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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Candidate Says Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s (co-chair - CPC) ‘Allegiance Is Not To America’
A Republican congressional candidate in southern Arizona declared this morning that her Democratic Latino opponents allegiance is not to America.
Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, the favorite to win the Republican nomination in Arizonas new 3rd congressional district, made the charge against Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) while speaking at a Tucson Tea Party rally. Grijalva, who was born in Arizona, has served his state and country for decades.
After dismissing Grijalva, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as a communist what is progressive about communism? Mercer asked she told the crowd that the congressman is anti-America. His allegiance is not to America, Mercer declared. Grijalva was born here, but he hates the American way:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/22/430677/gabriela-mercer-raul-grijalva-allegiance-america/
Hard to tell whether speaking in front of tea party groups makes republican candidates wax 'stupid' or whether that's just how they are. It's not enough for repubs to campaign on issues. They have to base their campaigns on allegations of treason and shouts of "fear of what these 'others' will do".
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)They are not worried. The teabaggers will stop Latinos from voting using their second amendment rights or they will just not count Latinos votes. Or they will tell them that they vote on the Sunday after the election or they will not have any ballot boxes in their districts.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And he may have the best congressional logo ever...
saras
(6,670 posts)Check out your LOCAL government. It's easier.
Compare what your local right-wing politicians say to the public to what they say when they are speaking to closed business audiences. You might have to finagle your way into one of them, act as a "representative" of someone else who was invited, or otherwise get hold of the minutes, or a recording.
You'll be revolted, disgusted, and enraged, but you won't be surprised. We see little bits of it on DU regularly, when part of a politician's speech to business groups leaks out.
Their speech in private to businesspeople is, I think, the closest representation of their "real" values.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Even with the little snippets that do get out what you can discern from them speaks volumes. it is a semisecret society. There is a theocratic white supremacist under current with this crowd. They are racist, bigoted and violent. They are Stalinist in their attitude and have a purge mentality. The eliminationist rhetoric that floats around the RW media comes from this from crowd. Everything about them is about racial and cultural hatred and war. They are an integral part of the Dominionist movement. That is why they are so dangerous. They are a cancerous conspiracy that is determined to replace the constitution they crow about all the time.