First, there was singer and Democratic activist Harry Belafonte calling Colin Powell a "house slave." Then we have Hillary Clinton making a really bad (and unfunny) joke about Ghandi and a gas station. Now we have a Dean supporter and official with the DNC getting in on the act:

Steven Ybarra, a Democratic National Committee official and regional coordinator of Latinos for Dean, called Rosario Marin the former U.S. treasurer under President Bush who is now seeking the GOP nomination to compete against California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a "house Mexican for the Republicans." The attack was sent out in a mass e-mail to political activists, community leaders and a number of journalists this week.

Marin responded in a statement:

Apparently, according to Mr. Ybarra and many of his fellow Democrats, if you are not a liberal Democrat, then you shouldn't be considered a legitimate minority. It doesn't matter that I'm an immigrant, the daughter of a janitor and a seamstress, or that I had to teach myself English because my first language was Spanish."

No Ms. Marin, for the Democratic Party it doesn't. To them a "legitimate minority" is one that is sympathetic to their cause. The Democrats' idea of diversity is only skin deep.

Ybarra has is all wrong. Republican's don't have a "house" we have a "tent." It's a big tent that not only welcomes people of all races but those who hold a broad range of opinions as well. The Democrat's would do well to follow our example. Otherwise they may soon find themselves shifting from a party of minorities to the permanent minority party.

(Hat tip: Le Sabot Post-Moderne)