Harry Reid doesn’t know “how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican”
[Posted by Karl]
Via the Weekly Standard, embattled Sen. Maj. Ldr. Harry Reid (D-NV) caught telling an audience of mostly Hispanic voters: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?”
John McCormack notes that Reid’s positions on immigration are unpopular with Nevada voters in general. That’s not surprising if Reid is going to pander to Hispanic voters. But Hispanic voters — and everyone else — ought to note that Harry Reid was a key vote in killing “comprehensive immigration reform” in 2007. So the answer to Reid’s question is “yes” — he does need to say a bit more, if only to explain why he put the interest of Big Labor ahead of “comprehensive immigration reform.”
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Update: Harry’s son, Rory, is running for Governor. He’s currently getting crushed in the polls by Republican Brian Sandoval — the first Hispanic candidate elected to statewide office in Nevada. (h/t Melissa Clouthier)
–Karl
I’ll bet houses he didn’t talk about abortion or gays.
Kevin Murphy (5ae73e) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:20 pmYeah, you need to say more. You need to tell me why people should see the world and their partisanship only according to race, coincidentally in such a way that a race cannot possibly oppose your personal power.
This is so disgusting. Where’s the NAACP? Where’s La Raza? Of course, those organizations see the world according to what race you are, too, which is no longer acceptable in my opinion.
What if these Hispanic people have been fetuses at some point? Could I then suggest they cannot possibly be liberals? What if they pay taxes or were laid off by a business facing high taxes?
Maybe I could just give individuals credit, and not judge them based on the color of their skin?
Dustin (b54cdc) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:26 pmMan, Sharon Angle needed this, bad. I hope to hell the people around her take full advantage.
She’s a bit off center, IMO, but the fact that Reid is actually much nuttier is a valid response.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:28 pmThey can’t understand anyone wanting to escape the plantation since they are such kindly plantation owners and have such pleasant looking overseers …
SPQR (26be8b) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:29 pmSomeone pass Harry a mint julep, his hands look empty …
SPQR (26be8b) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:29 pmI would say he rhymes with maggot except for he is a maggot – a chewing maggot and a slurpling maggot what is guzzling and digestering the sweet suppurating dead flesh of our little country and her liberties for so he can redistribute and consolidate and redistribute and consolidate and feel safe and happy and warm swaddled in the bloated carcass of our little country’s perpetual decline
happyfeet (19c1da) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:32 pmBe sure to check the update!
Karl (12dcea) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:36 pmI wish I could write that poetry.
But yes, basically, he aspires to be a maggot. Many of these ultra cynical phonies just want to get their little slice of what’s left of a dying republic. And they are absolutely horrified at the idea of seriously rescuing her.
I could understand their POV if things were truly hopeless, but they aren’t. They could even be heroes if they wanted to be. But no, all that matters is their personal slice, usually a tiny fraction of the cost to the nation.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:38 pmThis would be the same Harry Reid who deeply offended Hispanics last year, resulting in them demanding an apology from the Senator,
“Yesterday CALL sent a letter to senators, on behalf of 33 million Hispanic Catholics, voicing our call for healthcare public policies that include changes that are essential to a moral and ethical system ensuring the protection of life, human dignity, and respect for consciences of health care workers. CALL’s voice joined that of thousands of others across the nation. Last night Senator Reid responded by comparing those who disagree with his views on morality and justice in healthcare to supporters of slavery and to those who opposed to the civil rights movement.
CALL takes great exception to Senator Reid’s shameful comparison and, on behalf of 33 million Catholic Hispanics, we demand his apology to the nation.”
Dana (8ba2fb) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:40 pmBe sure to check the update!
Oh! That’s some delicious irony there, Karl.
Dana (8ba2fb) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:41 pmUpdate put a smile on my face.
Dana, these people see the civil rights movement as nothing but a bullet point for their party. the idea of getting beyond race is meaningless to them. Say that to Sherrod or Reid and they just ignore you like you’re a simpleton… at best. At worst they look at your skin color and spit out an according reaction as to how you must be thinking.
They drag civil rights around to compare with any social justice issue they can come up with. That’s what Reid is really thinking. he thinks civil rights = cash.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:44 pmAn old white guy tweaking and pulling the race card is just really beyond the pale, Dustin.
Dana (8ba2fb) — 8/10/2010 @ 9:47 pmyou can’t fix st00pid, but you CAN mock it for days….
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 8/10/2010 @ 10:15 pmSure, but I bet Sandoval is not a real Hispanic. 🙂
Patricia (358f54) — 8/10/2010 @ 10:32 pmHispanics should be told early and often about “el aborto” liberals have in store for “undesireables.”
They only need enough votes, darlin’. Then it’s time to limit the population of your “people.”
What a moron. But the truth be known, they don’t care what comes out of their mouths anymore.
ConservoBabe (12786b) — 8/10/2010 @ 11:00 pmI don’t know how any Mormon could support Harry Reid the Democrat, okay. Do I need to say more?”
ReidTard (6bce22) — 8/11/2010 @ 12:16 am“I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican”
I don’t know how anyone of human heritage could be a Democrat.
Dave Surls (f312db) — 8/11/2010 @ 1:04 amI didn’t know Hispanic was a separate race.
hazy (996c34) — 8/11/2010 @ 3:05 amIt is a specifically delineated ethnicity within the caucasian race.
Icy Texan (e1cc22) — 8/11/2010 @ 3:29 amOld Harry ought to spend some time in Texas where there are quite a few Republican, Conservative, Patriotic, Tea Party attending, voting Hispanics.
Harry, you really need to work on your spiel, it is getting very, very boring.
GM Roper (a0b04a) — 8/11/2010 @ 4:53 amMarty here! Yep, Harry is a schmuck! Can there be any doubt? Marty out!
Marty the Martian (a0b04a) — 8/11/2010 @ 4:56 amOdds are he will be reelected even after he calls his own constituents racists and flips them the Byrd.
Mr Pink (86d969) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:14 amoh and does anyone now doubt the Dems are trying to paint anyone enforcing immigration laws as racist in order to devide us and gain votes? These people are fucking scum
Mr Pink (86d969) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:17 amI don’t know how any Nevadan could vote for Harry Reid.
ropelight (e8bea8) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:21 amIf he was any paler, he would be Albino, he’s like an extra ‘from “There will be Blood”
ian cormac (ab2f02) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:23 amThat “Harry Reid was a key vote in killing “comprehensive immigration reform” link is a killer.
Neo (7830e6) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:10 amHe probably can’t see it because he apparently only sees in black, white, and brown. I can see how they vote GOP- Hispanics are people who care about policies and laws and familes and freedom, and don’t want this sort of racism here in America.
A Conservative Teacher (b5229b) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:11 amIs this guy in the KKK or something?
Dear sweet lord what a bigoted, ignorant fool.
I guess we Hispanics are either illegals or family to illegals or want family overseas to come here illegally.
Harry, please drop dead you scum bag.
HeavenSent (ff0596) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:47 amThe reason may just be that voting for a Dem or retarded Liberal like H.Reed is like being a sheep following its leader blindly, down to the bottom of a cliff. Does he really thinks that all of us can be fooled to be one of those politically illiterate followers? That maybe the case with those hispanic that have no clue of the US politics and no clue of who is screwing up this, one time, great country after the election of this insane administration.
BorikuaNJ1 (1c275b) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:59 amAs a American-Caribbean-Latino I take a BIG offense to this impostor statements furtering strengthening my reasons why, I WILL NEVER be a Democrap.
I didn’t know Hispanic was a separate race.
Comment by hazy — 8/11/2010 @ 3:05 am
It is a specifically delineated ethnicity within the caucasian race.
Comment by Icy Texan — 8/11/2010 @ 3:29 am
It is, as far as the federal government is concerned. As we all know, the actions of the federal government have only a casual relationship to the real world. Most Hispanics are about as Caucasian as Charles Rangel.
Subotai (4caac8) — 8/11/2010 @ 7:05 amThis is par for the course with this hopefully ex-senator. The only thing that would surprise me from Reid would be an intellectually honest rational remark.
MD in Philly (5a98ff) — 8/11/2010 @ 7:08 amI guess all Hispanics are monolithic.Thankyou, Mr. Reid, for once again ,by telling the voters who you are and what the Dems represent.
mike191 (4dc06b) — 8/11/2010 @ 7:15 amMaybe Harry Reid needs to talk to Brian Sandoval, who is poised to become the next governor of Nevada when he defeats Democrat nominee Rory Reid in November.
Rhymes With Right (9d701f) — 8/11/2010 @ 8:15 amSometimes I think all Democrat politicians are offspring of herding dogs. They yip and snarl and run around from sunup to sundown keeping their herd in place. Lord help any that breakaway from the herd.
in_awe (44fed5) — 8/11/2010 @ 8:49 amWhat he could have meant was this:
“How could some greasy sp*c be beating my boy in the polls?”
Michael Ejercito (249c90) — 8/11/2010 @ 9:44 amHarry Reid doesn’t know “how anyone of the generally poorer Hispanic heritage could be a member of the rich white man’s Republican Party”
— There. FTFY!
Icy Texan (e1cc22) — 8/11/2010 @ 10:05 amHarry, I don’t know how anyone whose little grey cells are still functioning could vote for you, okay. Do I need to say more?
Jaime (88d0da) — 8/11/2010 @ 10:14 amToday Rush Limbaugh said
Lazarus Long (5720c3) — 8/11/2010 @ 12:05 pmI don’t know how the Morman Religion could allow a Morman Liberal.
Liberal Stupidity (6cdb11) — 8/11/2010 @ 12:17 pmharry reid, i am going to attribute your ignorance to the leaky depends you are wearing!
I simply do not understand why harry reid is still in politics? he is one OLD man!
Please Spread the truth!!! A vote for a dem is a vote for CHINA!
Forget about Learning Spanish and the illegal’s start teaching your kids Mandarin Chinese!
We are being bombarded with islam tolerance, and democrats spending money as if time is running out! We live in one uncertain world, and worst potus to start has not addressed the many questions of his birth place!
Lorraine (9d1bb3) — 8/11/2010 @ 2:33 pmI read that he is trying to walk it back by saying he meant he did not know how anyone, Hispanic or otherwise, could be a Republican.
JD (02b872) — 8/11/2010 @ 2:58 pmour sons and daughters
ColonelHaiku (f2744f) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:03 pmwere dying in Iraq Reid
said “This war is lost”
gave aid and comfort
ColonelHaiku (f2744f) — 8/11/2010 @ 5:05 pmto the enemy he can
kiss the Colonel’s ass
“Sometimes I think all Democrat politicians are offspring of herding dogs.”
If I was a herding dog, I’d file a libel suit.
Dave Surls (8f52ea) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:04 pmI don’t know how the Morman Religion could allow a Morman Liberal.
Reid is strongly disliked by the Mormons I know.
ColonelHaiku (f2744f) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:18 pm“30.I guess all Hispanics are monolithic.”
Yes, because the GOP would never be guilty of painting all Hispanics as being violent, drug-running criminals who kidnap Americans and gleefully murder them on the border. They’d never paint all Hispanics as taking American jobs. Or as illegals who should be required to produce papers simply because of their skin color (which for some reason reminds me of Nazi Germany – can’t imagine why).
That would never happen.
JEA (e8fadc) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:39 pmNo, the GOP wouldn’t do that. That would never happen.
Sure, a lot of racists like Sherrod make insane claims like that. It’s called projection.
‘Produce papers’. If you don’t like the federal law, petition to have it changed. Until you do, Obama is breaking his oath of office to not faithfully enforce this requirement. It’s there for a good reason and we aren’t putting mexicans in the oven if they don’t show their papers.
If this is what reminds you of nazis, you’re a nazi apologist.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:41 pmspeaking of hispanical peoples and such this is profoundly awesome though I can’t say why exactly
happyfeet (19c1da) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:53 pmJEA, it is nothing short of amazing how you think you can show up here and write such buffoonery demonstrating your utter ignorance of whatever topic you opine upon.
I think you need to go back to studying whether or not “war bonds” are government borrowing or not before deciding to launch into nazi references about existing Federal law.
SPQR (26be8b) — 8/11/2010 @ 6:59 pmJEA just ol’
ColonelHaiku (f2744f) — 8/11/2010 @ 8:20 pmcountry-headed boy zip code
EIEIO
“Or as illegals who should be required to produce papers simply because of their skin color (which for some reason reminds me of Nazi Germany – can’t imagine why).”
I can’t imagine why either, seeing as how pretty much everyone in Nazi Germany had the same skin color.
But, only God knows why lefties think the stuff they think.
Dave Surls (23733f) — 8/11/2010 @ 9:31 pmI’m a conservative but I bailed on the Republican party a long time ago. Sadly, that leaves me with very little representation. Sorry, but I can’t jump on board a party that claim to be strict constructionists and are so obsessed with imposing unconstitutional language + cultural requirements in a FREE country.
Iono (892ac0) — 8/11/2010 @ 11:31 pmJack E. Ass projectile-vomited the following:
Yes, because the GOP would never be guilty of painting all Hispanics as being violent, drug-running criminals who kidnap Americans and gleefully murder them on the border.
— By daring to discuss events in the news, the GOP is guilty of stereotyping? Seems to me that the only one using the word “all” here is YOU!
They’d never paint all Hispanics as taking American jobs.
— Again, you are attributing that stereotype to them; thereby, you yourself are stereotyping the GOP as being all paranoid racists. Ironic, isn’t it?
Or as illegals who should be required to produce papers simply because of their skin color (which for some reason reminds me of Nazi Germany – can’t imagine why).
Icy Texan (ddb818) — 8/12/2010 @ 4:24 am— Right. The GOP considers all hispanics in America to be illegal until proven otherwise. Gee, are you sure that you don’t want to shop this major revelation around to the likes of HuffPo, instead of tossing it out for free at this little start-up blog?
Description of Reid’s comment this am on Fox:
“That was an Archie Bunker comment.”
MD in Philly (5a98ff) — 8/12/2010 @ 5:54 amHaryy Reid is a stinking turd. His brain is made of excrement. Flush him into the sewer with the other stinking democrats and illegal brown things.
flushtheturd (453185) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:22 pm