Posted on 05/26/2010 7:28:57 PM PDT by This Just In
May 26, 2010
Illegals and the Election By J.R. Dunn
Thanks in large part to Governor Jan Brewer's bold action in signing SB 1070, immigration is shaping up as the issue of the 2010 election. More than the economy, more than terrorism, more even than the question of whether Obama was chased back into the oval office by a rat, a vole, or a trilobite, illegal immigration has become the arena in which the upcoming election will be fought.
The left cannot win that match. Illegal immigration violates too many fundamental precepts involving security, economics, and questions of national identity. Polling reveals an overwhelming public aversion to illegal immigration, with opposition reaching up to 70%. The Democrats might be better-advised to run on a platform calling for more child abuse.
No wonder the president was "thin-skinned" in his meeting with Republican senators yesterday, where following the meeting he suddenly announced more National Guard troops for the border, a move he never mentioned during the meeting itself.
But leftists can distort the debate by ignoring the central argument and instead playing the margins, as they so often do. They are past masters at changing the subject and directing debate into channels where they hold superiority. Consider how they distorted the public view of the War on Terror, playing on fears of government surveillance, Nazifying efforts to protect the country, and smearing the agents and officials attempting to implement a workable strategy. By refusing to acknowledge that the U.S. was at war, concentrating on ill-conceived areas of the national effort, and planting seeds of doubt and paranoia, the left undermined the entire anti-terror program.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Doing the job Americans won’t: VOTING LIBERAL DEMOCRAT
I take great offense at these poor people being called illegal aliens. It is demeaning.
what they should be called is undocumented democrats.
>I take great offense at these poor people being called illegal aliens. It is demeaning.
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>what they should be called is undocumented democrats.
Nah, the invaders should be called something like... UNREALIZED WORM-FOOD.
Do you realize how many nutrients there are in the human body?
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Ping!
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