Posted on 02/03/2013 11:01:57 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
On this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” conservative columnist and author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” Pat Buchanan said the bipartisan Senate immigration plan drafted by the so-called “gang of eight” will fail, damaging Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s chances of winning the White House.
“The path to citizenship in my judgment is going to fail,” Buchanan said. “It will certainly be stopped in the House, and I think Marco Rubio, who has gotten himself out front on it, will be badly damaged, because I think there’s going to be a rising populist reaction to his proposal.”
Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift agreed with Buchanan, adding that the downfall of immigration reform would also cost Republicans generally in the 2014 midterms.
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Buchanan is a jerk.
Yep! I would be pleasantly surprised if the GOP would get 10 out 20,00,000 votes of takers. Those 10 voters would be probably be crossed eyed.
I don't know what he has or hasn't been doing, but since you've made such a definitive statement, you should be able to provide links to support it.
Buchanan said. “It will certainly be stopped in the House, and I think Marco Rubio, who has gotten himself out front on it, will be badly damaged,
From his lips to God’s ears. The sooner we can take out the next RINO in line the better.
If the vast majority of illegal aliens were French Canadian, would Rubio be so eager to give a repeat of the failed amnesty of the 80’s? We’ve had enough of personal interest masquerading as public interest.
My guess would be because too many Republicans elected DO NOT HAVE THE BRAINS GOD GAVE A GOOSE.
You perception is correct. The only way the GOP can win anything is to defeat or destroy the press.
I took your well constructed post and sent it over to our R Senator Ayotte here in NH. I couldn’t have expressed it better myself.
“Actually, this bill may ensure the eventual elimination of the GOP as a national party and make it, at most, a regional party although I cannot think of a region that it could thrive in.”
Whether this bill passes or not, the Republican party ALREADY HAS shrunk from being a national party, into being a regional party. The amnesty bill would accelerate this transformation, but the transformation is ongoing.
Consider: how much influence do the Republicans have in America today, in any state north or east of Pennsylvania?
How much influence do they have in the “mid-Atlantic” — New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., and even in Virginia?
How much influence do the Pubbies have left on the West Coast? In the southwest, we’re even losing in Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado.
The Republicans are already walkin’ the road to “regionalization”.
Amnesty will get them there sooner.
But the destination is certain and the journey has begun...
Not so fast....there will be some Dems in the House who will vote against Amnesty....ESP if they are in competitive districts. All house up again in ‘14. Boehner will need more than 18 RINOs
Yeh, good I don’t want the ambitious little RINO running for President in 2016.
The law means nothing to political leadership, they pick and choose which laws to enforce, so we should pick and choose which laws to obey, our politicians are traitors, the rule of law means nothing anymore, a police state where illegal aliens have more rights than the citizenry!
Fact is, immigration "reform" will likely lose the Hispanic voters that the GOP has now.
I've seen two polls of legal Hispanics -- and they both against any form of amnesty by about 2-to-1 (60/32 or so).
This may surprise some -- certainly, it would shock the GOP-e. But think about it -- legal Hispanics are American. Many families have been here for more than a hundred years, the more recent have played by the rules and worked to get where they are.
Most of the Hispanics against amnesty probably comprise the Republican voting minority. If the GOP betrays them on amnesty, they'll have lost votes among the Hispanics.
Amnesty is a lose-lose proposition for 'pubbies.
You are right. Why didn’t I realize this before. The R party HAS become regional although it did have a few leftist members in the hard left states. Even Mass recently un-elected the not-conservative Brown and jumped on the wagon of an utterly ridiculous candidate, Warren.
I have to wonder if the average Mass voter chooses candidates based on how much it will annoy and puzzle sane people around the country.
Rubio needs to understand, if he doesn’t already, that if he makes a move for the POTUSA nomination it will be like hitting a bee hive. It is difficult to imagine that a person like Rubio who supposedly espouses our Constitutional government would lend credence to the eligibility of Obama.
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