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Xenophobe is one of those labels thrown around, like "racist", "sexist", etc. to get people to shut up and accept whatever agenda the labeler wants to promote. Well, guess what - you're on a conservative activists' web forum, and one of the goals of most conservatives is to prevent our culture, and thus our country, from being dismantled by the corrosive influence of such things as multi-culturalism. As a US Senator, Martinez was out of line giving a speech in his offical capacity on the Senate floor in Spanish. Either he is an American, and conducts official business as one, or else he is just another part of the problem.

My ultimate priority is to battle in the arena of ideas. The language use to communicate those ideas is trivial. Western liberal culture will survive despite the fact that someone speaking Spanish supports it. (That was a wierd sentence to have to right).

Furthermore, I wholly reject that Senator Martinez is part of the problem for supporting Mr. Gonzalez. Methinks the real problem you have is not the ideas of Sen. Martinez and Mr. Gonzalez, but their last names.

The fact that you would accuse me of such a thing without knowing a damn thing about me demonstrates to me that you used the word "xenophobe" in exactly the way I thought you did. In the paragraph I quoted above, you are using an implied accusation of racism to try to dismiss my point outright, and get me to shut up. Do you see racism everywhere?

Martinez's support of Gonzalez is a wonderful thing. There is no need for him to do it in Spanish on the Senate floor. Whether he intended to or not, he pandered to the "multicutural" factions within our country, and I consider that to be exacerbating the problem.