The Republican 'Agenda' -- and the Youth Vote

Townhall.com ^ | January 2, 2014 | Larry Elder

[MeshugeMikey]

Team Clinton appears to me to have a lot of show but In the Long Run wont have the Go! simply due to her tenuous grasp on things since the "what Does It Matter" fiasco

[rdb3]

Stopped reading right there. This idiot must not pay attention when the Federal Courts are busy finding rights to those very things in the Constitution.

You're calling Larry Elder an idiot?

I needed a good laugh!

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Unless we find some way to convince non-white voters to reject Socialism, we are idiot dogs chasing our own tails.

That's a tall order - because while they are economic refugees, for the most part, they do not reject the system their former countries operate under, only its leaders. They see the USA as a land with more honest tribal chiefs, but still think their only hope of success is to live under the kind of quasi-socialist tribal spoils systems they are familiar with. Democrat rhetoric is immediately intelligible to them: "Support our guy, and we'll pay you off with jobs and services." On the other hand, Republican talk of self-reliance is scary and foreign to their ears, and the concept of a government leaving them alone is not liberating, but horrifying.

I'll bet not one in ten thousand immigrants comes here with John Galt's speech seared into his memory. :)

[zeestephen]

Excellent comment.

I’ve tried to make that same argument many times, but you state it much more clearly than I have.

Republican leaders do not understand, or don’t care about, the political motivation of immigrant voters.

My company employs a large number of foreign born temp workers.

Many of them hold “college degrees” from their homeland.

However, ALL of them, and I mean ALL of them, either worked directly for their government, or worked in a “business” that was owned or managed by their government.

Our pay scale for temps starts at $11/hour, which is higher than average in this area, and brings us a lot of very good workers.

But the number one question from our “college” educated temps is, “Why doesn’t the government make you pay us more?”

And these are people the GOP leadership claims will save the Republican Party!