Republican roots grouse over Bush's choice of a Latino loyalist to lead the party

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Bush, Rove Face Criticism From Activists Over Martinez Choice

By Catherine Dodge

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The choice of the Florida lawmaker represents both the president's penchant for picking long-time Bush family loyalists and Rove's view that Hispanic voters are vital to the future of the party.

``Mr. Martinez, though I'm sure competent in many ways, doesn't help us create the impression that we are setting a new direction,'' said Republican Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a leading advocate of the House Republican push for stricter immigration controls that helped kill Bush's proposals.

``The politics of this party has superseded its principles,'' said Angela ``Bay'' Buchanan, president of a Washington educational foundation called American Cause, and who ran the Republican presidential campaign of her brother, the conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan. ``We now put foremost as our priorities some kind of outreach.''

Online columnist Ryan Sager called the Martinez selection a ``Harriet Miers moment,'' drawing comparisons to Bush's abortive 2005 nomination of his White House counsel for the Supreme Court.

By selecting Martinez, ``Bush is picking someone again based almost entirely on loyalty to the Bush clan,'' Sager said. ``This isn't the George Bush Republican Party anymore. This party is about 2008 and where we go from here.''


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1. ``We now put foremost as our priorities some kind of outreach.''

Translation: "Letting the party get overrun with Spanish-speaking people. How long before we become Los Estados Unidos?!?" :scared:

At least the Buchanan family doesn't try to hide their racism and xenophobia.

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2. Well, of COURSE, the Rethug Roots KNOW their minority puppets are SCAMS

That, ever since Poppy pioneered the concept by naming Clarence THOMAS, the thingy has been working like a charm---putting the Dems over the barrel of having to oppose minority members. But the Rethug Roots have operated on the basis that the REAL power is NOT to be given to the minority tokens. Clarence knows his place and DOESN'T TALK or ASK QUESTIONS or write ORIGINAL OPINIONS!!!1 Beto GONZALES only got the torture memos written by John YOO.

So the Rethug Roots only want the minority scam so long as it is ONLY a tool, not a real option.

(Reminder to Dem operatives: The ANSWER to the scam is:: We are opposing (whatever) nomination because of his WINGNUTTINESS, NOT because of his MINORITY birth. To approve or disapprove based on RACE is RACISM.)