The behavior of the audience at the Miss Universe in Mexico City was was another example of how ungrateful many Mexicans can be. Representing the United States was Miss USA Rachel Smith. She’s a beauty contestant, nothing more. But to many of the 9,000 barbarians in the seats it was a chance to show the world just how cowardly and classless they are - not even the honor of so many of their poor farmers can be afforded those who make ingrates of themselves at public events. They screamed and booed a woman who had no ability to respond to their mewling. They’re just mad at us, Donald Trump says. Why? Our wallet isn’t open wide enough:

U.S.-Mexico relations worsened in the past year after the U.S. National Guard was sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist the U.S. Border Patrol and help build hundreds of miles of wall to keep out illegal migrants.

Mexicans are also upset over a U.S. Senate proposal for a sweeping immigration reform bill that would limit the consideration of family ties, capping visas for foreign parents of U.S. citizens at 40,000 a year. The plan would change a system that favored family ties for four decades. Many Mexicans also feel that the United States exerts its influence to tip the balance in its favor, whether in global politics or sports events.

There’s nothing I can write that will impress upon those in that crowd just how pathetic they are more than what they see through their own eyes as their sons and daughters flee from home to ‘find a life’ in America. Every Mexican I see here, legal or illegal, I know represents a brain drain on that insipid excuse for a country. Immigrants, legal and illegal, work hard, pray hard, and understand the difference between the groveling that passes for work in Mexico and the hope for a respectable life that exists here in America.

Every Mexican national ought to feel shame that America must build walls to stem the tide of your best and brightest running from Mexico into America - because you have failed to fashion a country worth living in. You heckle a beauty contestant when you should be hanging your heads in shame for your failures. What would your country look like if we turned off the spickots? Would you even be able to feed yourselves?

But American taxpayers and the American economy will continue to feed and clothe you. Our flooded emergency rooms will continue to close in bankruptcy and our schools continue to burst at the seams, and our hospitals will continue to midwife your anchor babies for free so that your can steal a little bit of the American dream. Your convicts will still prey on us while murderers and rapists find protection in Mexico against the American justice they deserve. Our politicians will still work to find ways to prop up your regime and grant amnesty to 12 million Mexicans because they know to let Mexico collapse upon itself; its withered legs wobbling under the engorged mass of charitable obesity and professional incompetence - would put an international disaster right on our doorstep. Either way we pay. But you can keep your candy laced with lead, and your murderous drug cartels, and the tunnels they dig to flood my country with drugs. You can keep your crooked cops and your NAFTA trucks belching through America. And don’t forget that damned Chupacabra. You can keep him, too.

And America will continue to politely ignore all your failures. We’ll give, you will take, and the sordid comedy will grind on until one day, when enough Americans have listened to you boo our national anthem or harass our women, they will come to recognize the pathetic creature holding the cardboard sign to our south deserves neither our money or our sympathy any more.

Evrviglnt

The media are deriding him just like they once did you-know-who….

Earlier this week Hillary! Clinton horned in on Opie Edwards’ crypto-Marxian turf with a speech so economically “populist” that it would have made Uncle Hugo exclaim, “Whoa, espere un minuto, Muslos del Trueno del Senador”.

Prudently recognizing the need to take public attention off his “I support Roe v. Wade/I’ll appoint judges in the mold of Roberts and Alito” conundrum, “America’s Mayor” wasted no time in returning fire:

“This would be an astounding, staggering tax increase,” Mr. Giuliani told reporters yesterday after a visit to a restaurant on the edge of California’s Silicon Valley. “She wants to go back to the 1990s. … It would hurt our economy. It would hurt this area dramatically. That kind of tax increase would see a decline in your venture capital. It would see a decline in your ability to focus on new technology.”…

” Mrs. Clinton, when she was in San Francisco a few years ago, was quoted as saying about the tax cuts, ‘We’re going to have to take more from you to give it to the common good,’” he said. “My philosophy is to give you a little more back for the common good.”

Just as at the last GOP debate, when everybody on that stage wanted to get the first swing at Ron Paul, it’s Rudy who beats them to the punch.

Of course, being the quickest isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.  The downside of that coin is that a candidate can blunder into campaign-killing gaffes that way (e.g. ex-Senator George Allen’s “macaca” remark), as Dean Barnett points out.  But with Fred Thompson’s official entrance into the race a fait accompli, with all the negative implications therein for Giuliani’s chances at the nomination, the latter can’t afford to sit on his honorary “front-runner” laurels.  To his credit, he’s not letting complacency be to his presidential aspirations what arrogance was to John McCain’s.

Parenthetically, did anybody else notice this turn of phrase in Ms. Rodham’s address:

It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an “on your own” society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a “we’re all in it together” society.

Ripping off Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan, I see.  Geez, can’t libs EVER come up with ANYTHING original?

Well, I guess whenever they do, it quickly becomes a lampooned cliché (”Putting people first”, “It takes a village”).  Still, if there’s such a thing as political blasphemy, this would be a good, er, candidate for it.

(h/t: Powerline)