The GOP sellout this week reminded me of something I saw in the Weekly Standard after the election. Fred “The Beadle” Barnes had a piece on Mike Coffman, a nobody congressman from Colorado, who managed to win in a gerrymandered district. Barnes is one of the true believers in the neo-liberal wing of the GOP. I call them neo-liberal because most of them used to be moderate liberals. Barnes was a long time writer for The New Republic. That was before it was turned into a bathhouse journal.

Republican representative Mike Coffman of Colorado was the No. 1 target for defeat by House Democrats in 2014. Making matters worse, he had been gerrymandered out of his solidly Republican district and was opposed by the most impressive candidate Democrats could recruit. His future as a congressman did not look bright. Yet he was reelected.

How did he do it? He learned to speak Spanish.

Coffman gave speeches in Spanish. Five days before the election, he debated his Democratic opponent in Spanish, an event carried nationally on the Spanish language television channel Univision. He held his own. Coffman won the election, 52-43 percent.

The Democratic obsession with ousting Coffman began in 2012 when his district in the suburbs to the south and east of Denver was transformed. It became 20 percent Hispanic, 9 percent black, and 5 percent Asian, along with a mélange of smaller minority communities. Coffman had won with 61 percent of the vote in 2008 and 66 percent in 2010. But in 2012, in the new swing district, he beat Democrat Joe Miklosi only 48 to 46 percent.

You can already guess where The Beadle is heading. The RINO fantasy is a world where pasty-faced blancos rule over a land of socially conservative brown people who enjoy authoritarian rule.

Learning Spanish wasn’t the only reason Coffman won. He’s a conservative Republican who benefited from the GOP wave. He’s known for making it possible for veterans to get private medical care in some cases. He favors opening federal land in Colorado to oil and natural gas production.

But something else happened to him on the way to reelection. He substantially softened his position on immigration reform. Or as he says, he “moderated” his view.

The House seat he captured in 2008 had been held by Tom Tancredo, a firm opponent of amnesty of any kind for illegal immigrants. Coffman had agreed with him for years. But spending time with immigrant families—and needing their votes—“influenced my position,” he says. He’s now a supporter of immigration reform.

“I clearly want to see something get done,” Coffman told me. He opposes the “comprehensive” reform that passed the Senate last year. And he’s critical of President Obama’s plan to legalize illegal immigrants by executive order.

And there we are. His victory had nothing to do with a comically bad opponent, a GOP wave and a depressed minority vote. Nope, The Beadle has proved that abandoning western civilization and embracing open borders was the key to victory. You can just hear the lament rising from the offices of The Weekly Standard. “Why can’t these knuckle-dragging Tea Party monsters accept our version of reality??!!”

Mags like TWS are not for the rabble. They are journals of the ruling class. Celebrating diversity is for them the same as celebrating Christmas is for the rest of us. It does show why guys like Boehner have no fear about ramming through amnesty and ObamaCare funding. The people who put that raging alcoholic in charge will stick by their man as long as he does not get drunk in public and does their bidding in the House.

Those of you who plan to be alive in the coming decades better learn Spanish. That’s your future, unless you plan to move to Canada or Iceland or China. That’s not practical, so your RINO future será narrada en español. Espero que te guste la comida picante , porque celebrar la diversidad no es sólo watiching Univsion .

Saludos, mi amigos.