Posted on 06/30/2007 2:34:23 PM PDT by hardback
Big News on the Immigration Front From... Pennsylvania!
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday - and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.
Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with nearly 94 percent of the vote. And he beat former Mayor Michael Marsicano for the Democratic nomination by staging a last-minute write-in campaign, all but guaranteeing himself another term, unofficial returns showed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1842832/posts
Lies upon lies upon lies. What moved CA firmly into the 'Rat camp was the amnesty granted to millions of illegals in the late 80s, not anything Pete Wilson said or did in '94. The GOP Presidential candidate won CA's huge chuck of electoral votes in six straight general elections, from the late 60s to the late 80s. But after amnesty was passed and those millions of "natural GOP voters" got their citizenship CA has chosen the Democrat candidate in every subsequent election. ...and not surprisingly the margin is getting greater every year.
The WSJ knows full well illegal aliens are far more likely to vote Donkey than Elephant, so their "analysis" showing otherwise is a pure lie. Their loyalty is to big biz, not the United States. .....and that could be said about a disconcertingly high number of our elected officals as well.
Correction: "..their illegal presence in the U.S."
With the right spin, it should help. With almost 80% of Americans against this bill the GOP should be able to ride this issue to the white house, especially with emphasis on better border security and enforcement.
Constantly remind illegal groups that the GOP President Bush tried to be compassionate and was stopped by the ineptness of mean old Democrat Harry Reid who couldn’t get 14 democrats to vote yea instead of nay.
I thought he was going to a good year before the election...when he lost the previous go-around on Illegal Aliens Amnesty...and also on introducing the Law of the Sea Treaty.
The Conservative Majority running interference against his liberal agenda had to go.
Michael Savage also thinks so. Rush and Hannity probably know it. And Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and possibly Laura Ingrahm clearly suspect so.
I think this is more an example of the fallout of the collapse of the Rove View of the World. Even the first two sentences are lame attempts to keep the “2006 election loss” on immigration going.
Tell that to the Dems
The Republican Party in California wasn’t destroyed by immigration.
The Republican Party was torn apart because the moron candidate Republicans ran after Pete Wilson’s term, was a bland, unprincipled, uninspiring RINO who actually advocated gun confiscation!!
The Republican Party was torn apart because it acted like DEMOCRATS.
It’s the very same reason the GOP lost in the congressional elections last year. Because they had become weenies.
Why is that so difficult to understand??
Voters aren’t communists.
They’re conservative, mostly.
ACT THAT WAY.
The Wall Street Journal is country club before country.
"hispanics" - whatever that is - make up something on the order of 3% of the national electorate (those who actually vote). Obviously in some states, that's higher. But on a national level, that's what it is.
Passing the most sweeping and divisive give away in American history to get mmm, maybe 0.4% more of the national vote is not merely bad politics, it's beyond insane.
The truth is, with this vote, many Republicans have redeemed themselves, and that means that their core constituency - the unmentionable "non-hispanic whites" that we are now referred to as - are more likely to stay with the fold. With the emergence of new leaders like Jeff Sessions, Jim DeMint, and David Vitter, we have the possibility of cleansing the party of whack jobs like McCain, morons like Kyl, and a traitor like Bush (there. I said it. so, ban away...).
So with something like 75 to 80% of the electorate coming from that group, lets say the End of Amnesty means the Republicans get back, oh, 5 to 7%. Without compromising the very nature of our laws and nation.
I'd take 5% any day over 0.4%.
Maybe Karl and Jorge were absent that day in algebra.
They’re conservative, mostly.
Why is it that politicians "Run to the Right" to get elected, and once in office, they "Govern to the Left?"
I just want a President/Senator/Congressman who runs as a Conservative, and then stays Conservative once they are in office.
Note to WSJ: People don’t vote R or D because of their skin color or the language they speak at home. They vote R or D because of their socioeconomic status, and playing race-based kissy face will not change that.
Poor people vote Dem. Always have, always will. Given the need and opportunity, people will always vote themselves the money of others. Bank on it. Understanding that simple, basic fact, which somehow eludes the RINOS and country clubbers of the party, makes it utter insanity to legalize a many-million-strong underclass of low-skilled, poorly-educated people. I’ll say it again a different way: when you’re one of the ones taking, you vote Dem, when you’re one of the ones paying through the nose, you vote Republican. The only exception is a few limousine liberals, and there are not enough of them to change the outcome of elections.
The only conceivable way the poor, unskilled, uneducated underclass will ever vote for Republicans is if the Republicans promise them more economic goodies than the Dems. Which is impossible, because there is nothing the Dems won’t promise and no vote they won’t try to buy on the taxpayers’ dime.
The Republican Party has no chance, none, at getting these people as voters. Buy a clue and stop trying. The Republican Party has to stop being the DemLite Party and start articulating conservative ideas. Stop operating out of fear and use your strengths. Conservatism still wins in America. The gazillions of phone calls, faxes, emails, and letters to Senators over the past few weeks should be proof of that. Be conservative and most of America will follow. Pander to this group and that group, and you will continue to lose elections.
I wasn't. I am now.
And in addition, the illegals take jobs away from white, black, and legals. And it you factor in the overwhelming Americans from both parties that reject this immigration bill, I think the Republicans will gain tremendous. What we need is for our running politicians to stress this fact that saving America will need politicians that truly believe this attack on America is heavily imported by the illegal traffic of all kinds and it will take conservative Constitutionalists to do the job.
I read something yesterday that was chilling. Some Muslim cleric said that, “Democracy is a nice bus to ride until we reach our station”. They mean to kill us all, and that has been greatly overlooked in this debate.
See posts 33 and 41 on this same thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1858932/posts?page=33#33
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