His request will be granted. The rest of the leadership of the GOP has nothing but open space between their ears either.
Posted on 01/11/2009 9:10:22 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Down to single digits in his days left in office, President George W. Bush is warning the Republican Party not to become "anti-immigrant" as it regroups from defeat and retools its leadership.
"It's very important for our party not to narrow its focus, not to become so inward looking that we drive people away from a philosophy that is compassionate and decent," the departing president said in an interview broadcast Sunday, nine days before his term ends. "My call for our party is to be open-minded."
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They will be illegal, because I think our “president” and all his actions will be illegal. ;^P
Does he even know what a jerk he has become?
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Probably not. He just wants to go back to his ranch and continue to ignore the public perception of him.
There's always plenty of warning about RINOs (look at Schwarzenegger!). But nobody seems to care.
This guy just can’t shake his Mexico fetish, to the extent that he must continue to insult all who disagree with him during his last days in office.
And his stupid remarks are even more offensive when one recalls that our legal immigration is now around 1,200,000 per year. But, according to this jerk, anyone who is against leaving our borders open year-after-year (as he deliberately did), and eventually granting amnesty to 12 - 20,000,000 illegals is “anti-immigrant” (not to mention the millions more those would be allowed to bring in).
All the Bushes should move back to Connecticut where they came from, and they should stay there and stop pretending to be anything but the New England RINOs they so clearly are.
Yep...those aRnold threads are a treasure.
“All the Bushes should move back to Connecticut where they came from, and they should stay there and stop pretending to be anything but the New England RINOs they so clearly are.”
All it takes is a cowboy hat and a pick-up truck to fool some.
Okay, then answer this simple question, please?
If all the current people inside our borders are made 'legal', and documented...given papers, etc., amd then by a pre-set date...say, January 1st, 2010 anybody without proper documentation will be summarily deported.
..would that satisfy you and make you happy?
Right. Bush liberalized the GOP and pushed the federal governments bureaucracy even further leftward.
After 8 years the Bush domestic agenda says, if you can't beat'em, join'em!
No thanks.
“Right to the bitter end, this man disappoints.”
He’s still got 9 days.......I’m sure he’ll out do even this.
His request will be granted. The rest of the leadership of the GOP has nothing but open space between their ears either.
Why would anyone be dumb enough to believe that would happen? The same things were promised in 1987, and here we are.
Yep, he’ll sign the totalization agreement with Mexico at midnight on the 19th.
That will be our parting gift.
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/totalization.htm
I have no respect at all for this moron. You expect the President to have better communication skills than your average tounge-tied drunken frat boy.
“If all the current people inside our borders are made ‘legal’, and documented...given papers, etc., “
NO.
They are lawbreakers...they crossed the border, stole identity and worked illegally at least..... You know full well another amnesty will bring MORE. But that’s what you probably want. The real question is why.
No. They will be illegal for me, since they entered this country illegally. Also those who will enter then, will be to me illegals, because they enter because of bad law. Legal immigrants are those with the educational and labor skills that are needed, who apply in their home countries for a visa and wait their turn, instead of hopping across the border.
Bush is right. Being seen as anti-immigrant will cost the Republicans and Conservatives tens of millions of votes and thousands of election defeats in the future.
Being seen as “anti-women’s choice” will cost the Conservatives similarly.
Instead of all you yahoos jumping on the President for his (wise) observation, why don’t you figure out some way to come across as “pro legal immigration” and “pro-life” and Conservative at the same time?
No, they are not. But they have been synonymous only on rare occasions. Goldwater. Reagan, twice. 1994. Even, perhaps, Bush 2000.
Conservatives gain control of the Republican Party only when they unite behind a conservative candidate (Bush clearly ran as a conservative, albeit a "compassionate" one, in 2000).
When conservatives abandon the party (as 7 million did in 2008), they abandon any influence they might've had on party affairs. In other words, "Teach them (RINOS) a lesson" actually leaves RINOs in charge.
To regain control of the party, conservatives must unite around a conservative candidate -- one that is a legitimate contender, not a Duncan Hunter. Nominate him (or her). And win an election. We can't accomplish the latter via a third party.
Then, and only then, will the terms Republican and conservative be synonymous again.
Part of the problem is, George Bush has Mexicans in his own family, which makes him ultra-sensitive to the immigration issue (but in the wrong way) - in an effort to not offend his family.
That is why Jeb Bush would be a liability as President. He is married to a Mexican woman; therefore his children are half-Mexican. So we would have the same problem as with George Bush.
Having Mexicans in their own family clouds the issue for them. It makes it seem as if being anti "illegal" immigrant is the same thing as being anti immigrant. Which is what Bush just said: "Don't be against the immigrant." He himself is confusing the two issues.
DCprofiteer, the guy who used to call himself an ‘ultra liberal’ on his profile (before editing it out) and who admitted profiting from illegals is back at it in 2009.
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