vote para mccain!
by Brianne Conlan
Published: May 13, 2008
Recently voters have described McCain as being smack dab in the middle of the liberal and conservative spectrum, with the liberal clowns Obama and Clinton to the left and conservative joker Bush to the right. The truth is that he is closer to Bush, which frightens many voters and has provided Obama with an effective one-liner:
“We can’t afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush’s third term.”
However, by criticizing the actions that were taken by Bush to alleviate the Hurricane Katrina crisis and the war in Iraq, it is clear that McCain will not walk the same tracks as President Bush. But McCain is going to need more than a few quotes in the papers about the “disgraceful” management of the Katrina disaster or his oft-repeated allegation that Bush “was very badly served by the vice president” in order to win in November. To stake a claim to the White House, McCain is going to need minorities - especially Hispanics.
To that end McCain has launched a Spanish-language website designed to reach out to communities that are unfamiliar with voting and have rarely seen a presidential candidate. He knows that he needs to at least match the 44% of the Hispanic vote that Bush garnered in 2004, but given the hot-button issue of immigration reform, it may not be that easy. His Democratic competitors have taken stances toward immigration reform that will appeal to much of the Hispanic community. Furthermore, neither Clinton nor Obama need fear the backlash from a conservative base that is always willing to take a hard-lined stance on immigration, which leaves McCain with only one choice: assert that Hispanic voters can only come to one logical conclusion in November.
“I know the people, I know the patriotism, I know the loyalty, I know the respect for the family, the advocacy for life. Everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message.”
He may be right, but if he wants to beat out either of the two very popular minority candidates from the Democratic party - he better be right.
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May 14th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Just so you know, it’s ‘vota por,’ not ‘vota para.’
‘vota para mccain’ kinda looks dumb to anyone who speaks spanish.
Nice try though.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am
As a speaker of the language, I am aware of the usage and the fact that it was incorrect. It’s purpose was to convey the common ethnocentric interpretation in this country.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Site administrator: the article was originally published as “vote para mccain” - it was inadvertently saved as “vota” for about 7 hours on May 14th, 2008 and then corrected.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Very delayed, but funny that this is the same John McCain that voted for Inhofe’s English language is USA #1!!! amendment. God forbid anyone take him to task on anything…