hasner who just became house majority leader?
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thank you!
please post far and wide on FR and elsewhere! Get the word out!
Will do. I’m going to start a vanity thread with the list. :)
Mel & Jorge Bush seem to think the best way to appeal to hispanic Americans is to forgive criminals, and to make it easier for law-breakers to stay in the country while simultaneously making it more difficult for immigrants pursuing the legal route to get into the country.
Get a clue guys! Stop pandering to offensive stereotypes.
The best way to appeal to us is to execute the laws already on the books, create a system that better rewards those going thru legal channels while punishing those going through illegal ones, and does not ignore crimes against property or people.
Is there nothing we can do or are we are stuck with this traitor.
I am so angry ahmmmmmmmmmm ahmmmmmmmmm
Newt Gingrich should be the head of the RNC, not this nitwit Martinez.
“We believe that the party that captures and motivates and gets the Hispanic vote to turn out is going to be the party who wins the White House” in 2008, said Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic rights group.Brent Wilkes, the Bush Pioneer? Brent Wilkes, the one under indictment in the Duke Cunningham debacle (right before Gonzales fired the US Attorney, Carol Lam). Now he is executive director of LULAC, a group funded by George Soros and the Ford Foundation? This Brent Wilkes is a spokesman for Republican success?
Guiteriez has a very inspiring story, imho. He started out as a route salesman and became CEO of Kellogs. And you m???
If I recall, another Guiterrez (born Cuban) beame CEO of Coca Cola.
It just seems like the "deal" has been made but the American people just don't want to pay.
“Guiteriez has a very inspiring story, imho. He started out as a route salesman and became CEO of Kellogs. And you m???”
So he knew how to screw over people the most and outsource to Mexico, etc. and thereby got to the top. “Inspiring”
Stories are just pap. Look to what he says, does and spins.
He’s Mexican and became CEO of Kellogs.
Martinez was OK till he got to the national level.
Who knows what the hell happens to people when they get to that point. I think their brain just rots from the inside out.
“Get a clue guys! Stop pandering to offensive stereotypes.”
It’s actually good strategy, Rove deployed it last year.
A liberal politicians fear being labelled “conservative” more than the care about facts. They also love to oppose themselves to conservatives, and label them as mean, etc. Rove/Bush labelling the opposition as wholly “conservative” keeps the liberal media and elites in line.
Last year all Rove had to do is leak twice that “conservative house republicans” were the problem and the liberal media, progressives, NPR all went running at that like a Labrador dog after a stick.
Bad On Him...
Martinez is Cuban so that’s where I got confused. But they’re all on the same side of the issue along with the Bush family. And make no mistake, this is about putting Jeb in the White House.
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