Dean Backer Calls GOP Candidate 'House Mexican'

Fox News ^ | Jan. 10, 2004 | Peter Bownfield

[Mean Daddy]

WASHINGTON — In a variation on an old theme, a Hispanic supporter of Howard Dean called a Latina Republican Senate candidate a "house Mexican" who is not being true to her race.

Steven Ybarra, a Democratic National Committee (search) official and regional coordinator of Latinos for Dean (search), called Rosario Marin (search), the former U.S. treasurer under President Bush who is now seeking the GOP nomination to compete against California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a "house Mexican for the Republicans." The attack was sent out in a mass e-mail to political activists, community leaders and a number of journalists this week.

[Mean Daddy]

Seems to me that the Democrats are self imploding.

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[MEG33]

I heard him..non repentant and shameless.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Once again we see that racism is okay as long as the right people are saying it. Further validates my screen name.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: In a variation on an old theme, a Hispanic supporter of Howard Dean called a Latina Republican Senate candidate a "house Mexican" who is not being true to her race.

Steven Ybarra, a Democratic National Committee (search) official and regional coordinator of Latinos for Dean (search), called Rosario Marin (search), the former U.S. treasurer under President Bush who is now seeking the GOP nomination to compete against California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a "house Mexican for the Republicans." The attack was sent out in a mass e-mail to political activists, community leaders and a number of journalists this week.

Well, guess we can call Steven Ybarra the "house Mexican Maddog for the DemocRATS."

[Reeses]

He added that his remarks were not meant to make reference to African-American slaves, but to suggest that Marin is a Hispanic "owned and operated" by a company or group.

In other words, he didn't mean to imply she was black. In the process of softening his insult he just insulted African-Americans worse.

[Texan5]

I'm of hispanic ancestry, and if that man made a remark like that about me, I'd find him and punch his lights out! He isn't exactly doing the 'Rat party any favors by shouting those bigoted remarks, either....

[cupcakes]

I am so sick of this "my people" crap. When is someone going to honestly address this racist superiority crap that is being spewed from "people of color"? I will never understand a liberal who though the Jim Crowe brand of superiority was bad, but doesn't have the clarity to see that this "my people" garbage is the exact same thing, different race of people. Who has any doubt with this type of group affiliation that if "these" people came into the majority, they'd instill their own brand of Jim Crowe on "minority" whites? I have no doubt since a racist is a racist is a racist no matter what the color of skin on the outside.

[sweetliberty]

Don't you just love how THEY can get away with any kind of racial remark they want to make?

[ditto h]

Oh, please keep saying things like this. As long as these morons continue to make idiotic statements, the more seats we will pick up.

[Paradox]

I'm of hispanic ancestry,

Same here...

and if that man made a remark like that about me, I'd find him and punch his lights out!

LOL. Same here. Kinda reinforces a stereotype about "latinos" being hot-headed, but so what. Luckily, I live in one of the few areas of the country where the local latinos are conservative (South Florida, right wing Cubans, even though I am not Cuban). I have never been called a "house" anything, but to me, thats like being called the "n" word. Call me house-anything, and I'll go House on your head..

[freeangel]

This is not going to picked up by mainstream media or made a big deal of by the general public. It was only a racist remark by a democrat. SOP.

[Dane]

The demos and Buchananites are morphing together right in front of our eyes.

[Old Grumpy]

Thank God a Republican didn't say it. He'd already have been tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

[kaboom]

No shortage of Clymer's in the Dean campaign.

[PetroniDE]

Oh, please keep saying things like this. As long as these morons continue to make idiotic statements, the more seats we will pick up.

I disagree. We should shame this person into resignation, just like they do to us when we say 1/10th of it.

While your comment has merit you must remember something very important. A large portion of the voting public are morons too.

[DoctorMichael]

4 words..........

Bigoted, Racist, Prejudiced Democrats.

[Texan5]

Everyone out here is conservative, no matter what their ethnic makeup is, I love it....And my family has voted for conservatives ever since (and because of) LBJ's screwed up presidency.

[shiva]

"house Mexican" There is no such a one. Mexicans were never slaves or lived on plantations. That's Negro talk. That kind of talk will not go well with Latinos.

[Zechariah11]

With enemies like that, she's got my vote.

Go Rosario!

[CarolTX]

You got it. No more than Hillary's little "joke" about Ghandi "running a gas station in St. Louis" got any play in the Media. Selective amnesia.

[Conservative til I die]

The Democrats continue to get more and more vicious and hate-filled.

[Conservative til I die]

I am so sick of this "my people" crap.

What I don't get is when Hispanics buy into this "my people" crap. And to their credit, they don't do it nearly as much as blacks, but the ones that do confound me, because aren't there like a few dozen different Hispanic ethnicities? My ex was Ecuadorian and she doesn't like Puerto Ricans. Cubans don't like Mexicans, and on and on.

[Conservative til I die]

Don't you just love how THEY can get away with any kind of racial remark they want to make?

Believe me, this only hurts Democrats. While the liberal press won't call them out on the carpet, everytime they neutrally report one of these incidents, it only works to turn a few more people slightly more off from the Democratic Party. It sure as hell can't be gaining them voters.

[Drango]

This will be a front page issue in the NY Times, LA Times and the Washington Post along with NPR....

[gaspar]

Steven Ybarra, former Chairman of the Democratic Chicano Caucus, was advisor to every radical Chicano group while operating in California. In case you want to congratulate him on his use of words he can be contacted at sjybarra@aol.com

[texastoo]

The Mexicans down here don't like Cubans. However, they do like Castro. Go figure!

[B4Ranch]

One nation indivisible Diversity is working!

[B4Ranch]

"Seems to me that the Democrats are self imploding."

Tell me what Rosario Marin, selected by President Bush as a good Mexican politician to fight for Sen. Barbara Boxers seat is going to do for America. Fight for more rights that we should give illegals? The President has already done more of that than I can stand.

[CaptRon]

The unmitigated arrogance of these people is really getting to me.

If a Republican had made these remarks the Dems and the press (same thing) would be calling for his hide. It's gotten to the point that the Dems no longer feel the need to apologize for behavior that is clearly, uh, inappropriate.

New at 11. Oh, that's right, this will never make the news.

[zygoat]

I see that MSNBC is going to air something called the "Brown-Black" presidential debates. Wonder what the response would be if they chose to air something called the "White-Yellow" debates?

[RoseofTexas]

Hmmmmmmmm...lemme see here, if you are black and not a democRAT you are a HOUSE BOY, if you are hispanic and not a democRAT you are a HOUSE MEXICAN, when will these races WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE OF RACISM in the RAT PARTY! GOOD GOSH!!

[jocon307]

"I heard him..non repentant and shameless."

I saw this on TV, he certainly was as you describe him. He also looked like a typical gray-haired hipster Deaniac.

The other guy, the professor, was good though. I liked the way he said even though he was a liberal Dem. remarks like Ybarra's might make him support the woman running for office. He was quite refreshing.

[FITZ]

Believe me, this only hurts Democrats.

They can get by with it --- they've made comments like this about the few Republican blacks and it hasn't hurt them with the black voting block. It won't hurt here either. They've made similar comments before.

[FITZ]

This is not going to picked up by mainstream media or made a big deal of by the general public. It was only a racist remark by a democrat. SOP.

The democrats have been getting by with this for years and years --- look how they can use the term "Uncle Tom" --- "Tio Tomas" will be just as acceptable.

[MEG33]

I recall now,it was a nice balance to that other jerk.

[highlander_UW]

Luckily, I live in one of the few areas of the country where the local latinos are conservative (South Florida, right wing Cubans, even though I am not Cuban).

Do you have any idea why so many minorities support the party of racism, the dimocrats? Every time I hear someone such as this guy make blatant racist remarks, and yet they are ignored by the very people he's insulting...I just don't get it.

[jagrmeister]

Let's not be defeatist though. I am documenting every racist remark Democrats are making- including Hillary's Indian-American slur- and preparing it for 2004. It will then be released as a "Hypocricy Alert: Beware these Hatemongers" and contain each and every quote. It will force people to question whether the Democrat party is really the party of tolerance, as it advertises.

[wylenetheconservative]

Lets FREEP CNN to pressure them to cover this:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

[jagrmeister]

good idea. i'm on it.

[freedumb2003]

Do you have any idea why so many minorities support the party of racism, the dimocrats?

Because it is the part of handouts. As long as they give freebees and support the idea that government solves all problems and equalizes all people then those who don't want to actually work at it will support them.

[Cinnamon Girl]

I need to check out this chick's platform because I've been thinking about volunteering for her campaign.

[mware]

I saw a segment on tv about this. They interviewed a Hispanic who identified himself as a Democrate. He said that he may even vote for her because of this racial slur.

[Let's Roll]

He was quite arrogant.

[Polybius]

The Mexicans down here don't like Cubans. However, they do like Castro. Go figure!

My personal opinion is that all this has less to do with "Mexicans" or "Cubans" or "Ecuadorians" than it has to do with people not being on the same wavelength.

I have a Mexican (not Mexican American) medical colleague on the medical staff and, as a Cuban American, we get along just fine. I visited Puerto Rico this summer and found the Puerto Ricans I met to be very friendly an well mannered individuals. I did, however, stay in Old San Juan and avoided the seedier areas.

On the other hand, I am not overly enamored of Puerto Rican, Mexican, Black, American-born "Anglo" or even Cuban trash. Trash is trash and it transcends ethnicity.

The fact that Cuban Americans don't feel sorry for the self-imposed problems of dysfunctional sub-cultures means that they are not too fond of us either. As you may have noticed, the two Cuban American Congressmen are not members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus hate Cuban Americans almost as much as they hate Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice.

During my Navy days, as my ship's Medical Officer, I would get the same Mexican American sailor coming in to Sick Call every Monday morning after getting drunk and getting into a bar fight. After telling him that he had to get his act together, he began his sob story about how everybody hated and nobody respected him because he was Hispanic. (From my looks, he thought I was "Anglo".)

Instead of feeding into his victimhood, I dressed him down in Spanish and told him that the reason that nobody liked him was not because he was Hispanic but because he was a drunken jerk. I told him that I happened to be Hispanic too, I was the ship's Medical Officer and everybody from the C.O. on down respected me because I earned everyones respect.

I'm sure he hated me after that. We Cuban Americans aren't very Politically Correct.

Castro, however, tells such individuals that all their problems are the fault of the evil "imperialistas Yanqi". They love him for that.

[Polybius]

Luckily, I live in one of the few areas of the country where the local latinos are conservative (South Florida, right wing Cubans, even though I am not Cuban).

Jeeez! How come we Cuban Americans are always labeled "right wing" even by Conservatives.

Why does being anti-Communist automatically make us "right-wing"? Why can't we simply be Conservatives. ;-)

[Paradox]

Why does being anti-Communist automatically make us "right-wing"?

Heh, good point! I guess when you compare the Cubans to the liberal hispanics in other parts of the country, they look right wing, but hey, I consider right-wing to be a compliment! My wife (a Cuban) is more conservative than me, and I thought that wasn't really possible :)

[Republican Wildcat]

I'm fairly certain the WH pick was Bill Jones...but regardless I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

[MEG33]

Too many young people aren't aware of the dangers of communism.I am thankful to the victims of communism and their children here in America who spread the word.(If being extremely anti communist is right wing,I am right wing)!