Was Immigration Bill a Democratic Trap?

DickMorris.com ^ | June 29, 2007 | Dick Morris

[diverteach]

The Pubs had more to lose than the Rats had the bill passed. BTW, the statistic I heard on Laura Ingraham radio show last week that only 4% of hispanics vote anyway.

[mathluv]

If they are ILLEGAL, they should not be able to vote.

[sourcery]

The only Latinos who should be upset at what happened last week should those who can't legally vote anyway. Latinos are not the problem. The problem is having roughly as many illegal immigrants as legal ones, and having most of the illegal ones come from a single country. The fact that a very high percentage of illegal immigrants take more in social services than their labor is worth is another HUGE issue.

[bullfeather]

many legal Hispanic immigrants were against this bill also. Senator Kennedy drew up this bill, with McCain a long time ago. It was a democratic bill. But Bush wanted it. The democrats said it was his, knowing it had a good chance of not passing. Bush was a built in scapegoat.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

as if the repubs had any chance at all at getting the latino vote with or without this immigragion bill.

It would be great if Republicans would get back to campaigning on values. This is a proven winning strategy. Why are they adopting the strategy of the Democrats (group identity politics)?

[Bommer]

Yes it was a trap! No imigrants marched in the streets to see it passed, but 100 million democraps and repub-I can’ts screamed bloody murder to kill something a Republican President and a libveral murdering senator wanted passed. Yeah Dick, nice trap! Idiot!

[misterrob]

Voting it screws them with the unions and with blacks. Also, if anything, it wasn’t open enough.

[misterrob]

Some day it will matter....and soon.

[JoeSixPack1]

Screw the (de)merits of the bill, politics and politics only is all that matters, right DICK?

Dickie thinks out of the (shoe)box, but never out of the beltway.

[wardaddy]

Did fifteen Democrats vote to kill the immigration bill to assure its defeat and guarantee that the Latino vote would go Democrat in the 2008 election?

it does anyhow...that is a big part of this whole issue for many of us

[Calusa]

Dick, take the toe out of your mouth and come up for air...

Dang! You beat me to it!

[radar101]

http://dontspeakforme.org/

http://www.smalltownveteran.net/posts/2006/04/latinos_against.html

http://www.alipac.us/article-615-thread-1-0.html

http://latinoamericans.org/

[petertare]

Bingo. The Rat senators had fairly significant opposition to this bill by their union rank and file stalwarts. Sure the union officials could support it—at least in the service sectors because it would yield a huge increase in membership—and that is all that matters to the union boss.

Commie Tommy Harkin said afterward that he had opposed it because it was not fair enough to immigrants. UH huh. Harkin never comments on a vote before or after unless he felt big time heat. Most people in Iowa have no clue how he votes—he rarely tells them and is the key to his longevity.

It was not democrapper strategery—it was outright fear of future job prospects that brought these guys in line with the citizenry.

[montag813]

Sounds like Morris has been drinking the Karl Rove Kool Aid regarding Latinos and amnesty. It is all B.S.

If Republicans have the courage of their convictions and speak from the heart about the unfairness to LEGAL immigrants of amnesty, welfare, tuition, and free medical care for ILLEGALS, then the LEGAL Latino voters will respond, as they did in Arizona, nearly HALF of them voting for a Proposition to deny illegals all of those benefits.

[expatpat]

Perhpas it was a deliberate set-up. However, the ‘rats are going to get blowback. The GOP has gained points with the public in general as being strong on the illegal-immigrant issue, thanks to the conservatives in the party.

[Cacique]

Dick Morris

Proving once again that some people are a**holes all the time.

[Cacique]

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

[tophat9000]

Dick Morris has been clueless on this issue... this issue will save the Republican bacon in 2008...the base in rising up and rejecting so strongly the most disliked (crony/country club)elements of the party leadership that had lost the middle American “Reagan” independent & Democrats... to that group... the base rebellion and purging of the party is a good thing...

Nether the Dem loopy left or the Rep crony/country club right is where the majority of American are... but the Republican bases vision is closer to that majority of American then either party

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Laura Ingraham is correct....it is a small number of Hispanics who actually vote. I have heard its 4% to 6%.

Which totally discounts Morris’ claims. I think he is just pro-amnesty and uses baseless arguments to support his own agenda.

[Perchant]

Why would Latino US citizens only want to support politicians that reward criminal behavior, Dick?