Posted on 01/20/2015 9:18:13 PM PST by Ray76
Newly elected Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo was given the (generally thankless) task Tuesday of delivering the Republican Party's Spanish-language rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union address. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst responded in English.
The two freshmen's remarks were mostly the same. They differed, as expected, on matters of biography: Ernst spoke about having a single pair of shoes growing up in Iowa winters, Curbelo said he grew up "in Miami, one of the country's most diverse cities."
But they also diverged on a more substantive matter: Curbelo mentioned Cuba, criticizing "unearned concessions" by the Obama administration to "cruel dictatorships" in Cuba and Iran. Ernst made a separate mention of Iran -- and didn't utter Cuba once.
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I fully expected the GOPe to pander in Spanish like this way, and they chose a pro-amnesty guy to give this speech
Why the hell are we putting out a rebuttal in Spanish?
The stupid - it burns.
No, it's not "thankless," it's a golden opportunity for Republicans to reach voters directly without the message being filtered and distorted by the MSM.
Or at least it was a golden opportunity. Ernst's speech was a disaster, and apparently Curbelo's speech wasn't any better.
Why wasn’t there a rebuttal in Ebonics?
They are not fluent in it yet, but they are working on it. Maybe next year.
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