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)
Next time walk in and gush over McCain's "Nuance" and say that Rush Limbaugh missed his being the 20th hijacker because he was strung out on OxyContin and they will be licking your shoes clean.
Where is the thread about Anglo exclusion?
You are supposed to write it.
Thats true
http://townhall.com/columnists/MeredithTurney/2009/05/11/fish_dont_vote?page=full&comments=true
But there’s one issue that could unite Republicans (conservative and moderate) and minorities: stopping extreme environmentalism. Many immigrants from other countries—and their descendants—work hard and love the vast opportunities America provides. However, the very government that purports to aid minorities and the poor is instead oppressing them by taking away those opportunities through red tape and bureaucratic environmental policies. The freedom that attracted so many immigrants to this country is vanishing as environmentalists tie up the resources necessary to drive small businesses and family farms.
Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez is the perfect example of how the threat of extreme environmentalism can bring together Democrat Hispanics and Republicans. Rodriguez owns a small family farm in California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley. This is the same area that has been radically affected by a judge’s ruling shutting off Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water pumps that send water south. Why would a judge cut off the most essential nutrient for farming? Environmentalists claim the pumps could threaten the tiny smelt fish in the delta water. Under the federal Endangered Species Act, if an animal is “threatened,” the well-being of unfortunate humans in the area takes a back seat.
Rodriguez witnessed firsthand the devastating consequences of placing a greater priority on the safety of a fish than the livelihood of his family and neighbors and decided to speak out. At a speech delivered last week to the conservative California Republican Assembly annual convention, Rodriguez described the travesty of the government’s decision: “It is tragic that in the most fertile soil that God has ever placed on this blue marble that we should have a desert where there should be a garden. We are truly blessed to live in a land that’s just like Canaan: everything that you drop on there will grow. We have everything we need except resolve.”
Standing before a room of dedicated conservative activists, Rodriguez acknowledged he always considered himself a Democrat: “Three years ago if you had asked what my political affiliation is, I wouldn’t have given it too much thought; I would have readily told you I’m a Democrat. It’s kind of like an unwritten law if you’re Mexican-American—as an inheritance. For the most part, we’re Catholic and we’re Democrats.” Not just a registered Democrat, Rodriguez used his celebrity to raise money for the Democratic Party. But when his family farm was impacted by the water dispute, he suddenly found his political friends wouldn’t answer his phone calls for help. He was shocked to discover the hypocrisy of the people and causes he had supported financially. “I always saw myself as an environmentalist,” he explained. “I have funded many of these things by performing for them. Not knowing what you’re backing, not knowing that those dollars are going to turn around and hurt me and those I love most.”
Ha!
Good answer.
I don’t think it has anything to do with race. I think the number one reason the GOP refuses to support any candidate is if they are “too” conservative. The GOP has been chewing up conservatives and spitting them out while giving all their support to RINOs. That is why all the talk about taking the party back.
Demorats have pounded home the idea that all conservatives are racist hate mongers that don’t like Hispanics and don’t want them in the country. I personally just want the law to be enforced and nobody of any walk of life to get a free ride off my tax dollar. The Statists have made victims of many immigrants and illegals just like they have with blacks by making them dependent on welfare and entitlements.
Illinois District 5 did have a Republican (Mike Flanagan) from 1995 to 1997, who unseated 18-term incumbent Dan Rostenkowski with 54% of the vote. However, he was probably target numero uno by Dems in the 1996 election, having been narrowly elected in a staunchly Dem district. He was soundly defeated by Blago in that election, only getting 36% of the vote.
...and we're supposed to 'judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character'.
...but because these candidates weren't judged by the color of their skin...?
Wait, are we supposed to judge people by their ethnicity or not?
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.” Teddy Roosevelt, Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City, 12 October 1915
hut upand vote; that’s all they think you’re good for. I don’t think the problem is tour ethnicity, but from past posts you seem a real social conservative; you know, a crazy right-winger. They’d love to have you for photo ops, though.
Why would the GOP say they have to step up their outreach to Hispanics? You tell me.
Who did they back instead of you?
Don’t feel like you’ve been singled out. Look whats happening to Toomey, he’s conservative, and they insist on backing everyone except him. They even backed !Specter! of all people, freaking !Specter! against Toomey until Specter left the party. Now that Specter is gone, they still don’t want to back Toomey. Disgusting.
My presumption is that you are not well known, and you are conservative, and they are looking for someone “else”. Look at all these Repubs falling all over themselves to reach across the aisle to the Obamists. Its the McCain disease, I call it.
May I encourage you to keep doing what you do, regardless of what the GOP swells do. We need people like you, and we need the “swells” like a hole in the head.
I’m confused on a couple things.
One, how is it that Republicans HATE Hispanics because they don’t back YOUR candidacy?
Second, is being Hispanic a key point in your caniddacy? If so, that sounds rather racist to me...your candidacy should be about issues, not about ethnic origins or color of skin.
IMO anyway.
Then Patty has a chance.
It’s not just hispanics. The problem is you’re a Conservative. The Republicans did the same thing to Republican and Conservative candidate Alan Schlesinger when he ran against Joe Lieberman in Connecticut. They didn’t give Schlesinger one iota of support. They basically supported Lieberman.
From some of the posts on here, the generalized statements are childish.
The Republican Party are not all RINOs, they don’t hate conservative hispanics.
If a Dist. is 85% + leftwing democrats, a Republican can run but to drop heavy coin into it is not realistic and
if the person is Hispanic or Irish is not the issue.
San Diego has 5 Congressmen.
3 are Conservative Republicans
1 is Democrat and 1 is very liberal Democrat.
The Republicans back big time the GOP candidates.
There is not much push for the GOP candidates vs the
2 Dems.
This I understand as no way in hell will a Republican win in those 2 dists and why pour big money to get 25% of the vote.
The problem on FR.
to many can’t face reality.
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