Disillusioned Yanks eye NZ (No, US liberals, don't come here - go to Canada or France please)

Stuff.co.nz (The Dominion Post) ^ | 06 November 2004 | By ANN-MARIE JOHNSON

[NZerFromHK]

And worst of all, they will discover once they get here, that the Pat Buchanan paleoconservative movement is much stronger than back "home". Our paleocon (Winston Peters) reoutinely gets 5% support and once they come here in droves I guarantee they will shore up Winston's support to 18% (it happened before).

Before long they will be horrified to see the paleocon becomes the kingmaker in the next pariamentary session. (courtesy of Westminster system of government and proportional representation in election)

[rem22-250]

Your tag line says it all!
Best wishes. :)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Let's face it, you Kiwis are doomed.

No one can resist the onslaught about to be waged by hundreds of appeasement-minded, limp-wristed North American liberals.

You'll be in my thoughts and prayers.

[stands2reason]

Americans don't roll their r's.

[Nathan Zachary]

It's not easy for them to get into Canada either, unless they got tons of money, or a needed job skill, and a sponsor. (Most of those sponsors prefer arepublican)
The favorite spots for them are in southern Ontario or Vancouver, both of those places, while a bit warmer, are already saturated with welfare, crime, and high deficit governments, and a hodge podge of other immigrants. Vancouver isn't that nice of a place anymore, and decent housing is very expensive. Alberta is booming, but it's conservative town, not the ideal place for a democrat. the prairies have basicly voted out all the liberals as well. Plus it's way too cold for a southerner. Also not a cheap place to live either.
The real fact is, North America is getting less lefty liberal, even in Canada social programs are getting chopped left and right because they are just too costly, and poorly run.

[Lexington Green]

--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
-- Samuel Adams in Philadepha, August 1, 1776.

[Final Authority]

Most liberals have no marketable skills so why would a great state like NZ want to take them in to suck off their teat? It is informative however that the great "conservative" TSH in Boston, Jay Severin, has said in the past that the only other place in the world he could live would be NZ. I checked one time, about ten years ago, about the kind of professionals they needed and speech and language pathologists seemed to top the list, My wife just so happens to be licenced and certified and we thought about it, for about a half a glass of wine.

[the invisib1e hand]

well, I wish they'd all go to falujah.

[Welsh Rabbit]

2) There is no help from government in finding work. And if you speak with too thick American accent (rolling r's) Kiwis won't welcome you to work.

Ah, there's the rub... I'm sure most of these American Libs were imaging New Zealand was a bit more socialized, and counting on a little more help from the government. And even if a NZ employer got past the accent, they'd quickly tire of having a whining Marxist on staff...

[libwacker]

Very astute questions that you pose.....
Could we possibly help these disaffected people to find their utopia?
AH, Yes......Belarus?...Cuba?...North Korea?...
Wait!...Why are all these malcontents trying to emigrate to white, safe, beautiful lands, such as New Zealand?
Obvious answer.......NO BLACKS!!!!!!!

[libwacker]

HO..HO..HO...Green Giant!!!!!!!!!

[NZerFromHK]

Another thing these American libs don't know is that Kiwis left and right don't tolerate frivolous torts very well - they regard this as one typical nasty Americanisms. Since libs are more likely to be tort-minded than conservatives (I guarantee more than 2/3 of lawyers and clients who initiate frivolous torts in the States are liberals) they would quickly run into hot water.

[Nathan Zachary]

That's another thing, the American left are in a unique lefty world all their own. They don't even fit in with other world 'lefties'. there are no frivolous law suits in Canada either. In fact, Bush's torte reforms lean much towards what Canada has. The left in the USA just aren't grounded in reality.
I doubt we will see many of these whiners going anywhere, especially Canada. Winter is about to plop it's 10 feet of snow down, and the thermometer is heading down.
Most Canucks are heading south with the geese.

[NotADove]

Sigh, most Liberals can't make a big move like this without a base. Since most are 'jibber jabbers', a move like this is flat out against their cowardice make-up. Don't get me wrong, I am sure there will be some that move and I welcome them to depart with their anti-American views, but the large numbers reporting are misleading. This phenomenona is just their need for attention. Trust me, all of this will die-down and we soon will unfortunately be hearing their rant for Hitlary in '08.

[KernFarmer]

I know this will be controversial but I propose that one of the first things Bush dose is work for a small tax increase to help relocate liberals somewhere outside of the USA. All in the name of reaching out to the losing party and giving them a helping boot errr hand.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Those moving there will have to fit in, unless they are moving with their money and live off it. Given that the whining lefties are mostly in antillectual professions, the question becomes: how many of their kind and ilk could be ever accommodated in a small country like NZ [if it ever wishes to take them, of course]?

Nonsense! New Zealand doesn't need engineers and scientists! They need people trained in decontructionist literature, feminist poetry, urban anthropology, and book store clerks! /s

[dfwgator]

New Zealand still hasn't forgiven us for sending them Carol Mosley-Braun as US ambassador.

[Welsh Rabbit]

(I guarantee more than 2/3 of lawyers and clients who initiate frivolous torts in the States are liberals)

You got that right. These potential immigrants will be in for a rude awakening if they think they can take a paid year off of work when they stub their toe in the break room...

[Welsh Rabbit]

Nor should they!

[doug from upland]

from four more years of cowboy conservatism,"
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One of my favorite chants I was yelling through a bullhorn at a rally in Santa Moncia was "Hey hey...ho ho...a cowboy, not a gigolo." When I told it to Larry Elder on the air, he almost lost it.