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Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:00 AM

Oh, say can you care?

The flap over a Spanish-language national anthem.

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  • Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:13 AM

    Above it all, is there a new political wind blowing for the Bushies?

    At the heart of this issue (or non-issue, as it were) is the fact the Bush doesn't seem to mind losing the support of the nation's largest ethnic group, the Latinos. In every election he has courted and pandered to the Cuban and Mexican communities in the South, now he tells them to buck up and learn English?

    Somehow someone in his smoke-filled rooms has decided that he no longer needs to keep these groups in his camp-- or even more critically in his brother Jeb's camp.

    Rove pushed hard last year to get Mel Martinez elected to the Senate and bolster Latino support in Florida. Have they turned their back on that strategy?

    I hope so. Latinos are proud of their heritage and their language. They also are traditionally conservative voters who will swing in a second if a Republican gets them angry.

    Time for Democrats to call Bush on his insensitivity and his hypocrisy (not having any problem chiming in with a Spanish version on the election trail) and win over a very important constituency who could be there to swing elections back into Democratic favor in Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and many other states.

    I hope someone in the Democratic National Party is smart enough to send footage of Bush singing along with his Mariachi band to Univision and Telemundo to fan the flames of dissent.

    ¡Viva Bush! He'll win the Democrats the next election in spite of themselves.

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