Who's Really Disenfranchised?
By Matt Robbins, National Executive Director | |
Disenfranchised. The very word evokes strong reactions in us: we peer back through American history, thinking of young people, minorities, suffragettes, and even slaves. None of which, at one time or another, had the right to directly participate in our system of self-government. Heck, the Founding Fathers intentionally didn't give the vote originally to anybody who wasn't a white, land-owning male (though I'm guessing "powdered-wig-wearing" might have been a negotiable category).
And because of the power of this one word (and the sins of our forefathers), we are doomed to hear about it each and every election cycle from now until the end of the republic (yes, my Star Wars-loving self just spazzed out as I wrote that last part).
Only now these downtrodden (note to self: be sure to trod someone down very soon) have somehow expanded it to include not only all the usual suspects listed above, but also such groups as illegal aliens, who I suppose by the Left's tortured logic somehow just had to be on the Framers' white-male-lovin' minds during that stuffy summer stretch of weeks in Philadelphia 235 years ago.
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Earlier this week, Virginia State Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite Tito "the Builder" Munoz drew the attention of Andrew Breitbart, one of the prominent voices in the Tea Party. Tito Munoz is a construction worker who found the spotlight during the 2008 presidential election, and is taking the next step and running for office. In this interview, Breitbart highlighted the Colombia-born Munoz, along with Florida Senator Marco Rubio, as "such a strong advocate of why it's great to be an American."
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