Immigration dominates GOP issues in South Carolina

The State ^ | Jan. 07, 2008 | NOELLE PHILLIPS

[silly.kerry.trix.are.for.kids]

I just sent an email to the reporter regarding her omission of Hunter. Attached to the story is a list of where the candidates stand on immigration and once again Duncan Hunter is not listed and we all wonder why he is not doing better. Any Hunter supporters willing to do a nice “letter to the editor”? I’m not good at those.

[4everontheRight]

Immigration is my number 1 voting topic this election. I am in the upstate of SC and we are BOMBARDED with illegals in this area...peach pickers, etc. The town of Berea has been renamed by locals as Burritoville. It is very open and obvious in that city...illegals hanging out on street corners, etc. So, I doubt I am the only one in my area who considers illegals immigration to be their number 1 topic for this election....an btw, did I mention we are the home of Lindsey Grahamnesty

[FreePaul]

The Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research institute,...

The center's name doesn't give me a feeling that it is "nonpartisan."

[zerosix]

“And let’s face it,” he added. “There’s some bigotry in there and that fuels it.”

Typical media elitist response -
don't want your emergency rooms closed due to lack of funds to pay for illegals = bigiotry; don't like your kids being in crowded schools with kids from third world countries, giving them lice, whooping cough, measles, TB = bigotry;
don't like paying higher taxes to support welfare, food stamps, housing vouchers going to non-citizen, illegal aliens = bigotry;
tired of growing crime problems everywhere = bigotry.

I, personally, am exhausted by liberals referring to me and others like me as "bigots" because I don't desire to pay for their slave labor nannies, lawn services and construction cos. that "keep prices down" on their manions by using under paid, untaxed wages as bigots.

They are liberal, elite bigots who want slaves and would gladly take us back to the days of slavery. Not blacks from Africa (unless they are here as illegal aliens, of course) but desire a constant supply of near slave labor to affordd all of the things they want at dirt cheap prices.

It is really they who are the bigots for not desiring to help these poor people gain the freedom, democracy "good life" and all that it entails in their own countries, where they already speak the language!

[MBB1984]

I saw that nonsense. I almost laughed out loud when he tried to parlay his gang of fourteen participation as a triumph for conservatism. The man has no mind or testicles.

[isrul]

Unbelievable that the article ignored him. Something is afoot re the media and FDT. If not a conspiracy, surely conscious parallelism.

[Between the Lines]

Pew is a good ol’ Welsh name. Sounds nonpartisan to me. /kidding

[NRA2BFree]

“Our voters are more concerned about the war and finding good jobs,” said Joe Werner, executive director of the S.C. Democratic Party.

I don't believe the stupidity of RATS. People might be able to find a good job if the Mexicans weren't taking them all!!

That being said. I cannot wait for this election. I certainly hope the good people in So. Carolina will dump that sorry pos, Lindsey Graham! I absolutely detest him!! IF I never have to hear his whiny little faggot voice, or look at his little girlie face again, it will be too soon.

[NRA2BFree]

That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking. They can’t get rid of him soon enough for me.

[montag813]

“This is the new Confederate flag issue in South Carolina on the Republican side,” said Neal Thigpen, a political science professor at Francis Marion University and a Republican.

A disgraceful comparison.

"And let’s face it,” he added. “There’s some bigotry in there and that fuels it.”

And now we see he is a RINO, not a "Republican".

[Free Vulcan]

As usual. But I think this is why Thompson did the debates...not for NH but for SC, and why he sounded off on immigration so much. Good strategy in my opinion. I hope he puts the stake thru Huckabee in SC.

[NRA2BFree]

Lindsay Graham didn’t run and a “moderate” but a true conservative and Strom Thurmond supporters (with Strom’s blessing) liked what they heard. He pulled the wool over our eyes down here because he’s been quite a disappointment.

Soooo, does that mean you're going to get rid of him? Pleaseeee, pleaseee, pleaseeee, tell me that there's someone running against him that can actually beat him? I will never forget watching him call us "bigots" and that "he was going to tell us to shut our mouths." I hope the voters of South Carolina shut his mouth, and that we never see him clutter the halls of Congress again.

[jbwbubba]

Is there another debate in SC before the vote?

[CPT Clay]

Good Who is to Primary Lyndsay lightfoot?

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Reminds me of a segment on Err America a couple of years ago (think it was Randi Rhodes) talking about how wonderfully cheap her cleaning lady was. The host was suspecting she was here illegally but was only concerned with how cheap she was.

[AuntB]

DUNCAN HUNTER RATED EXCELLENT, AHEAD OF ALL THE OTHERS BY NUMBERS USA, Jan. 5, 2008

HUNTER has 9 EXCELLENTS (the rest all GOOD), compared to the next 6 Excellents (One Poor) of Fred Thompson. Hunter is WAY ahead of he rest of them that are left in the race. Ron Paul earned one ‘excellent’ and several ‘poor’, ‘bad’.

See Chart:
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html

[Mamzelle]

Graham has a lot of money--from lawyers' lobbies, Chamber of Commerce and out-of-state donors. SC Repubs begged for an opponent in the primaries. I don't even think the Dems will offer their own candidate because they like Lindsey too much.

This is how the GOP screws Republicans. The GOP thinks it owns South Carolina.

[CPT Clay]

How could they print this article and not name shameless shamnesty-proponent Lindsey Graham?

Please, South Carolina, boot him outta office ...

Bingo!

[Between the Lines]

Yes, there will be a Republican debate this Thursday Jan. 10th in Myrtle Beach.