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PDF versionGOP: How do you say "Kamikaze" in Spanish?
by Michael Sean Winters on Aug. 13, 2010
Janet Murguia has an article at Politico, pointing out why the Republican Party is “flirting with disaster” by pursuing such vicious anti-immigrant policies.
Latinos are the fastest growing demographic in America, as well as the youngest, and the GOP is alienating them not just for an election cycle but for a generation. What are the consequences? The Republican Party in California has still not recovered from the anti-immigrant Prop 187 which passed with GOP support in 1994. Florida, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado, all purplish states with large Latino populations, all broke decidedly for Obama in 2008 and Arizona might have joined the list but for having a native son in the race. I am thinking that Texas, probably the most thoroughly Republican state in the country, will drift to the purple within two years and blue within six.
Yesterday, I was in Boston and I stopped for lunch with professor Alan Wolfe at Boston College’s Boisi Center. Wolfe is one of the leading political commentators in the nation, a man who insights are incisive and whose capacity for knowledge is exceeded only by his capacity for kindness. I asked him what he made of this anti-immigrant foolishness and he said something very smart: “The GOP can’t fix this because there is no more ‘party.’ There is just a grouping of fundraising outfits. They need their equivalent of John Bailey to come in and shut down all this anti-immigrant stuff. It will kill them in the long-term.” Younger readers may not remember Mr. Bailey who led Democratic Party both in Connecticut and nationwide when “backroom” politics was still practiced and grownups looked out for the long-term interests of the party. In the event, there are two men who could play this role for the GOP, the only two living former GOP presidents, Bush pere and Bush fils. They should speak up now.
In the world of NCR
In the world of NCR supporting immigration reform supported by 60-70 percent of the population is political suicide. Supporting a health care law opposed by the same percentage is not only good politics, but heroic, and supporting the deliberate and brutal killing of the unborn is ignored.
Why are such comments always
Why are such comments always nameless - what do they have to fear?
immigration reform means
immigration reform means legalizing everyone that is here, and admitting the right to work emphasized by several popes. the whole illegality ruse is simply to benefit employers who thus avoid labor laws hard fought by generations of Americans, legal or illegalized.
what poll produces this amount and on what terms?
might it not be skewed in the sampling?
the REAL charles scanlon
Oh boy, this is fun for a
Oh boy, this is fun for a Friday morning.
1. "Latinos are the fastest growing demographic in America, as well as the youngest, and the GOP is alienating them not just for an election cycle but for a generation."
- Astute political observers recognize the wisdom of the statement "a year in politics is a lifetime", so you would think one would be cautious about predicting "generation(s)" of voters. The miscalculation liberals/Dems are making is equating "Latino" issues purely with immigration reform. While this may be more accurate in the short term, political polling also shows Latinos who have been citizens for multiple generations trend Republican in important ways, most importantly on the so-called "life" issues. For example, recently polling suggest some 70% of California latinos (and African Americans!) oppose legalized gay marriage. The liberals have successfully demagogued the immigration issue and thus, right now, hold favor with certain Latino groups, much as with African Americans.
2. "The Republican Party in California has still not recovered from the anti-immigrant Prop 187 which passed with GOP support in 1994. "
- Wait until November when CA has both a (real) Republican governor and a Republican senator. And the fiscal disaster looming in CA as the result of liberal spending policies is making CA an increasing toss up in the Presidential race. Nothing in politics is forever.
3. "I am thinking that Texas, probably the most thoroughly Republican state in the country, will drift to the purple within two years and blue within six."
- See # 1 above.
4. "“The GOP can’t fix this because there is no more ‘party.’ There is just a grouping of fundraising outfits."
- See #2 above, writ large in November. And with competent, modest folks like Mitch Daniels, Christie, Bob McDonnell, Paul Ryan & Eric Cantor rising in leadership, I'm confident we have a lot of grown-ups in the drivers seat.
i simply wish to point out
i simply wish to point out this is NOT me
probably JMG but NOT me
Scanlon Charles is dreaming.
Scanlon Charles is dreaming. Look at how long it has taken blacks to forgive or forget the southern strategy, and Barry Goldwater's vote against the civil rights law. Hispanics may well vote against gay rights in referendums, but they won't turn around and vote for the party that demonizes them. Karl Rove and George W. Bush knew Republicans needed to get 30-40 percent support from Hispanics, and that Hispanic views on other issues made that possible- but only if Republicans weren't kicking Hispanics in the teeth.
bill dude this is not me but
bill dude this is not me but someone grabbing my name for their own ideological ends
Es una realidad que un dia
Es una realidad que un dia nos va alcanzar!!! Todos esos Republicanos que
estan en DC...y nomas alli sentados para no votar a lo que se les presenta.
Para eso manden a un 'chango' que3 levante la mano y diga no!!
HE DICHO!
"Scanlon Charles is dreaming.
"Scanlon Charles is dreaming. Look at how long it has taken blacks to forgive or forget the southern strategy, and Barry Goldwater's vote against the civil rights law."
- Look at quickly they forgot that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery and racism for over a hundred years (and until this year, was represented in the US Senate by a former member of the KKK). What this shows is that the Democratic Party is simply more astute at demagogueing racial issues (see Rangel, Charles; Waters, Maxine; Congressional Black Caucus).
To Scanlon Charles; Blacks
To Scanlon Charles;
Blacks needed the better part of a century to forget that the Democrats were the party of slavery and Jim Crow. Until the 1930s, they were overwhelmingly Republican in those areas where they were allowed to vote. But some black leaders backed Al Smith in 1928 (they knew his anti-Catholic enemies weren't friendly to blacks). By 1932, a majority of urban blacks backed Herbert Hoover, but some party workers warned GOP leaders that "they're getting tired of hearing about Lincoln."
Starting with Roosevelt's re-election a majority of blacks voted Democratic, but there was a still a substantial minority of black Republicans (especially in the south) until 1964, when the GOP rolled out the red carpet for Democratic segregationists like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.
brojo, leave my name alone I
brojo, leave my name alone
I knew it was a mistake to go real name here
The margin between victory
The margin between victory and defeat for the GOP is not their current supporters, but the 30% of Latino voters who still vote for them (it used to be half to 60% - but killing reform and a path to citizenship in 2008 savaged their margins). Going after anchor babies, which are becoming voters, or will be within a decade, will reduce the margin even more.
The west, southwest and south, which have high latino concentrations, may turn solid blue. Never wound a king - talking about doing away with birth right citizenship without actually doing it is just plain stupid, since those who are effected will never, ever, vote Republican again.
Beyond that, I suspect that this new line of conversation is designed to make it angrier - and anger is never good for compromise. No compromise means that the current cohort of undocumented immigrants in the fields and factories of Food, Inc. remain in the shadows as a docile workforce. That is as close to an example of promoting despotism as there ever was. Only prison labor and out and out slavery are worse.
researching the title
researching the title question over at es.wikipedia.org brought this interesting observation:
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Kanjis que forma la palabra Shinpū, interpretado erróneamente por los traductores estadounidenses como kamikaze.
La palabra kamikaze, si bien tiene su origen en el idioma japonés, surge de la lectura equivocada del tipo Kun'yomi por parte de los traductores estadounidenses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial de los kanji 神 (lit.dios) y 風 (lit. viento), cuando su pronunciación correcta debería ser del tipo On'yomi y pronunciado como Shinpū (神風, ''Shinpū''?). El empleo de la palabra kamikaze se propagó fuera de Japón y fue aceptada mundialmente como válida, aunque, dentro del mismo país, a los pilotos que dirigían sus aviones para estrellarse deliberadamente contra barcos enemigos se les conocía por el nombre de Shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai (神風特別攻撃隊, «Unidad Especial de Ataque Shinpū»?) o por su abreviación tokkōtai (特攻隊, 'tokkōtai'?).[5]
Desde la culminación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el término se ha seguido aplicando a diversos tipos de atentados, donde el protagonista se sacrifica deliberadamente (como en el caso de ataques terroristas), o como una forma metafórica donde el individuo tiene pocas o escasas probabilidades de éxito con un riesgo considerable.
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The word kamikaze therefore in Japanese is Shinpu and has nothing to do with divinity nor wind. Our US translators made up the whole thing, just as our CIA made up the whole WMD thing more recently, to please the persistent political needs of a president, one with his big bombs to drop, the other with oil to steal.
dudes as cogent as his
dudes as cogent as his remarks may appear SCanlon Charles III ain't me, ok?
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