Ben Sargent / Austin American Statesman
(via inothernews)
truth
(via warrennotg)
(via enjoli)
I wonder if Randy Haddock saw this? Or maybe it’s all about Randy’s situation, even!
(via wooliebear)
Nah, I doubt Aaron posted this for me, hehe.
I actually oppose Sotomayor’s nomination and her inevitable confirmation. I’ve written a little bit about it and my reasons why.
I reject this notion that all Hispanics vouch for one another and that just because you don’t support one of us, we’ll punish you (in this case by not voting for you). We’re not a gang. We’re not a homogeneous group with the same goals, ideas, and attitudes. It is almost impossible for the liberal collectivists in the Democratic Party to understand this. Just because Sotomayor happens to be Hispanic doesn’t mean every single Hispanic is going to support her. That is an insulting assumption.
My point is made clear by the fact that the Democrats weren’t hurt by their fierce opposition to Miguel Estrada or Clarence Thomas. Again, minorities aren’t homogeneous groups.
That being said, Republicans don’t seem to be any better. Lately, I’ve been noticing an almost hostile attitude towards Hispanics specifically from the party’s base — an unwillingness to engage Hispanics and understand them, and at times even a tendency to dismiss them. I’ve been noticing racial and ethnic ignorance that is flabbergasting. Questions of whether or not there is such a thing as “Hispanic”, questions of whether or not they’re even worth pursuing since all of them are hardcore liberals and they’re all for illegal immigration and entitlement programs, questions of whether or not they should abandon their cultures and join this “American race” (seriously, I’ve heard someone say they racially identify themselves as “American”), and the biggest question of all: how exactly do the Republicans expect to win again if they don’t have the largest and fastest growing electorate on their side?
How do you win them over? You win them over by being the party I’ve always thought the Republican Party to be: the party of individualism, the party of acceptance, the party of hard work, the party of being proud of who you are, the party that understands there is more to a person than his or her ethnicity, race, gender or sexual orientation but also understands the value of it and seeks to understand it, the party that doesn’t lump people together, the party of life, the party of small government, the party of patriotism, the party of opportunity… the party that best encapsulates what the American dream means.
I, somewhat reluctantly, am still a member of the Republican Party. I’ll never join the Democrats, and if the day ever comes that I finally get fed up with the Republicans I’ll have no problem trading in my (R) for a big (I). At the end, it’s about principles and not political parties.
