The commercial, to air in Limbaugh’s home state of Florida as well as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, features a picture of the conservative talk show host and shows his words on the screen: “Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out.” It was first reported by the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe.

“Obama is now stoking racism in the country,” Limbaugh wrote in an email. “Obama is a disgrace – he wants the public to think he is Mr. Nice Guy while his thugs are in Alaska looking for dirt on Palin and he runs race-baiting ads and lies about what he has done and what McCain has done.”

As for the quotes, Limbaugh said they were taken out of context.

The first, “stupid and unqualified,” was from the NAFTA debate of the mid-90s, he recalled. Limbaugh, a NAFTA proponent, said in the fall of 1993 he got a call from a listener who was upset at the potential loss of American jobs.

In response he said, “If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people–I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs, let the kinds of jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do–let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Limbaugh_hitting_back_over_usage_in_ad_says_Obama_stoking_racism.html

The “build a fence” crowd is the most objectionable bunch of folks I’ve ever encountered. Totally irrational. I get a kick out of arguing with them. Mexico has the 12th largest economy in the world, and they are our 3rd or 4th largest trading partner. The most trafficked border in the world. There is no historical precedent for a fence that they propose that still allows trade to flow at reasonable rates. The 90’s were spent building just in time inventories that span the US border, north and south. These folks really want to kill NAFTA, or at least don’t care if it is. So screw the whole Southwest as far as they are concerned, US or Mexico. Trucking is a huge part of NAFTA and that’s why I watch your blog. To know what is going on with trade to Mexico and the shameful games Congress has played with Mexican trucks.

I get a kick explaining to the Paleocons (the Tancredo supporters & Limbaugh types who desperately cling to the “it’s only the illegal immigrants” we don’t like” crowd) that to build a fence you’ve got to claim large chunks of US private land by emmanent domain to do it. They immediately pivot and are all for emmanent domain (otherwise virulently opposed as I am) to get a fence built. They are shameless. It is conservative populism, nothing more. It seeks to scare people into approving things they otherwise wouldn’t to get done what the fearmongers want.

Yes, I know Mexico in the American mind bears little resemblance to reality, and that grieves me. When I go to Guanajuato I see many European tourists, but few Americans. But I do think things will change over time as Mexico changes. I do hope we partner with Mexico for military purposes to kill the narcos. I was saddened to hear of the murder of the anti-narco Mexican chief this week. I hope the authorities kill all those evil bastards that seek to tyrannize others with fear. The Paleos are opposed to the Merida initiative (foreign aid!), but they support the same thing in other nations: Colombia, Iraq (I support these actions too), and a zillion other nations where our military has supplied to combat terrorist groups and made a difference. 1.4 billion is nothing to either nation, but the military training and partnership is priceless. It is totally irrational, and believe me I argue with them all the time. I pray that Mexico and the US smash these brutal thugs and Mexico continues the great progress of the last decade. The Tancredos and Dobbs types are real threats to US/Mexico relations and security. Ralph Peters nails it here:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/narco_insurrection_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm?page=1

Excerpt:
“On this side of the border, the greatest threat to cooperation will come from posturing lawmakers and from demagogues who reduce our southern neighbor, with its 110 million population, to the issue of illegal immigration alone.”

So I hear you man, believe me. And I’m trying not to let the Paleocons take over my party! They belong in some other party, not mine. Keep up the good reporting!

Contrary to what many might want to believe, I am very conservative, but I also have a brain, know how to use it and am possessed with the gist of logic and common sense.

The purpose of this site is to try and give people cause to pause and think, of the stupidity and irrational things that are being crammed down their throats by the talking heads and the other media outlets.

I returned this morning from my home in Monterrey and during the trip, as well as the time at home, I kept thinking and looking for, the Mexico that most Americans think exists. I couldn’t find it.

Wednesday night, having dinner on the patio of Atlantica in the hills overlooking Monterrey, I looked around me at all the well to do Regiomontanians and wondered where all the illiterate disease carrying Mexicans were. I could not see them. I say a successful emerging middle class with education and with money to spend.

We took my girlfriends daughter to a private office party in San Pedro, a very affluent suburb of Monterrey, with shops like Prada and Saks and still, I could not find the Mexico of Lou Dobbs. You see where I’m coming from and what drives this site?

Again, thanks for the comment.It is appreciated.

BTW, Republicans have been enamored of Mexico since U. S. Grant, and many love it as I do. The liberals act like they’re your friends, but they aren’t. Take care not to be manipulated.