McCain jumps the shark

Be sure to read Mark Krikorian’s article on John McCain’s “Hispanic outreach director,” Juan Hernandez. From an anti-American point of view, Hernandez is a man who has it all. He is a dual Mexican and American citizen who once worked as an official for the Mexican government under Vicente Fox. His job then was also Hispanic outreach, namely reaching out to Mexicans in the U.S., i.e., facilitating Mexico’s War against the United States. As Krikorian explains, in the pre-Earl Warren days Hernandez would have been stripped of his U.S. citizenship for having worked for a foreign government. Hernandez is an outspoken proponent of the non-assimilation of Hispanics, a proponent of amnesty and open borders, and more. Krikorian continues:

[He] has spent years opposing the very legitimacy of America’s borders and Americanization in the most public way possible. The man has been on every TV-news show in creation rejecting as passe the very idea of sovereign borders and patriotic assimilation into the American mainstream. (Digger’s Realm has compiled a greatest-hits video.)

And he’s John McCain’s “Hispanic outreach director.”

Why not just call him John McCain’s Hispanic Fifth Column Director?

And all the while McCain is energetically and with much Straight Talk telling Republican voters that he now supports border security. See Richard Lowry’s article about the “new McCain.” It’s a transparent lie, as it has been from the start.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. John McCain, like George W. Bush, is a conscious enemy of the American nation. McCain, like Bush, dislikes the historic people and culture of the United States, and he wants them to be replaced by Hispanic people and culture. The main difference between Bush and McCain is that while Bush is morally smug in his love of Hispanics and distaste for Americans, McCain is actively nasty. His drive to make America racially correct, i.e., nonwhite and Hispanic, and thus prove his own superiority to the American people, is even fiercer than Bush’s. The way I’m feeling right now, if this enemy of the United States were nominated by the Republican party, I would vote for Hillary or Obama.

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“B. Wilberforce” writes:

Like Lowry, I wish McCain’s hiring of Hernandez was just a cynical attempt to woo Hispanic voters, and not part of his dangerous and boneheaded crusade to keep the borders wide open. But it is rather strong brew to jump from this foolishness to the deranged allegation that McCain ‘is a conscious enemy of the American nation.’ Come on, Auster. Your earlier post—which you link to as proof that McCain ‘dislikes the historic people and culture of the United States’—is at best uncharitable, and at worst willfully absurd. You quote McCain saying: “a nation conceived in an idea—in liberty—will prove stronger, more enduring and better than any nation….made from a common race or culture.” How do you read this and see hatred for European whites? Let me add that I don’t agree with what McCain says: the McCain fallacy is believing that ideas, like liberty, can be so easily cut from the cultural and racial cloth they’re woven into and patched onto a new cultural or racial group. But this delusional liberal optimism is obviously not hatred for ‘the historic people…of the United States’—even if it is harmful to them.

LA replies:

I’ve explained this over and over and over. His attack on the very idea of America having an culture and an identity, his embrace of the “blood and culture” of Mexicans, his support for 1348, his arrogant desire to push it through without debate, his calling everyone who opposes the open borders xenophobes and bigots, and now this Hernandez thing. I’ve put these things together, they form a definite picture. I’ve made the argument as clearly as I can. When I call him an enemy, I’m not just namecalling and tossing around rhetoric. I’m stating a conclusion that comes out of his entire pattern of behavior that I’ve described. If you’re not persuaded, you’re not persuaded.

As for whether it’s hatred, as I say, or delusional liberal optimism, as you say, matters little. What matters in politics are the ideas that a person embraces. And the ideas and policies McCain embraces are for the destruction of the United States, which he pushes by smearing all those who oppose him. I think that that’s reasonably called hatred.

Also, I must say, when you describe, as your worst scenario, that McCain is involved in a “dangerous and boneheaded crusade to keep the borders wide open,” your use of the word boneheaded shows you’ve haven’t grasped what McCain is about, the depth of his intention. There is no well-meaning boneheadedness here. He wants to Hispanicize the U.S.

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Stephen T. writes:

Yes, McCain fairly swoons over Juan Hernandez’s “dual citizenship” status. As though he really functions in some dual, equivalent way when he’s down in Mexico the rest of the year. As though while in Mexico Hernandez belongs to and speaks on behalf of an Anglo organization blatantly called “The Race” which promotes the imposition of white European culture and language in Mexico. As though in Mexico he works to advance the idea that Mexican territory is not really sovereign, but a vague “zone” which belongs as much to any American as it does to Mexicans. As though in Mexico he lectures mestizos that their jobs must be given up to illegally immigrating American workers, without whom the Mexican economy cannot survive.

Of course he does none of this. Because Hernandez is not a dual citizen—no Mexican considers himself to be one—he is an unapologetic Mexican partisan, literally an agent of the government of Mexico who is more than happy to take advantage of the access to American political power extended by naive liberal Anglos.

Basically Hernandez tells mestizo Mexicans that they have a right to occupy the territory of the United States and he tells Americans that it’s futile to resist them. That’s his “dual” position.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 29, 2008 12:37 AM | Send