Posted on 03/31/2015 2:37:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’d agree if he was running for el presidente of Mehico. He’s not.
Real Spanish, or “Spanglish?” Few Mexicans speak Castilian Spanish.
Not to pander....Of course, if he were to speak to Latino voters in Spanish, the media would immediately raise a huge stink about his blatant pandering to Latino voters.
Pandering is a liberal tactic, not one that conservatives need to engage in.
I personally know about forty Latinos who would be deeply offended by that comment.
With justification.
Why should Ted speak Spanish? This is America, let the newcomers, and illegals speak English.
My mistake. And my apologies.
I wonder which “Spanish” they want him to speak. There are several variants of Mexican spoken along the border from the Gulf to the Pacific.
He meant to get their votes...
No worries friend. I should have clarified that remark but you understood where I was going with that statement. Not a problem.
That's easy - he'll continue to do what he's always done, support a race-blind Constitution of natural rights for all Americans. Because by "Latino voters" you mean Americans - right?
Juan, besa mi culo.
Y mio, tambien.
Before Spain came to Mexica, the capitol being Tenochtitlan, the Mexica stayed on their side of the river Rio Grande. If and when they crossed over they met the Navaho and the Tohono O'odham Nation which kicked their collective butts back over to Mexica. It was Spain and not the Mexica's that invaded the Southwest US therefor Mexica has no claim ....
I say the language of America and Americans is English.
The spanish speakers need to get better at speaking English. Do any of the other minority groups insist on Spanish speakers learning Hebrew, Polish, Mandarin or Hausa?
I say that Juan Vidal needs to learn Hausa and Mandarin.
When I lived in Venezuela there was not a press 1 for Spanish, or press 2 for English. It was all in Spanish and if you did not speak Spanish you were out of luck. That was back before Chavez and it was a great place to live then.
While learning English or making it your primary language is technically not a requirement for a legal path to citizenship, only a fool would do otherwise. Ted’s father was no fool, and he should be proud of that fact, and proud that because of it, English is now his primary language as well, since that’s what his family wisely emphasized in his youth.
I agree that the media will hammer him no matter what he does, but that’s a kind of freedom.
I don’t think Ted will pander - he ran his Senate race without making it about race, and he’ll do so here, as well.
Would I would love to see, though, is during some speech, he stops, pauses for effect, and translates a particularly potent sentence into Spanish, continues on with his speech, and never mentions it again and deflects all inquiries about it.
The media would lose their ever loving minds.
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