Opinion of Thomas Sowell

[Indy Texas]

I've always found it cute when contrarian black conservatives rail against affirmative action even though they likely wouldn't be where they are today were it not for affirmative action. Sowell would likely never have made it to Harvard as an archconservative white guy.

[Indy Texas]

I've always found it cute when contrarian black conservatives rail against affirmative action even though they likely wouldn't be where they are today were it not for affirmative action. Sowell would likely never have made it to Harvard as an archconservative white guy.

Are you kidding me?



Guy went to Harvard and Princeton and, like it or not, is an archconservative. I mean, that's a really boneheaded thing to say.

But I thought Cruz was Hispanic? Isn't that part of y'all's plan? To win the hearts and minds of the descendants of Mexican and Central American mestizo immigrants by running light-skinned Cubans of well-off European lineage?

[Indy Texas]

I guess Cubans, who voted Republican in every election up until 2012, are not real Hispanics. Thanks for telling us what a real Hispanic is, indieTX...

I never said they aren't "real" Hispanics. But you're crazy if you think they're a typical example of American Hispanics.

The Republicans' Hispanic problem isn't with Cuban-Americans. It's with Hispanic immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and their descendants. And the fact is that Ted Cruz has zippo in common with most of them. Ted Cruz looks like and has the political views of the coffee plantation owner who their grandparents worked for back in Guatemala.

Making Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio your solution to appealing to Hispanics makes about as much sense as using someone like John E. Sununu or Mitch Daniels to make up your party's deficit among recent Middle Eastern immigrants. An Anglicized Lebanese-American Christian whose family came to America in the early 20th century doesn't have any connection with someone whose family came here from Iraq after the Gulf War other than the ability to describe themselves as "Arab American" on the census.