GOP’s Equal Opportunity Hater aka the “Black Jesse Helms� says “Fiesta is over for illegal aliens and homosexuals�
Vernon Robinson is an African American Republican candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 13th district – one who has almost entirely decided to forgo the traditional right-wing tactics of using coded language and subtle attacks against gays, immigrants, judges, and liberals in order to rally the base. He is currently the best financed GOP candidate in the race.
Robinson was once criticized and dubbed the "black Jesse Helms" for a campaign message “reminiscent of the old South, where race is used to scare the white would-be voter into the arms of the conservative Republican fold, lest the white sheep stray come time to vote.� Critics said the “only thing missing was a picture of the Confederate flag� and noted the irony of the fact that Robinson had “found it necessary to use the same race-mongering tactics to get elected that Jesse Helms and other white, conservative, racist politicians used to keep blacks from being elected to office.�[1]
Robinson quickly embraced the Helms mantra using it as a kind of badge of honor in a speech to the Florida Christian Coalition. He has been supported in his bids by the likes of nationally known Republicans such as former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, as well as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan.
At a time when the Republican Party is trying desperately to reach out to Hispanics and African Americans, three-time GOP candidate Robinson has opted to ignore the norms of traditional political discourse and even basic decency, instead filling the airwaves with vile attack ads aimed at his Democratic opponent, Brad Miller, while continuing the traditional GOP electoral tactic of scapegoating gay Americans – this time marrying that hate-filled message to an anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic one, all in his quest for the so-called values voters that are making up a larger and more vocal part of the GOP’s base.
Here is Robinson’s most recent radio ad – [listen HERE]:
“Every night, 7,000 aliens rush into our country illegally and your ultra-liberal congressman, Brad Miller, refuses to guard the border. Instead of deporting them he votes for amnesty and throws them a party with your tax dollars. (mariachi music begins playing) Brad Miller gives these aliens welfare, driver’s licenses, Social Security, free healthcare, free lawyers, free public educations, even free school lunches. These aliens pay no income tax and send their money back to Mexico, then they take to the street waving the Mexican flag and demanding more. Unbelievably Brad Miller voted to allow these illegals to burn the American flag while waiving the Mexican flag.
“Brad Miller supports gay marriage, and sponsored a bill to let American homosexuals bring their foreign homosexual lovers to this country on a marriage visa! (sounds of gasps and revulsion) If Miller had his way, America would be nothing but one big fiesta for illegal aliens and homosexuals, but if you elect Vernon Robinson, that party’s over.�
Robinson is also responsible for an earlier, equally offensive, radio ad that likewise targeted immigrants:
“The aliens are here but they didn’t come in a spaceship, they came across our unguarded Mexican border by the millions. They’ve filled our criminal courtrooms and invaded our schools. They sponge off the American taxpayer by clogging our welfare lines and our hospital emergency rooms; they’ve even taken over the DMV. These aliens commit heinous crimes against us, like Maximiliano Esparza who raped a nun and strangled her with her own rosary. They commit crimes but won’t commit to learn our language. You walk into a McDonald’s restaurant to order a Big Mac and find to your horror that the employees don’t speak English. You may be in the heart of America but you feel as though you’re in ‘The Twilight Zone.’ Vernon Robinson will secure our borders, cut off the welfare payments, and once and for all make English our official language. Press 1 for English? NO! Vote Vernon Robinson for English.�
Robinson also ran a television ad that played off the “Twilight Zone� theme, one that essentially put gay and lesbian Americans, feminists, African Americans, immigrants and "liberal" judges in the same category as Osama bin Laden:
“If you’re a conservative Republican, watching the news these days can make you feel as though you are in ‘The Twilight Zone.’ Americans are under attack from Islamic extremists in every corner of the world. Homosexuals are mocking holy matrimony and the lesbians and feminists are attacking everything sacred. Liberal judges have completely re-written the Constitution. You can burn the American flag and kill a million babies a year but you can’t post the Ten Commandments or say ‘God’ in public. Seven out of every 10 children are born out of wedlock and [Rev. Jesse] Jackson and [Al] Sharpton claim the answer is racial quotas. And the aliens are here but they didn’t come in a spaceship, they came across our unguarded Mexican border by the millions.�
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