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Right Outraged That Reid States The Obvious: GOP Despises Latinos

By Big Tent Democrat

This statement by Harry Reid has the Right up in arms:

“I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK,” Reid said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Do I need to say more?” he asked.

The Right was quick to trot out a Cuban-American to rebut:

I am the daughter of Cuban exiles who have seen first hand the failures of liberal and socialist policies in their native country. [. . .] My father looked at the platform of the republican party that endorsed small government, lower taxes, and strong defense, while the democrat party embraced Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, murderers and tyrants, as some sort of folk heroes, and endorsed larger and endorsed larger governments taking power away from the people.

(Emphasis supplied.) As the son of Cuban exiles, let me be the first to say that this is batsh*t insane. The "democrat" party embraced Che and Fidel? In what bizarro world does this person live in? Democrats have consistently denounced the tyranny in Cuba, to the point of imposing a counterproductive embargo on Cuba (JFK) and expanding it (Bill Clinton.) As I say, this is just batsh*t insanity.

Beyond that, the GOP, after a period of seeking to woo Latinos (see Rove, Karl) has now embraced xenophobic policies and statements that are, by any objective measure, attacks on Latinos. But in the strange world of the Wingnut, Che and Fidel are "democrat" stalwarts. The lunacy on the Right regarding Latinos continues.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).