Posted on 05/05/2005 4:48:29 PM PDT by mondoman
The GOP isn't going to "go on attack" on those issues. They like having social conservative issues continuing to fester with no resolution- that way they can make a lot of noise at election time about how they will fix it all, in order to get the social conservatives to vote for them. But if they really did address those issues then they wouldn't be able to haul them out every four years to fool everyone once again.
Sure, Tacredo a real winner -- he was able to get 70 people to pay $13 for dinner to hear him speak.
Without having to listen to him speak, the dinner would have cost $25. ;)
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20050503/NEWS/105030066
"Tancredo, a Republican who represents Congressional District 6, basically the counties south of Denver, gave a rousing illegal-immigration policy speech to about 70 people who attended a $13-a-plate dinner hosted by the Greeley Republican Women."
Mr. Cannon, have you ever actually READ what the Republican Party stands for? I suggest you take your own advice and check to see if YOUR views are consistant with THIS:
"The United States of America is a nation not a league... It is the immediate duty of congress fully to investigate the effects of the immigration and importation of [immigrants] on the moral and material interests of the country."
-- 1876 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
The Republican party having its birth in a hatred of slave labor and a desire that all men may be truly free and equal, is unalterably opposed to placing our workingmen in competition with any form of servile labor, whether at home or abroad. In this spirit, we denounce the importation of contract labor
as an offense against the spirit of American institutions; and we pledge ourselves to sustain the presen law restricting
immigration, and to provide such further legislation as is necessary to carry out its purposes.
-- 1884 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
For the protection of the equality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen, against the fatal competition of low priced labor, we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced, and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write.
--1896 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
"We pledge the Republican Party to the enactment of appropriate laws to give relief from the constantly growing evil of induced or undesirable immigration, which is inimical to the progress and welfare of the people of the United States."
--1912 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
The restriction of immigration is a Republican policy. Our party formulated and enacted into law the quota system, which for the first time has made possible an adequate control of foreign immigration. Rigid examination of applicants in foreign countries prevented the coming of criminals and other undesirable classes while other provisions of the law have enabled the President to suspend immigration of foreign wage-earners who otherwise, directly or indirectly, would have increased unemployment among native born and legally resident foreign born wage-earners in this country
We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of our present laws upon this subject.
--1932 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
There should be considerable concern over the presence of several million illegal aliens in the country who fill jobs that otherwise would be available to American workers. We support increased efforts to deal more effectively with this problem and favor legislation prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal aliens. The Democrat leaders in Congress have systematically killed every attempt to debate this legislation in recent years.
--1976 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
We support efforts to secure our borders from the threat of illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has reached crisis proportions, with more than four million illegal aliens now present in the United States. That number, growing by 300,000 each year, burdens taxpayers, strains public services, takes jobs, and increases crime. Republicans in both the House and Senate have passed bills that tighten border enforcement, speed up deportation of criminal aliens, toughen penalties for overstaying visas, and streamline the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Illegal aliens should not receive public benefits other than emergency aid, and those who become parents while illegally in the United States should not be qualified to claim benefits for their offspring. We call for harsh penalties against exploiters who smuggle illegal aliens and for those who profit from the production of false documents. Republicans believe that by eliminating the magnet for illegal immigration, increasing border security, enforcing our immigration laws, and producing counterfeit-proof documents, we will finally put an end to the illegal immigration crisis.
--1996 REPUBLICAN Party Platform
"The [Republican] Party believes that Congress should adequately staff and fund the U.S. Border partrol to protect and secure our intertional borders...and that the U.S. Border patrol be deployed within in the u.S. to locate and secure all illegal aliens who have previously entered our country, to exxpedite their return to their source country...the [Republican] Party belives the security of our orders is an urgent national interest...[we] oppose illegal immigration and all forms of amnesty, or any legal status granted to illegal immigrants irrespective of program, name or race"
--2004 Texas REPUBLICAN Party platform
The pubbies have found a sure way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2008.
The number of voters turned totally off & simply staying home for the election, just might give it over to the dems.
"Because they are feeling some heat on immigration and are circling their wagons."
That is exactly it. Even myself who is a supporter of dramatically increasing legal immigration and educated foreigners coming in.. Can't support illegal immigrants.
No, we understand supply and demand. We are importing a new underclass, while ensuring that our native undercalss cannot rise. It is economic and political suicide.
Cannon is a rino, and should have been ousted from office at the last re-election.
Maybe he is the one who should not be in the party???
"Last year, a political action committee founded by Tancredo targeted Cannon during his primary election challenge. "
Ahhh.... now I understand Tancredo better. Darn! I like that kind of fighting spirit. And it would cause a rift between him and the GOP club. An actual maverick.
Her one statement was "I am, you know, adamently against illegal immigration".
Well, who isn't? It is amazing that so many straw-graspers mis-construe this to mean that she wants to seal the border.
"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149 May 7, 1918 |
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Q: Karl Rove, the White House strategist, got so mad over your immigration stance that you were told not to darken the White House door. What's your relationship like with the president these days?
A: My wife and I went to the holiday ball at the White House. No one dances at this ball, because there's no room, and you get stuck waiting in this line... Luckily, we were by the cocktails and the canapes. Finally we got into the room with the Christmas tree, and the president comes up to me and says, "Tommy, I tell you, buddy, thanks for all the help out there." And I'm thinking, "Help out there?" And I say, "Thanks -- anytime." And I realize later that he's talking about the fact that I was the Bush co-chair in Colorado, an honor I did not seek. That was the sum total of my communion with him.
Tancredo should get a words-smith on his staff.
How much more effective it would've been if he had said:
I believe Republicans are with me on the issue, and, sadly, many of the office holders they elected have ignored their concerns.
Reminding the people that invasion cheerleader Canon has won in a primary challenge while Tancredo hasn't faced one is not helpful.
There's some momentum now. Those supporting the invasion are going to try to snarl Tancredo up defending himself against petty challenges. He should go on the offensive and start calling it an INVASION. The powers to be would sound really stupid and insensitive if they tried to explain that it isn't an INVASION, crossing borders the administration doesn't even choose to defend.
Quite a few here would agree w/ Chris Cannon, unfortunately.
Tank speaks truth.
This could be because there are so many former 'Rats who abandoned their sinking ship over to the 'Pubbies over the past 10-15 years parroting themselves as a new brand of 'Conservative' and the new face of the Republican Party. Some people need to remember that if they abandoned their party once before they'll do it again when it's convenient to them thus RINO's cannot be trusted.
Hi Bob, IMO, looks like you like hillary ascribe to the josef goebbels schoool of propaganda, of tell a lie long eneough and people will beleive it.
Also see my tagline.
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