By Ron Lowe Santa Monica
GOP, the party of prejudice. Hypocrisy at its best. On Thursday Dec. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney asked Americans to view his candidacy with a sense of tolerance. “We believe that every single human being is a child of God,” he said. “We are all part of the human family.”
In the next breath he demeans and demonizes immigrants (part of the human family) playing to the lowest common denominator of the Republican Party, the intolerant Southern white base. Republican presidential candidates are diving all over each other to be the best anti-immigration hard-liner.
Hey Mitt, why don’t you just call hard working, brown-skinned Hispanics terrorists? It works for Homeland Security.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 26, 2007. Read the original PDF.