Posted on 04/09/2014 4:00:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Finesse? Not Since Jefferson Dined Alone … : A man named Shaun Kenney was recently named Executive Director of the Virginia Republican party. Here is a post of his from the blog, Bearing Drift. In it he argues that “Conservatives have a moral duty to drive out nativism once and for all.” It becomes clear by the end of the post that when he says “nativist” he’s including more or less everyone in the party who opposes “comprehensive immigration reform.”
“There are 12 million people in the United States today who want a better lives for themselves and their families, whose only crime was that they came to America to do it.
‘”The nativists have a very simple solution: apprehend all 12 million of them, boxcar them back to their point of origin, and drive them out as so many locusts. …
‘”he American conservative movement has driven out ideologies from our camp once before. We drove out the progressives and the America First movement in the 1940s. We did it again with the John Birch Society in the 1960s. We did it once again with the anarchists in the 1980s. Every time we have purged the ranks of poison, we have emerged stronger …
“It’s time to clean house.
‘”You will hear a lot of talk in the coming months about immigration reform. In it will be included guest worker programs, documented worker status, real border enforcement that doesn’t require walls, and a sound program that takes an antiquated immigration system and brings it into the 21st century. That’s not amnesty, that’s reform.
“Conservatives embrace the idea of more Americans coming into this country to work hard and prosper.
“Nativists reject Pedro. …
“Drive em out, ladies and gentlemen. …”
I’m a Democrat, so I can’t be too offended by this, though there are plenty of Virgina Republicans who might be. If the state GOP wants to empower this sophomoric sneerer slanderer to insult their core voters with language reminiscent of Daily Kos on a bad day, that is the state GOP’s problem. But maybe the press should drop the PR that says Kenney got the job because he’s “worked well with both sides.” Or, in his own words describing his suitability for the post:
“It takes a little bit of finesse … and generally being tolerated by all side to be an effective executive director. The executive director is kind of like the first diplomat.”
If Kenney is the Virginia GOP establishment’s** idea of a diplomat, it should be an interesting few years. Or weeks. …
P.S.: Attempts to reach Kenney by phone and email were unsuccessful.
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**–Kenney seems to be an Ed Gillespie person. Gillespie is running for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Mark Warner. He has long been a strategic squish on amnesty, though not necessarily amnesty that ends in citizenship. Does Gillespie share Kenney’s cheesy Manichean view of the opposition?
I'm sure there are also many bank robbers and others who also want a better life for themselves and their families.
They are still criminals.
This is what really frosts me. Why should people who send money back to their home country be allowed to skip out on medical bills and and not make restitution for property damage, injury and death they cause? No sympathy from me.
And, should a homeless person who merely wants a better life take up residence in your home, Shaun Kenney, exactly how would you deal with him?
Talk about a perfect GOP-e twit.
I would rather live next door to an illegal than to a Shaun Kenney.
Big tent doesn’t sound very welcoming
He is the executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.
Well, hey, that and fifty cents...
“The GOP is going to die on this issue. Its a loser and they can’t seem to grasp it.”
The establishment GOP is fully wedded to the corporate lobbyists. Huge amounts of money are changing hands on this issue. This is why the GOP is on a suicide mission pursuing this.
The entire party establishment is bought and paid for.
What an idiot.
“He is the executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.”
Looks like the Virginia GOP is hell bent on Californicating itself.
This bigot projects much!
Lost me on that one. Was Ronald Reagan anarchist?
“Time for a third party yet?”
Probably not. Until conservatives can show the capability of sending a half-dozen of their kind to a schoolboard or county council meeting, I’d say that conservatives don’t have the ability to start a third party.
Hell, liberals and leftists have taken over their local government, and they haven’t done squat to stop it. They bitch about commies in the schools, high property taxes and loss of property rights, yet they won’t do something as simple as throwing the commies out of local government.
Third party? Forget it.
My guess is that Kenney is casting Reagan and Reaganites as "anti-government" due to Reagan's first inaugural:
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
Meaning that Kenney is a pro-big government Beltway slug.
Sounds like the GOPe is drawing a line in the sand. The Tea Party will take that challenge. RINOs beware!
time to clean house is right, but to clean house of all the RINOs. The Tea Party will be stronger than ever!
yes sounds like the likes of those that switch parties like Jim Jeffords, Charlie Crist and Arlen Spectre.
Even better. Any LEO that finds an illegal alien and does not deport, will immediately switch places with the alien, and be deported on his behalf.
LOL Put some teeth in the law!
This POS is a RAT troll.
They infiltrate. It’s what the do.
The entire media complex is infiltrated by the looney tunes cultural Marxists AND THEY ARE DEVIOUS!
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