Me, I believe we “win” “Hispanic” voters by making them into American voters and agreeing to govern in a way that helps protect our liberty and private property rights, and that champions the rule of law under which we are all supposedly equal.
Others, however, believe we need to turn lawbreakers into citizens in order to “win” them over.
The long-term ideological ramifications for doing so? Never seem to be considered by the party bean counters. It’s all horse-race politics to them. Pragmatism. And in the long run, that is in my opinion the most ruthlessly efficient means by which to guarantee the end of classical liberalism and a free society, and a perfect recipe for the kind of Balkanized identity politics that fuels progressive soft tyrannies.
But then, nobody listens to me.
So have at it, Jeb and John and Lindsay and the rest. Time to pander our way to freedom!
OT already: For the Firefly fans. The Firefly cast is tweeting this one all over the place.
This is one of those days where it feels like the “leaders” of our side are more interested in negotiating the terms of our surrender (with an eyes toward their own advantage, of course) than they are in fighting back. Isn’t if?
This is one of those days where it feels like the “leaders” of our side are more interested in negotiating the terms of our surrender (with an eyes toward their own advantage, of course) than they are in fighting back. Isn’t it?
ONE of those days?
I know enough hispanics who are right wingers to not be that terrified about the future. But still, any Republicans who enable this naked left-wing power play should have their balls cut off.
Well di, we do have good days. But yes, I suppose you are correct, and it’s only that the cultursmog is unusually thick today.
Abe, the enablers surrendered those voluntarily a long time ago.
That’s not as far-fetched as it might seem, J.
There are a few, out this way at least, immigrant enterprising Hispanics of various origin.
There are already little internal civil wars brewing within those communities over the ones who get it and the ones (admittedly more) who merely want it.
How many Asians, Serbians, Cubans, Russian satellite refugees and others do you alienate by caving in to the demands of the Hispanic griefers? It is no small number.
“Beans”! You said “beans”! And when talking about Hispanics!
Code! Subtext! Innuendo! RAAAAAAAAAAAACIIIISSSSSST!
I cannot forget the song dicentra linked in comment #1.
I might go mad, but I’m not sure anyone would be able to tell the difference.
I refuse to click on any link that references Firefly, sparkly vampires or werewolves. Teh gheyness is communicable.
Hey, just because “Firefly” is from the same guy that did “Buffy” and “Angel,” doesn’t make it teh ghey. The guys on “Firefly” had, like, guns and spaceships and shit.
I watched five minutes of the first episode of Firefly and that was all I could take.
They ran episodes out of sequence originally. You need to give it a few episodes and it all suddenly makes sense and works wonderfully.
Very libertarian in spirit.
A few years ago, I needed to replace my topcoat, which was really showing its age. I went down to Heimie’s Haberdashery to look for a proper gentleman’s coat. Lo and behold, there was a beautiful wool coat marked down to a very reasonable price (’twas growing late in the season, dontcha know). I paid $30 extra to get the brown one.
Every once in a while, I’ll get a random compliment on my brown coat, to which I’ll reflexively reply, “Innit shiny?” It’s kinda fun to belong to secret society.
I might give it a go.
If I’m out of disaster movies and Japanese horror movies to watch. I’m a sucker for the really bad B,C,D-actor disaster films like 10.5, LA Twister and such. I did come up from the depths a few weeks ago to watch the original Earthquake on AMC. Walter Matthau was a hoot in that movie.
Almost as much fun – watching Godzilla v Mothra on a rainy weekend afternoon.
Any Firefly haters go on my permanent list.
cranky-d:
You a Castle watcher?
It pains me that there are 3-4x as many episodes of it as there were Firefly. I enjoy the show, though it’s decidedly ABC-campy. It is fun to watch for Fillion dropping the more-than-occasional Firefly reference.
Castle watcher… yep. I like campy. TV that takes itself too seriously is smug.
I started watching Castle because I saw a youtube clip of Fillion dressing like his character from Firefly for halloween. It’s a really fun show, one of my favorites.
I initially started watching Castle because the missus “would watch Captain Tightpants read the phone book.” It’s actually a really well-crafted piece of fluffy entertainment. Who needs plot when you have characters?
Who needs plot when you have characters?
The plots are usually amusing as well –except for that disgruntled ex-green berets build a dirty bomb to blow up Time’s Square with while pinning the blame on the poor Syrian-American family bullshit from the last 2 weeks.
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