Posted on 08/30/2012 4:30:26 PM PDT by montag813
Tonight, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is addressing the Republican National Convention.
Why is he being given that honor, you say? That is a good question, since he is at great odds with both the party's nominee, the party's platform, and the American people on the issue of immigration, and continues to insult us on a weekly basis to pimp his pro-amnesty views that we have consistently rejected.
At a forum on immigration, Bush said Republicans aren’t going to close the gap with Hispanic voters until they “stop acting stupid” by being too "tough" on "immigrants" (the usual code for illegal aliens).
Bush said many Hispanic voters share the GOP’s commitment to faith, family and small government but have been alienated from the party by "exclusionary rhetoric" on immigration. But that, he said, is finally changing.
With the typical arrogance we usually hear from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bush acted as if he spoke for "conservatives", even though he is anything but...
“I promise you this is where the conservative cause is going, and thank God it is,” he said to cheers at a lunch sponsored by the Hispanic Leadership Network.
Bush speaks for the political elites - irrespective of party - those who want open borders, and unfettered access to cheap labor, their staggering financial and socials costs, and security risks to Americans be damned. Bush is NOT a "conservative", and is in line with La Raza, the ACLU, MALDEF and Barack Obama on immigration. Like them he opposed Arizona's SB1070 and subsequent laws in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Like them he supports an unrestricted "Dream Act" and refuses to criticize Obama's lawless decree granted amnesty to nearly 2 million illegals, with no safeguards against fraud.
And it is stupid politics too. Supporting amnesty does nothing to help the GOP gain Hispanic votes. The proof? 2008. John McCain was the very author of the 2006 McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill - the one we activists killed. McCain was the very architect of illegal alien amnesty - and yet he still received the lowest percentage of the Hispanic vote of any GOP candidate in history - 31%, compared to 45% for George W. Bush in 2o04 (before Bush supported McCain's amnesty). Jeb Bush cannot possibly argue this is a winning political strategy.
Bush does not represent the views of the Republicans he will speak to in the hall tonight, on this existential issue for America. It is my sincere hope that he does not mention it even once in his speech.
But should he do so, I ask all delegates in the room to stand up for America, and let Bush know where we stand...
If Bush bashes the Arizona or Alabama immigration laws: BOO him.
Should he tell you we need to support the "Dream Act": BOO him.
If Bush tells you we need to "move beyond" securing the border: BOO him.
Should he call for a "guest worker" program for illegal aliens: BOO him.
Don't worry about what the media will say. Don't worry about how it will affect Romney's control over the Convention - which he has already pushed over the limit this year. This nation is far bigger than one man or one party. Jeb Bush and his La Raza-style, open-borders, amnesty politics are an existential threat to the United States.
If Jeb goes there, tell him, and the elite political class that supports him - NEVER to go there again.
Who invited the Bushrino?
PISS OFF BUSH you and your family want to ignore illegal immigration robaly because you get all those nannies and gardeners from over the border and you want us to ignore abortion and you want us ot appease the turd pokers and strap on wearers
I lived in Texas when it was considered low-class to take advantage of illegal aliens. At the University of El Paso, the faculty wives and the of-so-liberal female teachers all kept little slaves in their basements. If they got caught driving their maids back and forth from the river, they got their precious cars impounded. This was what it was like under Jimmy Carter.
But the Bush women can't make their own beds, clean their own toilets or wipe their own babies' backsides. So they want a little squad of body servants at notice at all times.
This is the real story. Lazy selfish women too cheap to hire citizens at honest wages. Bush women.
I don't think I'll watch the convention tonight.
Like the gays, I wish the Bushes would leave us alone.
Smart move, send Bush out there to say something stupid so the speechwriters can scribble it out of Mitt’s speech.
The Bush family needs to realize that their day has come and gone. They are no longer needed.
All they do now is hurt the cause. Amnesty is not a popular issue. If it were, the dems would have done it when they owned the House, Senate, and the White House.
They didn’t pursue it for a reason. Remember, they do nothing that does not help their Marxist cause.
The dems would like nothing better than have the GOP grant amnesty. Why? Because they will do exactly what they did with blacks.
They will claim they were for latinos, even though they didn’t grant the amnesty. Come election time, they will take credit and when the GOP says, “we did it”, they will say “see you did it, not us.
As Jesse Jackson used to say, stay out of da Bushes!
If Bush bashes the Arizona or Alabama immigration laws: BOO him.
Should he tell you we need to support the “Dream Act”: BOO him.
If Bush tells you we need to “move beyond” securing the border: BOO him.
Should he call for a “guest worker” program for illegal aliens: BOO him.
Sounds good to me!
Jeb is morphing into the Clinton of the republican party.
If Bush bashes the Arizona or Alabama immigration laws: BOO him.
Should he tell you we need to support the "Dream Act": BOO him.
If Bush tells you we need to "move beyond" securing the border: BOO him.
Should he call for a "guest worker" program for illegal aliens: BOO him.
I heartily concur.
At one time I'd have gladly supported Jeb for president. But he has soiled the nest, I'm afraid.
The California Republican Party establishment rushed to stop acting stupid.
Since then I think there's been just two Republicans win statewide elections, one insurance commissioner and Schwarzenkennedy. The insurance commissioner was forced to resign mostly because a termed-out Democrat assemblywoman wanted that job. IIRC,
Elite women like Bush wives and daughters get to break the law. And if we don't like that, we get reminded that they are hiring slaves because they love them. Laura O'Hara, fiddle dee dee.
RINO Romney is backed by the GOPe
because he is perceived as
THE gateway to the return of the Bushes.
And consider that meanwhile:
Gov. Palin - ignored
Conservatives - ignored
So you lament “exclusionary rhetoric” and then go on to call anybody who doesn’t agree with you “stupid”. Real brain surgeon there
These selfish self-centered ambitious power-hungry RINOs can never say how ammesty is good for current American citizens, they always tell us how good it’ll be for “the party”. It’s all about more votes to forward their ambitions, not about America or We The People. They are making the mistake of conflating what’s good for them and “the party” with what’s good for the country.
RINOS, Jeb Bush, it’s not about what gets more votes for you so you can live in DC and make crony deals to get rich. It’s about us and America and all the legal citizens. How blindly blatantly power-hungry can you be?
Just Jeb? I wouldn’t be surprised if they supported Hillary, since Bill is the new brother.
Jeb Bush should stop being stupid. I guess he can’t help it though, it’s in his genes.
Anyone who thinks Republicans can move ahead with Negro’s or Hispanics is a damned fool.
The smart ones will vote Republican and the idiots will vote for Obama , it’s that simple and Jeb Bush knows it.
he is just spouting off for the Hispanic vote so his wife won’t toss him out of bed tonight.
GOOD...Bush is sticking to education so far. Hopefully that’s all it will cover.
No one care what you think. Go live in mexico.
And it's not even good for "the party." 85% of them vote Democrat. Legalize 20 million ilegales, and it's game over for the GOP at the ballot box forever.
When Jeb was Gov of Fla., everyone there were amazed how he governed that state. My cousin who lived there when he was Gov, thought he was a fiscal conservative genius. Unfortunately, once he’s out of office, he goes brain-dead and he doesn’t have the class of his brother to just STFU.
“Acting stupid”?!?
Why don’t you go &@$* yourself, Jebby.
Down with the GOP —I have a throbbing boner to NOT vote for a Bush.
RINOs onto the ash-heap of history...!
He is NOT to be trusted for a second on any issue involving illegal or criminal behavior and ambitions of latinos or latinas!
Levin spoke to this. He was respectful but made the salient point that the Bush family has long overstayed its political welcome.
I don't see much action, though.
When Democrats focus on Mexican immigrants and ignore immigrants of other nationalities, it amounts to racial preference.
“I wish the Bushes would leave us alone.”
That’s my wish as well, Mamzelle.
I personally think there may well be Mexican cartel money involved, too. What else explains why they want to keep the border open for illegals, even though they are psuedo-Republicans?? Connect the dots. Follow the money.
Maybe he ought to shut up and take his alien wife and move to Mexico!!!
B-but we CAN’T vote for a SECOND party candidate! That would cause the end of America! Cats would lay down with dogs! Mayan Apocalypse! End of life as we know it!
Etc. Etc. But you all know the drill already.
Why don't you move down to Latin America and do some assimilating yourself?
Leave us ALONE.
...and put up that WALL.
Cheers!
His alien wife, the one who got caught trying to smuggle thousands of dollars of designer clothes into the country? Deport her. Him too.
My wife made me change the channel when he was speaking. Why is this man spouting that BS on OUR stage at this important time?
Jeb spoke on education and gave a magnificent speech
Sour grapes causes cancer
Did I omit shutting Jeb Bush up in some extravagantly catered rubber room in one or another Bush compound?
STAY OUT DA BUSHES!!!!!!
IF a BUSH is ever the nominee for the repubs again, I will not vote for him/her/IT and would change my reg to NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Agree with you. This was true back in the 1980s as well. I was dating a young Mexican lady in Dallas at the time. She and her whole family were here legitimately, green cards, and brought in a business. They did custom hand worked carpentry and carving for architectural fixtures. They employed a half dozen people and paid taxes - all above board, all legit.
All of them were applying for US citizenship, and were passed over in precedence by the Kennedy amnesty sham. Man were they angry. And why not? I lost track of them over the years, but they were considering a return to Mexico and an expanded business over there the last I knew.
Honest, productive, hardworking and self sufficient; desiring to become Americans. Passed over for sad faced mojados who celebrate Cinco de Mayo and protest American flags on American soil.
“Why is this man spouting that BS on OUR stage at this important time?”
Not to be snarky, but I don’t think it is ‘our’ stage. Tea Party, libertarians, small government Republicans and SoCons have all been punked, and punked thoroughly, and punked for a long time.
That is a fact. Not a pretty one, but it is a true one.
Who invited the Bushrino?
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The Republican establishment did.
Explain, please.
I mean that it is the ‘moderate’ GOP which has won. Thus not ‘our’ stage.
No one care what you think. Go live in Mexico.
Then Jeb can hob nob with Romney’s cousins.
If your possessions are too many for you to maintain LEGALLY--don't have so many possessions.
Do you remember when "landscaping" used to mean a patch of lawn, a few pansies and some shrubs?
Now all this elaborate "scaping" with stone retainers, lavish sprinkler systems--people spend half of what their home is worth on greenery that they have no way to maintain without a service. Then, when they find out how much it costs to maintain legally, they bring in gangland from Mexico so they can have the perfect lawn.
I live near resort retirement areas in the mountains where "conservatives" from hot southern cities come to cool off, and these conservatives have armies of illegals that fill up our schools and hosptials and jails.
And they like to think of themselves as so charitable for hiring the "needy."
I'd like to see anyone hiring illegals to have his big lavish property confiscated .
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