The American Spectator

Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.16.12 @ 1:17PM

They are not Kelley girls, Kelley is the married name of Jill.

This picture gives a good view of the twins.

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Butch| 11.16.12 @ 2:02PM

I'll say.

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Bob K| 11.16.12 @ 6:26PM

A casual look at Rubio's photo will tell you that he is Caucasian. That is to say, a white man of European heritage. A son of sunny Iberia. He is not at all racially or culturally connected to the "Hispanics" of native American heritage or of mixed native American/European heritage who make up the great bulk of the peoples immigrating into the USA from south of the border.

Rubio is clearly of Spanish heritage. These are the very same people who exploited the indigenous "Hispanics" throughout Central and South America. Yet Rubio is eligible to take advantage of Affirmative Action because of his last name. Indeed, the Republican Party is giving him a sort of "Affirmative Action" boost by showing him off as an example of how the Republican Party has embraced "diversity."

What nonsense!

Ask any typical Latino who migrated here from Mexico and south, whether they be legal or illegal if he or she has anything in common with Rubio except language. They would tell you they have very little in common with Hispanics of Spanish heritage.

This raises a question that never has been answered. Why are people of pure Spanish descent eligible for Affirmative Action and all it's benefits? And why are people of pure Portugese descent who come from the Iberian Peninsula like Spaniards do NOT eligible for Affirmative Action?

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Paul McGrath| 11.16.12 @ 6:31PM

What does race or ethnicity have anything to do with it? Why not concentrate on Rubio's views? Why not concentrate on his political opinions? Which are very much in line with my own?

Why is the left always, and I mean ALWAYS, fixated on one's racial or national identity?

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Bob K| 11.16.12 @ 6:29PM

And a common language is questionable. Does anyone know if Rubio speaks Spanish?

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Paul McGrath| 11.16.12 @ 6:38PM

Does it matter? Does he have to speak Spanish to be . . . well, what? What do you want him to be?

I am so sick to death of this. Susan Rice lied through her teeth five times about a week after the Benghazi disaster. Now, when a senator wants to question her about this, he is a racist for doing so? Because she is a black person?

You want to talk about affirmative action? Why is it that the son of a wealthy black person will have an easier time getting admitted to a prestigious college than the daughter of a poor Hmong immigrant? Why?

Your priorities are really messed up. If we can return to a truly merit-based system, our way of life and our nation will improve dramatically.

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JmsA| 11.17.12 @ 12:03AM

Bob K,

Sen. Rubio is a fluent Spanish speaker. As to your previous erroneous assertion, I doubt Sen. Rubio's ancestors had anything to do with exploiting the indigenous population in the Americas. By his appearance, I believe, though I could be mistaken, some of Sen. Rubio's ancestors originated from Andalucia in Southern Spain, where some, though not all of the population is of a darker complexion, or possibly from the Canary Islands, conquered and populated by the Spanish in 1500s, after the annihilation of the native Guanche population.

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JmsA| 11.17.12 @ 12:16AM

Cont'd.:

Bob K,

Canarian Spaniards first immigrated to Cuba following the decimation of the Cuban population in concentration camps beginning in 1896, by Spanish General Captain, Valeriano Weyler, or as he was commonly known: "Butcher Weyler." This individual instituted the policy of "Reconcentrados" whereby Cubans, particularly those in rural areas were herded into concentration camps by the Spanish Army, to prevent them from rendering assistance from the Cuban rebel army, or Mambises. This policy has been determined by historians to have resulted in the extermination of approximately one-third of the Cuban population, from 1896 to 1898. (Yes, Cubans had been fighting for independence long before Teddy Roosevelt showed up.) The British subsequently adopted the same tactics during the Boer War in South Africa.

Beginning in 1900, approximately one million Spaniards, mostly from Galicia (Nortwestern Spain) and the Canary Islands, but also other European countries, emigrated to Cuba.

As to other "Latinos" or "Hispanics", they generally don't like Cubans, as they consider them, not withstanding Cubans of African descent, to be the Spanish, which in fact they mostly are, given that roughly thirty years following the discovery of Cuba by Columbus and its conquest and pacification by Diego Velazquez, the native Siboney and Taino native populations, had been exterminated by hard labor, disease, murder, etc.

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JmsA| 11.17.12 @ 12:48AM

Cont'd.:

Bob K,

You asked: "Why are people of pure Spanish descent eligible for Affirmative Action and all it's benefits? And why are people of pure Portugese (sic) descent who come from the Iberian Peninsula like Spaniards do NOT eligible for Affirmative Action?"

You should ask the democrats; they're the ones that created affirmative action.

Stop conflating Cubans with the rest of Latin Americans or so called Hispanics. They're the descendants of Celtiberians (not Iberians, as an ignorant fellow, I believe he goes by the name of Crisler, once referred to them). As such they not only speak differently, but also think differently, and vote differently than many, if not most of those from other Latin American countries, many of whom admire Fidel Castro and other assorted communist scum.

Cubans did not come here for economic reasons; they came here seeking freedom, and they continue to vote like it.

Not withstanding the tyrant Castro and his communist retinue, Americans never had as good a friend in Latin America as the Cubans.

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