Posted on 08/12/2014 5:57:38 AM PDT by don-o
The dust has barely settled since Sen. Lamar Alexander beat back a strong challenge from Joe Carr in Tennessee’s Republican primary. Yet here he is, once again, talking up the need for a “comprehensive immigration reform” bill. In other words, amnesty.
Via Breitbart.com:
“I don’t know how it will affect our politics in the near term,” Alexander told Politico of a comprehensive immigration bill. “I think it’s embarrassing for us not to deal with the problem, and I think we should do it in the next two years.”
And though Alexander claimed that he won the primary because he did not run away from his record, he aired a deceptive ad in the final week of the campaign that claimed he “voted to end amnesty.”
Those who support enforcement of America’s immigration laws are giving him (and his supporters in Tennessee) the business:
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
No Lamar what’s embarrassing is the fact that my county supposedly the most Conservative in the state, elected you again..
Conservative radio personality 740 AM Houston.
He's on before Rush.
I'd vote for a Democrat over this piece of feces.
My Carr sign is still up in the my front yard...
It will stay there..
And he's laughing and tossing his middle finger at them.
Folks are screaming for conservative leadership...Do we have some of the dumbest damn voters ever in the U.S.?
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A lot of Republican voters are not too bright and are easily duped. The continued success of the RINOs has proven that. I guess you can fool most of the voters most of the time.
Thanks for the info!
I live in Lakeway….and don’t often listen to the radio any more. I suppose it’s time to turn it back on………..
I have a slightly different take. Alexander, like the rest of his fellow Senatorial Bulls, has great contempt for the voters. They have proven to him that they will elect him no matter what, so he can safely ignore their desires and issues. Now is the time to turn to his deep pocket supporters, get the money flowing to grease the skids for his inevitable reelection, and prepare for another six years making whatever deals he wants to make.
Incumbent Senators are so rarely defeated that it’s hardly worth worrying about. That will certainly be true in this year of our Obama discontent. He will say a few things to placate the idiot voting class, but will show his benefactors that he is indeed bought and paid for and he intends to stay that way.
I agree with everything you said - and I don’t think it is mutually exclusive of the dynamics I mentioned either.
Tennessee is a deep red state. There is no need to run to the center. Lamar is just a RINO.
I think conservatives need to teach these RINO, CoC types a lesson in the general election. Conservative should not vote for these phonies in the general election. Alexander, Cochran, McCain (although he’s not running in 2014), etc.etc. Either write in a conservative or don’t vote. They need to see that ignoring the base will cost them elections - It’s the only way we can make a differrence. And I don’t think it’s that big a deal if this causes us to fail to take the Senate this time around. Since we won’t have a veto proof majority, as long as we keep the House it doesn’t really matter if we don’t take the Senate. However, if they learn the lesson that they can ignore conservatives and still previal then we will be destroyed, even if we do take the Senate.
I would say the voters of Tennessee are as dumb as those in the state of Arizona!! The 6th year conservative conversion reigns supreme, and the sheeple fall for it every election cycle. Can’t blame the RATS, the GOP-e, the Independents, or the 3rd parties - IT IS A DUMBED DOWN AMERICAN POPULACE.
So basically if non-leftists voted for Lamar in the primary they are fools and if they vote for him in the general they are stupid.
My sentiments as well. I am writing in Joe Carr too. I won’t vote for a progressive (authoritarian) establishment Republican ever again.
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He's a unique character, born and raised in Orange, TX.
Went to UofH, met & married his Indian wife who is currently TX Sect. of State. ...they have adopted 2 African kids.
Oh my! If he’s from the “Golden Triangle” I’ll have to give him a listen. The “Golden Triangle” is Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange, Texas. I grew up and graduated from high school in Beaumont.
After a week, you'll be hooked.
He always talks about growing up in the Golden Triangle.
Big pro-gun advocate too.
Oh dear! I think I’m falling in love—LOL!
Immigration reform is about greed.
Immigration reform is about money.
Immigration reform is about supply and demand.
Increase the supply of labor and demand falls, wages fall, your wages fall.
Ask yourself why the government CHOOSES to not enforce immigration law?
The political donor class and the employer class hold the reins of the government through how the political parties are funded. These are the people who are demanding the government ignore parts of immigration law.
Why?
Greed, plain and simple.
Increase the labor supply and the amount you have to pay people goes down, and you no longer need to treat them very well, because there are MILLIONS of hungry fearful people who will put up with it because the supply of jobs shrinks relative the number of people looking for work.
Thats a ‘win win’ for the employer class and the political donor class.
Once again the middle class is being squeezed for the benefit of the few, follow the money.
Any politician who pushes immigration reform without demanding the laws on the books be enforced is an enemy of your future, an enemy of your childs future.
Those politicians are doing the work of the employer class and the political donor class, society and culture be damned.
Dare to speak against them and you will be labeled ‘racist’ by the media, a media controlled by the employer class and the political donor class.
The government no longer is about public service, it is about the money.
When the government is free to select which laws to enforce, with the blessing of the courts your freedom vanishes.
And there is no one to vote for who could/would fix it, from either party.
We are so screwed.
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