Posted on 07/02/2015 5:01:10 AM PDT by jimbo123
George Pataki sends a letter to fellow Republican candidates for president, asking them to stand up to "unacceptable" comments from Donald Trump about Mexicans. Most candidates have avoided saying anything.
To the best of our knowledge, Marco Rubio has not remarked.
Jeb Bush has. In Nevada on Saturday Bush said in Spanish, according to Bloomberg News, that Trump spends his life fighting with people and does not represent the values of the Republican Party.
The story went on, “But when Bush was asked the same question about Trump’s remarks in English, he seemed put out at having to repeat himself, then gave a milder version of his original answer: ‘I don’t agree with him. I think he’s wrong. It’s pretty simple.’”
Bush also had this to say when NBC ditched Trump. “Literally? For the show? He’s worth nine billion bucks, so he’ll be able to survive.”
Dear Fellow Republican candidates for president,
“And some, I assume, are good people.”
The last week of news coverage over the language used by Donald Trump to describe Mexicans has left me and a lot of other sensible people wondering what century we are living in.
One hundred years ago, when Irish immigrants were coming to America, my grandmother among them, they were too often characterized as "drunks." A few years later it was the Italian immigrants, my grandfather among them, who were called "mobsters" or worse, "dagos." This type of divisive rhetoric is just wrong. It was wrong 100 years ago and it’s wrong today.
Yet here we are in 2015 and a leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president is calling Mexicans criminals, rapists and drug dealers. This is unacceptable.
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Pataki go crawl back under your rock.
Dog catcher asking government bureaucrat to help him take care of himself??
THEN we can dig a hole and bury it
My grand parents both came here in the late 1800 from Sicily and the term "dago" was not a slur but a discription of when the day laborers wanted paid.
Originally, most spoke little English but understood that when the day ended, "day go" they wanted paid, and soon came to be known, by their mostly Irish bosses, as dagos.
The drunken Micks paid the mobster dagos and they both beat the hell out of their slaves, ahhhh the good old dagos. S/off
[George Pataki]
Most of us haven’t like Sulu in a long time, anyways.
Tell him we said “Your a looser!”.
Say it for tymes.
So do I. Doing so will thin out this overcrowded field quite nicely.
Those comments were only “Unacceptable” to the appeasers, wusses and Agenda 21 supporters that permeate the Washington DC community of morons. Real Americans understand them perfectly. Push 1 for Spanish!
Georgie wants to organize that circular firing squad.
AGAIN!!
I'm not the biggest Trump fan but it there's one thing the Republican party needs right now it's a fighter.
A pack of weak dogs is stronger than a single weak dog.
Thank God Pataki had Guliani on 9-11.
Now we know why the heck Pataki is running. Not to win. But scolding other candidates. School marm candidate.
Newsflash to Jeb. 11-20 million immigrants did not come from Ireland or Italy. We have never tried to absorb the entire underculture of another country. Its not working out very well.
Geo. Pataki is at 1% and I predict that is where he will be when he drops out.
“A pack of weak dogs is stronger than a single weak dog”
Good summation.
Well said!
I can’t imagine how 9/11 would have unfolded with a be Blasio or a Dinkens.
I thank the all mighty that New York had Giuliani that terrible day.
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