GOP uses Spanish-language radio to attack Dems. On immigration. Seriously.
I keep hearing about this story, but I haven't come across a comprehensive article, just a Nevada local news story about ads attacking Harry Reid on the issue.
The gist of it is that the RNC is dumping cash into spots that accuse Dems of 'playing politics' with the issue and killing legislation.
What the RNC clearly fails to realize is that Latinos A) aren't stupid, B) don't live in a news vacuum, and C) care enough about it that they're actually paying attention to what happens in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of people weren't rallying in the streets in support of Republicans-- they were fully aware that a sizable Republican contingent was trying to cater to their racist base with punitive laws. The GOP torpedoed the rather sensible Kennedy-McCain bill, and their infighting killed the senate compromise.
Like I said before, the Republican party's pitiful attempts at 'minority outreach' have ended in failure, with no hope of recovery until the neo-fascists are sent packing. This embarrassingly inept move just screams "brought to you by a bunch of rich, old white guys."
UPDATE: The story is continuing to emerge, and although I was under the impression that the ads were being aired in several states, they might just be attacks on Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada. That said, the ads are even more retarded than I first thought. From the Las Vegas Sun:
"Reid's Democrat allies voted to treat millions of hardworking immigrants as felons," the ad says, "while President Bush and Republican leaders work for legislation that will protect our borders and honor our immigrants."
That statement alone more than justifies my initial assessment that the RNC is banking on Latino ignorance. The suggestion that the Democrats were the ones pushing to classify undocumented immigrants as felons is shocking even from Ken Mehlman's RNC*-- it's an aggressive, intentional lie being repeated with the party's approval. The push to classify them as felons was spearheaded by the likes of GOP Reps. Jim "Babyman" Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo. And on top of that, it even hews to the neo-fascist line of childishly refusing to use the word 'Democratic,' which shows you who's in control of the party's pursestrings. (Assuming this isn't an error on the part of the author.)
The only positive note here is that the GOP is so pitifully worried about this year's elections that they're already dumping millions of dollars into propaganda and dirty tricks more than six months away from the elections.
*Mehlman is facing his own scandal. It won't gain any traction with the public, but he's been linked to the mastermind behind the New Hampshire GOP's infamous phone-jamming campaign to suppress voter turnout in 2002. Two Republican operatives have already been convicted over the incident, and the current defendant, James Tobin, was making dozens of calls to Mehlman's office during the time in question. Oh, and the RNC has put up a couple million dollars for Tobin's legal defense. Probably not a coincidence.
The gist of it is that the RNC is dumping cash into spots that accuse Dems of 'playing politics' with the issue and killing legislation.
What the RNC clearly fails to realize is that Latinos A) aren't stupid, B) don't live in a news vacuum, and C) care enough about it that they're actually paying attention to what happens in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of people weren't rallying in the streets in support of Republicans-- they were fully aware that a sizable Republican contingent was trying to cater to their racist base with punitive laws. The GOP torpedoed the rather sensible Kennedy-McCain bill, and their infighting killed the senate compromise.
Like I said before, the Republican party's pitiful attempts at 'minority outreach' have ended in failure, with no hope of recovery until the neo-fascists are sent packing. This embarrassingly inept move just screams "brought to you by a bunch of rich, old white guys."
UPDATE: The story is continuing to emerge, and although I was under the impression that the ads were being aired in several states, they might just be attacks on Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada. That said, the ads are even more retarded than I first thought. From the Las Vegas Sun:
"Reid's Democrat allies voted to treat millions of hardworking immigrants as felons," the ad says, "while President Bush and Republican leaders work for legislation that will protect our borders and honor our immigrants."
That statement alone more than justifies my initial assessment that the RNC is banking on Latino ignorance. The suggestion that the Democrats were the ones pushing to classify undocumented immigrants as felons is shocking even from Ken Mehlman's RNC*-- it's an aggressive, intentional lie being repeated with the party's approval. The push to classify them as felons was spearheaded by the likes of GOP Reps. Jim "Babyman" Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo. And on top of that, it even hews to the neo-fascist line of childishly refusing to use the word 'Democratic,' which shows you who's in control of the party's pursestrings. (Assuming this isn't an error on the part of the author.)
The only positive note here is that the GOP is so pitifully worried about this year's elections that they're already dumping millions of dollars into propaganda and dirty tricks more than six months away from the elections.
*Mehlman is facing his own scandal. It won't gain any traction with the public, but he's been linked to the mastermind behind the New Hampshire GOP's infamous phone-jamming campaign to suppress voter turnout in 2002. Two Republican operatives have already been convicted over the incident, and the current defendant, James Tobin, was making dozens of calls to Mehlman's office during the time in question. Oh, and the RNC has put up a couple million dollars for Tobin's legal defense. Probably not a coincidence.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 9:26 PM
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