Posted on 01/24/2009 4:10:55 AM PST by T.L.Sink
I'm from South Louisiana, grew up among Cajuns, and married one. That said, Cajuns can be just as short-sighted as any group, witness their performance for selecting Edwin Edwards over and over, and then electing Blanco over Jindal, both times simply because the candidate "was Cajun".
“Did they find out about this thru their union? This was not widely disseminated in the MSM.”
I know they said it was a big topic of conversation in their trades, so I assumed they heard about it at work or through other tradesmen, or through the internet, etc. But what Reich said seemed to be pretty well known.
Racist Democrats are going to lead us into a civil/race war yet.
I agree with your observations. Pat Buchanan’s best-selling book, “State of Emergency, The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” has a chapter entitled “The Suicide of the GOP.” Let me put in a caveat and say that I don’t agree with some of Pat’s political views but even his harsh critics admit his book is well researched and documented. I personally fear that the masive illegal invasion goes far beyond elections and conventional politics. Of course, it’s disgraceful that many politicians (especially Democrats) are shamelessly pandering to the Hispanic lobby for votes. But, beyond that, this is a phenomenon that’s threatening our entire culture and it may be beyond the point of no return. We’re already (if we’re honest enough to admit it) a bilingual nation. We’re rapidly becoming more balkanized every day. We have a huge number of immigrants who not only don’t wish to assimilate but are being encouraged not to do so by our state and federal governments. After a point, quantity changes quality. Even Karl Marx knew that. Multiculturalism, moral equivalence, and ethical relativity are now an inherent part of our educational system, as well as a PC revisionist history that is ignorant of our roots in Western civilization.
Well, I think they voted for Edwards for the entertainment value, mostly. They can't have voted for him because they thought he would bring good government. Remember that crack of his, at the expense of the Feds: "They'll never get me unless they catch me in bed with a dead woman or a live boy."
I once almost accidentally squashed Edwards personally (thereby saving Louisiana a lot of trouble and expense) in Moysant Airport in New Orleans. I was hurrying to make a plane and came around a pillar in the main concourse just as he came out of the "private lounge" on the other side of the pillar. I said "excuse me" and hurried on, but not before noticing that the three befurred doxies accompanying the deeply-tanned Edwards didn't resemble his wife at all.
As for Blanco, she's Eye-talian, not Cajun (unless maybe by marriage or something). She's a political creature of Mary Landrieu, who in turn is the puppet (or should that be "puppetess", or maybe "puppette"?) of James Carville, a.k.a. "Mr. Snakehead", which amuses les Acadiennes.
As long as the 'Rats are pro-OBL, they are no way friends of labor.
They aren't friends of Hispanic U.S. citizens, either -- something the Hispanic U.S. citizens will figure out, eventually, if they ever see through the race-baiting, ethnocentrism, and irridentism that NALEO, LULAC, and MALDEF are up to their eyes in.
Which essentially proves my point. Any group that keeps electing a crook because he is "entertaining" is as short-sighted as it gets.
"\As for Blanco, she's Eye-talian, not Cajun (unless maybe by marriage or something)."
I think you've got it exactly backwards. As I recall from the campaign, her maiden name is "Babineaux", which is as Cajun as it gets. And she made a real point of it, too, billing herself as "Kathleen Babineaux Blanco" at every opportunity.
Damn that Puggy Moity! Sure glad he never got elected -- he'd have stolen everything that wasn't nailed down, and sold everything that was nailed down!
It would be difficult for the Dems to pander to the Hispanic vote bloc any more so than Bush and many other Pubs have done ever since he came into office. And all for nothing, BHO got 2/3 of the Hispanic vote, including a sizable segment of the south FL Cuban-American vote that the Pubs had a lock on just a few short years ago.
IMHO the point of no return has already been reached and passed. Neither party wants to PO a vote bloc that is already larger than the black vote and growing more important at every election. The only way the Repub party can develop a wider appeal to that bloc is by moving even farther to the left, and every inch it moves in that direction costs it conservative votes. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation for the Repub party. This aint Ronald Reagan's party, or nation, any more.
I agree with what you said. The Republicans will never learn that they can’t out-pander liberals. By the way, I lived in Miami/Dade for a couple years and there are really two “Cuban” groups. The first few generations which originally fled from Castro have largely assimilated and are successful in business and the professions. Our Republican Senator Martinez is an example. However, there is the group you referred to that were welcomed by Jimmy Carter when Castro emptied his prisons ans asylums and rounded up as many dregs and degenerates as he could find and sent them sailing north. To the extent that these vote, they are a natural Democratic constituency. Eventually, I think the situation will soon reach critical mass and politicians will be forced to seriously confront illegal immigration. The fact still remains that the great majority of citizens are very much opposed to it and any form of amnesty.
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