Posted on 02/23/2007 7:45:02 AM PST by Alberta's Child
LOL! You are REALLY reaching on this one. Everyone here knows that I am as far from Hillary/DNC/MSM as you can get! As far as a candidate, I will have one. It will be a true conservative, not a liberal Giussolini.
Reagan did not suggest the 11th Commandment to Republicans In Name Only (RINOs). Rudy may as well be a Democrat for purposes here at FreeRepublic. Note the poll results of Rudy vs. Duncan Hunter? LOL!
Hell, if Joe Liebermann were on the Dem ticket, I would vote for him WAY AHEAD of Giulliani, who is nothing more than a Mayoral version of B J Clinton.
Let me be generous and suggest that you are, perhaps, attributing too much to anything but the illegals and the Mexican government. First of all, in order for someone to become a naturalized citizen, they must prove that they can fluently speak, read and understand American English. So, there is no reason for ballots printed in any language but American English (I'm agreeing with you on this point). In the 70s, Sen. S.I. Hayakawa from California proposed making English the official language of the United States. He was virtually laughed off the Senate floor and fell into obscurity. We are still paying for the Senate's refusal to address this situation seriously. However, you started out this paragraph by asking whose fault it was that they had failed to learn English? It's theirs, first and foremost. Secondly, it is the fault of the enablers who allow them to get away with never having to learn English by speaking Spanish to them.
But you started your reply out by asking about walls and fences or increasing law enforcement for all criminals. Let me start by asking a rhetorical question - Why do they put walls and fences around prisons? Are they to keep us out, or the prisoners in?
Are you aware that since 9/11, there have been over 3,000 murders of Americans attributed to illegals? That's just murders. It doesn't include rapes, robberies, or other crimes. In the Mariel boatlift from Cuba in the 80s, Castro unloaded his prisons and mental institutions and sent them all here. After exhaustive investigation, many of them could not be cleared and could not be sent back to Cuba and have remained in prison ever since arriving here.
We can discuss back and forth about walls and fences but, as one who has traveled extensively throughout the world and driven between countries, I can tell you that we are about the only country in the world with such a pathetic dividing line between our country and either Mexico or Canada. Yes, david, I want my wall or, at least, a substantially better fence. Good fences make for good neighbors.
The illegals have done thousands upon thousands of dollars of damage to farmers and ranchers across the southern US border through littering, damaging or destroying fences belonging to the ranchers and other means.
As for the money they are spending here, they aren't spending it here - that's how the Mexican government is realizing an annual increase of $20 billion that they don't have to work for - the illegals are sending money they would be spending here, back to Mexico. There are the realities of this situation that make it a problem of enormous proportions. They aren't paying taxes that would help keep tax supported hospitals open, nor are they paying taxes that support the schools and pay for the drain they are placing on our public school system. In many, many school districts, the children of illegals are putting such a heavy burden on the resources, that other kids are being held back in their ability to learn. This is fundamentally unfair to the kids making an effort to learn and the parents of those kids who see their kids being held back because the teacher has to teach ALL of the kids - not just the American ones.
Philosophically, I would love to say this isn't a big deal. But I have lived in the southwest most of my life. With the exception of the last 9 years, I know the southwest better than any other part of this country. I have driven extensively across Texas, New Mexico and Arizona and, to a lesser extent, into southern California. The problems are real. The solution starts with exercising substantially better control over our borders.
Hillary will never be able to unify the Dem party behind her. And although the time she has is lengthy, she is already sending her political assassination teams out to quell public opposition of major dem pols, and to her hollywood connections who have sided with Obama.
Generally thats a tactic reserved to the weeks before an election.
Hillary just ain't gonna make it.
Its Obama that worries me. He is in Soro's pocket.
Only a Newt or a Duncan Hunter can take Obama on and win, and we better get to work putting conservatives on the ticket, ones who will impliment the conservative agenda instead of abandoning it, and who wil uinify the Republican party. That is the best chance we will have.
Reagan's Republican Party was socially conservative. Giuliani did not fit in to the political side, only the law enforcement. Sorry, Reagan is turning over in his grave with the current GOP status of a liberal New Yorker running under the guise of a Republican.
Sad isn't it.
Yes it is,but we may make it past this mass media bull about Rudi being president. Its the candidate that the Liberal Mass media wants to win. Republicans want Newt and Duncan, or similar men.
Those pubbies easily swayed by the media barrage/propaganda about so called Republican frontrunners and "moderate shift, are basically govoing in to the big money RINOplasty makeover that the moderate pubbie tyrants are trying to foist on the Republican party.
F#@K 'em. I can see where we should be and so do the majority of Republicans, and thats with Newt and Duncan, or candidates like them.
The MSM polls and RINO propaganda do not move me one iota.I look instead to the recent Republican caucus in Arizona that put Duncan Hunter at the top of their candidate list.(McCain & Rudy were in the cellar on that one.)
Sad, yes, but a result of RINO propaganda, and the RINOs have taken a page from the Dems propaganda play books and are using it on Republicans.
A pox on the RINOs.
If I he had any real competition I would agree we you. But there is nothing out there with even a chance of slowing him dowm, much less beating him. Had Santorum or Allen been re-elected they would be strong alternative. But the Conservative wipeout last fall left no one standing to his right.
the arrest warrant on Kerik was issued as part of a convoluted series of lawsuits relating to unpaid bills on his condo. it was a civil dispute.
He was trying to pretend he never hired the contractor because he knew damn well that his relationship with the contractor would eventually end his career.
sure, the old "mob connected" smear. every construction contractor in the NYC area where italians own the business is "mob connected". I'm sure I've used several of them myself. I've also eaten at alot of "mob connected" restaurants too.
Kerik's specific legal problems had nothing to do with this angle of the story.
Duncan Hunter. He's losing the undecided voters.
You won't be missed.
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