November 15, 2006
Email RNC About Martinez Nomination!
After the
disaster of the
recent election, you'd think the Republican
Establishment, including Bush, would have gotten the
message: their base is mad at them.
Not so. Like the
Bourbons, who had a
broadly similar experience, they have learned
nothing and they have forgotten nothing.
The
Bush nomination of Mel Martinez to be Chairthing of
the Republican National Committee has caused a lot of
complaint—including here on
VDARE.COM, where Patrick Cleburne characterized the
decision as: "RNC
To White Men: —- Off ! (Again). "
Even in the MSM world, there's evidence of rebellion.
The Miami Herald has a story titled
Some grumble over choice of Martinez to head GOP
[By Lesley Clark, Nov. 15, 2006] which details various
conservative objections to Martinez. The most obvious:
he's an
Open Borders fanatic.
Michelle Malkin
writes that
"Meanwhile, RNC chair
Mel Martinez is
demonizing grass-roots conservatives who support
enforcing immigration laws and borders."
There's more of what The Hotline's Blogometer calls "
negative
righty reax" in the blogosphere. According to
The Hotline, a lot of people are calling Martinez "The
Harriet Miers Of RNC Chairs".
RedState.com suggested that a
"lobotomized sea lion" could do a better job.
John Hawkins of RightWingNews asked in Human Events:
Does the GOP Need Another Thumpin' in 2008 to Get the
Message?
"After the drubbing
the Republican Party just took, does it really make
sense to replace an effective RNC chairman with a
pro-amnesty, part-timer like Mel Martinez?"
One person who approves of Martinez ("This is
good for us") is
Markos Moulitsas, the leftwing blogger behind
DailyKos. He hates
Americans, hates Republicans, and hates Bush, and
recognizes that this is bad for all of them—except that
Bush is a lame duck, so perhaps he doesn't care.
One Republican who approves is Chuck Hagel. Ralph Hallow
in the Washington Times quoted him as saying that
he has "the highest regard for [Martinez’]
ability and experience, and highly [supports] his
candidacy". Hagel also said that Martinez would do
"a first-rate job for the Republican Party." [
Florida's
Martinez tapped for RNC chief,
November 14, 2006]
If he'd said “a first-rate job on the
Republican Party", I'd be more likely to agree.
Martinez, with Chuck Hagel, was the author of the awful
Hagel-Martinez S. 2611 bill, which Joe Guzzardi
reported on here, and which would have legalized a
very large number of illegals. (See the Center for
Immigration Studies,
Amnesty Under Hagel-Martinez: An Estimate of How Many
Will Legalize if S. 2611 Becomes Law, June
2006).
Who, if anybody, is Martinez loyal to? The Republican
Party? He's promised the press that he won't be an
"attack dog" for the GOP, so,
not the Republicans.
Well,
loyal to President Bush? Not really. Here's a story
from Time Magazine, in 2005:
“Because he is one of
only two Hispanics in the U.S. Senate (the other is
Democratic Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado) and because
he represents Florida and its pivotal electoral power,
Martinez is perhaps the U.S.'s most important
Hispanic lawmaker. But when he was elected last
fall, Martinez was widely regarded as little more than a
lapdog for President George W. Bush. Martinez upset that
image this spring, when he suggested that the U.S. close
its controversial prison camp at
Guantanamo Bay—and that the Administration has
neglected Latin America.
“That display of
independence was welcomed by many in the Hispanic
community as a sign that Martinez will stump for a
broader swath of Latino concerns than just those
associated with Miami's long-dominant Cubans.”
[Mel
Martinez The Maverick Senator By Tim Padgett,
Time Magazine, Aug. 13, 2005]
Time’s
Padgett went on to
point out that Miami not only has Cubans, but also
Mexicans,
Puerto Ricans and
Central and
South Americans. Which leaves you to wonder: does
Senator Martinez have any
American constituents?
A reader in Florida
wrote us that she'd
"…written and called
Sen. Martinez on this issue, and predictably received a
lecture about freedom, patriotism, what it
means to be an American (from someone who is doing
his best to
render the term irrelevant!)"
Anyhow, the main idea expressed in the word "
Maverick"
is
"someone not loyal to the Republican Party." So
what is Martinez loyal to? Hispanics, it seems. Not
Cuban-Americans, not Floridians, not Americans in
general…but Hispanics.
And why would the GOP want a chairman who's interested
stumping "for a broader swath of Latino concerns?"
Last time I
looked, those Latinos who were citizens, and voted,
were almost all Democrats and likely to stay that way,
no matter what kind of pander George Bush and the RNC
contrive.
Martinez came to America from Cuba at the age of fifteen
as one of the escapees under
Operation Pedro Pan. He's been
mentioned as one of the potential alien Presidents,
if that pesky old U.S. Constitution could be amended to
allow people who aren't
natural-born citizens to be President. (This is a
bad idea endorsed by
National Review, among others, even though it
theoretically makes
Peter Brimelow eligible.)
That would be a much worse disaster, although there
would little chance of Martinez getting elected since he
wouldn't get a majority of either the Hispanic or the
white vote.
Remember that the RNC haven't actually made Martinez the
chairman yet. They have to vote on it in January.
If you want to let the RNC know what you think, you can
contact them
here. There are listings there for RNC committeemen
in the 50 states.
You can email the National Office here:
Ken Mehlman, Chairman [Still—they don't vote until
January.]
Phone: 202-863-8700
Fax: 202-863-8820
Email: Chairman@gop.com
Office of the
Co-Chairman
Jo Ann Davidson, Co-Chairman
Phone: 202-863-8545
Fax: 202-863-8631
Email: Info@gop.com
You might remind them that they just lost a major
election because people like you were mad at them. And
that they really don't want to make you any madder—if
they want to have jobs in Washington at all.
Last time we posted RNC email addresses, so that readers
could express their views on
Randy Pullen’s anti-immigration resolution, it
caused a real
stir.
Stir again.
