Posted on 11/11/2007 6:59:25 AM PST by shrinkermd
Top Democratic elected officials and strategists are engaged in an internal debate over toughening the party's image on illegal immigration, with some worried that Democrats' relatively welcoming stance makes them vulnerable to GOP attacks in the 2008 election.
Advocates of such a change cite local and state election results last week in Virginia and New York, where Democrats used sharper language and get-tough proposals to stave off Republican efforts to paint the party as weak on the issue.
In Virginia, for instance, where Democrats took control of the state Senate, one high- profile victory came in the Washington suburbs, where the winner distributed mailings in the campaign's closing days proclaiming his opposition to in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
The party's calibration could also be seen in New York, where a number of Democrats won local elections in part by opposing a plan by Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and in the presidential campaign, in which party front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has struggled to explain whether she supports the Spitzer plan or not.
In Congress, a group of conservative Democrats, led by freshman Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, introduced legislation last week calling for more Border Patrol agents, heightened surveillance and additional requirements that employers verify the legal status of workers.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
We keep reading about how the Repubs are split on the immigration issue, but the REAL split is with the Dems which is being covered up by the propagandistic MSM, but can't be contained forever.
This is how it happened:
In Virginia, for instance, where Democrats took control of the state Senate, one high- profile victory came in the Washington suburbs, where the winner distributed mailings in the campaign's closing days proclaiming his opposition to in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
Dang you beat me to it I wanted to rub the illegal lovers nose in it.
I don’t see how the ‘rats can be perceived as “turning against hispanics.” They will be paralyzed by PC, while the country begins to focus on this difference between the parties, with Hillary for licenses for illegals etc.
It is for political cowards only!
Yeah the DimmiRats will do what they always do, talk, talk, run a poll and pee in their pants ‘cause we know the game is up with their Open border/Illegal voting love affair. My what a predicament for the PC DRats!
Time to get the Hill in her Border Patrol pantsuit.
LOL! It's about time, in any coming GOP/DEM debates, that the question:
Q: Do you agree on (fill in policy or law or action for/against) illegal aliens, YES OR NO? No nuances, ifs or buts about it.
A: Undocumented imm...INTERUPT; ILLEGAL ALIENS, YES OR NO? Don’t let them talk, if they don't like it, tough!
The results have to be stated clearly, i.e., candid X didn't answer yes or no, is refusing to acknowledge that illegals are not immigrants, rather, LAWBREAKERS!
It's time to go back to a simple, pure English and no more definitions of is, is............PERIOD.
I'm sick and tired of the cowards in both parties. Say what you mean and mean what you say!
ping
Bttt!
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