The Amnesty Delusion. Leave the Pandering to the Democrats.

Bush got Hispanics to vote for him because he had been Governor of TX, spoke Spanish and had interacted with them, but also because he was a big spender. Not because he wanted amnesty. The more we bring in, the more they will vote for Democrats. From what I saw Tuesday, it is the same with most recent immigrants.

Immigration reform won't get the Hispanic vote for the 'Pubs. Neither will amnesty. The thing that will get votes of Hispanic for 'Pubs can be expressed in two words: free money. Like other officially sanctioned victim groups, Hispanics think they are aggrieved and injured by white society and as recompense are owed free stuff from da gummint.

Faced with that truth, how do the 'Pubs deal with it? They may as well forget competing with the 'Rats for giving away free stuff and free money. That won't get them votes. There already is a party out there that specializes in giving free stuff to official victim groups. We don't need another one. Better look elsewhere, but that is the catch, those things that make sense to rational people (self help, personal achievement) don't appeal to aggrieved victims.

The democrats have created an awfully volatile mixture that could blow up in their faces if shaken the right way.

Sure its playing dirty but we need to pit these groups against each other. Teach one group that another group is cutting into their freebies. Show them how expensive environmental regulations is just skimming off the top of their cut of the freebies.

There are already some fairly large divides between public and private sector unions. That’s why the big pro union ballot proposals were crushed so soundly in Michigan. The private sector union members saw it as a public sector power grab and voted against it.

Those are just a couple of examples but the democrats are juggling more than they can safely handle.

That’s what I mean. Bush was a big spender. He gave them stuff.

Jeb is also a big spender, and he can wave the Mexican wife and kids at them.

I think the GOP is pretty happy. They can run Jeb in 2016 and try to get the new immigrant and women’s vote that went Democrat in 2012. They’ll go pro choice and pro amnesty and say see, we’ve dumped the rigid conservatives. I’m not sure how they think all that will get them past Hillary.

This article is misleading at best. The only thing to really agree with is the statement that Republicans need new leadership. For a conservative solution to the immigration problem see www.offgridblogger.wordpress.com. Unfortunately the best way to accomplish these goals would be to secede—see my other blog: www.freetexasconstitution.wordpress.com.

The neoconservatives at the Weekly Standards are not conservative and have supported amnnesty from day one. They want to change America. They just refuse to understand what that would do to them.

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