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Blankley: 'God Bless' Immigration Hawk Hillary
NewsMax ^
| Dec 16, 2004
| Limbacher
Posted on 12/16/2004 9:34:22 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
A one-time top aide to the architect of the Republican Revolution is praising New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for her tough stance on immigration reform, saying that if the GOP fails to take action on the issue it could make Clinton president of the United States.
"I never thought I would write the following words, but: God bless Hillary Clinton," said Tony Blankley, one-time chief of staff to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
"Though her motives are cynical, their effects may well be vital both to our national security and to our sovereign responsibility to control our borders," Blankely contended in a column in Wednesday's Washington Times.
"Just listen to [Hillary's] Pat Buchananesque defiance, he wrote, before citing quotes first reported by NewsMax.com last month.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants," Clinton said in a Feb. 2003 radio interview. "Clearly we have to make some tough decisions as a country, and one of them ought to be coming up with a much better entry-and-exit system . . . People have to stop employing illegal immigrants."
Clinton's comments gained new currency last month, when she revisited the issue during the opening of her husband's presidential library and told the Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren, "I don't think that we have protected our borders . . . We can do more and we can do better."
Notes Blankley:
"Republican presidents and congressional leaders have for years effortlessly and painlessly given short shrift to conservative Republican congressmen calling to secure our borders and end massive illegal immigration. But they ignore Hillary at their mortal peril."
If the Republican-controlled Congress fails to pass immigration and border legislation in 2005, he warned, it would "set up Hillary to patch together an unlikely, but formidable, electoral coalition of disenchanted border-security Republicans and main street Democrats for the 2008 campaign."
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To: conspiratoristo
Sanford/Tancredo in 2008!
Until then, we need to put pressure on Congress and the Bush administration to crack down. There are at least a few sane Republican Senators and Congressmen on this issue (Tancredo, Inhofe for example) and we must also pressure them to swing others to the right side of this issue.
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posted on
12/16/2004 10:32:44 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Liberals are OK with racism and sexism, as long as it is aimed at a Republican.)
To: Borges
If the republicans, who have all the power in the world, don't get something happening damn soon I'll support who ever says they will.
Do you hear that you redheaded peckerwoods!
To: Rennes Templar
Even that would not make me a Hillary voter ever.
She is far too dangerous. Another pompous elitist who deigns that what she wants makes her qualified for what she wants.
She is not of the people and no politician will get my vote unless they have the proper perspective and goals.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:05:10 AM PST
by
ClancyJ
(Middle America is what makes America - not the Liberal "elitists" and the Media)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I second his opinion - God Bless Hillary if she will get tough on illegal immigration - I am sick of tired of eletist King Bush and the RINOs telling us to stick it. Well if they dont start listening to the people the people will tell them to stick it - never thought id say this but on the issue of immigration GO HILLARY PLEASE PROTECT OUR SOVERIGNTY AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA!
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:11:10 AM PST
by
sasafras
(sasafras (The road to hell is paved with good intentions))
To: My2Cents
What makes you think the left will actually do something about illegals? Have you learned nothing from this last election cycle? The Left would cut off their own heads if it meant knocking Republicans out of office.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:13:08 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ...And if you can't be good, be careful.)
To: sasafras
GO HILLARY PLEASE PROTECT OUR SOVERIGNTY AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA! As she helped pardon 17 FALN terrorists.
PT Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:16:05 AM PST
by
Dane
(Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
To: ClancyJ
To: Prime Choice
Only the Leftists will have an advantage in that they will not be deemed "racist" by the media...Good point! Has Hellary been called racist yet for her remarks? I'll bet not!
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:22:07 AM PST
by
Nea Wood
(I considered atheism but there weren't enough holidays.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wait a minute. Was I dreaming or did I see a video clip of William Beelzebub Klintoon on Letterman? Klintoon was bragging that in his administration "we" increased the number of immigrants by (something like) 14 million.
(And if we increase the number of legal immigrants by 14 million, you can be sure the number of illegals is also astronomical.) And now Hitlery is saying GW is not doing his job?
GW only inherited the problem. He didn't cause it. He didn't originate it. He didn't perpetuate it. It is a political hot potato that may bury the career of more than one politician.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:24:26 AM PST
by
LouAvul
To: Prime Choice
As long as they cut off their own heads.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:24:53 AM PST
by
My2Cents
(To those inclined to receive it, "Merry Christmas!" To those NOT so inclined, "Bah Humbug!")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I think Blankley is being pretty smart here.
It's not that we believe Hillary's protestations. It's that we have a unique opportunity to USE them, and not to her benefit. The big difficulty the Republicans have had with illegal immigration is that they fear to lose votes over the issue to pandering Democrats. That's basically how Pete Wilson lost California, a lesson that hasn't been lost on Bush and Rove.
But if Bush were to loudly proclaim, "I agree with Senator Clinton! Illegal immigration is illegal, and must be dealt with," then that puts the Democrats into a cleft stick. Either hillary must immediately say that she didn't really mean it, or she will then have it hung around her neck. And either other Democrats would have to go along with her, or more likely, split the party.
Freepers who want a stricter immigration policy, and there are certainly a great many of them, should welcome Blankley's initiative. Let's reach out to hillary and call for a bipartisan effort, right now, to rid the country of illegal immigrants.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:25:22 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Oh what a tangled web she is weaving while practicing her deceiving. She is a liberal Zebra and she cannot change her stripes.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Can she say nothing without a "you know?"
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:32:04 AM PST
by
altura
(I love Barney and corny stuff--'specially at Christmas.)
To: My2Cents
"What makes you think the left will actually do something about illegals? When has the left been for anything substantive, and not simply a collective bag of disingenuous hot air?"
Come on mon...give the people on this site more credit than that...everyone here knows who the Clintons are and what they do.
Hillary's move on immigration is the political equivalent of Bubba walking around with a Bible conspicuously displayed.
The scary thing is...he did get elected two times.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:32:27 AM PST
by
Dat Mon
(clever tagline under construction)
To: Dane
Yip I could care less if she will do something to get a tighter control on the border she will get my support. Up until election time of course. Hey I know a liberal when I see one and she is all liberal but that doesnt mean I wont support her in doing something the RINOs and Bush refuse to do. Its about time that someone had the balls to do something about this and balls is not what the RINOs got.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:33:44 AM PST
by
sasafras
(sasafras (The road to hell is paved with good intentions))
To: Dat Mon
give the people on this site more credit than thatAre you kidding?! Haven't you been reading some of these threads? There are people here who are seriously giving Hillary *credit* for getting "tough" on illegal immigration, as if they believe she's sincere.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:37:19 AM PST
by
My2Cents
(To those inclined to receive it, "Merry Christmas!" To those NOT so inclined, "Bah Humbug!")
To: Don Corleone
Run like a Conservative..Govern like a Communist!It works for Arlen Specter
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posted on
12/16/2004 3:50:24 PM PST
by
smokeyb
To: Nea Wood
Good point! Has Hellary been called racist yet for her remarks? I'll bet not! Liberal media will compare her(Hitlery Bin-Rotten Al-Clintoooon) with GEORGE WASHINGTON and will call her(Hitlery Bin-Rotten Al-Clintoooon) TRUE PATRIOT.
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posted on
12/16/2004 10:36:33 PM PST
by
nanak
(Tom Tancredo 2008:Last Hope to Save America)
To: Don Corleone
Run like a Conservative..Govern like a Communist!Satan's Daughter will always be a communist/socialist.
I call her type a 'Castle Communist', a person who has her riches and fine homes but wants everyone else to live like a servant of the state.
Hillary is to be feared. She is America's greatest networker, she has been putting her 'machine' together since her college days.
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posted on
12/16/2004 11:58:50 PM PST
by
beyond the sea
(I know beyond a doubt ...... my heart will lead me there)
To: diverteach
Can you say "WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING!!!"Can you say The Queen of Darkness
Hitlery
The Red Marxist Queen of the Universe
The Lady McBeth of Little Rock
Mrs. Bent One
The Stalinist Cookie-Baker
Chappaqua Rose
Lady in Pink
Her Royal Lowness
Machiavellian Mama
The Hildebeast
Wide Load
Rodham Hussein
................... in black pantsuit.
*****
"Sheeps clothing" indeed.
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posted on
12/17/2004 12:09:03 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(I know beyond a doubt ...... my heart will lead me there)
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