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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't backing off his assertion that he doesn't know how anyone of "Hispanic heritage could be a Republican." This shows at least two things: 1.) Reid views the Hispanic vote as crucial to his reelection bid and 2.) There is a candidate in the Nevada Senate race who is given to saying ridiculous things and it is not necessarily Sharron Angle.

UPDATE: A commenter below makes a very good point: Brian Sandoval, Republican candidate for governor of Nevada, is a Hispanic Republican. His Democratic opponent? Rory Reid, the Senate majority leader's son.

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Tim*| 8.11.10 @ 5:29PM

U.S. Senator Candidate Marco Rubio Of Florida :
"You know, Americans of Hispanic descent, you know what the strongest issue there is? That is economic empowerment, upward mobility," Rubio said. "There’s only one economic system in the world that that’s possible in, time and again, and that’s the American free enterprise system.

"And the reason why Americans of Hispanic descent should be Republicans is because the Democratic leadership is trying to dismantle the American free enterprise system," he continued. "The point is he’s wrong."

Interested Conservative| 8.11.10 @ 7:23PM

Actually, Sen. Reid seems fairly tolerant. I don't know how anyone could be a democrat, regardless of ethnicity.

bluecollarbytes| 8.11.10 @ 9:14PM

Harry Reid is a racist. I arrived at this conclusion by imagining what PopMedia and Democratics would decree if any Republican had spewed any of the number of things running out of Harry's mouth...down his chin...onto someone's foot.

HR-'Obama speaks with a Black dialect when chosen, and...Hispanics evidently are a one-note interest group with its members all having identical views on the state of the country and the govt/citizen relationship.

"Hispanics" (forced to use the term) are not just one more special self-interest group looking for the govt feed trough. "Hispanics" do Not equate with "illegals" in any way shape or form. Hispanic citizens are citizens period. Harry would prefer they cling to the victims' status he and others are desperately trying to push them into. They could be treated like little children then, led that way by the racial/poverty/political pimps whose livelihoods depend on it.

Xavier| 8.12.10 @ 3:04AM

It's worth remembering that Senator Reid was a supporter of the Obama Administration's grotesque diplomatic and economic vendetta against the people of Honduras and, even now, maintains strident opposition to trade agreements with the people of Colombia and the people of Peru. It's conceivable, I suppose, that these positions aren't motivated by anti-Hispanic bias on Senator Reid's part.

Oldefarte| 8.12.10 @ 2:39PM

Well HARRYARS, I don't of anyone with a I.Q. higher than 20.......WHO COULD [OR WOULD WISH TO BE] A DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Susan Grant| 8.12.10 @ 5:17PM

1. I was a life long democrat and began voting in my twenties.
2. One day I realized that the democratzi's had been LYING to me for YEARS to get my vote.
3. I raced down to the county courthouse in the town I was living in at the time, and became a registered Republican.
4. My husband now refers to me as his 'Rabid Republican' as I have gone from one end of the spectrum to the other.
5. NO ONE lies to me now and gets away with it and that includes the dems and the RINOS in the Conservative Republican Party. WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Occam's Tool| 8.12.10 @ 5:27PM

Both of my adopted children are Hispanics. Both will vote Republican. It took an average of 10 months to legally adopt each one. They didn't line jump, and my incredibly large and strong son will be quite irate when he gets older and can understand this.

Reid's a prejudiced scumbag.

JF| 8.13.10 @ 3:45PM

So who does Harry Reid think votes in the Little Havana section of Miami, which is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican? Norwegians? Reid needs to get a clue.

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