Gary Varvel is the editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star. His cartoons are nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate and have appeared on CNN and in Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Times, National Review, World magazine and Sports Illustrated.
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ODon said, 3 months ago
Latinos, like all of us, are individuals first.
mikefive said, 3 months ago
Supporting a politician because of race or ethnicity instead of broader issues is a poor reason to grant them that support.
cjr53 said, 3 months ago
Portrayal of Democrats in desperation is false. The reality is the r/w, republicans and tea partiers are the desperate ones. The message that rubio put forth was the same exact message that mittens lost the election with. the response didn’t even match well the message from President Obama.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@mikefive
You are absolutely correct Mike. Sadly that is exactly what the republicans are selling. I am not absolving the Democrats, but let’s face it, why is Rubio a rising star? Because he is a Latino and the republicans are scrambling to try and attract the Latino and other minorities vote. And once they get elected they won’t care about anyone or anything different than they do now, more power, and protecting the rich from actually having to pay to support the society that they derive their wealth and protection from.
Chillbilly
said, 3 months ago
Let’s get a few things straight about “latinos” please …
1. There are LOTS of different kinds of latinos, each with their own culture and prejudices. If you compared a Mexican and a Cuban, e.g., both might be insulted and consider you ignorant.
2. Hispanic surnames don’t prompt latinos to jump through hoops of fire any more than Allen West or Michael Steele, Condaleeza Rice or that pizza guy made black people do it.
3. Latinos tend to LIKE government in America because they or their ancestors left a place that was corrupt, racist and full of hollow promises. This place—even with our dysfunctional government—is a paradise compared to many of the hispanic countries and latinos know that. The GOP is anathema to this concept.
brent
said, 3 months ago
If they just turned up the volume they’d walk away.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
@Chillbilly
I would like to add to what you said.
Cubans who come to the US are not illegals, thaks to legislation from 1959.
Puerto Ricans are already citizens but can’t vote.
We are talking about millions of people who may pick your crops but may be your doctor or nurse.
ARodney said, 3 months ago
Does no one vet these cartoons? Latinos haven’t been gravitating to Rubio. His policies are terrible not just for Latinos, but for America at large. Exit polling shows that Latinos are more liberal than the average American on every issue, including abortion rights. In what fantasy land is Rubio enchanting Latinos? Why choose him over a liberal Latino whose policies make actual sense?
Harrison_Bergeron said, 3 months ago
@ODon
That’s not how the Democrats portray them. That is not how Democrats encourage non-whites to think, behave, and vote. Non-whites, women, gays, etc are all encouraged by the Democrats to think of themselves not as individuals, but as members of a race, a gender, or a sexual orientation. Thus, any member of those groups who doesn’t mindlessly vote Democrat, is a “traitor to his people.”
Dycel
said, 3 months ago
@ScottPM
scott-PMS
All you have to do to is turn on any faux noise source or suck on the black hole bus’s exhaust to get your perceived rhetoric.
Just like h-bb’s BS above you, the fact is people vote for their own self-interests the repubby’s are and have been dominated by special interests that can and do payoff the repubby bleeders of the American democracy.
If either of you clowns can actually prove your BS we’d all be amazed.
Fourcrows said, 3 months ago
Obama didn’t win in 2008 because he was black – he won because he wasn’t in the same party as George W Bush. No matter who the Democrats chose, that candidate would have won, because the Republican leadership at the time had pretty much bankrupted the country. If you weren’t rich in 2000, your life did not improve by 2008, and the number of unemployed compared to 2000 meant most had less than before W took office. Obama won in 2012 because the Republicans still could not convince enough people they had a satisfactory solution to the problems we faced. “I’m not Obama” was about as effective as Kerry’s “I’m not Bush” platform.
Even if Rubio is the candidate – he will not be able to win on race alone. It is the Republican party that will need to change to convince all those people for whom welfare is the only thing keeping their families from starving to death under a bridge to vote for him. Demonizing the poor and telling them their problems are all their fault will not win their votes.
Rubio CAN win if the PARTY separates itself from the right wing extremists of the Tea Party and offers up some genuinely workable fiscal solutions that does not involve severing the lifeline of the poor. I don’t see a particularly strong candidate on either side yet, but I don’t generally vote for a candidate as much as the platform. Both sides have a few years to come up with a solid plan for 2016-2020, and I’ll wait to see which one makes the most sense then. Until that point, potential candidates shouldn’t make their moves too soon; best to make the opposition scramble for dirt on them as opposed to having three years to drag their names through the mud.
Gore Bane said, 3 months ago
Better spin faster, Democrats. You’re losing the narrative!
ODon said, 3 months ago
@Harrison_Bergeron
What’s a rino? I’ve heard that expression from many Republicans.
NeoconMan said, 3 months ago
@ODon
^ A RINO is an elected Republican official who doesn’t do as he’s told by Big Business.
dtroutma
said, 3 months ago
The GOP “water boy” is carrying another empty GOP bucket. As the term “Latino” has no real meaning other than a surname, how is it a group? Black, yellow, white, from almost any country in the “western” world; Europe, North America, South America, even African or Asian ancestry, it IS perhaps the most absurd “label” out there.