Video of Adam Putnam...3rd in GOP leadership...speaking in a racist way about immigrants.

[madfloridian]

The Rovian tactics of using immigrants as a wedge issue is continuing. Adam Putman is making our district look really bad by saying stuff like this.

What I am hearing from them is that we are losing our cultural identity. Instead of being the traditional melting pot, we are becoming factions," he said. "Now all of these things are not necessarily government's responsibility, but there is a growing concern that there is no assimilation anymore as there has been throughout our history.

Then he adds to the insults by saying:

All rational discussion on a comprehensive immigration bill disappeared two Cinco de Mayos ago, when demonstrators marched flying the United States flag upside down while flying the flags of other countries (Mexico and Central American countries). Up until that point discussions had been ongoing."

Blame the immigrants...that is a really bad tactic. He is continuing to spread a message of hate and division...sort of like he is the new Rove.

Here is the article and the video. I can not tell you how much it rips me apart to see him talk so arrogantly. I hate that he is my congressman.

Putnam: Immigration Top Issue for Constituents

Dear God, he is thinking about running for governor...then the rest of Florida can have a sample of how he really is.

On his political future, Putnam was candid up to a point that left editors wondering if a run at being governor of Florida might be in the offing in seven years.

"I don't think about running for other office. The House of Representatives is a very special place, more chaotic, but more positive and more active, getting more done than the Senate," he said. "I don't spend time thinking about the White House."

But when asked about running for governor, he replied "I don't rule anything in and I don't rule anything out."

They have really succeeded in making abortion, gays, and immigrants the targets of hate and fear just as they planned. It was all done coldly and in a calculated way. It worked very well, and they just keep on with it. They never stop.

2005: Dean: GOP to Scapegoat Immigrants in Next Election

Dean was critical of Republican congressmen Bob Beauprez and Tom Tancredo, whom he said used fear to divide constituents along racial lines. And trading barbs with Republican chairman Ken Mehlman at the NAACP convention in Milwaukee, where both spoke Thursday, Dean said, “We’re not going to divide Americans to win elections. The Republican Party’s ‘Southern Strategy’ used in the 1960s and 1970s lives today. In 2000, they used the racially charged word “quota” to divide African Americans. In 2004, they used gay marriage. And just you wait; in 2006 its going to be immigrants.”

Adam "Opie" Putnam is their messaging person. He is putting out all kinds of messages this week. All terribly scary. Yesterday he put out the word to stop SCHIP.

GOP leader: "We must stop a major expansion in government run health care"

He uses the tactics to make people fear government, just like Reagan did.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I've been sickened watching him on CSPAN

He's a racist Reaganite. :scared:

[tularetom]

2. He looks like he might be eligible to enlist in the military

How come his pasty little white ass ain't in Iraq?

[Deja Q]

7. Because his hair is too orange?

:hide:

[BlueStater]

3. Alfred E. Neuman cleans up well. You've got to admit that.

[madfloridian]

5. There is a resemblance.

:rofl:

[Webster Green]

4. He's such a little weenie!

Loves his Kool-Aid too.

[Deja Q]

6. Hmmm, how does Adam explain this conflict of interest then?

http://www.jobdestruction.com/ShameH1B/Library/Archives/IndiaCaucus-108th-membership.htm

The House India Caucus was formed in 1994. Their mission statement contains altruistic sounding claims that they are interested in the “facilitation of trade and commerce with India”, “visas”, and “the promotion of Indian culture in the United States”. Their true agenda is to thwart all attempts to limit the offshoring of jobs to India, provide unlimited and unregulated H-1B and L-1 visas so that Indians can wreak labor arbitrage in the United States, and to drive a wedge between our country and Pakistan. These are the new Benedict Arnolds.

Adam hates illegal immigrants, wants the country secure, and blah blah blah, but doesn't mind moving its infrastructure off to other countries; whose laws are lax and ripe for all sorts of problems, and some of which have been reported by the media - in short, practices that adversely affect national security??