I can't even wrap my head around this piece of news via Gabo Pagán. I mean, seriously, how stupid does the GOP think Latinos? Absurdly Premature 2012 Watch, Vol. 2: The Governor of Puerto Rico ... for President? - The Gaggle Blog - Newsweek.com

A party whose base is animated in part by its opposition to illegal immigration is probably not going to "import" someone, as it were, for the biggest job in the land. But in the age of Obama, the GOP is suffering from a serious dearth of credible minority leaders—people who can speak with authority to an increasingly multiethnic electorate. And the shortfall is especially glaring in regard to Latinos, who are the country's fastest-growing minority group (they represented 7.4 percent of the electorate in 2008, up from 6 percent in 2004 and 5.4 percent in 2000) but are trending heavily Democratic, despite their religious, family-first leanings (George W. Bush took 44 percent of the Latino vote in 2004 versus only 31 percent for John McCain in 2008).

This is where Fortuño comes in. For Republicans, using Fortuño to fuel the eternal flame of 2012 speculation serves to make the GOP seem, at least, like a more welcoming place for Latinos—however whimsical his chances of reaching the White House currently are.

The stupidity ... it burns.

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National Journal did a rapid-response poll of left and right-wing bloggers about the GOPs strategy against Sotomayor. Here's my response to the question, "Would it be politically smart for Republicans to try to block the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor?"

"Absolutely not. The GOP has been smeared by the bigotry of its fringe groups -- it's why they can't make a dent among minority and young voters. They mess this one up and they'll carry it as a cross into 2010, 2012, even 2016. Latinos are the biggest minority group in the U.S. and we will become even bigger in the next few years. The GOP is doomed if they dare to use Sotomayor's ethnicity and gender to derail her nomination." Liza Sabater, CultureKitchen
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Oh joy! I found this gem of republican mental deficiency, Dear Black Americans: Democrats Deliberately Hold your Children Down - E_Pluribus_Unum's blog - RedState via alicublog. Gives me enough reasons to focus my rants about education on both republicans and democrats

Let's check out this piece of GOP blogging genius:

Dear American Blacks:

Sometimes the very best act of friendship I could do is tell you that the person you think is your best friend actually works against you behind your back, laughing at you, mocking your hardships, secure in the knowledge that you need him too much to ever leave him.

Sometimes -no, actually always- the true friend is the one who tells you what you don't want to hear. The one who does not indulge you, the one who will neither promise you nor give you candy and other bennies. Instead he tells you to sit down and eat your green beans and spinach -and if you want that nice car, then quit whining, get an education, earn a good job, and earn that nice car.

The really ironic thing is that the slick, good-time "friend" will tell you what a jerk your true friend is. And you will believe him. You will believe him, that is, until you grow up, or until your good-time friend sells you up the river so far that your life is wrecked, and your future is ruined. Your wisdom will have been gained at a steep price.

But your true friend will still be there. And eating your green beans, securing an education, and working hard are still the path to success.

American Blacks, the Democratic Party is that good-time, lying, back-stabbing excuse for a "friend". The DC Voucher story is an illustration -hardly a unique story- of how Democrats continually seek to set you up as a permanent underclass, so that you'll depend on them to throw you scraps and believe their lies, in order to secure your votes to keep them in power.

Isn't "Epluribus Unum" a prime example of republitards at work?

So let me tell you why I think Republicans and Democrats are wrong about school voucher programs : they can be used only for schooling and they usually are used for religion-based schools.
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Because with posts like Memo to the GOP: Go Gay, she pushes people like Dan Riehl to confront their moral and political relativism. The problem? Neo-cons like Riefhl don't get it. GOP2.0ers like Kristen Soltis of "The Next Right", do.

BTW: Am totally fangirling on Meghan. Her battle is totally quixotic and, given El Quijote is my favorite book in the world (well, it's #1 in a long list), I love her for that.

Frank Schaeffer smacks down the crazies running the GOP during an appearance in the DL Hugley show:

Ouch.

From his open letter to the GOP :

Just imagine where America would be today if the 14 to 20 million voters -- "the rube base" who slavishly follow the likes of Limbaugh -- had not voted as a block year after year thus empowering the Republican fiasco. We would have a regulated banking industry and would have avoided our current financial crisis; some 4000 of our killed military men and women would be alive; over to 35,000 wounded Americans would be whole; we would have been leaders in the environmental movement; we would be in the middle of a green technology boom fueling a huge expansion of our economy and stopping our dependence on foreign oil, and our health-care system would be reformed.
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