If I were a Republican I’d write off the minority vote – and I’d stop pretending I don’t know why.
Conservative talker Jay Severin via Think Progress:
So now in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico — women with mustaches and VD — now we have swine flu. … We should be if anything surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types considering the number of cimminalieans already here. […]
[W]hen scoop up some of the world’s lowest of primitives in poor Mexico and drop it down in the middle of the United States. Poor, without skills, without language, not share our culture, not share our hygiene. … It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country. … Now they are exporting a rather more active form of disease which is the swine flu.
Stay classy, Jay. Not to be outdone, Boehner’s fearmongering video upsets the Hispanic caucus while Byron York disses the black vote. Meanwhile, Rep. Broun wonders if the the baby who died of Swine Flu was an illegal immigrant. Let’s not forget the gays either, since they’ve been taking their conservative hits as well with NOM declaring war and Rep. Virginia Foxx calling what happened to Matthew Shepard a hoax. And don’t even get me started on teh stupid surrounding the NY Post’s cartoon, or FOX’s precious little Obama’s Baby Mama. And there’s plenty more where these come from – feel free to add other examples of their body of work in the comment section.
What are they not getting? Do they seriously believe they can talk like this and grow the party? I know, I know, I have an unhealthy obsession with the workings of the Republican Party. I’m just gobsmacked by the disconnect. Here’s a hint: White men do not get to decide what blacks, Hispanics, women, gays, etc. find insulting. They are not the arbiters of what’s funny, insulting, racist or bigoted. And for a bunch of delicate little flowers whose feelings are constantly hurt you’d think they’d be capable of some degree of sensitivity.