Republicans warn of party split over immigration

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 12/03/04 | Stephen Dinan

[GeekDejure]

I hereby nominate Tom Tancredo for U.S. President !!!

[Ron H.]

Mr. Bush already has made it clear he is moving forward with his guest-worker proposal ....

One way to interpret this is that Bush (the new bully on the block?) has effectively punched the Conservatives in the nose and is daring them to live up to their words on this.

[Bikers4Bush]

Bush better put his ego aside on this one and back off.

[Always Right]

Abortion policy could do the same! The Gonsales nomination for AG is not playing well with my Lifer constituents.

I am not sure why an AG's stance on abortion matters. AG's don't make or interpret laws, they enforce them. Bush has a solid record on abortion, so it would be dumb for people to get upset over that.

[ApesForEvolution]

Our 1st Mexican Globalist POTUS...

[Dane]

I hope it does not split the party, but if that is what it takes to secure the borders, so be it.

Yeah like hillary is going to that. If you beleive that, I have bridge that goes to Brooklyn for sale.

[Carry_Okie]

Here's your big chance.

[Modernman]

There are two things that can split the GOP:

(1) Immigration.

(2) The religious right's social agenda.

[Carry_Okie]

Yeah like hillary is going to that.

Hillary has been making rumbles about border security for over six months. Of course, her idea of border security is a national ID.

[absalom01]

Tancredo is right: there is no other issue that gets the activist, grassroots base more worked up that this one. The leadership has to be looking at the wrong polls -- I suspect that they're missing the depth of feeling that people have. The relatively small number of "rational" business people who want lots of low-wage, low-skill labor just won't be able to buy their way around the thousands of hotheads (like Y.T.) who are ready to burn the house down if the present situation doesn't get fixed.

[TXBSAFH]

I not know what Hitlery will do, or even if she is running. I know that I consider border security a paramount issue for this country and will lobby my elected leaders accordingly.

[Alcibiades]

Sacrifice the borders in the name of the mighty Latino vote.

[mikeus_maximus]

Get 'im, Tom!

I shut up and voted for Bush.

Now it's time to make him behave!

[zerosix]

Majority will either be expanded or lost during 2006 on this issue that strikes into the hearts of the American people but not necessarily in the minds of their elected officials.

Every pol not in favor of tightening the borders, supporting the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, ending granting drivers' licenses to illegals and ending employers' firing long time employees in favor of cheaper help using illegals, need to be finding a new day job.

[Always Right]

There are two things that can split the GOP:
(1) Immigration.

(2) The religious right's social agenda.

Without the religious right there is no GOP party.

[janetgreen]

IMHO, this is the issue that broke Tom Ridge's back

I agree with that. I think the President was tying Ridge's hands, and he quit rather than have a poor job performance on his record. The President seems willing to sacrifice a hell of a lot for the sake of Mexico and illegal immigration. That's not what I voted for.

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

Look at Texas. I believe that whites are no longer the majority there (or soon coming). If we have millions of illegals coming in through the southern border illegally and a good portion of those voting illegally then those votes will have an impact on who gets elected in the future.

To avoid the "racist" label, the GOP will not do a thing about it. Coddling the illegals is the less painfull solution for the GOP.

The Serbian heartland, Kosovo, and our southwest region have a lot in common. If we did go the effort and expense to effectively keep them out like the Serbs tried to do in Kosovo we would not only get hammered internally, we'd have the whole world calling Bush a "Milosevic".

BTW, the Serbs were no angels, but the way I see it we were on the wrong side of the Kosovo thing.

[Bonaparte]

"The religious right's social agenda."

Conversely, the secularist right's social agenda -- which turns its back on God and unborn innocents alike.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams