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The GOP's Amnesty Caucus Raises the White Flag
Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2013 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 02/01/2013 5:02:32 AM PST by Bratch

On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama.

We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious about securing the border against yet another invasion. Only after an independent commission agrees the border has been secured will the 11 million be given green cards and put on a path to citizenship.

The next day in Las Vegas, Obama, reveling in victory, instructed the four waving their white flags that the defeated do not dictate terms.

Get cracking on comprehensive reform now, Obama instructed Marco and John, or I send my own bill to the Hill, granting amnesty to every illegal alien, with no preconditions. Putting the 11 million illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship should begin not after the border is better secured, but the day the bill is signed.

In a pointed lecture to Rubio, the Great Hispanic Hope of the GOP, Obama said, "We have done more on border security in the last four years than we have done in the previous 20."

A graduate of the Saul Alinsky school, Obama can smell the defeatism in the Republican Party. And he knows how to treat supplicants begging for a fig leaf to cover the nakedness of their capitulation.

But why are the Republicans surrendering their "no amnesty" stand, which has been party policy since America rallied to the GOP's opposition to amnesty in 2007, when a national grass-roots uprising routed McCain, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush himself?

McCain fears the future. We got 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, and the reason is our position on illegal aliens, he argues. Until we get this behind us, we will never again get the 40 percent of the vote Bush got. Either we capitulate to Obama and La Raza, or we are doomed.

Why is McCain wrong?

He is wrong on principle. Should a majority of women tell pollsters they are against overturning Roe v. Wade, does the party abandon its pro-life stand and cease calling for Supreme Court justices who might overturn Roe?

What kind of party is that? What kind of people do that?

Who thought in 2007 we could rout the establishment of both parties?

Washington is not invincible. But you cannot rally the people if you are not prepared to lead and fight.

Republican capitulation on amnesty is not going to win Hispanic votes, but it will demoralize the party base. McCain, the amnesty champion today and in 2007, got 31 percent of the Hispanic vote against Obama.

Why is he an expert on what the party should do?

When those 11 million illegals have completed their path to citizenship and become voters, why should they, or the millions more family members they will have brought in by then, vote for the GOP? Hispanics are not small-government people. They believe in and benefit disproportionately from Big Government.

Some 53 percent of Hispanic children are born out of wedlock, and 52 percent of Hispanic families are headed by single women.

Big Government provides their kids with Head Start before school, free K-through-12 schooling, Pell Grants and student loans for college, and two or three free meals a day at school for the kids.

Big Government provides food stamps, welfare for mom and earned income tax credit checks should she work. Big Government subsidizes her housing and provides free health care for the family through Medicaid.

A Pew Hispanic poll found that by 3-to-1, Hispanics would favor a big government with more services to a small government with fewer services.

Why would these folks vote for a Republican Party that promises to downsize the Big Government upon which they depend for sustenance, security and survival? Why would they vote for a party that is going to cut capital gains, income and inheritance taxes they don't pay?

The 11 million illegals, who came with nothing, are poorer than the Hispanics who are already citizens.

When we make citizens of them and the family members they bring in, our welfare state will explode and the social safety net will sag under the weight of millions of new beneficiaries.

Republicans win between 27 and 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Add 10 million new Hispanic voters, and Democrats will realize a net gain of 2 to 4 million new voters.

There goes the Southwest, and there goes the presidency, forever.

Amnesty would be the greatest victory for mass lawbreaking in U.S. history. It would reward those who broke our laws and make fools of those who waited in line back home to come to America.

And this is about more than economics. It is about our sovereignty, our security, our national culture and our national identity.

This fight is not yet lost, and even should we lose, is it not better to go down fighting than to ask for terms from Barack Obama?


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration; rinos
And yet, Pat thinks Chuck Hagel is a good man.
1 posted on 02/01/2013 5:02:43 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

What difference could 10-20 million undocumented Democrats make? The Republicans should just go along to get along. That always works out pretty well, right?


2 posted on 02/01/2013 5:07:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

This is a major reason I left the GOP in 2007.


3 posted on 02/01/2013 5:17:27 AM PST by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: Bratch

On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio

Now can we get ready for 2016 by taking Rubio off the maybe list.


4 posted on 02/01/2013 5:18:41 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: freedomfiter2

Hey, I took the GOP off the maybe list.


5 posted on 02/01/2013 5:25:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: Bratch; Liz; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; ..
RE :”On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama.
We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious about securing the border against yet another invasion. Only after an independent commission agrees the border has been secured will the 11 million be given green cards and put on a path to citizenship.
The next day in Las Vegas, Obama, reveling in victory, instructed the four waving their white flags that the defeated do not dictate terms.
Get cracking on comprehensive reform now, Obama instructed Marco and John, or I send my own bill to the Hill, granting amnesty to every illegal alien, with no preconditions. Putting the 11 million illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship should begin not after the border is better secured, but the day the bill is signed. “

Path to voting now or later.
Obama wants them voting in 2016,
Rub, McCain and Grahamnesty want them to wait till 2020 to vote, by then they will all own their own busineseses and vote for tax cuts just as Rub says HAHA.

But ya gotta admit, Romney was a Lion on enforcement in the R primaries beating Newt and Perry over the head with it. So where is that now?

Have you noticed we dont see any GOP alternative bills to Rub's ??

6 posted on 02/01/2013 5:29:13 AM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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To: freedomfiter2

My freshman congressman Scott Perry (4th District-PA) told folks in the GOP primary campaign that he was opposed to amnesty.

Now he’s on the bandwagon with the McCain-Graham-Rubio crowd for amnesty.


7 posted on 02/01/2013 5:48:08 AM PST by Nextrush (PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN IS MY DREAM)
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To: Bratch

It’s long past time to give McCain a gold watch, thank him for his past service, and tell him not to let the door hit him where the good Lord split him.


8 posted on 02/01/2013 5:50:41 AM PST by fractionated
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To: All

Pat Buchanan is correct on this. The GOP will not win hispanic voters with Illegal Alien Amnesty

Too bad so many Free Trader Communists attack Buchanan. They hate Buchanan because he is a big thorn in PhonyCon GOP Liberal Globalist agenda (which agrees with Obama on about 98% of the issues). Of course...Free Traders are the biggest supporters of Illegal Alien Amnesty

We should deport all the supporters of Illegal Alien Amnesty with the Illegals...we can ship out the America haters with the illegals at the same time


9 posted on 02/01/2013 7:03:17 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Bratch

Whenever you see a Bi-partisan committee of 8 and 4 of them are RINO’s expect surrender.


10 posted on 02/01/2013 7:22:24 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Bratch

Hagel’s dislike of Israel and love Iran gets him a pass from Pat.


11 posted on 02/01/2013 7:35:08 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: Bratch; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related threads.

12 posted on 02/01/2013 2:52:06 PM PST by HiJinx (The New Year is here; to all Men Good Cheer. (Last one out, turn out the lights.))
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To: Bratch

More kabuki theater. They have always wanted amnesty. They just want their cake and eat it too.


13 posted on 02/01/2013 3:05:51 PM PST by TADSLOS ( "I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians."-George Mason)
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To: Bratch

Why do they need amnesty to secure the borders ?


14 posted on 02/01/2013 5:03:22 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: SeminoleCounty

“Pat Buchanan is correct on this. The GOP will not win hispanic voters with Illegal Alien Amnesty”

And you are right as well.

But I’ll contend that at least 30-40% of FR members still believe in the opposite.

Foolishness — it ain’t just for liberals, ya know...


15 posted on 02/01/2013 9:17:56 PM PST by Road Glide
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