Tancredo: Sotomayor’s a member of the “Latino KKK”
posted at 10:09 pm on May 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
The “Latino KKK” in this case meaning the National Council of La Raza, about which the boss has written eloquently and at great length. Three things here. First, I’ve fed Olby enough crap sandwiches over the years for comparing conservative pundits and Fox News to jihadis not to let Tanc get away with the equivalent. Unless they’re making bombs, it’s always poor form to compare your opponents to terrorists. Second, he’s simply wrong on the facts. As HuffPo notes, it’s not La Raza whose motto is “All for the race. Nothing for the rest,” it’s MEChA (“For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”). There are links between the two groups — this 2006 Human Events piece by Charlie Norwood is essential — but La Raza’s considerably more mainstream than MEChA, which calls for the reclamation of the American southwest by Latinos. Third, I realize that any concession to electoral reality is disdained by “true conservatives” as the hallmark of a squishy RINO, but with Republicans nervous about alienating Hispanic voters by confronting Sotomayor, how wise is it for the most vociferous amnesty opponent in America to be doing the rounds on cable news throwing verbal grenades like this? You worked hard in Congress for a long time, Tanc. Take a break. Especially now that the GOP’s got a tiny bit of traction in making Democrats squirm over her “wise Latina” comment.
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Wait a minute…you mean La Raza isn’t a racist organization??…whats that based on?
Itchee Dryback on May 28, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Speakup on May 28, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Allahpundit,
I really can’t see how you can slam Tancredo on this and defend La Raza. Are you simply saying that its not AS racist as MEChA, so there’s really no problem, or that Tancredo is a racist for recognizing that “The Race” for exactly what it is?
I’d like to see a bipartisan rule book that explains why it is OK for a “La Raza,” or a “NAACP,” but not or white centered organization. Why is it OK for Sotomayor to say that a hispanic woman will make better decisions than a white man, but if a white man said the flip side, he would be tarred and featherd?
What’s wrong with Tancredo’s points?
Star20 on May 28, 2009 at 11:05 PM
“We” being the white folks, I presume. Good luck in 2010 and 2012 gringo.
Grow Fins on May 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Marco Rubio is making some excellent points against Sonia on his twitter page. He’d did a Hannity show too. I Hope he’ll go on other networks to discuss this and gets name recognition. the dumb GOP will do well to push Rubio on TV at least for this nomination, he’ll provide excellent cover
promachus on May 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Tancredo is a hypocrite. He was taken in the Maddoff ponzi scheme and wants a bailout? I want less government too but unlike Tancredo when I could afford to invest a very small percentage of my income into my 401k…and even then I diversified…I sure as hell knew if I lost I lost…he’s weak & not a conservative at all.
DCJeff on May 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Gringo Party 2012!
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
He just wants his “welfare and ten children”! Ay caramba!
Grow Fins on May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Sugar, I’m half and half, and I wasn’t talking to you. Grow a brain.
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
The Republican’s that question here during the confirmation process need to delve deeply into La Raza and tie it together with the racist statement she made.
I’m not saying they will… only that they should.
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
when the US Government has to go up to buying 40-60% of its own bond offerings good luck Donk…
sven10077 on May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM
BTW, ‘we’ meaning Americans. We don’t play identity politics in the conservative wing. Liberals are the racists that segregate everyone into their own ‘color’.
And Jose, he is a satirist….
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Well what the hell – I think we should all join up at Stormfront now …
If identity politics is going to rule the day – and if moderates like Allah are going to endorse the practice – well, if you can’t beat ‘em – join ‘em.
What a GREAT America it’s going to be when every member of every race belongs to his or her own “racial superiority” group – which advocates the elevation of itself – above other races.
That’s just swell. This is REALLY what the moderates are advocating and quite frankly – if we end up there it’s because they wouldn’t let us PUT UP A PEACEFUL FIGHT to convince people that that is NOT the way to go.
You sit on your duff when you know better – but you sit there anyway because YOU don’t want to lose votes – well …
You don’t deserve your freedom.
That’s NOT what the founding fathers did ladies and gentlemen. The Founders (men and women) – made up 1/3rd of the population. Another 1/3rd was apathetic and the other 1/3rd wanted LOYALTY to the Crown.
Our founders won … as minority – BECAUSE THEY HAD BALLS.
Can you imagine John Hancock telling Thomas Paine …
“Hey Tom – we’re a minority here and we need these independents on our side – so please – don’t say bad things about the King because – well, some of them like him and all.”
No … It would have never happened.
HondaV65 on May 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM
If they all leave you will have to support us and like it.
NoBordersJose on May 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM
There is too much of a pattern with Sotomayor. You have the La Raza membership, her ruling against the white firemen and her comments about hispanic women making better decisions than white men. If you look at the whole picture, she CANNOT be confirmed.
Star20 on May 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM
You know, this comment probably isn’t going to help Tancredo’s credibility on his drug legalization efforts, either.
jon1979 on May 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Get real. Every Republican senator can publicly kiss Sotomayor’s ass and it won’t bring in one Hispanic vote.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
And if we don’t?
HondaV65 on May 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Racist.
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I love it! She’s a member of La Raza! But she’s a member!….
Repeat, repeat, repeat until the point is well taken!
Go Tom Go!
katy on May 28, 2009 at 11:13 PM
“We” being the white folks, I presume. Good luck in 2010 and 2012 gringo.
Grow Fins on May 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Amnesty shoved down America’s throat by Ogabe and his demorat lackeys.
Good luck in 2010/12, leftonian.
Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Oh, come on. It’s not that big.
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:15 PM
This still doesn’t match what the left does to Republican appointees. I remember Rehnquist was made out to be some sort of closet semi-Klansman who tried to keep blacks from voting, as well as denying housing to Jews.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Alito was kicked around for being Catholic.
Soto is Catholic.
The MSM whores are silent.
Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Why should Tanc take a break Allah? He said what he believes and basically it is all true. Why do you constantly advocate muzzling conservatives who are out their fighting the battles that you wimps refuse to? The only reason we have “traction” is because a few strong voices are calling it like it is.
BTW, there probably isn’t one soul on earth that would take advice from you as to what should and should not be said, so get over yourself.
echosyst on May 28, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Funny to see all those usual suspects posting to reinforce the absurdity of the main post within two minutes of it being posted. Not too staged in the hope of creating a bandwagon of stupidity, was it?
If caucasians create a group called “The Race”, would it be racist? Would a member of said group be eligible for SCOTUS if the group is less hostile than some radical skinhead group?
Buddahpundit on May 28, 2009 at 11:18 PM
They still can’t get over the fact that she will be the first “Hispanic” on the Supreme Court. the first the first the first…..aren’t we so proud?
Nevermind that 60% of her cases get overturned by the SUPREME COURT!
BTW, speaking of Catholics, Angels and Demons is a pretty good flick.
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Last time I checked………..
……….. Mexico has it’s own problems.
Why doesn’t La Raza and MEChA work on fixing those…….
…….. before using the intimidation tactics of a third world nation on us?
Seven Percent Solution on May 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM
What the HELL is this bullsh*t? No organization named “The Race” can be even remotely described as “mainstream.”
Sharke on May 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM
and radical islam is the international KKK.
just sayin’
ex-Democrat on May 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Well, I know that, and you know that, and everybody else here knows that… but our tribal ancestors didn’t know that… perhaps. :)
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Because Mexican politicians will tell them to get bent. Our politicians ask them how far they can bend over…..
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM
AP, Just can’t agree with you here. You’re using the same logic as the people who say that Gitmo causes terrorists. No, they just hate us! Did four tours over there and retired 20 years USN. La Raza is the same way, they view appeasement as weakness and exploit it to the nth degree. The best thing for the GOP to do would be to mention everything that ties this woman to a racist organization because it will at least draw a lot of eyes on her and it could very well create a LOT of resentment against the one from those in the middle for putting a bonafide racists on the court. I’m wondering what those blacks, who undoubtedly voted for Zero, think about him appointing a member of “The Race” to the SCOTUS. Any member of La Raza is an open racist. They pretty much hate blacks and whites equally. Blacks in LA are getting clobbered in a street war where La Raza is trying to push them out of the city. Ironic justice if you ask me.
Bikerken on May 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Senorita Sotomayor will be confirmed. Most all of your Senate is in my pocket. I have bought off or blackmailed almost all of them now. A bunch of pesos here, several women there, a young boy for a few of them like , a little male attention for a certain Senator from New York and now Secretary of State. Her husband still neglects her something awful. Oh my Lord, the things she wants me to do to her. It makes my skin crawl, but it is for a good cause.
A little booze spread around. Alright a whole lot of gin for a certain Senator. Ay curumba, can he ever put it down. And his son, double ay curumba. That rehab stuff sure didn’t do him any good! I’m not even sure that he went.
Your Grandfathers kept you from having to learn German or Japanese or be lamp shades. But YOU ARE NOT the men or women that they were, not even close.
Once we get our amnesty, we will all come to your country. We will all have at least 10 kids and in a generation we will overwhelm and deport most of you Gringos! Some of you, if you learn Spanish real well, we might let you stay to pick our lettuce or mow our lawns or take care of OUR children in what used to be your houses.
Those who don’t learn Spanish will be deported to Alaska. That is until Al Gore’s global warming heats things up and we want Alaska too, then we will deport you all to New Orleans. It will probably all be under water by then anyway. I hope you Gringos can swim, he, he, he. My bad!!!
So give it up and LEARN SPANISH! You should probably all buy Mexican flags too and fly them in your front yard and on your pickup trucks. If you already have an American flag there it is alright if you keep it, as long as you fly it upside down and below our great Mexican flag.
Now repeat after me – I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Mucho Grande Mexico, and to the Republic for which it use to stand, one nation under me, with everything for us, and nothing for you.
And remember Gringos,
APRENDER EL ESPANOL!!!
VinyFoxy on May 28, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Alright, I’ll admit it—I’m a card carrying member of the National Council of Male Chauvinism. But before you go getting any ideas, NCMC isn’t a male chauvinism group… not in the least!
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Actually, that would have been Benjamin Cardozo. But he got in on his merits, so that doesn’t count in the identity game.
progressoverpeace on May 28, 2009 at 11:25 PM
If caucasians create a group called “The Race”, would it be racist? Would a member of said group be eligible for SCOTUS if the group is less hostile than some radical skinhead group?
Buddahpundit on May 28, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Of course not, mainly because it’s Big Whitey keeping everyone down; he always gets the breaks.
You know it’s true because in this country a black man could never be elected President and a Latino woman could never be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Sorry, first HISPANIC WOMAN. Two minority groups. Two for the price of one!
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Yeah. She does nail the twofer!
progressoverpeace on May 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Of course. But like Ed Morrissey posted the other day, this is a great opportunity to put Obama in the spotlight. I get the feeling that mainstream America is increasingly uncomfortable with what they’re seeing.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I’m amused when I talk to some of my friends who actually voted for this bigoted moron and press them for how they think he’s doing as president. They really don’t want to talk about it because he is killing them financially. Now he puts a confirmed hispanic bigot, a woman who advocates voting rights for illegals, on the SCOTUS and were all supposed to just smile and say it’s no big deal. The O supporters, and I like using that name for him, O, because it’s starting to look like his portrait, are started to fade away. I don’t hear any of them defending the O anymore, they just don’t know what to say.
Clean your guns and buy ammo.
Bikerken on May 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Sorry, first HISPANIC WOMAN. Two minority groups. Two for the price of one!
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Yeah. She does nail the twofer!
progressoverpeace on May 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
First Hispanic Woman with Type 1 diabetes!
The trifecta!
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I’m not AP, but calling La Raza the KKK is over the top. It’s that simple.
toliver on May 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM
You are all getting very sleepy. Very sleepy. Now, repeat after me. You have heard nothing. You have seen nothing. You know nothing. You are not here. You have not even gotten up any day since January 20, 2009.
OberfeldwebelSchultz on May 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM
+1
Well said.
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM
LOL.
progressoverpeace on May 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I’m not AP, but calling La Raza the KKK is over the top. It’s that simple.
toliver on May 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM
OK, KKK lite, sort of like Meghan McCain is to an actual Republican.
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Don’t forget poor. Welfare makes it extra compelling.
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
That grew up in public housing……
What would you call that, oh yeah, a QUAD FRAUD!
HornetSting on May 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Sotomayor can go down but maybe not be with this issue.
2nd Ammendment groups are gearing up to take her down via the 2010 election cycle for Dems and their districts.
But don’t get me wrong. The more pounding she gets from every angle will taint her nonimation.
Republicans need to learn how to HIT HARD AND HIT OFTEN.
It’s a lifetime appointment folks!!!!!
katy on May 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
nomination
katy on May 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I have never in my life felt so angry, helpless, and fearful about my government’s actions and the future of our country. But I have a master’s degree in rhetoric, and I know that the words we choose to present our ideas are absolutely critical to persuading others (witness Obama – the ultimate testament to the idea that one can persuade millions with nothing but well-spoken words and some simple but powerful rhetorical memes). Because we conservatives face such strong media bias, we face a much larger hill to climb to get even the simplest message across to the public without distortions and misinterpretations. The Republican “brand” has been eroded almost beyond recognition, and we are having to start all over again with educating the public about conservatism and why it is the superior political philosophy. Phrases like “Latino KKK” give the short-attention-span media something easy to distort that they will use to completely distract the short-attention-span public from the real message about what La Raza is and why it’s bad for a potential SC Justice to be a card-carrying member of that organization.
I understand emotions are running high. The silent majority is pissed off and starting to scream again. I’ve never been called a p*ssy before on Hot Air. I’m not a shrinking violet by any means. I just sense yet another disaster coming for the already-battered Republican party and another blow to conservative morale. Yes, we should fight. But we should think through a strategy before charging up the hill with nothing but a kitchen knife and our righteous anger. There are far smarter and more effective ways to make our case and educate the public than to toss rhetorical grenades and die yet again as political martyrs in 2010 and 2012. As we’re experiencing under Obama, it doesn’t matter how right we are if we have no power.
aero on May 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Tancredo’s another dope I wish would go away. First he wants to nuke Mecca, now this. Not helpful moron.
edshepp on May 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM
No, if Republican’s put up a real fight and pushed the so-called “conservative” Democrats on the issue, they should be able to block it, IMO, and even if they fail and those Dem’s vote for her, it could be used against them when it comes time for them to be asking for votes once again.
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Aside from the hoods and nooses, why?
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Hussein.
AP’s right on points, on this one. La Raza is a shakedown group, more like ACORN than like the KKK (or MEChA). It is discreditable to be any of these kinds of groups, but they are not all the same kind of group.
Her membership in NCLR is a perfectly legitimate criticism of Sotomayor. If she is confirmed, she will be quite possibly the most ethnically biased person ever to sit on the Supreme Court.
But Tancredo needs to get his analogies right. Getting them wrong just creates a whole new sideshow distraction in the public debate. Let’s stay on point, GOP spokesmen:
Sotomayor believes in ethnically biased jurisprudence.
J.E. Dyer on May 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Huh? What does one have to do with the other?
No, never mind, that’s a different topic.
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Totally.
An insult to the power of La Raza. They have a lot more members and are about to get a Supreme Court justice.
Can the KKK say that? No, of course not.
MB4 on May 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM
True, but what lib justices don’t? Obama won the election and he gets to select his own kooks for the judiciary. Elections…consequences…you know the cliche.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Because the MSM will have hard words for anyone making the comparison. Tsk, tsk.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I’m with Tanc on this. Go Sir Tancelot!
Livefreeordie on May 28, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
So let’s sum it up
Diabetic Latina with club foot and the elephant man disease who grew up in the projects and was raised by Albanian circus midgets who slept in wastepaper baskets in a crappy lower southeast Bronx slum.
This makes her eminently more qualified to serve on the Supreme Court than anyone else, I suppose, except for deaf and blind Albanian circus midgets with advanced psoriasis.
I’m old enough to remember the show “Queen for a Day”. where the most pathetic life story won the crown.
This whole process seems like a remake….
note: Sotomayor doesn’t really have a club foot, but it would certainly help.
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Or we can direct non-stop outrage at both. That is possible, you know. Conservatives can’t shy away from calling a racist “a racist” in some vain attempt to curry favor with those who will always be predisposed to oppose conservative ideals on principle. Such self censorship is akin to liberal “white guilt” in that it accomplishes nothing more than creating useful idiots of those who practice it.
The idea that conservatives should “pick and choose” which principles to fight for is equivalent to saying that some principles are worth ceding. They are not. You can fight for a hill, lose it, and still not die. The fight can change minds for the future. Ceding the fight will only tell those in the middle that the principle is not important enough to fight for. Fighting on principle is never a bad policy.
holygoat on May 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM
The question isn’t whether she will be confirmed. It’s who will we get if she isn’t confirmed. She is difficult, over weight, and has existing health problems. We could get a woman who is very liberal, persuasive, and healthy. Which is better?
DFCtomm on May 28, 2009 at 11:48 PM
uh oh…. looks like more red meat for O’Reiiiiiilly…..
katy on May 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM
There are two kinds of men on the battlefield.
The quick and the dead.
By the time the Republican hierarchy thinks of some grand effective, but safe, strategy we will all be seis pies debajo.
MB4 on May 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM
A man w/a spine! Why is it Republicans need to back down from this issue? The democrats use issues like this to run people out of town, they scream it from every dish network house!
She’s a racist. America messed up w/the last election because the media scares people w/the P.C crap, this madness has to stop.
christene on May 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Obama has got that covered with his coming Obama/Kevorkian Health Care System. If she needs a new heart or liver, she will get yours.
MB4 on May 28, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Since I am not a former Congressmen I can’t imagine that an organization that’s name is Race,The could be anything other than racist.
But I do agree that making the stink over Sotomayor is not really helping the party a great deal… Most people assume that Obama and Sotomayor are going to be only about race and gender quotas. And the public has nothing to say in the matter.
petunia on May 28, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Obama won the election and he gets to select his own kooks for the judiciary. Elections…consequences…you know the cliche.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM
That’s what they told the German Jews in 1933.
This country won’t have a future by 2012, if this keeps up.
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Refraining from imprecise and inflammatory rhetoric such as “Latino KKK” is not an attempt to curry favor with the unpersuadable Left – nothing we ever say or do will change the minds of the lunatic Left. Using forceful and carefully crafted language that does not come across as wild-eyed and reactionary gives us some hope of persuading those who would be conservatives if they understood what that meant. Our job right now, our fight, is to educate the politically uneducated about why conservatism is the superior political philosophy. They are easily distracted, though, and rhetorical hand grenades like “Latino KKK,” thrown wildly and without precision, can harm us as much as it harms the enemy, if not more.
aero on May 28, 2009 at 11:55 PM
ROFLMAO!!!
Total burn!
FloatingRock on May 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM
As long as she doesn’t dye her hair blonde, she should be a shoe-in.
progressoverpeace on May 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM
I smoke and drink, by the time she needs them they won’t be worth having.
DFCtomm on May 28, 2009 at 11:58 PM
But I do agree that making the stink over Sotomayor is not really helping the party a great deal
petunia on May 28, 2009 at 11:53 PM
To hell with the party. She’s a racist, and any party that rolls over on that is not one of which I’d like to be a member. We’ve already got one party that thinks that way. If we get two, America may as well set aside some money to pay white reparations in 200 years.
Ronnie on May 28, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Can the KKK say that? No, of course not.
MB4 on May 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Well, Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the KKK and served for 34 years, so they’ve already gotten one seat on the bench.
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 11:59 PM
We really need to stop letting the left define the dialog.
We must begin to define the dialog.
Keep defining the dialog.
Push the facts as loud and as often as possible and let the listener decide if it makes sense.
The La Raza agenda is radical and racsist and there is absolutely no reason we should not be pounding all of this home as often as possible.
Sotomayor is a radical. A racist. A socialist. An anti-constitutionalist. And a bad judge who has been overturned on 60% of her lousy rulings. Any Questions?
katy on May 29, 2009 at 12:01 AM
This whole affirmative action thing makes very depressing reading for a non-white immigrant like me. I can’t see it ending well, in fact I sense a huge and entirely justified backlash coming. Whatever happened to the melting pot?
Fortunata on May 29, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Excellent point!
FloatingRock on May 29, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Counting on “reliable” voting blocs instead of, you know, sound governing policy is a grave error, gringo. It’s why no Democrat since 1964 has really won an overwhelming victory in a presidential race, even with a sycophantic media.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Why do conservatives always engage in hand-wringing risk analysis when it comes to obvious and outrageous challenges by the Left? As if fighting back was some kind of exotic, complicated and dangerous activity only to be undertaken when conditions were absolutely perfect? As if they lived in constant fear of embarrassment and what failure might cost them.
Why can’t they look on fighting back as an opportunity (which it is, and a glorious one it is that Obama has given us with this toxic little woman), a way to practice their skills, inspire their followers, renew their principles, shake off their loser torpor?
rrpjr on May 29, 2009 at 12:05 AM
It became the “vibrant mosaic” or “crazy quilt” or whatever non-assimilation metaphor the identity politicians come up with.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Truth hurts.
thirteen28 on May 29, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Simple. We don’t have the media on our side.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Then by your own logic, we’ll just get there much faster by charging up the hill without a message or a plan. But that seems okay with most here because they’ll have the satisfaction of screaming wildly and incoherently, inflicting a few scratches on the enemy before they die as martyrs on that hill.
Ever heard the saying “Live to fight another day?” We have to keep fighting, but smarter. We will never make a difference again if we don’t reorganize asap and win some damn elections. Obama’s insane spending and government intrusion is going to scare the $hit out of those moderates who swung to him for all his hopeychangey glory. It will not take much more to make them realize that Obama is a thousand times worse than they thought Bush could ever be. We need to be crafting our message, looking for leaders, and lining ourselves up to receive them back in 2010, not scaring them back into the “cool, collected, intellectual” arms of Obama with what they see as proof that we’re a bunch of paranoid wingnut crazies without a coherent message or philosophy that they can grasp. I guarantee phrases like “Latino KKK” will make those voters recoil further from Republicans, not help them see the light.
aero on May 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Cons love political actuarial science
/getalife
blatantblue on May 29, 2009 at 12:08 AM
It’s all pandering politics, as if Obama was still running for president. He has chosen someone who will further his socialist, judicial activist agenda and who will be protected through the confirmation process because of her ethnicity, gender and her “compelling” personal narrative. Never mind that she was reversed 60% of the time, that she admitted she makes policy instead of applying the law and that she speaks like a racist. Unfortunately, our country is no longer about fulfilling the principles of our Founding Fathers; It’s about appealing to the entitlement-minded voting masses (at the expense of proper government) so that incumbent politicians can remain in power. This cannot turn out for the good. Our declining trajectory seems ineluctable, as does Kruschev’s prediction of our nation falling like so much over-ripened fruit.
Tiberius2 on May 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Tancredo should have said “Latino Aryan Nation“, not “Latino KKK” if he wished to be strictly accurate.
(Not that that makes things any better for racist, sexist Sotomayor.)
profitsbeard on May 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Harp on it enough, and La Raza becomes the Latino KKK. Discredit it.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Oh, how incredible nice of you, Allah. So fair and balanced. So political correct. So dead wrong, yet again.
Again I ask: What in the hell was Michelle Malkin thinking when she hired this atheist liberal to head one of her “conservative” blogs?
2Brave2Bscared on May 29, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Thank God for men like Tancredo who are willing to stand up for the truth on these issues, political correctness be damned. If we left it up to “Allahpundit” and his ilk we’d have no chance.
2Brave2Bscared on May 29, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Excellent point!
This is how you fight…
The patriot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9xqDBeVv0
katy on May 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM
How about discrediting Sotomayor on her judicial record, writings, and words? There’s plenty to work with.
I think “Latino KKK” is likely to turn out to be as ineffective a persuasive meme as “Hussein” was.
aero on May 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM
These are troubled times we live in when a comment like yours may turn out to be prophetic.
As a Larry Niven fan, it seems logical to assume that people who smoke and drink will be among the last to have their organs processed. I think I’ll have to redouble my efforts! :)
FloatingRock on May 29, 2009 at 12:16 AM
I’ll put it another way, before I go to bed here. If you think La Raza is wrong-headed, racist or racialist and counter-productive, SAY SO. Otherwise, saying “we have to show due deference to La Raza in the hopes of gaining Hispanic votes” is pandering. No one’s beating the Democrats in the pandering department. No one.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Yeah, I agree. We should just bend over and allow the obama administration to shove anything they want down our throats. Yeah, if you don’t say anything, they will still call us the party of bigots, racists, and gun nuts. I’m beginning to believe that being a racist, bigoted, gun nut is not such a bad thing if it is the opposite of a whiny, pantywaist, bleeding heart liberal.
HornetSting on May 29, 2009 at 12:16 AM
What planet are you on? The ‘progressives’ own the media. The normal Joe and Jane get fed propaganda every night. And the fact is that they believe what they are told from the MSM.
Until we have a balance in reporting that reaches the masses, the independent thought will be scrubbed out of existence.
IOW We are screwed. Welcome to the present!
lsutiger on May 29, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Exactly!!!!!!!
katy on May 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM
However, “Caribou Barbie” was. Ask yourself why. It’s that old knife/gunfight thing.
ddrintn on May 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I read you are half and half.
How dare you betray your non-white heritage by being a con
What a disgrace
/some liberal
blatantblue on May 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM
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