Posted on 05/17/2009 6:30:49 PM PDT by chicagolady
You can give me a line of excuses on why the National GOP Committee who dole out dollars for Congressional Candidates did not back my Candidacy for the Illinois 5th Congressional district (Rahm Emmanuel's seat Special Election). I have been a Republican all my life and I have been very involved with elections.
But the most important fact about this discussion is that I am of Mexican Decent.
I am a HISPANIC "hear me roar"
I am hardworking (At least that is what they say about illegal aliens) and I am a Christian. (Which they argue how good that is for the country as least when they tag it on to illegal aliens)
The GOP usually has their obligatory WE MUST REACH OUT TO BLACKS AND HISPANICS rhetoric which I hear OVER AND OVER AND OVER. When I attend meetings in Illinois all I ever see is White guys endorsing white guys in ties and suits that look like they are getting ready to make their First Holy Communion. Cookie cutter white guys, the beat goes on.
The Republican Party has no intention of reaching out to Hispanics. The only Hispanics they want are illegal aliens who provide cheap labor for the Corporations. Then the Corporations can make big campaign contributions to the little white guys in suits and ties I always see at GOP meetings.
The National Republican Congressional Committee even place ROBO Calls into the Illinois 5th Congresional District asking Republicans if they were voting for me and then tried to raise money on my back, without ever donating one red cent to my Campaign. Great Character they display Right?
Now I see a FABULOUS HISPANIC CONSERVATIVE running for Senate in Floria and the Republican Nation Party is throwing him under the bus.
Javier Manjarres of the Conservative Republican Alliance interviews the former Florida House Speaker whose 2010 Senate campaign has sparked a grassroots uprising against the GOP elite:
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/05/16/video-interview-with-florida-c
The National Republican Party has lost it's way. Maybe they are not rejecting us because we are Hispanic, maybe it is because they have no use for Conservatives.
I was hopeful when I read about what is going on in Florida as we speak:
"A Republican backlash is brewing against the state and national party as they anoint Gov. Charlie Crist's U.S. Senate campaign -- thereby dissing that of his rival, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio."
Now there is also a group who is doing the right thing, namely: Not one penny to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)
Law abiding Conservative Hispanic ! The kind America needs!
we don’t. I reject the premise.
We do not like people (all people) who have no diregard for our laws. Including our representatives. we do not like people who enter our country illegally, no matter where they are from.
Going out on a limb, but I would say it is because the incumbent Governor of Florida is more likely to win than you.
No sorry. We need to quit categorizing people and start treating everyone equal. And you prove why it is wrong. Your feelings are hurt because your special group was not honored by special treatment. Instead you should want to complete as a equal with anyone else who would chose to run for office.
You can reject the premise, the facts remain, 2 Conservative Hispanics get thrown under the bus for little white guys.
Cookie cutter white guys, the beat goes on.
Well your bile is showing...........
Whatever the validity of your complaints, hate is the wrong word to use. To find actual hate you need only look across the aisle at the Democrat party.
I hope Rubio gets the nom. Steele hasn’t bent over for Crist yet.
ABSOLUTELY!! But WHY would they throw a CONSERVATIVE HISPANIC the likes of RUBIO under the BUS??
THE HOUSE OF HATE: NATIONAL GOP
Bingo! The RNC doesn't care much for conservatives of any ethnicity/color/gender.
As for Chicago lady they didn’t back you because you were a member of the American Independence Party that nuthouse run by Alan Keyes. I think they didn’t back you not because of your race but because of your mental state.
Because they want to win?
Correctamundo! That's why I am no longer a Republican.
We need to hew to our core values and principles. That includes removing law-breakers who ignore our immigration laws. Since most of those law-breakers are from Mexico and Latin America, the broad brush of “excludes Hispanics” is applied to the GOP (although Jorge Bush was in favor of amnesty and line jumpers).
Conservatives embraces all who follow its principles no matter what race. Sadly, the GOP hasn’t been Conservative for 20 years.
Shouldn’t you also be asking why the GOP hates Apple Pie, children, the environment, motherhood and the 4th of July.
What in your view would constitute “reaching out” to Hispanics? Do you mean that you want the Republican Party to run Hispanic candidates? They’re pretty hard to find. And the problem, of course, is that the traditional Republican message of self-sufficiency is not one that poor people particularly want to hear.
Yeah...like there was a real chance you were going to win Rahm Emmanuel’s seat. So when the GOP wisely decided NOT to waste money on a losing campaign, instead of accepting the logic, you played the race card. Sad actually.
You’re arriving at the wrong conclusion because you’re looking at things through the prism of race. Look at it through the prism of RINOs trying to elect more RINOs.
Keep in mind that the incumbent retiring Senator in the case of Crist/Rubio is Mel Martinez, a Hispanic.
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