I’ve been saying this all along. This is a bad issue for Republicans no matter how you look at it.
There are so many urgent matters, such as the Supreme Court, Abortion, Stell Cell Research, Foreign Affairs, and so on. Yet so many so-called conservatives are willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces.
Democrats came out smelling like roses, and Republicans came out looking like rabid immigrant haters.
I’m sorry, but I even told my own father that his anti-immigration activism is only hurting Republicans. I guess that is what happens when you don’t put God before your own instincts.
Now we are divided and defeated.
If the senate bill had passed, this country would have been finished as we know it. We were very fortunate to dodge this bullet. This issue transcends partisan politics. The future of the country was at stake.
You wrote, “I’ve been saying this all along. This is a bad issue for Republicans no matter how you look at it.
Yet so many so-called conservatives are willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces.
Democrats came out smelling like roses, and Republicans came out looking like rabid immigrant haters.
I’m sorry, but I even told my own father that his anti-immigration activism is only hurting Republicans. I guess that is what happens when you don’t put God before your own instincts.
Now we are divided and defeated.”
You forgot to qualifiy the WE in the above. WE are divided and defeated only if WE are Demoncrats or Rinos. Which are you ?
I feel sorry for your dad that he was anti-immigration. I don’t know if I’ve ever met someone who is. Your dad is an extremely rare individual.
You are completely wrong on this.
First, if there are ‘other important issues’ then Bush was wrong to *bring the dead bill back*, rather than the ‘so-called conservatives’ who merely reacted to the worst sellout ever over the worst bill in 20 years. *We* didnt bring this bill up, the ‘grand bargainers’ did, desperate to get an amnesty in there before local and state govts actually start doing things to stop illegal immigration.
Second, enough with the ‘rabid immigrant haters’ nonsense. It didn’t sell when Linda Chavez said it and it doesn’t sell when you say it. it’s a slander. My legal immigrant wife is vehemently opposed to this bill, and this bill is an insult to legal immigrants who waited in line to get their status approved.
“I’m sorry, but I even told my own father that his anti-immigration activism is only hurting Republicans.”
Well I hope you are not a professional political advisor. Frankly, you are wrong. Americans want law and order and fair play in immigration. We dont want out-of-control immigration and we dont want amnesty for law breakers.
We want enforcement first, rational immigration laws second, and amnesty never. The political party that delivers on it will win elections and do right by America.
“Now we are divided and defeated.”
Amnesty was defeated. *We* won. we are not divided; we are united. the RINOs who support amnesty have divided themselves from the GOP base, but they can make that right by returning to conservative principles on this matter.