The word is getting out:
Posted on 11/28/2005 7:24:33 PM PST by neverdem
Darned - you almost describe George Bush.
BTTT!
Hispanics (illegal aliens particularly) have become a protected class with GWBush at the helm. We're paying a high price.
FYI..Tancredo was on Fox, LIVE, this afternoon, speaking after the video of Bush's coments at the border was released...Tancredo pretty much dismissed the President's proposals, and he sure sounded like a potential candidate.
byby, you're kuku on Tancredo.
How many immigration reformers have tried to work with the Republican Party on this ... and failed miserably? How can you work on immigration reform when Karl Rove has W convinced Mexicans are the 'Republicans of the Future?'
How can you work with people who think we need massive waves of illegal Third World immigration to straighten out Social Security?
It is not Tancredo, whatever his many faults, who is behaving unreasonably here. It is the Republican leadership that will not listen to its base. No matter how you whitewash it, Bush wants amnesty and a guest worker program. We have a government that would allow 100,000 illegal aliens into Columbus, Ohio, when at the same time there are 100,000 displaced coal miners un-and-under-employed at the poverty level in southern Ohio and West Virginia.
It is thanks to Tancredo's pressure that GWB is at least incoherently mumbling something at least, about illegal immigration now. That, and the fact that some RNC Clymer may have left his country club bar long enough to notice that the Democrats are beginning to work this issue to their advantage.
Of course, we are inching toward a rational solution, which on this site is sometimes called 'downsizing.' Stringent border control. No Matricula Consular. Employer sanctions. No Drivers Licenses. No Birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. When they go home, there will be no easy re-entry. Great ideas. Tancredo is simply saying, "NOW!"
My theory? Nothing will happen until (and if) the Congressional Black Caucus (God lov'em) suddenly and miraculously awakens from its corrupt slumber and notices that illegal aliens are shoving THEIR people even further down the totem pole of American economic life. E.G., illegal Mexicans working all over LA, when there's 50% unemployment among young people in Watts.
You want the GOP to win the 2006 races? You had better pray that this Tancredo's message gets maximum traction within the party elite. They could shut him up in a heartbeat with some good old fashioned common sense on immigration.
The Congress will change the immagration laws next year. They will spend more money on the border. Do any of you think that Tancredo will be in the room when the bills are writen?
Your trust in the good faith of GOP on immigration is indeed touching and quaint (something like your spelling). If Tancredo, or his ideas are not the biggest thing in that room, you are not going to see any meaningful strides taken to control a situation that is ruining this country on many levels.
"If Tancredo, for example, wanted to solve the problem he would be working with the Adminisration instead of immediately attacking as he did today"
There's no way to work with an administration that is dead set on a one world socialist government and the elimination of all borders and countries as they exist tody.
The word is getting out:
If that is the case, he has nothing but my contempt. Someone who isn't serious about winning just marginalizes the issue so the 'pubs don't have to worry about a vote against them going to real competition, ala Dr. Keyes, who did the pro-life movement irreversible harm.
If Representative Tancredo wants to make a real run for President, and find a VP who will bring in the extra boost in support he'll need, I'll be behind him 100%. If he's there to "make a point" the point is that someone will get elected without having to be 100% committed to stopping the invasion and saving the nation.
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