Is Ted Cruz ‘Post-Hispanic’?

The Daily Beast ^ | January 22, 2015 | Ruben Navarrette Jr.

[Signalman]

“The real question is does Hillary have any chance of winning the white married man vote...”

Onlui if Pajama Boy gets married.

[caddie]

This is a good sign, an endorsement (sort of) from a classic, commie, crybaby, minority whiner who sees EVERYTHING as a racial or class issue. Who blames every one of life's tough passages on Whitey.

And he is right about Cruz: He is going to be supported by people of Hispanic ancestry. And just maybe, it will be because he is pro-freedom and pro-hard work, not just because of skin color.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ruben is no dummy and likely sees the handwriting on the wall. Here’s the jist of the whole article:

“Any Republican who gets 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in the general election will win the White House.”

[Texicanus]

He doesn’t wear his ethnicity on his sleeve, but he seems proud to be Cuban-American.

Everyone should be proud of his heritage and ethnic background. I am of Celtic descent and mostly Scotch/Irish. Like the spots on a leopard, these are factors we cannot change. But Ted Cruz and I, as Americans coming from different backgrounds, can share the same conservative political values and beliefs.

There was a time when most people used to be proud patriotic Americans, not some hyphenated diversity which describes us today. It was our character and values that were more important to Americans than our colour, ethnicity, or religion. Although these factors define part of our character, I was raised to believe America was a "melting pot" and that these factors were secondary to being an American first. America represented freedom for anyone to rise above colour, ethnicity, and religion to live their lives in peace and freedom and the pursuit of happiness in one nation united under G_D.

Lately America and all it has represented has been abridged by a number of diversities. We are more divided by colour, ethnicity, religion, and other conflicts to the detriment of what America used to represent. It's going to take some good conservative American candidates to stand up for America in the next election cycle and start to restore our nation. I think Ted Cruz has the character and values to do that job. G_D bless America and Ted Cruz.

[PoloSec]

I havn’t had a Kolache since I was a kid, I remember they were a lot of work to prepare, we only had them at Christmas time, we were poor and cookies were a rare treat and always home made.

I wonder if they are the same thing, what we called Kolache was a cookie made of walnuts and something else I can’t recall, the walnut mixture was rolled up into a square cut piece of dough from corner to corner, baked to perfection and covered with powdered sugar, as kids we liked to call them garage keys, in a house of 11 kids we all participated in the making of them; I haven’t had one since the late 1950’s, whether they are the same thing or not thanks for pricking some great memories from so long ago.

[mylife]

We only had it at Christmas and it was a nut roll bread.
Slather a warm slice of that with butter and enjoy your coffee.

It is totally different here and has Czech roots, more like a pastry with fruit filling, though there are meat versions.

[Vaduz]

Anti-immigration gets my vote.

[TexasRepublic]

“Interesting the people in the article never met a Hispanic panhandler.”

Who are they kidding? Throughout my travels in Latin America, people had their hands out.

[txhurl]

I could rub kolache in my hair, especially the sausage ones. Expensive to get the authentic ones, but worth it.