The Weekly Standard brings us the video of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid showing the world that he’s cracking up. Reid showed his racist stripes, and what’s unsurprising isn’t that he’s got them (most liberals are racists, after all), but that he slipped and let people see them. Whoops!
To Harry Reid — and to most liberals — only white men are allowed to be whatever kind of political affiliation they want. If you’re any kind of minority, black, hispanic, gay, female, whatever, then you must be a Democrat. This is racism, to expect that someone who is a minority can only think a certain way. Why is it that a hispanic person can’t be a Republican? There’s no reason for it beyond Harry Reid and racist liberals playing the race card to win votes.
And, what’s interesting to note is that Harry Reid is completely out of touch with his voters. As John McCormack notes, all of his immigration positions are at odds with Nevada voters.
Polls show, however, that Reid’s positions on immigration are very unpopular with Nevada voters in general. Reid supports the Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration law, but 63 percent of Nevada voters oppose the lawsuit, according to a Rasmussen poll.
Reid voted against a measure to complete a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border in May, but 68 percent of voters nationally support building a border fence, according to Rasmussen.
Reid needs to realize that playing the race card will do nothing but piss people off when you’re at the opposite end of the spectrum from your constituents.
UPDATE: Ed Morrissey’s got the smackdown for Harry Reid:
I have some advice for Senator Reid. If he wants to find out how someone of Hispanic heritage can be a Republican, he can call Brian Sandoval in Nevada. Reid should be able to recognize Sandoval, because he’s currently beating Reid’s son Rory like a drum in the polls for the gubernatorial race (via Karl in the Green Room). Small wonder Rory has stopped using his dad’s name in his campaign advertising.
As I also pointed out this morning in my most recent post, the race card has been played over criticism of FLOTUS’ “vacation” in Spain. Of course from the HuffPost about the “vicious attack” by Republicans:
“Simply put, there are some in this country who cannot stand the idea of women and people of color in positions of power, and there are cynical power mongers who don’t mind pushing their buttons to keep the political pot boiling. And they are not above exaggeration and outright lies to prove their nonexistent point.”
Really? Are we tired of these people yet?
It is quite revealing that Red Harry Reid cannot understand how “anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” Apparently, he is only acquainted with Hispanic professional victims who support his party’s cradle to grave welfare policies. There are Hispanics who recognize the trap of dependence that underlies government handout programs.
What Reid, Obama, Pelosi, Frank, and company actually want is to increase the numbers of their permanent entitlement constituencies. Many, if not most, Hispanics realize that to accept subsidies, set asides, quotas, and other welfare giveaways is to take the first step down the slippery slope that leads to a lifetime of hat-in-hand subservience to the people who operate the government welfare plantation.
Hispanics recognize this, and I am among their number.
JimmyC says: Reminds me of a line from the Spike Lee movie Get on the Bus. When it’s revealed that one of the guys on the bus is a Republican, someone says to him, “I don’t know how you can be black and be a Republican,” and the guy fires back, “I don’t know how you can be black and NOT be one!”
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