The Daily Background
| Ultra-right-wingers pissed that Bush appointed a hispanic RNC Chair
by Arlen Parsa
Hardcore conservative Republicans are pissed that the White House chose a latino lawmaker to serve as the new NRC chairman, replacing Ken Mehlman. This, according to Bloomberg.
The move is running up against party activists who since the Republicans’ Nov. 7 election drubbing are far less susceptible than before to Bush’s and Rove’s control. These activists say the administration’s support for giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, part of Rove’s Hispanic strategy, undermined what would have been a vote-getting election message of tough border enforcement.
“Mr. Martinez, though I’m sure competent in many ways, doesn’t help us create the impression that we are setting a new direction,” said Republican Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a leading advocate of the House Republican push for stricter immigration controls that helped kill Bush’s proposals.
Tom “America is full” Tancredo is of course known for being one of the most racist Republican sons of bitches in Congress. This is an extremely transparent complaint that the folks in charge of the Republican party chose a hispanic man to replace Mehlman.
