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Harry Reid Uses Dirty Tricks
Democratic U.S. Senator Harry Reid decides to use Hispanics in his attacks towards Republicans earlier this week. This picture is not related to Reid's recent scandal.
Since Harry Reid is nearly neck-and-neck with Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle in the race to retain his U.S. senate seat in Nevada, he did the only thing he could do: Hitting below the belt.
Speaking at an event promoting English language education, Reid on Tuesday took a swipe at Republicans in Washington, whom he blames for blocking legislation to overhaul the immigration system. The top Senate Democrat said the GOP's record should dissuade Hispanic voters from supporting Republicans.
“I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK?” Reid said in a video posted online and circulated by Republicans. “Do I need to say more?” reported The Associated Press
Associated Press story.
So when the going gets tough, the tough starts using every dirty trick in the old political grab bag. And it is a tough race for the Democratic giant. Nevada voters are 43 percent likely to vote for Reid while his GOP challenger Angle is only getting 42 percent of the vote, according to a survey by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, reported a USA Today
USA Today story July 30, 2010 article.
Republicans came out blasting Reid for making such a slimy and cheap shot on them, but the best attack comes from Marco Rubio a Republican candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Florida and whose parents are Cuban exiles.
“There’s only one economic system in the world that that’s possible in, time and again, and that’s the American free enterprise system. And the reason why Americans of Hispanic descent should be Republicans is because the Democratic leadership is trying to dismantle the American free enterprise system. The point is (Reid) he’s wrong,” Rubio reported The told FOX News
FOX News story.
Ouch! That’s a hard hit coming from a guy who represents the one group that Reid is desperately trying to get votes from.
Of course, on Wednesday Reid’s people clarified his malicious statement, saying Reid could not understand why any Hispanic, or anyone else, would vote for Republicans because they were against a $26 billion bill that would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from layoffs. And of course somehow that bill, which was signed into law, pertains to Hispanics how exactly? It doesn’t.
Clearly Reid is frantic to get the Hispanic vote to help get a stronger lead against Angle, even going so far as shamelessly dragging an ethnic group into his fight and insulting Republicans and slyly calling them racists without saying it bluntly.
And the last time Reid was blunt he was caught in a political ca-ca storm when it was released that he thought that then presidential candidate Barack Obama was “light-skinned … with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
It’s always disgusting when both political parties have to start throwing mud and the only dirty victims are the voters who are forced to watch.
But Harry Reid has one hell of a right arm when it comes to it, huh?
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