Posted on 11/14/2014 1:38:16 PM PST by jazusamo
Yea, great, another hard core racist in the Whitehouse... Just what mainstream Americans want.
Because La Raza is not a "Mexican organization". It is a blanket "Latino advocacy" group in the United States that doesn't care whether a person is legal or illegal, or what country they originate from, as long as they're "hispanic". And that's been their official policy since 1979.
>> He would make an ideal third party candidate. <<
I agree. Best case scenario is Luis runs on a third party line because the RAT party hasn't done enough to promote amnesty, so "his people" have an alternate and split the RAT vote. Run Luis, run!
>> I have heard talk around here that his dream is to be president of an independent Puerto Rico. It might be worth cutting it loose just to get rid of him. Plus, he would be closer to likeminded people like Fidel and Raul. <<
I thought he supported the status quo for Puerto Rico (commonwealth status, rather than statehood or independence). If he's for an independent Puerto Rican nation, that position is currently terribly unpopular on the island (I believe the PR independence party is down to less than 4% support and now losing to the Greens in the popular vote), so his chances of being elected leader of PR on that platform are virtually non-existent. Also, I doubt they'd want to elect some guy who was born in Chicago as leader of their country.
In any case, Gutierrez is in an ultra safe RAT district (poor Impy is unfortunate enough to be "represented" by this guy), so the ideal situation is that Luis runs for President of the U.S. and misses most of the votes in Congress during the next session. We haven't elected a sitting Congressman as President since 1880, so I think its safe to say that Gutierrez has zilch chance of breaking that record. Again, I say: Run Luis Run!
Bump :-)
Why am I not surprised that the brother of "conservative" Republicans Lincoln and Mario is working for this liberal propaganda mouthpiece?
Gutierrez supports independence for Puerto Rico (as do all good Communists), but he has opposed federally sanctioned political-status plebiscites for the Island even when they were supported by the Puerto Rican Independence Party because he’s afraid of statehood winning. He’s like an Irish-American opposed to Ireland’s economic progress so that it remains green and undeveloped and a cheap destination for his vacations and so that he can be a bigshot when he visits his poor cousins. But I join BillyBoy in urging Gutierrez to run for president, preferably for a new La Raza Party. Run, Luis, Run!
There is no Green Party in Puerto Rico; the official color for the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP in Spanish) is green and has been so fir decades, though (and it is as socialist and environmentalist as the stateside Green Party). The PIP has been getting below 3% in elections since 2004, and even before that it hadn’t received as much as 7% since the 1950s. There is virtually no support for independence in Puerto Rico, although, increasingly, traditional supporters of the status quo (”Commonwealth status,” which merely is an unincorporated territory, with plenary powers for Congress but with a benign neglect so as to allow the state and local governments a measure of “autonomy”) have expressed support for “free association,” which is a for of independence in which the new nation would sign a treaty with the U.S. to guarantee all sorts of things. Of course, their idyllic “free association” is a non-starter, since they demand continued U.S. citizenship, continued federal transfer payments, U.S. responsibility for defense, and that such treaty be impossible for the U.S. to end unilaterally. Absolutely ridiculous.
Maybe he’ll pick one of his good friends Trey Gowdy
or his buddy Paul Ryan
That reminds me... we ALSO need to encourage RINO Peter King to throw his hat into the ring for President in 2016 (hopefully with Rob Portman as his running mate!) for the same reason. Then we'd FINALLY get that pro-terrorist Clintonite turd out of Congress.
We need to get him in the presidential race because they will never successfully primary this guy in his house district. The Levin crowd will probably be screaming "GOPE! GOPE! GOPE!" at Mike Crapo instead.
But on the plus side, at least the Tea Party FINALLY figured out that Peter King is NOT a "straight shooting patriotic conservative fighting for national security". Only took 'em 14 years to notice something I realized back in 1998.
Illinois isn’t one of “those” states is it (where you can run for Congress and President too?)?
I’m ready for a new a**hole Congressman, I was crestfallen that I wasn’t drawn into Danny Davis’s district in the last remap, that’s how much I hate this pig.
More famously, George Wallace tried and failed to get Alabama's state legislature to overturn the state term limit law, then got around by having his wife run to succeed him as Governor, and appoint him as a $1 per year "special adviser" to the Governor, which got him his old office and all his perks back while his wife held the title officially.
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