I think Tancredo is thinking of the phrase, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada", which appears in the manifesto "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" here: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/MEChA/plan-aztlan.html

This manifesto is not endorsed by the organization La Raza.

The response from "saner" Conservatives is conspicuous by its absence. Fear of the "Bouncing Bubba" Limbaugh is not only sad, it's remarkable.

That bouncing image of Rush featured each time Olberman address Rush's insanity is hilarious. I am dumbfounded by the lack of intelligence these GOPers articulate each time they open their mouths.

This is what it must have been like in the 50's when bigots from the South felt empowered by segregation and spoke openly in public spewing rhetoric based on fear,hate, and innuendo.

That the MSMedia isn't lambasting these openly bigoted ass holes is also nauseating.

TV and cable in general has become a venue for twits. Thank God for ESPN and Turner Movie Classics. Apparently (other than Kieth and Rachel)left leaning blogs are the only reservoir of truth left in this once proud Republic.

It's pointless to get upset every time some troglodyte on the right says something stupid, but this one really took my breath away. To compare an entirely mainstream civil rights/community development organization to a group that terrorized and slaughtered people -- people who already were powerless or nearly so -- is beyond the...well, pale. This is absolutely grotesque.

Leave it to Tancredo to lower the bar into the floor.

What I find most fascinating these days is that the GOP seems to be showing it's true colors more and more all the time-- sexist, racist, xenophobic and nauseatingly self-righteous. They've totally lost their marketing/pr touch. They are so insular and arrogant they lack the ability to step back and consider how people who don't already share their worldview perceive their behavior.

They are so insular and arrogant they lack the ability to step back and consider how people who don't already share their worldview perceive their behavior.

It's amazing, isn't it? They just keep blathering and bitching and belittling away, oblivious to how all but the most frothing members of their base see them. You have to work pretty hard to stay that out of touch.

Although I hesitate to call John Cornyn a "sane" conservative, he actually had the audacity to say this to NPR:

"I think it's terrible... This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent." Cornyn dismissed Limbaugh and Gingrich, adding: "Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials. I just don't think it's appropriate. I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."

A wonderful diary on Daily Kos this morning details the completely unhinged meltdown on Free Republic in response to Cornyn's comments. Cornyn, the chair of the RNSC and one of the most conservative guys in the Senate, is being lambasted as insufficiently conservative, "girly," and a "coward."

I know that Texans like Cornyn take their rugged independence and manly manliness very seriously (some may remember his ridiculous "Big John" TV commercial in the last election), so there's no doubt Big John would have to swallow a Texas-sized dollop of pride to apologize to Rush. I guess it'll come down to what's worse for him: stand his ground and alienate the wingnut base/Freepers, or crawl back to Rush on his hands and knees and say goodbye to the latino vote in his home town of San Antonio and the rest of Texas.

As one of the Kos commenters already said: I love the smell of wingnut meltdown in the morning.

And the Republicans continue to sink further and further into the sewer muck. It seems that spewing their vitriolic hatred out for everyone to hear is more important to them than winning elections. Maybe they just can't help themselves.

There seems to be a shrinking level of fear-mongering - the likes of Tancredo and Limbaugh are showing more and more bizarre flailing as the American public chooses a different pathway than the politics of personal destruction through cultural wedge-issue pushed by these sick personalities! -Kevo

Saw that CNN clip - But, wasn't sure if the background was Denver or was he sitting on Lou Dobbs' lap playing Charlie McCarthy? Nah, must have the other Bergen dummy; Charlie had "brains".

There's something about a Tee Vee camera that draws disgraced former politicians, like moths to a flame.

Or flies to sh-t. . .

I wonder how Tancredo and the GOP feel about someone having membership in AIPAC.

but shortstop, you may have hit on the explanation: you noted La Raza is a "community development" organization. And if there is anything lower on the Wingnut spectrum than women and non-whites, its community organizers!

But leave it to former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), whose record on race is notorious for a reason, to go the extra mile.

This is particularly interesting, because I lived in Colorado for a number of years, and there is a large hispanic population there, especially, anywhere south of Colorado Springs. I guess this helps explain why he is the former rep. from Colo.

And if there is anything lower on the Wingnut spectrum than women and non-whites, its community organizers!

Cue the angry Springfield townsfolk with torches, shouting, "They're history's greatest monsters!"

A reactionary rump party whose power base is Southern white males displays its inherent racism? You don't say...

Snark aside, the discussion in hilzoy's post on the Ricci case yesterday revealed how powerful the white male sense of entitlement can be. After all, it's made Limbaugh's career...

To Sheridan: the outpourings are easier to understand if one thinks in terms of fundraising. My guess is that most people who spew this stuff know that it won't win them any elections. It's a matter of paying the rent.

While the rest of those "rumps" are marinating, Nathan Bedford Forrest III knows that the only way to break out of the South is to become "The Party of Ricci".

After seeing the entire white male VS latina clip on Olberman that has been taken out of context , I have been watching the MSM waiting for anyone , anyone to comment on the entire clip and put it in perspective ...still waiting...even NPR this am , just quoting the overplayed clip with no in depth analysis. * sigh*

The RepuGs will attempt to attach racism, or as they like to call it, reverse racism into any discussion of Democratic positions. Even in the Chrysler dealership dustup, right wingers have brought Jesse Jackson into the argument. His minority program to expand minority ownership into dealerships is being used to say that any dealer not going along with Jackson has been marked for shutdown. Anything to whip up the Old WhiteBoy Network.

The real tragedy is not that Tancredo espoused his insane, baseless accusation, but that Rick Sanchez let him without challenge.

Gee, I think Tom Tancredo is off-base here. When I ponder a "KKK without the hoods or the nooses" I think not of La Raza but of the NRA.

Tancredo obviously couldn't care less about his facts, but I believe he is confusing the organizations "La Raza" and "MEChA".

Tancredo obviously couldn't care less about his facts, but I believe he is confusing the organizations "La Raza" and "MEChA".

As La Raza's Wikipedia page points out, conservatives seem to think that MEChA is part of La Raza. But I suspect the bigger issue here is that the "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" phrase has the words "La Raza" in it, so conservatives somehow imagine it's the group's motto (or "logo", as Tancredo put it). And because that justifies their hatred of the group, they imagine it must be true. But that's not even MEChA's motto, or "logo."

And that's the weirdest thing about conservatives: First comes the hate, then comes the rationalization. Their enemies MUST be bad, and so any evidence that suggests that they're bad must be true. And so they adopt batshit crazy myths as the only way to justify their positions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_La_Raza

But that's an incomplete look at the bigger picture ...

The big picture is how corrupt Dems are planning to rig all future elections in their favor by giving a path to voting Democratic to the 30 million illegal aliens. Obama, Blagojevich, Durbin, and Rahm Emanuel didn't come from Chicago for nothing. Sonia is part of the big pander.

Illegal immigration is, well, illegal. Supporting illegal activity for your own benefit is corruption. Shame that Democrats have neither morality nor patriotism. They're just like Republicans!

In going along with the Democrats in supporting illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor for the biz world, the Republicans have made themselves obsolete.

La Raza vs. KKK. Not even close. Doesn't any study or even read history any more? Lynching, mass murder. pogroms against blacks, bombing churches, assassination?

Which group did that?

"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" means something along the lines of "We will do everything for our people, for we are nothing without them." "Para la raza, todo. Para los otros, nada" would be "all for the race. Nothing for the rest." Anyone who took more than one semester of Spanish knows that "por" usually means "by" or "with", not "for." The Republican whining about Sotomayor was beginning to remind me of the Bustamante/MECha stupidity from the California recall, so I'm glad Tancredo confirmed it.

Remember several months ago (and continuing to this day), when the Republican meme was "Watch what happens. Everytime we attack Obama, we're going to be called 'racist'"?

Trying to be objective about this, it seems to me for the first 100+ days of this administration, it's not the mainstream political left calling people on the right "racist" as a debate tactic. It's the other way around.

Yeah, yeah. I know. IOKIYAR.

La Raza esposes drivers licences to illegal immigrants, as well as giving the right to vote to illegal immigrants

I guess that's pretty mainstream for a "mainstream organization."

Those nasty immigration laws are discriminatory and should be stricken. Anyone should come to this country by whatever means necessary and enjoy the benefits of citizenship. It's the American Way.

I find this quite amusing because I don't remember the NAACP or the B'nai Brith ever espousing such views.

But yes, La Raza is a "mainstream organization."

I find this quite amusing because I don't remember the NAACP or the B'nai Brith ever espousing such views.

You're an idiot with a short memory.

American immigration law is steeped in racism. The anti-immigration movement is steeped in racism, USING THE SAME GODDAM ARGUMENTS THEY DID FROM THE 19TH CENTURY.

THink up some new arguments. THis grandson of a paper son would appreciate it if you did.

whiney beaners.head for the exit. that would be the toilet to the south.