I find thisPete Ricketts campaign commercialinteresting: he has 30 seconds to make his case, and the only thing he says, besides not believing in negative attack ads (bold!) is that he doesn’t support amnesty- “never have, never will!”. The commercial ends with a list of his top three (maybe his only three) supporters, the one being Sarah Palin. I wouldn’t vote for the guy anyway, but I wonder about someone who still thinks being associated with Palin is a good thing.
Btw, wouldn’t amnesty be a federal thing, not a state thing? I’m assuming he’s not talking about draft dodgers- the was settled long ago
There’s a disturbing lot of Tea Party love in my fine home state. It’s the whole “social conservative crypto-racist flag-waving white-bread ‘America First’ hate-on-Obama” thing.
I talk about voting my conscience and people look at me as if I were advocating violent Socialist revolution and baby-murderin’.
I love this place, but it sure is so-last-millennium sometimes.
In context, I’m pretty sure he means immigration amnesty. As in, not treating people who cross an international border without the benefit of bureaucratic consent as something between terrorists and contagious vermin.
Nebraska has a growing Hispanic population (good economy, decent quality of life) and I think it scares a lot of “real Americans are caucasians, dammit” types.
Ricketts is the subject of attack ads by his primary opponent, Jon Bruning, claiming that Ricketts supports amnesty for illegal immigrants. It’s been a pretty nasty primary race, with a bunch of anonymous negative ads run against Bruning, which both Ricketts and his father deny being behind.
Weird, though. I don’t remember meeting very many Caucasian-looking Nebraskans. Mostly a bunch of Nordic types, as I recall. What would they make of a Circassian?
