Navajo Republicans rarin' to go

I posted this here to get some thinking going. Why would some of the nation's poorest people go Repub??

WINDOW ROCK - The Republican Party is alive and well on the Navajo Reservation.

After keeping quiet for the past three decades, party members have been getting more vocal and more visible since President George W. Bush won re-election Nov. 2.

A rally and victory party at the Shiprock Chapter this past weekend drew upwards of 1,200 people to hear speeches promoting the Republican way of life and to show appreciation for area veterans.

MacDonald Lee, vice president of the Navajo Nation Republican Party and coordinator for the event, said food was prepared for 1,000 people and it ran out.

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http://www.thenavajotimes.com/_content/rezrepub.php

Pet Rocks, ABBA and out outdated experiences to validate existence.

You know ----The ones's who don't have a Casino or Natural Resources to strip mine.

My guess is that the food was the attraction, not the sermonizing by a bunch of smug Rethuglicans.

The Navajo people I know are intelligent, reasonable, and DEMOCRAT.

However, there have been quite a few scandals of late in tribal government, so I know they have a few rotten apple Repuglicans in the tribe.

When the Repgus manage to assemble a crowd of more than 20 on the rez without offering free food, let me know.

Lots of otherwise sensible people "hope" to be rich someday, and start voting R , in case it happens right away:eyes:

just a lure and maybe those were mostly dems? But why aren't the dems motivating like this? My local county party does jack-crap in out reach to anyone but themselves and their numbers reek of their laziness.

so my next question is, are Dems not supportive of Indian Gaming as a whole or just not taking bribes from them?

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — More than two weeks after 60 percent of the Navajo voters said yes to expanding gaming across the reservation, members of the Navajo Nation Council began a two-day work session on gaming Thursday.

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http://www.daily-times.com/artman/publish/article_15353.shtml

Native Americans are big believers in property rights. What a man owns is his own to use as he sees fit even if it pollutes the best fishing stream around.

Self-reliance is also big among traditional Native Americans. No hunting-party crap for these rugged individualists, they hunt alone.

Many traditional Indians see their old tribal languages as a hindrance for acceptance into the modern world. English is the only way to go!!!

Tonto, Little Beaver and Wild Eagle of F-Troop (played by Frank DeKova) are stirling role models for Indian youth. Why would any Indian child want to emulate a loser like Crazy Horse much less consider him a hero?

It was the Indian Squanto who taught our Pilgrim forefathers the secret of wise investment strategy. A free market economy and investing in a wide range of stocks has long been the Indian way to "The American Dream."

Oh, yeah...Go Redskins!

To use an encompassing term, how can anyone who isn't white and protestant can support that party may be one of the great mysteries of our age.

There are some Navajos who are 'apples', you know, red on the outside, white on the inside. Some that are 'converted' by the boarding schools/christianity. These are the Repugs on the rez.

republicans are moving in and co opting indian tribes to get the gambling revenues. who else would you expect to do this. indians are by heritage liberal and in many cases have been broken by republican viciousness and are so docile they can be co opted and led around by the nose.

Europeans came to this continent.

Hopefully the Navajo nation will take a very close look at this phenomenon and will discover who is behind it, and that it is an attempt by corporate America to brainwash and assimilate the tribe and end the sovereignity movement once and for all.