Posted on 03/23/2013 10:02:11 AM PDT by AuntB
The Republican National Committee’s latest report, released March 18 at the National Press Club, offers more evidence that the GOP is out of touch-but not in the way it thinks. According to what the RNC called an “autopsy” of what went wrong in the November 2012 election, it concluded that the party is perceived as comprised of “stuffy old men,” “scary” and needs to change its ways. The first course of action should be-guess what?-passing comprehensive immigration reform! Before anything else is done, said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Republicans must join together to pass amnesty.
Nothing could have been more predictable than the RNC’s conclusion that more immigration would solve the GOP’s woes. Whatever problem faces the nation, the solution is always more immigration. If there’s a national job shortage, immigrants will create more employment. If Social Security is failing, immigration will help fund it. Worried about crime? Immigrants make us safer. Lose the election? The immigrant vote would have won it.
Interestingly, the converse is never the case. Overcrowding in schools and hospitals, for example, isn’t a consequence of too many immigrants adding to overall population growth but rather too few schools and hospitals.
Although the RNC report correctly identified a need for Republicans to better connect with minority, female and young voters, indeed the GOP is out of touch-with immigration reality.
First, polling proves that amnesty isn’t important to Hispanic voters. Repeatedly, immigration finishes behind jobs, the economy, education and health care as important issues to Hispanics. A Fox Latino survey found that only 6 percent of Hispanics voted for President Obama because of his immigration advocacy.
Second, amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens will create nearly 11 million Democratic voters. This outcome is beyond debate. Hispanics are generally politically aligned with Democrats; Republicans cannot outflank them on immigration. By a margin of 75 percent to 19 percent, Latinos indicated a preference for larger (Obama-style) rather than smaller (Romney-esque) government. Furthermore, Hispanics have said, again repeatedly, that immigration reform legislation will not compel them to change their vote from Democrat to Republican. Senator John McCain, one of the notorious Group of Eight, confirmed that amnesty would not create any new Republican voters.
Third, apparently Priebus doesn’t understand exit polling. According to New York Times political blog, even if Romney had won an historically high percentage of Hispanic votes in swing states, he would still have lost. The Times concluded that if Republicans are counting on Hispanics to recapture the 2016 White House, they should reconsider their strategy.
Fourth, amnesty would grant permanent legal status to 11 million illegal immigrants. Included as part of aliens’ newly obtained legal status would be work authorization allowing them to compete with 20 million unemployed and underemployed Americans. The most adverse impact would be the double digit levels of unemployed blacks, Hispanics and recent college graduates, the very demographics the RNC claims it wants to win over.
Curiously but not surprisingly, immigration reform is the only specific policy suggestion the RNC report makes. Although it encourages overhauls in the tax code, improved public education and a more robust economy, it doesn’t outline a plan on how to achieve improvements in any of them. Only immigration reform is singled out as a mandatory course of action to restore the GOP back to health.
The GOP is on a suicide mission. If Republicans are complicit in passing amnesty, they’ll gain nothing but lose everything. The only word to describe the RNC report is madness.
Looks like the RNC is operated by DNC moles?.
Read it and weep, oh Rubio infatuees:
From HuffPo, 2 d ago:
“We [he and McCain] bonded,” said Schumer, “and then moved to immigration.”
McCain brought in Durbin, with whom he grew close in 1983 when both were newly elected members of the House of Representatives.
Durbin had made friends with freshman Republican Rubio in predawn workouts in the Senate gym. Durbin invited Rubio.
“I told Marco: ‘I think you should be part of this. What do you think?” Durbin recalled. “He said I think I can work with you. At least I’m willing to try.’”
“Looks like the RNC is operated by DNC moles?.”
You’re closer to the truth than you know.
Fools to the left of us, Fools on the right - stuck in the middle with Amnesty!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999663/posts
Well I left the GOP primarily on this issue in 06 after having been a lifelong Republican. Seems I made the right move.
Good article:
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE DEVISES NEW PLAN TO CONTINUE LOSERING
[snip]”So they will spend millions of “outreach” dollars to the Hispanic and Black voters only to find that 25% of Hispanics and 5% of blacks will vote for the Republican candidate in 2016. Yee haw!
It’s said that politics is the art of the possible. Well, some things are not possible! Republicans winning the votes of Hispanics and blacks is impossible! A reality check would greatly behoove the RNC.”
Support of amnesty will cost them the next election, and the electoral effects of amnesty will cost them every election thereafter. Absolute morons.
Bump that! I remember distinctly whispering to my self on a drive to work after listening to the radio during Bush's reign; you know more government, debt, deficit, amnesty loving, etc. I said "I do not have a party".
Stand your ground you stupid RNC! Articulate the conservative message. Right to life, guns, work. Limited government, enforce the blasted immigration laws for a change. The more the Repubs act like democrats, the more they will lose.
Either that or the Establishment has become the DNC’s most important constituency group behind our backs. Given how we have been so shafted by them time and time again, I am betting on an alliance with these rats it really is the only way to explain all that we see happen in the GOP party with respect to how conservatives are looked at and treated.
I will never understand why the GOP is willing to support this. They have to realize it will cost them votes from the base and there will certainly not be enough hispanics to make up for it.
Perhaps the establishment is thinking “So what? What are they going to do, vote democrat?”. Or maybe their business friends are pressuring them to get something done so they can have all that cheap labor. Or perhaps it is all for show because they know the economy will collapse, and with no jobs and no social welfare, millions of illegals will leave for Mexico.
I am beginning to wonder if it is that last possibility. I cant help but wonder why the government is stockpiling ammunition. For the eventual chaos and anarchy?
It looks like the RNC is doing just want you suggest, suicide. If they continue to go down the path they are, there is no other alternative that leaving it for a new party. I suspect that more than half the leadership would join with the Dems if that happened.
Looks like the good old boy club is locked in place for ever.
Agreed!
Fools indeed time for them to be replaced,now if people will just get out and vote.
Shafted by them time and time again.
Agree to bad people don’t look at a hacks record before they vote.
One thing the hacks know a good speech works,see Obama&CO.
I am sure you can figure out why they are stockpiling ammunition. While there are a few reasons that fit, no other one fits like the reason to use it on the people in order to gain absolute power over them. When a system becomes so corrupt to the core, looking at things from the perspective of acquiring power for the sake of power is the only thing that makes sense. That said, if the GOPe crowd thinks that the Democrats are going to share some of that power like they do now in the back room deals so they can live comfy life style, then these fools do not understand the very game they play with the conservatives in the party, they have another coming. Its mind boggling, I know, but it is consistent with the madness lust for power brings about.
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