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You must be one of those "Wise Latinas". /sarc> BTW, why didn't you like McCain, if you are Latina?

what? oh yes--the non-sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow) argument... i am "tre" conservative... McCain is not... why would i like him? Sarah Palin is tre conservative and she was on his ticket... why don't you question that?

i love Ronald Reagan and all he stood for... i am a Protestant homeschooling, 2nd Amendment wife and mother who teaches Latin, Greek Mythology, American History and Classical Literature including Shakespeare... i do not believe in sending my children to government school... i am against amnesty... i support our military... i believe whole-heartedly in the US Constitution... one of my brothers fought in Vietnam... a niece and nephew took part in Desert Storm... it's silly that i have to defend my American heart to you just because i have the word Latina in my handle...

as far as i know, all of my relatives are from the United States of America, including grandparents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents... i don't even speak Spanish fluently... haha! my husband is a "white" man, and we really don't know the ethnicity of our children because we adopted them... all they know is that they are American...

i like Sarah Palin... i don't believe she's ready to be POTUS... btw--i've even been told i look like her... we have the same figure, same hair, same complexion and we both wear glasses... we even dress the same... i can relate to her, but i don't see her being our President at this time... i did 18 months ago, but not now... i would like her to come across as more "sharp," a la Lynn Cheney (Dick Cheney's wife)... it was her Oprah appearance that made me more skeptical...

in any case, you are coming across like an Obamobot... if i don't like Obama, i'm a racist... if i don't think Sarah Palin would make a good President, i am what? too Latina? a wise Latina? so, in your opinion, i cannot disagree with the notion of Sarah Palin being ready for the presidency unless i am not really conservative? sounds a lot like Obamabot thinking to me...

let me know when you are ready for an intellectually honest conversation... your response to my post is one of the most unintelligent resposnes i've ever received... try not to respond that way... you may make intelligent Palin supporters look bad...

You misread me completely, I just referred to the "Wise Latina" because I like puns and despise shamnesty.

Your screen name (latina4dubya) indicated you liked Bush -- and he was known for his support of "Immigration Reform" and closer integration of the US and Mexico:

(see here for a government-sponsored site on it for example).

The reason I asked you about McCain, was that the cornerstone of his election strategy seemed to be to pander to the supposedly monolithic Hispanic voting bloc, by enabling amnesty, so that the Dems couldn't demagogue the issue as being race-based. (As though that worked in the Civil Rights arena, where the Congressional Dems were actively working against civil rights, and yet managed to hang the "RACIST" tag on Republicans over the next generation.)

So I wanted to see what a member of McCain's "target demographic" for that strategy thought of that approach.

Notice -- despite your claiming you needed to defend your conservatism to me, btw -- that I explicitly stated my motivation for the question, in my post #118:

(I lived in Phoenix for 6 years; he pandered to the Amnesty crowd in the hopes of getting the Latino vote. I'd like to hear first hand from a member of that demographic, their opinion of McCain in general, and then with respect to that issue.)

So with that out of the way, I'll acknowledge that your reply -- tho' with some tartness to it -- answered my questions: you are a Reagan conservative who despises Amnesty.

It is interesting however, that after calling yourself a Reagan conservative, you bash Sarah Palin; in Going Rogue she consciously, deliberately quotes Reagan both on policy and on political strategy. I can't comment on her Oprah appearance because I don't watch Oprah. I remember seeing her when she was a mortal newscaster on WJZ Channel 13 in Baltimore, and not liking what I saw.

Not a bit like Obamabot thinking: because Obama has never had any substance beneath his veneer, still less any character: and the objections to Palin "typically" center on her lack of polish, while still admiring her "true grit" and dead-on movement conservative values. Palin and Obama are mirror images as far as their qualifications and reasons for attracting the voters.

This only tends to lend additional credence to my original suspicion that you (despite the claims elsewhere in the post) ARE a troll; unless you were just Ticked Off about the tone of my earlier post.

Cheers!