The left's attacks on Hispanic conservatives

Daniel Sosa:

Senator Ted Cruz believes that attacks on Marco Rubio are because he’s a conservative Latino.

“I think Democrats and the media are afraid of Marco Rubio because he is a smart, intelligent, conservative Hispanic. And they are looking for any excuse they can to attack him, because that threatens them,” Cruz told reporters during a tour of a Texas gun manufacturing plant north of Austin. “Look, he took a drink of water in a speech. And it dominated the news for days with one network saying it was a career ender.”

He’s right. Cruz should know, has been the victim of this racism in recent days as well. The New York Times fired the first major volley at freshman Texas Senator Cruz. MSNBC’s Chris Mathews followed suit. The liberal “pile-on” has begun. It’s their effort to marginalize a smart, conservative Latino who didn’t need them to succeed in life. It’s what we can expect from the left-wing biased hacks that dominate alleged news sources these days. Cruz represents a spoiling of their narrative that Latinos are a bunch of extreme, left-wing, statists, who want, deserve and need government to take care of them from cradle to grave. One has to excuse these extreme left-wing forces. Throughout history, they’ve done this sort of thing to minorities who dare to shatter the ideas of dependency they’ve crafted for us.

Chris Matthews followed the New York Times hit piece on Senator Ted Cruz with some analysis of Cruz’s performance at the confirmation hearing for the unqualified candidate President Obama has chosen to be the next Secretary of Defense of the United States. Matthews was indignant that Ted Cruz was asking for financial statements that might show that Chuck Hagel received money from foreign governments or extremist groups. Cruz told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “We do not know, for example, if he received compensation for giving paid speeches at extreme or radical groups.” Matthews immediately cried “McCarthyism.” Matthews ignored the fact that Hagel has been less than forthcoming on his financial dealings with the committee. Mathews also ignored the other Senators who expressed grave concern over Hagel’s evasions, not to mention his competence to hold down the “Sec-Def” post. But Matthews and the New York Times weren’t invoking McCarthy when the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, declared on the Senator floor that 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney had paid no income taxes for ten years. Reid made the claim right in the middle of the campaign with no substantiation, or proof of any kind. Even after documents emerged proving Reid lied through his slimy teeth, no apology, no retraction, just liberal business as usual. The white, extreme, “Occupy Wall Street” Reid, gets a pass. The conservative Latino gets tarred and feathered. That’s your modern day press. They’ve grown quite adept at overlooking questionable practices perpetrated by liberals.

Who can forget left-wing icons Dick Durbin and Ted Kennedy actively seeking to thwart the advancement of a Latino because he didn’t know his place? Miguel Estrada was on a fast track to be the first Latino nominated to the Supreme Court. That’s before liberals derailed his prospects. A memo from Senator Dick Durbin’s office back in 2001 showed why liberals fear Men like Cruz and Estrada.

“[The groups] They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible.” But Democrat’s pure racism doesn’t stop there.

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It is hard for a court nominee to respond to this type of racism  but in Cruz and Rubio, it is different.  They are both articulate spokesmen for conservatism and they can fight back against this liberal racism.  They are both very smart and they will not back down because of bogus charges.