I wonder why this is happening:
Among California Latinos who registered between the 2002 and 2006 midterm elections, 23% were Republican, 50% were Democrats and 23% declined to state. More recently, GOP affiliation among Latinos has begun to slip. For those who registered since the 2006 midterm vote, only 16% are Republicans, 56% are Democrats and 24% declined to state an affiliation.
me
So delightfully self-destructive.
TenguPhule
The obvious solution is to restrict voting to right-thinking white people. Men of course. Women are only meant for cooking and happy fun time when boys aren’t available.
licensed to kill time
I see a brown door and I want to paint it white
no colors anymore I want them to turn white
/GOP
Mark S.
They’ll have to lose about five elections before that happens. Most conservatives think they lost in 2006 and 2008 because the party wasn’t conservative enough.
Napoleon
Great choice in titles, especially since I just got 5 old Stones records I never had (including Exile, what a great record) and am sitting hear listening to them.
demkat620
I’ll tell ya, there are geniuses running the GOP.
Growing minority population that might agree with the social parts of your platform and assure you of a majority for years, fuck it, alienate them.
They’re all brown anyway.
Genius.
Napoleon
@Mark S.:
They will not wake up any sooner then 2016, if they loose that presidential election and have failed to take back either house in the interim.
Bill E Pilgrim
Soon the Republicans are going to wish they’d studied Latin, in the immortal words of Dan Qualye.
I see a billboard and I want it painted white
no color anymore I went them to turn white
Seanly
Fuck the Republicans and the sway-backed horse they rode into town on.
Jeff Fecke
Clearly, this is happening because Democrats are the real racists. Most Latinos oppose shamnesty. Too. Also!
KCinDC
Argh, I see the “Congratulations, you won!” audio ads have slipped back in. Does whatever the ad network is really think people are going to put up with that sort of thing? Seems like the fastest way to getting them to install ad blockers and destroy your entire business model, plus that of your blogger customers.
frankdawg
But those votes don’t really count. Just watch election coverage and analysis any time a Dem wins, there will always be some discussion of how they wouldn’t have won if you ignored some block, brown, black, red, poor, female. But when a real American wins they never talk about how he wouldn’t have if you ignored the moron, overweight, inbred or male vote.
See its really easy!
Bill E Pilgrim
@Bill E Pilgrim: Weirdest thing, in all the years I’ve known that song and that goes back to when it came out I have to admit, I thought it was “No more will my great seagull turn a deeper blue”. And just now looking up the lyrics realized that I had Mondegreened it.
Warren Terra
In a couple years, even the current rate (i.e. that since 2006 16% of CA latinos registered R) will be a lofty goal that Rs will aspire to regain. I doubt it’s been close to 16% these last few months.
frankdawg
@licensed to kill time:
You owe new a new keyboard! Thanks for the laugh.
Bill E Pilgrim
@licensed to kill time: I didn’t even see yours. GM and etc.
licensed to kill time
__
That is what he said:
Hysterical, I’d forgotten the awesomeness of malaQuayleprops.
ETA: Bill E. Pilgrim you crack me up here all the time.
MattF
It’s going to be the topic of a thousand Ph.D. theses in political science: Why did Republicans move to the right after the Reagan-Bush I era? I suppose that, from some historical long view, it will eventually look inevitable– but right now it just looks dumb.
Warren Terra
@ Bill E Pilgrim
Quayle’s a moron (“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind, or not to have a mind at all – how true that is!”), but the “Latin” quote was made up; iirc it was a Johnny Carson joke.
TenguPhule
No, no, no. That just plays to their kinks.
Mark S.
@Bill E Pilgrim:
The Stones song I’ve had the most trouble with is Sympathy For the Devil:
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Bought with tender grace
and
Use all your welders and politics
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste
Also, who are these troubadours and why are they getting killed before they reach Bombay?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Warren Terra: Ah right you are, thanks. Snopes confirms.
As Snopes says, there are so many brilliant things he did say, might as well not cite one he didn’t.
The one about the NAACP is enough to launch him into the Pantheon alone, that was just a thing of beauty.
Whenever John Boehner gets all victimy like he did just yesterday, I keep thinking that he should start a group called the National Association for the Advancement of Orange-Colored People.
shirt
Well, at least the GOP errected a public urinal in San Diego in an attempt for reconcilliation.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pw.statue.jpg
Warren Terra
I realized I misremembered my Quayle quote; iirc it was “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind, or not to have a mind at all as being very wasteful – how true that is!”
The UNCF wasn’t pleased.
licensed to kill time
@Warren Terra: Wikipedia says:
Dang. But he easily coulda said it.
Svensker
@Bill E Pilgrim:
We know what you were smoking.
Bill E Pilgrim
@licensed to kill time:
A real one from the Snopes site:
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.”
Warren Terra
The historical Republican/Latin America callback I’d like to invoke is Vice President Nixon’s infamous and disastrous tour of the region, which included clouds of tear gas that seeped into his limo.
shortstop
Obviously these Spanish people are falling for Arab propaganda. Muslims are naturally adept deceivers and it is just part of their culture and DNA to do so.
Whew, sorry. shortstop has read too many insane wingnut posts from Jerusalem this week.
Mark S.
Dave Barry once had readers chime in with their misheard lyrics. The funniest one was John Denver’s Annie’s Song:
You fill out my census
Bill E Pilgrim
@Mark S.: My French friend turned to me once when we were listening to “What a wonderful world” by Louis Armstrong, and she said “Oh I love this song. But tell me, I’ve never understood, what does it mean “the dogs say goodnight”?
I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to tell her (“the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night”).
Bill E Pilgrim
@Mark S.:
Jon Carroll at the SF Chronicle does a yearly collection sent by readers also:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml
licensed to kill time
Dan Quayle quotes, because they stretch to infinity, or maybe farther.
QuaintIrene
Dan Quayle quotes, because t
phoebes-in-santa fe
“said Republican pollster, Whit Ayers.”
“Whit Ayers”. Could there be possibly a more perfect WASP Republican name? Maybe “Tucker something”, but “Whit Ayers” sums it up quite nicely.
In all seriousness, though, the above statistic about Hispanic voting changes is why I’m not too terribly worried about the future. As I said on a thread last night, these TeaBaggers are finally realising that they are losing their prominence and power as the Great Melting Pot boils over and they are numbered into a permanent minority.
They’re scared of the world around them as this finally dawns on them.
Warren Terra
@Bill E Pilgrim
Do we need a NAAOP? Are orange people oppressed? I only ever see orange people on TV, and they’re rich and powerful. Maybe it’s a conspiracy – The Protocols Of The Mandarins Of Citrus?
MikeJ
@phoebes-in-santa fe: Whit Ayers is an anagram for Weary Shit.
Derek
@MikeJ:
Holy shit! Ahahahahahahahahahaha!
That is fuckin’ amazing.
Ben Richards
I knew someone that thought “Life in the Fast Lane” by the Eagles was “Life in the Vaseline”
gnomedad
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Adapted to Arizona.
someguy
Even if the Republicans weren’t a bunch of racist, hate filled Klan hat wearing scumbags, we’d be foolish not to tag them as such simply for political purposes.
Roger Moore
@Mark S.:
The best one I heard recently was somebody who had heard “Hit me with your pet shark” for “Hit me with your best shot”. Must have been a Republican showing his personal kinky interests.
maya
Bill E Pilgrim:
It’s his Creamsicle Constituency.
frankdawg
Oh lord suckin an old diaper pin = Oh lord stuck in old Lodi again.
Anybody remember that in 1999 the wingnuts sent around a list of stupid Quayle quotes but claimed they came from Gore? Then they found they had better luck just making bullshit up. The local paper repeated the bullshit claim that it was Gore who said love story was based in him. I was surprised they didn’t include the internet or love canal lies as long as they were at it.
asiangrrlMN
@frankdawg: When it was the author of the book who said the main character WAS based partly on Gore!
@phoebes-in-santa fe: The thing is, it’s gonna get uglier before it gets better. We have Republican candidates for governor in MN who called the papers, please law a good first step. For some strange, unfathomable reason, MN tends to vote Republican for governor, that disturbs the shit out of me. Plus, the batshitcrazies in AZ keep getting rewarded for their outbursts, and they are getting more riled up and flipped out. Like I said earlier, they are not going to go quietly into the night.
shortstop
Had to be the same guy who thought Jim Morrison “did a little dog about an hour ago” at the start of “LA Woman.”
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I wonder if the reason for that is similar to the thinking in Massachusetts, where the Democrats absolutely own the legislature, so therefore they need a counterbalance by electing the opposition. I didn’t think the DFL was that far left to need that personally, but then again I don’t live there. Oh and as far as the weirdness of your state’s gubernatorial elections, two words: Jesse. Ventura. Although on that one I’ll give you some credit, he wasn’t a total nutcase, just a partial one.
Tonal Crow
Clearly the liberal media are making this up.
Tonal Crow
@licensed to kill time: ….I see people turn their heads and quickly look away. Ain’t easy race’in up that good old-fashioned way….
Tonal Crow
@TenguPhule: Yeah, especially the part about horse-fucking.
phoebes-in-santa fe
@asiangrrlMN: I know it’s going to get worse, but I think in the end, we’ll be okay.
I mean, last summer those nutcase Tea Baggers had taken over the media with their rabble rousing. Death panels and all that scary wording.
Did HCR pass? Yep, it did. Despite, or maybe because of, the insane protests by this dying breed who long for the “good old days”. Well, the GODs are not coming back. The Melting Pot took care of that, and rightly so.
Now we just have to Get Out the Vote for November and 2012 like we did in 2008.
It matters, more than ever…
frankdawg
@Yutsano:
@asiangrrlMN:
Part of it is that a lot of people have bought into the notion that taxes are the only problem in MN and that Dems only solution is more taxes.
Don’t underestimate the power of Tom Barnard in peddling this bullshit either. He is the most listened to local guy in the entire country and as such very wealthy. He has forgotten his poverty roots but plays the “I’m a regular guy” shtick to a T.
I think he was a major factor in Jesse The Boobie Ventura’s victory despite his active support for the R in the race. He is a big supporter of Pawlenty because he wants low taxes. He can afford to live in a protected community & send his kids to very expensive private schools.
Roger Moore
@Tonal Crow:
I suspect that they care a lot more about donkey fucking than horse fucking. It seems to be a major theme with the whole Republican party.
Dr. Psycho
@Bill E Pilgrim: To be fair, Dan Quayle didn’t really think they spoke Latin in Latin America. That one, incredibly, was actually a joke: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.asp
jake the snake
@Roger Moore:
That reminds me of the microsoft rule 34 commercial.
Wonder if Rick Santorum came up with the zombie on shark idea?
Yutsano
I suppose we shall have to be vigilant about calls of voter oppression in California now, since with a shrinking demographic the only way Republicans are going to win there is either in the lily white self-segregated communities or through the willing assistance of Diebold. If California doesn’t allow voting machines we can mostly ignore the second option.
Nellcote
@Roger Moore:
Zappa or Led Zep?
Lurker
@Yutsano:
For those interested in avoiding electronic voting machines, California offers Permanent Vote-By-Mail status to residents. I signed up for this option. It’s convenient, leaves a paper trail, and gives me weeks to fill out my ballot.
I don’t know how widely used this option is, but it’s nice.
Yutsano
@Lurker: All the ballots in my county are by mail, and Oregon is an all by mail system. So far it has been working for both of us. It wouldn’t bother me if the entire country went either all-mail or polling by paper ballot only. That way the paper trails are inarguable.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Don’t forget the Beach Boy’s song:
“Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob Bondurant….”
superdestroyer
I am surprise that the Republicans get as high as 23% considering that Hispanics are the second most liberal group in the U.S. behind blacks.
The real question in the future is whether Hispanics will ever split their votes between two political parties. A Green party to the left of the current Democrats will probably end up just as white as the current Republican Party.
The next question is what level will taxes have to be to fund the massive entitlement spending that the future Hispanic and blacks voters will demand and the last question is will there be enough white voters to pay the taxes required to fund the massive entitlement state.
gwangung
@superdestroyer: Jesus, SD, you used to troll better than that. At least you weren’t innumerate.
superdestroyer
@gwangung:
Over 90% of elected Hispanics are Democrats and virtually all of them are liberal Democrats. Look up the beliefs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus http://chc.velazquez.house.gov/. The CHC is somewhat to the left of Bernie Sanders.
As the U.S becomes less white and more Hispanic and black, no conservative party has a chance of being relevant. The only question is how blacks and Hispanics fight over getting the most out of government while putting in the least inside the Democratic Party.
If you want to see the future, Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and El Paso are probably good places to start.
Brachiator
@MattF:
And Texas schoolbooks will supply the answer that it was what the Baby Jesus wanted.
Actually, if the GOP candidates for the governorship and the Senate avoided the immigration issue, they might have a shot at winning.
Fortunately, they’re not that smart.
Yutsano
@superdestroyer: Where to begin, where to begin…
You maybe had a point here, but I think it went leftwards.
Amazing what happens when the conservative party goes for xenophobia and overt racism, no?
Because of course it’s only about what they can get and they feel no compulsion to give back, right? One of the most idiotic statements I’ve read on here in a long time. News flash genius: when they can get work, African-Americans and Hispanics pay taxes and contribute to the economy just as much as the white folk do. But feel free to explain how that can’t possibly be significant.
Now you’re not even trying. Most of these cities have issues cause by white bankers. You only throw in El Paso to get in another dig on those damn furrin brown folks to the south of us.
Try harder please.
Steeplejack
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Heh. “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy . . .”
SixStringSlingr
Heard a kid once singing, “Hold me closer, Tony Danza.” I nearly wet myself laughing.
Thoughtcrime
@Steeplejack:
Well, sometimes Jimi did sing it that way ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4xgunddKWM
Comrade Baron Elmo
Obscure to all but old-skool new wavers, but I always heard the Joe Jackson line:
“Got the time tick, tick, tickin’ in my head”
(on the last track from his still-pretty-ace debut lp)
as “Got this damn chick, chick, chicken on my head.”
He sounds wicked pissed about it, too.
superdestroyer
@superdestroyer:
Pay attention to what the Democrats have been saying to the public. American are owed a massive amount of entitlements and Americans will be able to have them because “the rich” will pay for them with higher taxes.
Thus, blacks and Hispanics operate from the political view that they will get free health care, free education, and maybe a government job that will paid for taxes on the rich.
Go visit 8a housing in Baltimore, Detroit, LA, etc and try to find the people who are eager to give back. They are few and far between.
The future of politics in the U.S. is about how high will government spending go and who will pay the taxes to fund it.
Cheryl from Maryland
Misunderstood lyrics are a national treasure and have an important name — Mondegreens. One site featuring them is at: . My favorite is from the Dave Matthews song – Crash into Me. Sweet like candy to my soul became Sweet Chewbacca, Sweet Han Solo.
slightly_peeved
Why does superdestroyer hate black and hispanic members of the armed forces?
Equal Opportunity Cynic
No one could have foreseen that building a Republican resurgence around nativism would have had such unintended consequences!
superdestroyer
@slightly_peeved:
As the military has changed from a jobs program to a war fighting organization, the number of blacks in the military has been going down. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062400372_pf.html The same can be said for Hispanics http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/army_hispanics_020209w/
The military could be an example of the future of the U.S. In the ARmy, whites are overwhelmingly represented in the combat arms and minorities fill the administrative position. Yet, there are quotas to ensure that a certain number of minorities are promoted no matter what.
Steeplejack
@Thoughtcrime:
Heh.
Woodrowfan
@Ben Richards:
Or AC/DC “Dirty deeds, done with sheep”
superdestroyer
@efgoldman:
How did I jack a thread about Hispanics being Democrats by agreeing that Hispanics are very devoted Democrats and the Republicans have zero chance of appealing to them while remaining conservative in any form?
Is a non-snarky comment somehow a thread jack?