BUZZFEED: RUBIO AND CRUZ DON’T HAVE LATINO CRED BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT MEXICAN-AMERICANS, Stephen Kruiser writes at PJM.

Because once somebody has an (R) after his name, he’s fair game for any abuse the left wants to hurl at him, racism be damned. See also: “George Takei: ‘Blackface’ not racist; Clarence Thomas has ‘abdicated his African American heritage,’” and with Sarah Palin, “SHE IS NOT A WOMAN, SHE IS A REPUBLICAN” as a bumper sticker spotted on a car with a Christian fish symbol (!) in an Oregon church parking lot shouted in 2008.