A Buried Story? Burton: Bustamante may give CA back to Mexico

If this has been posted or if it's being covered everywhere and I just missed it, apologies in advance. I thought it interesting because when Davis made the crack about Schwarzenegger's pronunciation of "California", it got fairly heavy rotation on cable news for a couple of days. A leading Republican attempting to suggest Hispanics are inherently untrustworthy in executive positions (dual allegiances etc) would seem just about as bad and, to me, even worse. Why the silence? If one story is fair game, then so is the other. Strange entity, this "liberal media".

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6758482.htm

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It wasn't Republican Rep. Dan Burton's remarks about McClintock that raised the ire of Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., but what he said about Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante.

"I was saying I hated to see the Democrats and especially Gray Davis keep control, and Bustamante may want to give California back to Mexico - I said that tongue in cheek," Burton said.

Lieberman, a presidential candidate who supports Bustamante in case Davis is kicked out, called on President Bush on Friday to repudiate Burton's remarks.

"I know Cruz Bustamante, and Cruz Bustamante loves California," Lieberman said in a statement. "For Dan Burton to suggest Cruz wants to return the state to Mexico is itself an effort to return America to a divisive time."

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is an ignorant BIGOT!!! He asked McClintock to drop out of the race to make way for Ahhnold S.!!! But after McClintock told Burton about Arnies positions Burton Said that he will just stay out of California politics!

unbelievable that that absurd story is being seriously exploited. Even the respected Milt Rosenberg on Chicago radio embarrassed himself by suggesting there was something there. His guests practically laughed in his face.

Fascinating that Liberman chose to weigh in on it. It hadn't ocurred to me, but the questions about his "divided loyalties" are in a lot of ways the same thing.

he is constantly embarassing Hoosiers

but they just keep on voting him into office


I say "they" beause I wouldn't vote for him if a GUN was at my head


I couldnt vote for him any way, I have my own republican fool to deal with

Admittedly I'm white, but have several friends who are active members. I have no problem with their beliefs.

What is the deal?

I don't know anything about them, really, but Bustamante was with them when he was in college and it's ridiculous to draw any conclusions based on something like that. Just as ridiculous as the Skull and Bones stuff, imo.

if it catches on and scares some voters to not vote democrat... the republican racist are filled with glee.

If it gets the negative press it deserves...like Limbaugh always says when caught in a fuck up... "it was just a joke, see I told you so, liberals have no sense of humor."

Fucking racist republicans I hate everyone of them!

"Mexifornia" is used all over the place along with "pandering". This is why they can never win here.

For this kind of ludicrous, race-baiting comment to get any airtime--good, bad, or indifferent--would be disastrous. No matter what else might be said, the only thing that people will remember is, "Cruz Bustamante wants to give California back to Mexico."

The comment is custom-designed to provoke deep, xenophobia among the likeliest voters in California.