And Newt Gingrich's view that African American kids have no model of the value of work because of the physical and familial environments they grow up in. His solution: Hire the kids to work as janitors in the public schools. Predictably, this from the GOP's self-appointed "man of big ideas," will not win him any awards from the NAACP.
There is also ample evidence that the vibes emanating from the three Presidential wannabees is having negative consequences for many of those who are on the so-called "down ticket" -- Republicans who are running for lesser offices ranging from US Senator to town manager.
Case in point: The Republican candidate running for former Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's (D-AZ) seat on Friday responded to Santorum's opposition to women serving in combat by saying she wanted to "kick him in the jimmy."
Now, as for the Latino vote, the Republican Party has done zilch, zero, nada, to even acknowledge their existence. Gingrich has called Spanish "the language of the ghettos."
Santorem, campaigning in Puerto Rico, said there could be no Statehood without "fluent command of English."
However, Gingrich apparently favors some version of the Dream Act, while Santorem and Romney have both taken a hard line on immigration reform, as if to seal their death pact with this constituency.
It would seem that the wingnuts of the GOP have gotten snookered, first, by believing their own far-right propaganda about Obama's birthplace, birth certificate, and suchlike, and second, by the demographic changes that have been taking place over the last decade.
Despite their presence in 2008, it doesn't seem that Republicans understand or accept the reality that they will soon be presenting their ideas to a nation in which their traditional majority has become a minority.
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