The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, May 19, 2008
Tu Amigo Orrin
A column from the San Antonio-Express News on John McCain's launching a Spanish-language Web site uses Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch as the baseline for pandering. Express News columnist Robert Seltzer says there's nothing wrong with wooing Latino voters:

The danger comes when candidates woo them with plastic flowers and drugstore chocolates, with empty promises and fatuous Web sites.

"Estamos Unidos con McCain," his Web site trumpets.

Pandering? Of course. But, so far, he has not descended into the smarmy, cloying tactics displayed by his colleague, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

"I love Hispanic people," Hatch said in 2005, when Alberto Gonzales was nominated as attorney general.

They all do -- especially during campaign season.

And McCain is a case in point:
McCain embraces Spanish now, but where was his affinity for Latinos in 2006, when he voted for a proposal to make English the national language? The measure went nowhere, gracias a Dios, for the candidate might have had a tough time explaining his Spanish-language Web site.
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