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Personally, I do not care how this turns out. If Love manages to win, she might tone down her hissy fits for Trump suggesting Haiti is a $#*+hole country. It not only is, it is a poster boy for $#*+hole countries. Why does she think her parents worked so hard to get out of there?

If she loses, then it becomes another object lesson for the NeverTrump crowd. And her opponent becomes another BlueDog Democrat, at least for show purposes.

Can’t argue with your thoughts there.

Haiti is a terrible place. IMO, it’s the worst in the Americans and the Caribbean.

I’m not real enthused with Puerto Rica either as of late.

Emigres from even rotten countries tend to be nostalgic about their homelands and to romanticize it and its culture and ordinary people. About ten years ago, I got into a cab in Ft. Lauderdale and was astonished to see a framed picture of Ronald Reagan on the dash next to a Haitian flag emblem.

On questioning, the Haitian-American driver-owner gushed about what a great President Ronald Reagan had been and how awful the government of Haiti was and how the people suffered there. The driver's regard for Ronald Reagan was based on two things: he had made it possible for him and his family to become American citizens, while Reagan tax cuts enabled him to buy several cabs and other family members to also start businesses and prosper. And he was a registered Republican.

Somehow, despite the news media and the Democrats, Republicans and conservatives need to recruit and energize allies among immigrant populations even as we try to restrict new immigration, both legal and illegal. I am not sure how to do it, but I am sure that in part it requires tolerating the nostalgia of emigres for their native countries -- including that of Mia Love.

Scumbags in suburban Salt Lake didn’t vote against her cause she’s not a huge Trumper, ok? That may fit a narrative you like but it’s not true. Plenty of Trumpers lost too.

And you don’t have to Love Love but recognize that McAdams is a Marxist pig.

Love has obvious weakness as a candidate that predates and is completely separate from however she feels about Trump. She couldn’t win in 2012 even with Romney coattails in the district and her winning margin in 2014 was only 5 points.

Same say “Mormons are racist” but I don’t think that’s it. In that district she should but entrenched but for whatever reason she’s not. Michelle Bachman similarly under-performed in what should have been a safe seat. Crummy constituent service is a typical reason. Maybe she’s too focused on being “The Only Black female Republican” and not tending to folks at home, just speculation.