Posted on 02/25/2013 4:03:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Apart from the NJ senator, is there a single Democrat senator who speaks Spanish. I think of Barack Obama and his remarked about people speaking “Austrian,” rather than German. We yucked, but the dim -wit had a point. The German spoken in Austria differs from that spoken in “Prussia,” quite noticeably. The Spanish spoken in Columbia differs from that spoken in Mexico or Puerto Rico. Accordingly, the people in Vienna and Berlin ought not to be lumped into the same pot, and likewise those in Bogota, Mexico, and Havana. “Hispanic” is a generic term like Asian/European. In any case. if Cruz and Rubio do onto Spanish TV, looks for the Mexican mayors in LA and SA to appeal to Mexican prejudices.
IMO, Rubio is the establishment’s answer to to getting more Hispanic votes but, seems like just another unless patsy for us to gather behind.
Cruz seems more like the kind of candidate that won’t be ‘Mr. Nice guy/play fair’.
CRUZ!
Excellent article—thanks for posting it!
And I would love to have a coffee with this author’s wife. I think it would be a fascinating half hour. :)
The Austrian German is a dialect, almost like the Bavarian dialect. There are many dialects in Germany, like the Bavarian, the Frankonian and those are even different depending on the area like Upper Frankonia, Middle Frankonia, and Lower Frankonia. Then there are the Hessian dialect, the Swabian dialect, the Saxonian dialect, the Thuringian dialect. Even dialect differ from town to town in the same region.
Is that what I am— an “uppity Conservative Hispanic”? I like it!
Me too!
I am Puerto Rican and that makes me an American. Just like a Texan is a Texan and an American. We all hate the “Latino” label. It bears repeating:
“Some folks lumped under the “Hispanic” heading believe in those things. Some don’t. Shockingly, to the Beltway experts on all things Latin, these people are not all the same. And their heritage is varied as well. Those hailing from Spain are different from those coming from Mexico or Argentina or Honduras – each nation has different histories, cultures, political traditions. So stop with the condescending stereotypes and start looking at these people as individuals instead of census categories”.
This column is completely inane, and if anything symbolic in more ways than one of why conservatives got their butts kicked in November. First off, it wasn’t the big scary media who made a big story out of Rubio’s water bottle moment. It was a really awkward moment, it blew up on Twitter almost immediately and went viral, and the media reported on what everyone was already talking about. If we continue to blame 20th century media for 21st century issues, we’re doomed. Stop with the freaking persecution complex already.
Sites like Townhall make a profit off preaching to the converted (and pop-up ads — try reading it on a mobile device) while Obama reaches voters directly using social media. No wonder conservatism is dying.
“We all hate the “Latino” label.”
I absolutely DETEST “latino”. You used to hear “Chicano” a lot, which is even worse - almost a fighting word. When people say “Latin”, I sometimes ask, “Oh, you mean French and Italians?”
I hate no one, only giving my opinion of what I think is going to happen...another 4 years, another loser we back.
Reagan was suppose to *secure* the border also.
When do we become less gullible?
I have a hard time “getting” what the train announcer says in Munich, no trouble at all in Berlin. But even when in the K-town area, I found myself in a small story listening to two elderly women talking in Pfalisch, the local dialect with the lady behind the counter. They might as well have been speaking Dutch. Americans have no idea how parochial —in the good sense—Germans are, at least out in the villages and among the older Germans. It seems to be the case in other counties as well. Marry a woman from a village fifty miles away and go to live with her there, and twenty years later you are still an outsider in many ways.
I think Argentina et al. has a lot of “Latins,” or at least people with Italian names. The south is the only true “Latin” America.
A day went by and he did not come back. Then another, still not back. Finally after a week he came back. When he was asked where he had been so long he answered that he drove all over Germany to find Munich but could not find it. He said he finally found a town called München
Well, its a good story, but if he was an Army truckdriver he may just have found a good way to get some extra R&R.
Cruz has a Father born in Cuba, and I don’t think he was a US citizen when Ted was born. His mother is American nIrish, but, in any case, that kind of pushes Ted out of the picture. I guess he might have a term or two in the Senate and then run for governor. He would make a good one.
Nice. But not really news. Come back when there’s a Mexican or Puerto Rican in Congress with Rubio’s or Cruz’s voting record.
Probably more natural born than the current POTUS
Well, that has been effectively buried by the Ruling Class. You can be sure they won’t give Cruz a pass.
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