August 11, 2004
Memo From Mexico, By
Allan Wall
Bipartisan Spanish Doubletalk in The Skull And Bones Election
This year’s presidential
election pits incumbent
Skull and Bonesman George W. Bush against
challenger Skull and Bonesman
John Forbes Kerry.
Each candidate is eager to tell you
how
different he is from his opponent.
But on many issues, the differences
are meaningless.
Bush and Kerry share
indistinguishable platforms on the National
Question. They both support
mass immigration,
linguistic Balkanization,
multiculturalism and
racial preferences. They both encourage
illegal immigration and
pander shamelessly.
Both have pulled out the all the
stops to attract the coveted
Hispanic vote.
The $64,000 Question is, however, “Do
Hispanic Americans have different interests than other
Americans?”
If the answer is NO, then what’s
the big deal? Just treat Hispanics like everybody else.
If the answer is YES, then somebody
needs to explain what these differences are. Because,
just maybe, America’s
non-Hispanic majority should still have some say in
the nation’s future.
But you wouldn’t be alerted to that
question from all the hoopla Bush and Kerry have created
over the “Hispanic
Vote,” would you?
The growing
use of Spanish in election campaigning is a sure
sign of America’s
Balkanization. (Read my description of bilingual
doubletalk in the
2002 Texas gubernatorial campaign.)
A
common language is essential for society to
function. We shouldn’t be ready to discard it so
carelessly.
But
the Skull and Bones candidates see it differently. They
‘re using Spanish to woo Hispanic voters while ignoring
the need that all American citizens should speak and
understand English.
The
Kerry-Edwards campaign just announced the
“Largest Hispanic Ad Buy in Presidential Campaign
History”. This million-dollar PR purchase
includes radio,
TV and print ads, and a 30-second advertising spot
titled “Honor”.
“Honor” includes John Kerry informing us (in Spanish)
that he approved this ad, and John Kerry shouting “Si
Se Puede!” [Watch]
The ad attempts to connect Latino
voters with John Kerry, “…a man of faith, a man of
family. A man of honor.”
Kerry’s
Catholic faith is highlighted. But neither his
support for
abortion on demand nor his position that
homosexuality is not a sin is mentioned even though
it puts him at odds with
Catholic doctrine.
Kerry’s family is mentioned—but not
his
earlier divorce.
By promising to “reform our
immigration laws” (political code speech for
“amnesty”), Kerry feeds red meat to the Hispanic Open
Borders Lobby.
Remember that one of Kerry’s campaign chairs is
unrepentant MEChistA Antonio Villaraigosa.
The Bush-Cheney camp, not to be
outdone, produced the Spanish- language advertisement “Caos”
[Listen here in
MP3 format.] [Vdare.com
note: Caos is
Spanish for “chaos”, a translation of Kerry’s claim that
the campaign was
“wreaking havoc” with his schedule.]
“Caos” bashes Kerry for missing the majority of his
Senate votes. It does point out, however, that the
Massachusetts senator voted
against the Laci Peterson law, against
parental notification for teen abortions, but for
birth control distribution in public schools. These, “Caos”
tells us, are Kerry’s priorities. Then, the ad asks,
“Are they yours?”
Bilingual politicking opens a new and distasteful can of
worms. The end result will be a fractious, balkanized
society that invites even more government control. These
Bush spots, also presuming that Hispanic voters are
deeply orthodox Catholics do not help.
If I
had my druthers, all campaign material in languages
other than English would be banned.
Both
Bush and Kerry, in different ways, are appealing to the
famed Hispanic “Family Values.” Kerry plays the Catholic
card; Bush plays the pro-life card. But neither is
likely to win a significant amount of
Hispanic voters.
“Catholic Mexico” is one of those old
stereotypes that die hard. In fact, most Mexicans are
not active Catholics. Abortion, prohibited by law but
widely practiced, is not a big political issue in
Mexico.
Mexican politics is much more
secular than American politics. References to God and
faith are rare. One candidate was almost fined for
saying “Thank God.” The Fox Administration tried
to
prevent all teens under 18 from viewing “The
Passion of the Christ”
Mexican immigrants are unlikely to
jump on the Republican Social Conservative bandwagon.
Nor are they likely to care whether or not John Kerry is
Catholic.
As VDARE.COM’s own Edwin Rubenstein
has
pointed out, American Hispanics have
“family values” problems---but not the ones Bush
and Kerry are campaigning on. Mexican Americans have
higher rates of illegitimacy,
teen pregnancy, abortion and HIV death rates than
whites.
After all is said and done, the
truth the GOP ignores is that most Hispanics vote
Democrat because they believe the Democratic Party is
more helpful to them. Since the Democratic Party favors
Big Government more than the GOP (but frankly, not
much), it remains more attractive to the majority of
Hispanic voters. That’s not
likely to change in the near future.
Therefore, however much the GOP
panders to Hispanics, the Democrats can always out-do
them. If the Republicans totally lose their principles
(which seems to have happened), it risks losing its
conservative base.
And as for conservative Hispanics,
what does Bush have to offer them? Well, about as much
as he has to offer to “Non-Hispanic Whites”, i.e., very
little.
For
four years, Bush has pandered to Hispanics by
groveling before
Mexican President Vicente Fox. Despite being the
nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Bush has
constantly
excused,
justified and
enabled illegal immigration--all for the anticipated
goal of getting the
“Hispanic vote.”
But despite it all, a recent Gallup
poll announced that
“Bush Loses Support Among Hispanics.” (David W.
Moore, July 6th, 2004).
These results show where the
candidates stand among Blacks, Hispanics, and
“Non-Hispanic Whites,”–(that negative term used
to refer to the
American Majority population.) These results show
Kerry beating Bush by 19 points among Hispanics.
Meanwhile, Bush only leads Kerry by 12 points among
Whites.
Yes, Bush and Kerry are both
shameless panderers.
At least Kerry has something to
show for it. We might call his pandering “Profitable
Pandering”.
Unlike Kerry, what does Bush have
to show for it? He
can’t win over the majority of Hispanics, and is in
danger of
losing his base. Perhaps they might not vote.
Could it be time for Bush to switch
to the “Sailer
Strategy”?
American citizen Allan Wall lives and works legally in
Mexico, where he holds an FM-2 residency and work
permit, but serves six weeks a year with the Texas Army
National Guard, in a unit composed almost entirely of
Americans of Mexican ancestry. His VDARE.COM articles
are archived
here; his
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived
here; his
website is
here. Readers
can contact Allan Wall at
allan39@prodigy.net.mx.
