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National Republican Party leaders are nothing if not astute observers of the political trends that have damaged their party\u2019s brand.<\/p>\n

Witness the instant \u2013 and welcomed \u2013 lambasting of U.S. Rep. Don Young\u2019s racial slur against Mexican-Americans.<\/p>\n

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Young, an Alaska Republican and the second-most senior member of the House of Representatives, referred to migrant workers recently as \u201cwetbacks\u201d while recalling his childhood growing up in central California. <\/p>\n

Speaker John Boehner called the remark \u201cbeneath the dignity\u201d of Young\u2019s office. Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus, according to The Hill, \u201csought to distance Young from his party,\u201d which is trying desperately to build some kind of link with ethnic minorities, such as Hispanics who voted nearly 3-to-1 in favor of President Obama in last year\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

“My father had a ranch. We used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” young told an Alaska radio station. “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It\u2019s all done by machine.”<\/p>\n

Young did apologize immediately for his remark. But it might not be enough to assuage the outward anger of Republican leaders who must be fuming at their colleague while they are trying to make inroads with the very people Young has just insulted. <\/p>\n

“During a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in central California. I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect,” Young said.<\/p>\n

You know, the more I look at Young\u2019s apology, the more it reads like one of those \u201cIf I offended anyone \u2026\u201d non-apologies.<\/p>\n

Oh, the danger of speaking from one\u2019s heart and mind.<\/p>\n\n

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National Republican Party leaders are nothing if not astute observers of the political trends that have damaged their party\u2019s brand. Witness the instant \u2013 and welcomed \u2013 lambasting of U.S. Rep. Don Young\u2019s racial slur against Mexican-Americans. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/290977-boehner-no-excuse-for-youngs-wetbacks-comment Young, an Alaska Republican and the second-most senior member of the House of Representatives, referred to migrant … Continue reading GOP rips congressman\u2019s remarks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}