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Shorter GOP weaselspeak: āWeāll let the little brown one say what he has to say.ā
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If you donāt know where you are going, all roads will not lead you anywhere.
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Speaking with two tongues is SOP for the republicansā¦
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That oughta hold those brown-skinned SOBs. Now, to put a checkmark next to āDisenfranchise the Blacksā and Republican leaders can vacation until 2017.
Seriously though, it looks like Republicans have really learned to see the advantages of diversity. Just as long as they vote like old white men and donāt improvise.
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The real scandal is that his Spanish language version left out any mention of wearing plastic bread bags on his feet.
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In the end, a House Republican spokesperson told the magazine that Curbelo and Ernst would deliver āthe same Republican messageā ā but āwith their own unique stories and experiences to shape that narrative.ā
Professional question for those of you at TPM: can reporters really keep a straight face when they get responses like this?
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REPUBLICANS IN SPANISH:
Hola, brown people of America!
That means āhelloā in Spanish, heh heh.
We like brown people. Really, we do!
Thatās why weāre have our token brown person out speakinā to you in the Spanish tonight.
P.S. Donāt believe what you hear us say in English, thatās for our white people audience only.
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Does the Republicans know that Latinos understand both languages?
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Can you imagine if a Democrat did this? It would be plastered all over the front page of every newspaper and be reported on for a week. How do you spell two-faced? I can. Its spelled G-O-P.
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We should be concerned, this is obviously the work of a genius in the GOP congressional caucus.
When the 2015 Awards for Weaselspeak are awarded, surely this will be the winner:
āWe should also work through the appropriate channels to create permanent solutions for our immigration system,ā
Yeahā¦if by āappropriate channelsā you mean the National Guard and by āpermanent solutionsā you mean throw 'em all out and build a very high wall with watch towers every 10 feet.
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This is a glaring example of what little respect the repub bags have for our Immigrant population and Hispanic Americans They think they are so stupid as to not see the horrid hypocrisy and lies!
Appallingā¦and deplorable!
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Separate BUT equal? Two faces of the GOP? Left hand meet righter hand?
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I think we can all be thankful that the Spanish response wasnāt simply a white dude talking slowly and loudly.
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This is a fairly brilliant strategy that hadnāt occurred to me before. Broadcast political speeches with several audio tracks (you know, like on DVD/Blu Rays). There could be āGOPā, āDemocraticā, āHispanicā, āAfrican Americanā tracks etc. That way you can custom tailor your message to target audiences, brilliant!
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No.
The GOTPās two prong outreach sounds just like the ā'68 Nixonā to my old ears 
Ha ha! āSame ā¦ but different!ā
āA Google translation of Univisionās report on Curbeloās remarks largely corroborated the translation.ā Does this mean that no one at TPM knows Spanish well enough to translate what the guy said? Sort of pathetic.