NYT Op-Ed: Cruz Victory Not Historic Because He Doesn’t Meet the “Conventional Expectations” of a Latino
Which are, of course, to be a Democrat.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Made History. Didn’t You Hear?
DEFYING most polls and predictions, a Latino won the Republican Iowa caucuses, and another Latino came in third. Together, they won more than half the vote.
With Senator Ted Cruz taking nearly 28 percent of the vote and Senator Marco Rubio getting 23 percent, each vastly surpassed the results for any other Latino candidate in any previous United States presidential contest.
How is that not being celebrated as historic or at least worth a headline for a day or two?
The answer is not that complicated: Neither Mr. Cruz nor Mr. Rubio meets conventional expectations of how Latino politicians are supposed to behave.
Oh? And how is that?
Neither of these candidates claims to speak for the Hispanic population or derive a crucial portion of their support from Hispanics, and neither bases much of his political identity on being a Latino. To varying degrees they oppose legalization for unauthorized immigrants, a policy that is central to most organized Latino political interests and that is supported by a great majority of Latino elected officials and Latino voters.
The final claim is obvious bullshit, since Rubio and Cruz never shut up about their Cuban heritage. And the claim that Rubio opposes legalization to any degree, when he actually supports a path to citizenship, is also just false. Really, what this “analysis” boils down to is that they’re not authentic Latinos because they’re not Democrats. Oh, but it gets better!
No less an arbiter than Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor, seemed to condemn them without naming names in a column last month. “There is no greater disloyalty than the children of immigrants forgetting their own roots. That is a betrayal,” he wrote. It is criticism that echoes the rhetoric aimed at Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court and other successful members of minority groups who are perceived as failing to uphold their own group’s interests.
“No less an arbiter than Jorge Ramos” is a phrase that mocks itself, but there’s no law that says we can’t pile on:
No less an arbiter than @aceofspadeshq, professional blogger, declared that Hillary Clinton had likely mobility issues.
— The Scandalous DJT (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 4, 2016
@AceofSpadesHQ @nytimes no less an arbiter than Wayne LaPierre says these Democrat gun control proposals are nuts
— The H2 (@TheH2) February 4, 2016
More of that good identity politics analysis:
We learned that when Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign took off with a victory in Iowa. In 2008 the voters got to know a politician whose ancestry and upbringing were far from typical of the African-American population but who nonetheless served as that population’s tribune in powerful ways.
By being a Democrat.
Mr. Obama walked his own tightrope by striving not to be defined by his race even as his political strategy depended on rallying black voters to his cause.
Because he’s a Democrat.
It’s a whole piece devoted to justifying the notion that Cruz’s victory was not really historic. Because, yes, he’s a minority — but he’s a minority Republican, don’t you see. So that doesn’t count.
At least now you know why nobody’s talking about Cruz’s historic victory.
Except: you already knew why, didn’t you?
P.S. Yes, the piece also talks about Rubio — but Rubio doesn’t really matter here because you see, Rubio hasn’t done anything historic yet. Coming in third, despite what the media might try to tell you, is not really that “historic.”
#MARCOMENTUM!
Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/4/2016 @ 7:44 amI’m surprised that Cruz and Rubio weren’t labeled “white-Hispanic.”
felipe (b5e0f4) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:04 amDemocrat elites are as scared of Cruz as Republican elites are, and Robert Reich explains why.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:06 amOn the other hand, that Elizabeth Warren woman might become the first White Indian to be elected President.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:11 amMarco Rubio is JEB’s doppelganger. They are two sides of the same coin – card carrying GOP establishment insiders. Rubio’s prominent place as the public face of Comprehensive Immigration Reform is the clearest indication of his absorption into the collective. If Rubio wins the GOP nomination all resistance becomes futile, you too will be absorbed.
ropelight (b3812c) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:11 amFTFY
felipe (b5e0f4) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:13 amNew York Times
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:18 amNot good for the toilet
I pity the trees
It’s funny how the Left is always championing people with alternative points of view. Okay, so here’s a couple of Cuban-Americans who venture down the less traveled road to the beat of their own drum, and the NY Times’ response is, “Hey, stop behaving differently than the rest of the herd, you free-thinking, independent-minded jerks!”
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:20 amExactly, felipe.
You may be right, ropelight. Rubio is lucky he’s so likeable because he has terrible foreign policy views and he’s a hopeless sellout on immigration.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:34 amnew york values are kinda rough on the brown peeps
happyfeet (831175) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:43 amRoberto Suro is a bigot.
The reason people like Suro – and the editorial staff at the New York Times – get away with being so brazenly bigoted in public is because their bigotry is politically correct. You are to be shamed and shunned for treating anyone as “the other” for being of a certain race or ethnicity or sexual orientation (and now, sexual identity), but it’s perfectly fine for people to declare that persons “of color” who do not hew to the political identity assigned to them by the media majority are unworthy of praise, note, or congratulations. In fact, for the sake of what they consider a greater good, these people believe the importance of such dissidents’ very existence ought to be diminished.
This, of course does NOT apply to Caucasians (or, as WSJ‘s James Taranto puts it, “people of pallor”). Those who identify as “white” are not supposed to have a fixed political identity based on their race or ethnicity. In fact, white people are, according to people like Suro, supposed to do everything they can to distance themselves from the concept of linking their skin color and their political ideology. Still, in an act of systematic hypocrisy so thoroughly institutionalized it’s accepted as conventional wisdom, they are encouraged to join the Suro types in disrespecting and mistreating minorities (like Cruz, Rubio, Clarence Thomas, Bobby Jindal, Dinesh D’Souza, and others) who similarly reject the progressive politics cast upon them without their consent.
As a man twice as black as Barack Obama who rejects the invisible “(D)” presumed to be branded on my posterior upon arrival, my contempt for people like Suro is almost palpable. Thankfully for us both, I will likely never come within shouting (or spitting) distance of him.
L.N. Smithee (178aa6) — 2/4/2016 @ 8:44 amThrough their actions, Cruz and Rubio are tearing down racial and cultural stereotypes and making it difficult to employ prejudices. Who can argue that isn’t a good thing? Seems the NYT would much rather that Cruz and Rubio, in order to be acceptably authentic, should reinforce the prejudices the NYT seems to espouse as in “If you’re a , you should act like a .” The more that the media, like the NYT, reinforces the racial/cultural divide, the longer there will be prejudice in our society. By all means, let’s celebrate the differences among races, cultures, and religions, but let’s not build walls around them which only creates “we good, they bad” thinking.
LTMG (94c4c3) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:00 amThe idiocy lost me with…….”they oppose legalization for unauthorized immigrants.”
Unauthorized immigrants actually means “ILLEGAL”………so……..”they oppose legalization for illegal immigrants”.
This would be the word game that socialist play.
Rich (ddc02c) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:06 amHey Cruz Supporter,
“Hey, stop behaving differently than the rest of the herd, you free-thinking, independent-minded jerks!”
What they actually mean is “WTF are you doing on the reservation!”
Rich (ddc02c) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:09 ammy parakeet blanched
Colonel Haiku (209597) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:23 amshe saw what lined cage bottom
all the news that’s shi+
Remember the last time we had the rule of law guiding it’s application, rather than than the skin tone of the top cop coloring it’s bias?
Alberto Gonzales was his name.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:24 amThe NYT is just one recycling step away from its best use, but even then I expect it is only suitable for the lower grade of tissue, not the soft and fluffy stuff. Something prickly and stiff.
But there are signs of a revolution brewing in the bowels of the Gray Lady. Check out this quote from Peter Eavis on the topic of toxic loans in yesterday’s edition:
He must have missed the memo, let alone ignored the author’s guide. He points out that China will have $30T in loans at the end of this year, up from $9T seven years ago. And $4T may be lost on loans of questionable value. I thought that NYT had concluded that the problem was that QE wasn’t large enough? Ah, perhaps the answer is that QE is in the US, not China.
But then again, he closes suggesting that the solution is for the government to step in with “a widespread plan that aims to reduce the debt load of financially stressed homeowners”, as has been done in Ireland. So what a government can screw up, it can screw down, problem solved. That’s a plan … until the unintended consequences become so large as to require yet another intervention.
BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:26 amthis Jorge Ramos
Colonel Haiku (209597) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:34 amneeds narrow ass kicked back for
Aztec sacrifice
Stop thinking for yourself and get your brown asses back in the Democrat barrio!
JVW (d60453) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:41 amI think the left has pretty much kicked people of Cuban descent out of the whole pan-Latino identity group. I mean, just because Cubans come from a culture which has seen first-hand the end result of leftist domination is no reason for them to suddenly be into such unappealing concepts as capitalism and personal freedom.
JVW (d60453) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:46 amGive him a Colombian necktie or have him get Dirty Sanchez’d by George Lopez.
Colonel Haiku (209597) — 2/4/2016 @ 9:58 amSo that’s it: Latinos are, by definition, leftists. And so Al Sharpton is more a Latino than Ted Cruz because he speaks for Latino (i.e. Marxist) core values. We clearly need Cruz more now than we needed Reagan in 1980!
Jeff Kalb (9ca142) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:00 amTed Cruz is indeed a minority.
I don’t mean an ethnic minority. I mean a truth-telling minority.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:03 amIf this year’s GOP primary comes down to the race between a revolutionary, a conventional (but young) Establishment Republican, and a vulgar pander-clown, that gives the country two out of three chances.
I’d prefer the revolutionary. I’d still show up to vote for the young establishmentarian. I pray I’ll never be left with the clown as my only alternative to the Dems.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:07 amThat said: I couldn’t be happier with the chaos on the other side right now. This Democratic sausage is delicious to watch being made, as long as I don’t have to eat it at the end.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:08 amCruz might have a problem appealing to Latinos, but I’d never bet against Rubio on any type of emotional appeal. He could win California against Hillary. Yes, really. It is likely enough that he’d campaign there.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:13 amAnd if you throw in an African American, you get to 60%.
It’s like the Supreme Court, which has absolutely no white Anglo Saxon Protestants left. No Protestants of any kind, actually, in fact. Which, under some legal theories, must prove discrimination.
Sammy Finkelman (dbec95) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:19 amConsider the possible (likely?) tickets of Clinton-Castro* vs Cruz-Fiorina or Rubio-Fiorina. See if you can pick the authentic woman and Hispanic.
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Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:39 am* although a Sanders-Castro ticket would have another kind of authenticity….
The NYT un-selfconsciously quoting Jorge Ramos as an arbiter?
Another illustration of the fish not noticing water.
bud (791f49) — 2/4/2016 @ 10:53 amRubio/Schumer 2016
mg (31009b) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:14 amRubio/Focahontas
ropelight (b3812c) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:17 amTwo Hispanics came in first and third? Gee, it’s almost as if the whole “Republicans are racist” thing is just a self-projecting hippie myth or something.
CrustyB (69f730) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:23 amThey don’t call it the New York Slimes for nothing.
Bill M (906260) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:23 amNew York Times values.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:26 amI love it the way that Trump supporters can find fault with Tea Party Republicans over one past issue when their own guy has been blowing the other side for decades.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:28 amNot only did we have a couple of Hispanics finish highly, but the 4th place finisher (Carson) is black. And the second place finisher (Trump) is from Uranus!
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:29 amI wonder who some of these Trump people would vote for if the election was:
Rubio/Firona
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:30 amHillary/Castro
Bloomberg/Webb
*Fiorina
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:31 amHere’s what we get instead of justice. Feds fight disclosure of Hillary Clinton Whitewater indictment drafts.
“She’s one of the most well-known women in the world, seeking the office of the presidency and her privacy interests outweigh the public interest in knowing what’s in that indictment? It’s absurd and it’s shameful that the administration is proposing this,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in an interview. “This is a political decision to protect her candidacy—because it is laughable, legally.”
And here is where the media retread the story they ignored the first time, because Obama’s mockery of a Justice Department is about to lose.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:34 ampolitico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/02/feds-fight-disclosure-of-hillary-clinton-whitewater-indictment-drafts-218681#ixzz3zEF7jzue
I have a book – All the news that fits: A critical analysis of the new york times – that lays out the case of how the Times was instrumental in the rise of Castro.
Betcha Cruz and Rubio both read it.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 11:41 amRubio/Ailes and a all Fox cabinet 2016
mg (31009b) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:00 pmRubio/Ailes and a all Fox cabinet 2016
Only if Megyn Kelly gets the new Department of Building Permits just to bust Trump’s balls.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:28 pmShot:
GOP Establishment Rallies Behind Rubio
Chaser:
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:30 pmWonder why Rush went out of his way to claim Rubio isn’t the GOP/DEM uniparty’s guy?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:33 pm#43 papertiger, you’ve really jumped the shark with your questioning of Limbaugh’s fidelity to conservatism.
Maybe Rush is a secret Democrat.
Love it.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:37 pmThe funnest part of being a conservative is getting to kick all the apostates out of the movement. Hell, Islam’s got nothing on us where that’s concerned, ‘cept that those lucky devils get to stone their apostates to death.
JVW (d60453) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:40 pmI remember the actual events, and have read the wiki on Donald Trump, where he ran for President twice before. So where is this new “special” hurdle that Trump has to clear, that he has to win every primary (even the rigged ones) or he is a loser?
Thank God for Trump, if for nothing else but making Univision interviews of Rubio nervous tap dances around what he says to Anglos and what he’s willing to say to Ramos.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:44 pmI love how Jeb Bush—or any Bush—is giving Quaker-like lectures to other people about the pride and vanity inherent in pursuing ambitions. I mean, he’s only the third person in his immediate family to run for President…of the United States.
Not for President of the local Elks Lodge or President of the County Little League Association—rather, President of the United States.
What did Ann Richards say about their father about being born on third base?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:48 pmThe English language has many colorful terms for minority members who don’t meet conventional expectations, many dating from the slave era. Such a mindset has outlived the plantation or, perhaps, come to serve the modern, figurative plantation. Even among Democrats, the expectation extends well beyond party allegiance. They expect gratitude and deference. Never freethinking.
By the way, the conventional wisdom has always been that with ethanol subsidies, Iowans were bought and paid for. With his record-setting vote accumulation, Cruz proved that article of faith completely wrong.
It will be interesting to see if he can also convert bought-and-paid-for Hispanics and thereby disprove another conventional wisdom. I don’t see any reason why not. It is not as if an old, rich White woman with a sense of entitlement, or an even older hippie/kook hold any special appeal to Hispanics. Besides, as they say in the barrio, “Companeros antes put*s, verdad?”
ThOR (a52560) — 2/4/2016 @ 12:49 pmCruz Supporter- Your an a$$. You been an a$$ since your first comment on this site.
Your good points are you’re a comprehensive a$$, an all encompassing a$$. Your asinine never wavers or slips. An a$$ with no crack.
I bet Dulcolax sends you a Valetine, but you’ll never crack enough to admit it.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/4/2016 @ 1:02 pmWhat did Ann Richards say about their father about being born on third base?
The irony being that Richards’ own daughter is the national President of Planned Parenthood, a position I am sure she attained on her own merit and had nothing to do with her mom being the head cheerleader for abortion in Texas in those innocent pre-Wendy Davis days.
JVW (d60453) — 2/4/2016 @ 1:02 pmDes Moines Register calls for audit of Iowa Results…
ropelight (b3812c) — 2/4/2016 @ 1:59 pmJimmy Carter endorsed Donald Trump specifically because Donald Trump has no grounding, no guiding principles, no values other than Donald Trump.
Jimmy Carter said no to Ted Cruz specifically because Ted Cruz has grounding, has guiding principles, has values greater than Ted Cruz.
John Hitchcock (b09b88) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:13 pmMinnesotans have ben laughing at iowegians for many, many decades.
mg (31009b) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:14 pmAnn Richards stole that from Barry Switzer: “Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. “
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:24 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1tIH5XhXa0
John Hitchcock (b09b88) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:26 pmCarter endorses Trump, and Cruz immediately turns it into a pro-Cruz ad, without adding anything to Carter’s message.
@ papertiger (#38): I bow to no one in my disdain for Hillary Clinton and my certainty that she ought to be in prison instead of on the campaign trail. But I absolutely, positively disagree that draft indictments — against anyone, ever — ought to be released.
No one who understands and values civil liberties would think it a good thing if the government is allowed to merely destroy lives without even the proof required to support a grand jury indictment or a prosecutor’s “information” in lieu thereof.
And the quoted portion about being “laughable, legally” is indeed laughable. They’ve just got it ass-backwards: The notion that such draft indictments aren’t absolutely privileged, and that they are (or ever ought to be) available for public inspection, is more than laughable. If I were a judge, I’d sanction a lawyer who asked me for that relief unless he admitted, up front, that he’s asking for something that cannot be supported by current or historical law, and that he’s asking me to change the law.
I’d be interested in our host’s views on this if he feels that it’s a subject he can address without complicating his day job.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:28 pmSo Saturday’s debate lineup includes everyone but Fiorina, even though Fiorina is ahead of Carson in NH (3.5% vs 3.0%) and finished ahead of both Kasich and Christie in Iowa. Gilmore is also excluded, but he’s pretty much a pajama candidate.
There is no undercard, of course. At this point 7 people will be on stage. Also Mary Katherine Ham will be a token conservative on the adjunct panel.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:30 pmDraft indictments have no business being in the public eye. Only actual indictments do.
John Hitchcock (b09b88) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:31 pmDidn’t Bill Clinton evade the draft?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:32 pmI hope one of them talks about how Cesar Chavez was totally against illegal immigration and even protested against it at the border.
Minds would be blown all over the NYT editorial offices.
Patricia (5fc097) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:40 pm#43 papertiger, you’ve really jumped the shark with your questioning of Limbaugh’s fidelity to conservatism.
Maybe Rush is a secret Democrat.
If Leonardo DiCaprio can be one of Jean Lafitte’s pirates turned mountain man, Indian fighter, and grizzly bear killer, Rush Limbaugh can be a conservative.
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:48 pmAnyone know what’s up with this: Breitbart Twitter, 02/04/20
ropelight (b3812c) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:53 pmGee, I guess I’d better change my vote based on this unsubstantiated rumor.
And from the same folks who accuse Cruz of “cheating” for taking Carson at his word.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 2:57 pmMilo Yiannopoulos is the kind of Greek who sneaks up behind Haiku at Middle Eastern restaurants, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:00 pmWhat’s going on with Breitbart.com?
Has Robert Mercer cut off the flow of money?
Sammy Finkelman (dbec95) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:26 pmMilo Yiannopoulos is the kind of Greek who sneaks up behind Haiku at Middle Eastern restaurants, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Dammit, I wish I understood this because I’m sure it’s hilarious. I get a kick out of Yiannopoulos much in the same way that I (mostly used to) get a kick out of Ann Coulter. Sometimes our side needs a boorish and rude media personality too.
JVW (05e1e2) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:31 pmAccording to the WaPo, Ben Carson is running out of money, which makes his Iowa antics even more suspect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/04/ben-carson-slashes-staff-as-funds-dry-up/
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:39 pmShorter NYT. “Rubio and Cruz refuse to conform to our bigoted liberal stereotypes of Messicans, so that makes them race traitors like Clarence Thomas.”
Steve57 (f61b03) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:42 pmKevin M,
I think Dr. Carson was also running out of pants!
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:44 pmMilo might be interested in that.
Milhouse (6847ae) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:52 pmMilo Yiannopoulos is the kind of Greek who sneaks up behind Haiku at Middle Eastern restaurants, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 3:00 pm
It took you several days to come up with THAT, nk? Yer slippin’…
But yeah… right after he sold you his watch with the added bonus of a reach-around.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/4/2016 @ 4:18 pmQ: Why did the little Greek boy run away from home?
A: He didn’t like the way he was being reared.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/4/2016 @ 4:23 pm“Several days”. Haiku, who am I to question your sex appeal (even if I did think you were bragging just a little)? Mr. Yiannopoulos was not mentioned before tonight and I’m still taking you at your word.
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 4:34 pmWhen the Jewish girl tells her father that she has fallen in love with a Greek boy and wants to marry him, he hits the ceiling. He forbids it, on pain of disownment. The girl goes ahead and marries the boy, anyway. The old man does not even go to the wedding and stops talking to her altogether.
A year goes by and she sends him a telegram. “Oh, daddy, I really need to see you and talk to you”. Well, by this time his heart has softened and he misses her too and he wires back, “Ok”.
She sends a private plane for him which flies him to Athens. A private helicopter takes him to a hundred-foot yacht at Piraeus. The yacht takes him to an Aegean island. When he lands he sees a big beautiful palace, of marble, with landscaping and statuary, and dozens of servants all over the place.
His daughter, dressed in the height of fashion and dripping with expensive jewelry, runs out and hugs him. He hugs her back and says, “My baby, I’m so glad you sent for me. I see now that you were right and I was wrong”.
She says, “No, daddy, you were right. I want you to take me away from here and back home with you”.
He asks, “But why?”
She says, “Because when I got married my [anus] was the size of a dime and now it’s the size of a silver dollar”.
And he says, “You’re going to give up all this for ninety cents?”
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 4:43 pmYou are one sick fook, nk… yer on a roll!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/4/2016 @ 4:57 pmWhy do you think they called her “Jackie O”!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/4/2016 @ 5:05 pmNice jewish princess joke, nk.
mg (31009b) — 2/4/2016 @ 5:30 pmnk, Colonel, you guys are way too entertaining.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 5:31 pmNow I’M going to have to fly back to Florida to pick up a fresh pair of pants! (LOL)
Thank you, guys.
nk (dbc370) — 2/4/2016 @ 5:54 pmof course, don’t ask ramos, how the mexican authorities, dissapeared 43 leftwing students, then blamed in on the local mayor, who happens to be of the opposition party, of fast and furious, which wrought thousands of casualties, to mexican citizens,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/4/2016 @ 6:16 pmWatching Sanders v Clinton, Sanders said let’s talk about the issues, Cankles said, yeah, let’s and mention of Koch Bros and Karl Rove made within 45 seconds. They’re cereal.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/4/2016 @ 6:38 pmnk, By the way, I’m looking forward to the comtinuation of your Raymond Chandler-esque novel. Don’t allow yourself to get too discouraged by holes or idiosyncracies in the plot—Chandler didn’t! (When Howard Hawks was filming ‘The Big Sleep,’ he called up Chandler and asked him who killed the chauffeur, and Chandler famously replied something along the lines of, “Damned if I know!”)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/4/2016 @ 6:58 pmNeither of these candidates claims to speak for the Hispanic population or derive a crucial portion of their support from Hispanics, and neither bases much of his political identity on being a Latino.
Notice how the writer, Roberto Suro employed at USC, avoids using “liberal” or “conservative” — or “centrist,” for that matter, too — throughout his entire assessment of the election in Iowa, undoubtedly rooted in the same sleight-of-hand bilge (of “Huh?! We’re not biased!!”) that staffers of the New York Times are notorious for when they’re being accused of leaning left.
That lack of honesty on the part of so many members of the MSM drives me nuts.
Mark (f713e4) — 2/4/2016 @ 7:11 pmA couple of Lucky Charms, Col.
mg (31009b) — 2/5/2016 @ 3:54 amRush goes where the money comes from- and it be coming from the R.N.C.
mg (31009b) — 2/5/2016 @ 4:09 amHe lost his balls years ago.