Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 02/24/2010 7:15:59 AM PST by deport
GOP primaries should be closed to GOP only...we have to change this before 2012 or will get another RINO in the first few primaries again
could not have had this thread here 4 years ago with all this dissent....folks....are learning
and a dearth of harpies
The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.
Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 306 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 131 million to 439 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.975 percent (2009 estimate), principally due to immigration.
87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2023 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.
Since the 1965 Immigration Act, our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled major demographic changes in a very short period of time. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites comprised 89 percent of the population; today they are 66 percent; and by 2042, they will be 50 percent. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provide a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.
I suggest that you read this recent study on immigration and voting patterns by Professor James Gimpel, a member of a panel my group sponsored on immigration at CPAC:
Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects
The Democrats have used the rapidly changing demographics of this country, the product of immigration, to stampede many Republican politicians and elites to conclude that the party must “adapt or die” as Michael Barone stated on the issue of immigration. The leaders of extremist Hispanic ethnic groups trumpet their growing political power and cite the Bureau of Census projections that by 2050, one in 3 residents of this country will be Hispanic. The problem is that if the Republican Party does adapt to become more like the Democrat Party, it will die.
The Democrats created the artificial category of “Hispanics” in the 1970s as a way to create another class of victims, which they could imbue with special rights and privileges, including affirmative action and minority business set asides. The result is another minority group that votes Democrat. It doesn’t matter that, according to the Census Bureau, 51 percent of Hispanics self-identify themselves as white. The Census Bureau has even created the phony category of “non-Hispanic whites,” which are now 66 percent of the population and will be 50 percent in 2042. The reality is that “whites” will still be more than 70 percent of the population in 2042.
In 2008, if John McCain had received 60 percent [vice 55 percent] of the “white vote,” he would have won even if Barack Obama had received the entire Hispanic vote. Credible surveys indicate that the major policy concerns of Hispanics/Latinos were no different than the concerns of non-Hispanics/Latinos. The economy and jobs topped the list. There is little evidence that immigration policy was an influential factor in Hispanics’/Latinos’ choice between the two candidates once basic party predispositions are taken into account. The size of the Latino voting population should be kept in perspective alongside other subsets of the electorate. An estimated 11.8 million voters were of Latino ancestry, compared with 17 million African Americans, 19.7 million veterans, 23.6 million young people, 45 million conservatives, and 34 million born-again white Christians.
Republicans are deluded if they believe that altering their views on immigration and amnesty will win them more Hispanic votes. Ronald Reagan signed a “one-time” amnesty in 1986, but that did not change the fact that the majority of Hispanics still vote Democrat. The reality is that historically the majority of immigrants, not only Hispanics, vote Democrat. Unless the Republican Party can slow down the immigration numbers, legal and illegal, it will be the permanent minority party or become just another wing of the Democrat Party.
For God's sake, has anybody really looked into Debra Medina's platform- her background? Has this woman even been vetted?
Are we so desperate to clean house of 'career politicians' that we jump on the bandwagon of an unknown ex-nurse with zero experience, questionable judgement and loyalties and who worked on the RON PAUL presidential campaign???
Before we boot Rick Perry out, we'd better take a good long look at the fact that although Perry has been governor since 2000, Texas is doing better than almost any other state in the union- and be D*MN sure we know just what we are replacing him with.!
She wants legalized drugs.
She backs gay marriage.
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She has not spoken to her elderly parents for YEARS. They had to find out she was runing for governor of Texas by reading the newspaper!
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/medina-hailing-from-beeville-learned-political-skills-on-229907.html?srcTrk=RTR_95609
What does this say about this woman's character?
And rumors are begining to surface about husband Noe's past associations.
Take a look at some of the statements she has made: "It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?’
"Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?”
"Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.”
"I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.” (Obummer, is that you?)
I don't believe for one minute Medina's propaganda about wanting to strengthen the border!
La Raza probably has her in their back pocket!
At 3:30 on this video Medina says, 'Why were there no police killed on 9 11?' http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/politics&id=7274692
This idea that Beck (or anybody else) sabotaged Medina is absurd. If you can’t answer “did the govt have anything to do with the 9/11 attacks?” you're not be fit to run for dogcatcher.
Glenn Beck has once again helped the tea-party stay in the Republican mainstreamby by weeding out dangerous fringe thinkers like Medina.
Medina is NOT representative of the Tea Party movement. She USED them- latched herself on to them. She’s a hard core Libertarian who has realized that the Libertarian Party will never win anything and that the only possible way to get herself into office is to do what Ron Paul did and wrap herself in the Republican cloak in hopes that it will fool enough of the voters enough of the time. Thank God Glen Beck outed her in time.
Retrieve your sombrero from the ring and go home Senora Medina. You're Texas toast. .
REMEMBER THIS, TEXANS:
Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress
“One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
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I can call myself the new Sinatra but that does not make it so.
Dallas County went 58% for the Messiah in 2008 and the GOP was completely routed in 2006 by the Democrats. Gee, what possibly could have changed?
Oh. Right. The Reconquesta.
I live in Dallas (moved here in 2007) and my precinct went 76% for the Manchurian Candidate, but make no mistake about it: this county (and ultimately the state) will continue to tilt Left as more and more of the invaders from the south take up the ballot.
You are an embarrassment to Texas girls, freeper after freeper has asked you to give a source for your La Raza accusation and like the weak scum bag coward that you are, you don’t even respond to them, you merely keep spamming with what appears to be a lie.
I’m very much against Medina and want her to drop out, but you are a much greater embarrassment.
But how much of that wall has been built since KBH essentially put a stop to it by opening it up to law suits. Perry will get my vote only because he is the lesser of two evils. Just slightly the lesser.
You do realize that I am to the right of you on immigration?
FYI: I doubt you are to the right of me on immigration, but I do know that I am better informed than you are on the issue. You seem to believe that we can somehow woo enough of the Hispanic vote to win elections over the long term. The fact is that we are importing poverty thru our legal mass immigration policies that will effectively make the Dems the permanent majority party. The annual entry of 1.2 million legal immigrants a year, two-thirds of whom are Hispanic, will just add to the Dem voter rolls. <
Here is the Census Bureau prognosis for this country in 2050 with one in three residents of this country being Hispanic:
45: Amen.
While I lived in San Diego from 2000-2006, I listened to Spanish TV and radio to keep up my language skills. I was shocked at how leftist they all were, across the news/entertainment spectrum.
I remember hearing all about the upcoming “La gran marcha” (for social justice, amnesty etc) months before the marches took the Anglosphere by surprise.
YOU are an embarrassment to this forum, for you obviously are a Ron Paul/La Raza/Medina nutter or you wouldn’t keep harassing me for telling the truth.
I’ve noticed that Texas Hispanics are much differant that those in New Mexico, Arizona or California. They will proudly tell anyone that they are a “Tejano”.
hey now....I don’t agree with ansel12 on this but otherwise he is a first class freeper
Hispanics vote Democrat, yes. But ‘conservative’ is true also. If you look at many surveys and polls there are *significant* numbers of ‘conservative Democrats’ out there... THEY ARE MOSTLY MINORITIES.
They are social conservatives, but also ‘family’ and religious folks. They have been told (lied to) that the Republican party is a party of white people only.
You need only look at how black vote went for prop 8 (protecting traditional marriage) in california more than the white vote to understand the dynamic.
Anybody know why Hildalgo county Dems have turned out in large numbers?
You said it in a nutshell and that (Aztlan—Reconquista), as you know, is alive and well—and growing. Something to be dealt with.
I know conservative white people who vote Dem every time. Inexplicable.
i see it with caucasions as well
i would go to the gym and have political discussions and almost every issue my peers would agree with me
who did they vote for?
the Dem?
i dont understand it at all
same here
i dont understand it at all
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