During the tenth Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, Florida Senator Marco Rubio made me laugh. Yes, this was unintentional on his part, but at the time, I sarcastically thought to myself, "If this whole presidential thing doesn't work out, I think Rubio's found a back-up plan - stand-up comedy."
Here's the quote which garnered a chuckle out of me:
"The media has a definition of Hispanics that you can only be Hispanic if you're a liberal. The Obama economy has done enormous damage to the Spanish community.
On this stage tonight are two sons of Cuban immigrants and an African American. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats."
Yes, because the final two Democratic presidential hopefuls are both white and three of the five remaining Republican candidates aren't, this obviously means Republicans are the party of diversity, not Democrats. That is if we don't look at the bigger picture, of course. Let's look a bit closer at Senator Rubio's claim...
House of Representative minorities
Democrats: 78 out of 188 seats (41.5%)
Republicans: 12 out of 246 seats (4.9%)
Both houses of Congress (minorities)
Democrats: 81 (34.6%)
Republicans: 16 (5.3%)
Both houses of Congress (women)
Democrats: 79 (33.8%)
Republicans: 29 (9.7%)
Not only that, but let's look at the 2012 election results, shall we?
Democrat Barack Obama won the following demographics over Republican challenger Mitt Romney:
- Women (55% to 44%)
- African-Americans (93% to 6%)
- Hispanics (71% to 27%)
- Asians (73% to 26%)
- Other (58% to 38%)
Senator Rubio, care to rebut my factual findings?
- "About 2 in 5 House Democrats are minorities and 1 in 20 House Republicans are. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "Over 1 in 3 Democratic Congresspeople are women and 1 in 10 Republican Congresspeople are. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "Democrats tend to win with these voters on election day: Women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and whoever 'other' is. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "While Democrats tend to disagree with us on these issues, most Republican politicians believe in the following: Deporting Hispanics, banning Muslims (our presidential frontrunner anyway), limiting LGBT rights, decreasing women's rights, and making it more difficult for blacks to vote. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "If you don't look at our quotes, proposals, voting records, look at the actual numbers, or use any common sense, you will see that we are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
Like I said, the guy should really think about going into comedy...
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/130549/we-party-diversity-says-marco-rubio-completely-without-irony
http://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2015/10/democrats-lack-diversity.html
http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/
Here's the quote which garnered a chuckle out of me:
"The media has a definition of Hispanics that you can only be Hispanic if you're a liberal. The Obama economy has done enormous damage to the Spanish community.
On this stage tonight are two sons of Cuban immigrants and an African American. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats."
Yes, because the final two Democratic presidential hopefuls are both white and three of the five remaining Republican candidates aren't, this obviously means Republicans are the party of diversity, not Democrats. That is if we don't look at the bigger picture, of course. Let's look a bit closer at Senator Rubio's claim...
House of Representative minorities
Democrats: 78 out of 188 seats (41.5%)
Republicans: 12 out of 246 seats (4.9%)
Both houses of Congress (minorities)
Democrats: 81 (34.6%)
Republicans: 16 (5.3%)
Both houses of Congress (women)
Democrats: 79 (33.8%)
Republicans: 29 (9.7%)
Not only that, but let's look at the 2012 election results, shall we?
Democrat Barack Obama won the following demographics over Republican challenger Mitt Romney:
- Women (55% to 44%)
- African-Americans (93% to 6%)
- Hispanics (71% to 27%)
- Asians (73% to 26%)
- Other (58% to 38%)
Senator Rubio, care to rebut my factual findings?
- "About 2 in 5 House Democrats are minorities and 1 in 20 House Republicans are. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "Over 1 in 3 Democratic Congresspeople are women and 1 in 10 Republican Congresspeople are. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "Democrats tend to win with these voters on election day: Women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and whoever 'other' is. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "While Democrats tend to disagree with us on these issues, most Republican politicians believe in the following: Deporting Hispanics, banning Muslims (our presidential frontrunner anyway), limiting LGBT rights, decreasing women's rights, and making it more difficult for blacks to vote. We are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
- "If you don't look at our quotes, proposals, voting records, look at the actual numbers, or use any common sense, you will see that we are the party of diversity, not the Democrats!"
Like I said, the guy should really think about going into comedy...
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/130549/we-party-diversity-says-marco-rubio-completely-without-irony
http://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2015/10/democrats-lack-diversity.html
http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/
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