Jeb Bush to Trump: What’s wrong with speaking Spanish?

Hotair ^ | 09/03/2015 | AllahPundit

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Here’s another demonstration, says David Frum, that Bush is never more passionate than when he’s talking about immigration and biculturalism. The Trump/Bush debate over whether it’s appropriate to address Latino voters in Spanish is like the Christie/Paul argument over the NSA and civil liberties: Each man’s position on the issue speaks directly to what it is his fans like most about him. Trump’s the guy who’s demanding assimilation, Jeb’s more comfortable with multiculturalism, at least as Spanish speakers transition to their new culture. He also says Trump “doesn’t believe in tolerance,” which means … what, exactly? If cracking down on illegals is “intolerant,” we have a much bigger amnesty problem with President Jeb than I feared. What he means, I guess, is that it’s inherently “intolerant” to discourage the speaking of languages other than English, even if you’re doing so because you think it’ll help immigrants integrate more quickly. In that case, a question: Is it also intolerant to demand that illegals learn English as a condition of gaining legal status? Because that’s what Jeb’s own immigration plan calls for.

By the way, new numbers from PPP on how Bush and Trump stack up with Latino voters. Jeb does better, as you’d expect, but “better” in this case is really a synonym for “less terrible.”

Jeb is -23 with Latinos, Trump is -41 — but overall Trump’s numbers are better thanks to his relative strength with white voters. Head to head with Hillary:

Assuming undecided Latino voters split roughly evenly, Jeb would be on track to take about a third of the Latino vote, not half bad by the usual GOP standards and an improvement on Romney’s dismal take (just 27 percent) against Obama three years ago. On the other hand, for all the heavy breathing about Trump alienating Latinos, he does no worse here against Hillary than Mitt did against Obama. (Then again, given how weak a candidate Clinton is compared to O, that’s no achievement.) Overall Trump’s actually a few points closer to Clinton than Bush is, again on the strength of slightly greater support from white voters. Maybe all of this turns around if/when Jeb becomes nominee and begins a charm offensive in Hispanic media — or maybe it’s a simple function of the fact that most Latinos are reliable Democrats. Do note that even the relatively little known Bernie Sanders leads all Republican challengers comfortably among Latinos here. And Marco Rubio, the GOP’s great Latino hope, trails Hillary among that demographic 62/30.

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[TigersEye]

Que?

[BenLurkin]

Excellent

[SamAdams76]

Florida is a key electoral state. Republicans cannot win the Presidency without carrying Florida. Mr. Trump would do himself some good by learning some Spanish and cease insulting those who are proud of their Latino heritage.

BS. You can be proud of your heritage but if you choose to come to the United States, learn English. Not the other way around.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Maybe baby Bush should be running for President of Mex-he-co!

[1_Rain_Drop]

I have a question.
Is it only hispanics who can immigrate?
What about Russians, Chinese, French?
Why doesn’t jeb speak russian, chinese or french?
Discrimination?

[broken_arrow1]

Jeb - Yo no comprendo

[Amagi]

Nothing wrong with speaking Spanish, Jebbie, if you're in Mexico, Spain, etc., where Spanish is the national language.
In America we speak English.
If legal immigrants come to America they need to learn the language.
That worked great until political elites pandering primarily to Hispanics resulted in enclaves of non-assimilated people and the beginnings of the Balkanization of America.
I know culture clash incidents that have happened in, for instance, Miami because people can't communicate and see themselves as having different loyalties.
Just shut up, Jebbie, whether you are speaking English or Spanish the more you say the more obvious it is that you are a complete idiot.

[HomerBohn]

Jeb, like I and II is an utter asshat!

[jetson]

Well Jeb, I hope you have learned the 299 other languages that are spoken in the US....just to make it fair.

[Bringbackthedraft]

What is our “official national” language? At one point in our early history it could have been German or maybe even Norse had they continued to explore further.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Do you know what your problem is, Jebbie?

You put Mexicans before Americans.

Not meaning to sound crude but just because you enjoy get #$×&€d by a Mexican doesn’t mean we like it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

In Mexico there is nothing wrong with speaking Spanish Jebbie. In America we speak English well unless your only voter base is illegal aliens. LOL!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Just keep kicking that tar baby, JEB . . .

[tumblindice]

What’s wrong with it?

Because we don’t want to have our own discrete, insular Quebec in the southwestern part of our country constantly threatening to secede to the bordering country?

Pregunta se: Has someone been feeding Yeb mass quantities of Vitamin eS (tupido)?

[trisham]

Except in latin america. They speak latin there.

[Maceman]

I'll answer Jeb’s question in Latin: E Pluribus Unum.

Which, as we all learned from that brilliant Renaissance man Al Gore, is Latin for "out of one, many."

[catnipman]

“Jeb Bush to Trump: What’s wrong with speaking Spanish?”

Perhaps ¡Yeb! is just so completely tone deaf that Spanish and English don’t sound that much difference to him.

[Heart-Rest]

The bad news for Jeb is that he puts everyone to sleep when he speaks Spanish also.