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1 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 14, 2013 8:58:20pm

All due respect to Mr. Pantoja, but I wonder why he didn’t see this before. The article says he campaigned with Mitt Romney’s brother in law in Florida. Did he not hear Mitt say he wanted to make life for illegal immigrants that they’d want to “self-deport.” Again, I am glad he sees the light but I am always amazed at these guys who have these sudden revelations that the GOP are intolerant on race. It’s like, if you had been paying attention to your party from the get-go, you’d have noticed it. Anyhow, I hope he finds happiness politically.

2 Locker  Tue, May 14, 2013 9:45:26pm

I think he addresses that point when he talks about how it’s not just this or that stupid politician saying “wetback”. Assumed he meant that’s how he used to think and now he sees it’s a core problem. I think we should allow as much freedom for movement as possible. Good for him.

3 stabby  Tue, May 14, 2013 10:47:29pm

One idiot in a comment section said that he shouldn’t have taken offense at the “hispanics are inferior” line because he’s blue eyed.

Welcome to the Nazi GOP

4 stabby  Tue, May 14, 2013 10:50:47pm

Good quote:

Democrats embrace Hispanics and the culture as a positive thing. Democrats seem more in tune with the reality of what happens in diverse communities. Some solutions in governmental policy are better than others, but there is room for fiscal sanity in the Democratic Party. People’s rights, from voting to other protections, are important. We can’t just dismiss those because of some eugenics-based study. [emphasis mine]

5 majii  Wed, May 15, 2013 2:58:37am

I predicted that when the GOP began its’ minority outreach program, that it would fail for some major reasons. First, it’s a fake program. It’s easy for us (minorities) to see that GOPers only developed the program to win elections. They think that if they tell us they “care” about us, we’ll vote for them. It’s not so simple. You cannot get people to vote for you just by talking about it, while, at the same time, you’re doing everything you can politically to oppress them. Second, those who created the program are in deep denial if they didn’t realize at the very beginning the extreme intolerance of the party’s base, intolerance which cannot be overcome with a minority outreach program when a significant number of conservatives/republicans don’t view certain Americans as being their equals or deserving of the same rights they enjoy. Third, many republicans, even those in leadership positions, underestimate us by thinking that we’re not as politically astute as they are. This was on full display when Rand Paul went to Howard U. and refused to admit that the Republican Party of the 1860s hasn’t been the same party since the Civil Rights Act was passed. I think republicans know their outreach program has been a failure, and this is why they’re grasping at every misstep that is made during President Obama’s administration, by the WH and/or any agency, to discredit him and harm Hillary Clinton’s chance at winning the 2016 election, should she choose to run.

6 andres  Wed, May 15, 2013 9:08:30am

re: #1 HappyWarrior

All due respect to Mr. Pantoja, but I wonder why he didn’t see this before. The article says he campaigned with Mitt Romney’s brother in law in Florida. Did he not hear Mitt say he wanted to make life for illegal immigrants that they’d want to “self-deport.” Again, I am glad he sees the light but I am always amazed at these guys who have these sudden revelations that the GOP are intolerant on race. It’s like, if you had been paying attention to your party from the get-go, you’d have noticed it. Anyhow, I hope he finds happiness politically.

Quite easy to explain: he’s a Pro-statehood supporter who recently moved to the states (the only two Puerto Rican heroes he mentions are the last two PNP governors). He got there, believing in what is sold in PR as what the US is and he was in that honeymoon period. He’s also a USA citizen since birth (all Puerto Ricans are), so maybe he downplayed the anti-immigration streak.

To have taken this decision, I think he was questioning himself since at least last year.


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