Republican convention: Coulter delivers fiery anti-immigration speech to California delegates

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Source: San Jose Mercury News

CLEVELAND -- Ann Coulter, the nativist firebrand, delivered a harsh anti-immigration speech Wednesday to California delegates to the Republican National Convention, warning them that the state's growing diversity had decimated their party and threatened to undermine the nation.

"There are 200 separate languages spoken in California ... the country is slipping away from us so fast," Coulter told the GOP delegates as they ate breakfast in their hotel outside Cleveland.

Coulter, the author of the anti-immigration book "Adios America," appeared to be an odd choice to address a delegation that includes more than a dozen Latino members. Her appearance was personally arranged by Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel, said Tim Clark, Trump's California campaign director.

Thiel, a Trump delegate from San Francisco, is scheduled to address the convention on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_30149064/republican-convention-coulter-delivers-fiery-anti-immigration-speech

[tonyt53]

1. First they get sick, and shit themselves silly, now they have silly shit going into their ears.

It sucks to be them in more ways than one.

[47of74]

13. Well I've been saying the convention is little more than a giant Cleveland Steamer.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I wonder ...

warning them that the state's growing diversity had decimated their party

Was this what she said, or the writer's take on what she said?

If perchance, it's what she said, it would be one of the few times she has been correct ... when a party only appeals to white folks, any increase in the numbers and/or engagement of PoC, will in fact, decimate said party.

[George II]

5. I think it was a sloppy, inappropriate interpretation by the writer.....

....but the intention definitely was there.

[WinkyDink]

3. Funny, she doesn't LOOK Native-American.

[George II]

4. "There are 200 separate languages spoken in California..."

"... the country is slipping away from us so fast".

Who is "US"? Native American dialects were the first in California, then Spanish. English was a relative late-comer.

So who does she mean when she says "us"?

[lapfog_1]

8. yeah, California

with all those place names like San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Yosemite, and Sacramento... all those ENGLISH derived names...

[SCantiGOP]

16. I have a friend who lives in Albuquerque

I asked his Hispanic wife when her family moved to the US. She said they never did. They arrived in what is now NM in the late 1600's and a couple of hundred years later they became part of the US.

They should have built a wall.

[lapfog_1]

17. A significant portion of my family lives on the Sandia Pueblo

Sometimes they think that they should have built a wall... just before the late 1600s

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Who is this "us" that the country is supposedly slipping away from?

Reactionary white dinosaurs losing white privilege?

[Maven]

7. "Nativist firebrand"? Is that the new way to say "virulent racist"? nt

[MFM008]

9. Im sure that will swing

California toward tRump.

[olddad56]

10. As a native Californian whose family migrated here in a covered wagon in 1859...

I wish that California would slip away from the Divided States of America. Especially if the country falls into the hands of the Hiteresque Trump party.

[yellowcanine]

11. I am guessing the irony of delivering this message to the California delegation is lost on Coulter.

If there is any native language in California other than native American languages it is probably Spanish. And Chinatown didn't happen yesterday either.

[ancianita]

12. Her message of exclusion is anti-American to CA, the fifth biggest economy on the planet.

Aren't we all about a better life for anyone who wants to come to America?

Oh wait. American values are only white values. Silly me, I'm thinking like a Democrat.

[kimbutgar]

14. We can only hope coultergist can gets that rinovirus hitting the delegation

I wonder how the Asian American repuke head feels about that speech?

[47of74]

15. Coultergeist!

I wish Keith was still on to pick her apart like he did in the past;