Head Of Anti-Sotomayor Group: Hispanic Voters “Think Just Like Everyone Else…Not Like African Americ

Head Of Anti-Sotomayor Group: Hispanic Voters “Think Just Like Everyone Else…Not Like African Americans”

Manuel Miranda, the controversial leader of conservative groups allied against Sonia Sotomayor, said on a blogger conference call that African American voters are different from Hispanic voters because Hispanics “think just like everyone else” on issues, “unlike African Americans.”

Miranda, you’ll recall, is the fellow who’s organizing a campaign to pressure the GOP Senate leadership into filibustering Sotomayor. As I noted below, Miranda had to resign as a GOP Senate staffer after getting nailed hacking into the computers of Senate Dems and swiping their strategy memos.

Today, Miranda did a conference call with conservative bloggers organized by the Heritage foundation, where he discussed Sotomayor. Asked how Republicans could oppose her while avoiding charges of racism, Miranda said they had to wage substantive attacks. Then he segued into a discussion of the views of Hispanics on issues, saying:

“By the way, Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else. We’re not like African Americans. We think just like everybody else.”

The audio is here; the key bit starts at around the 42 minute mark.

To be clear, Miranda didn’t appear to be saying that African Americans are unlike everyone else in that they don’t think. He seemed to be saying that everyone, including Hispanics, thinks one way on issues, and African Americans think another way. Perhaps Miranda meant otherwise, but this seems clumsy at best and seems to crudely isolate African Americans as a political group.

Miranda’s group is putting severe pressure on GOPers to follow his group on Sotomayor, though you have to wonder whether they’ll follow his lead if this is what he really thinks.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/head-of-anti-sotomayor-group-hispanic-voters-think-just-like-everyone-elsenot-like-african-americans/

:wow:

What a piece of work. :shrug:

Guess I don't think like other racial groups think --

So who exactly is "Everyone Else" (hint: Not black people: hint White people?)

WOw -- Seriously just when ya think they can't jump the shark any higher...

Yeah Hispanics don't vote as much in blocs like we do (AA's) but I have heard real reaction from conservative latinos which is showing that this might push more of them to do so. Was listening to a radio show today and latino callers were calling in and saying that their parents and other older Latinos are really enraged about this Sotomayor drama. Its being widely covered in Hispanic media and its pushing even socially conservative Latinos towards Democrats.

gratuitious bashing the way they're going after her.

Seriously, what's really amazing when you think about it with the African American vote is that studies show that 2/3's of kids end up belonging the same political party as their parents. The democrats have certainly dominated the AA vote for more then a generation now, so lets assume that they won 100% of the AA vote in the 1980's, by that measure they ought to have won only 67% of the young African American voters, yet for generations they consistently get around 90% of the AA vote. Even in elections where it's a black republican against a white democrat the democrat usually takes a large part of the African American vote.

That's not 'voting based on race', or being 'different' or whatever Miranda wants to call it, that's screwing up REALLY bad among African Americans.

The one thing that is true though that Miranda seems to be implying is that Hispanics are a bit more divided up into subcultures then African Americans, since there's several different countries that most Hispanics immigrated to the US from. That however doesn't mean that it's not impossible for the GOP to really piss them all off and lose their votes in landslides.

Most people raised in my generation (20 somethings) were basically raised being told that the Republican party doesn't care about Black people, and the GOP is showing that our parents were correct.

Even in elections where it's a black republican against a white democrat the democrat usually takes a large part of the African American vote.

Yep.

*brain explosion*

why is he going after her for any reason except he's in the Gaggle Of Psychos?

When bigots speak!

:crazy:

It's been a while since I've heard some good, old, Black/Hispanic racism. This is something no one damn well talks about but it's definitely there. Lots of unease there that deals with racism, classicism and more. Always a division. Sometimes it's culturally like Haitian/Dominican which has deep roots to the Haitian massacre by Dominicans in DR or Dominican/Puerto Rican animosity. Sometimes it's just in the US where they've built the propaganda machine to divide social classes because if they ever got together they'd see the oppressor is not each other but the capitalist and even racist politicians. Huh....How am I not surprised this was going to start...


~sigh~ It's like being welcomed to the City of Dis.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

:thumbsup: