I heard once she prefers "Bush"...
Posted on 02/04/2015 6:15:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s good to see conservatives have gotten back to letting the New York Times choose their nominees for them.
The only silver lining to Mitt Romney being pushed out of the presidential race — temporarily, I hope — is that the media’s preferred GOP candidate, Jeb Bush, is catnip to the stupidest influence-seekers, so Wall Street will be wasting all kinds of money over the next few months.
Then, Shemp Bush will declare and knock Jeb out of the running, only to be replaced by Zeppo Bush. I wouldn’t be putting a lot of money on another President Bush, unless we’re talking about the next president of Mexico.
Most candidates for office at least wait to get elected before betraying voters on immigration, because who doesn’t like surprises? Sen. Marco Rubio, for example, has spent his entire Washington career pushing amnesty, after saying repeatedly when he was running: “I will never support — never have and never will support — any effort to grant blanket legalization, amnesty, to folks who have entered this country illegally.”
It’s almost refreshing that Jeb doesn’t even bother to lie. To the contrary, he’s remarkably frank about his intention to pass amnesty, calling illegal immigration “an act of love.” Well, sure — in the sense that someone’s getting screwed.
I wonder if amnesty operates as a magnet for illegal immigrants … hey, does anyone know if there have there been any measles outbreaks lately? But I’m sure Jenny McCarthy is responsible for the nonstop viral outbreaks in the U.S. since 90,000 poverty-stricken, unvaccinated Central American kids poured across our border last year. Polio will be next.
Recently, ICE agents in Michigan captured a major Mexican drug dealer. They knew he was here illegally, but every time they asked him his immigration status, all he said was: “Obama.”
You know what’s an even bigger magnet for illegals than a politician’s promise to pass amnesty in the future? Governors offering them driver’s licenses and in-state tuition right now.
Guess who was one of the first governors in the nation to propose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens? Jeb Bush. He talked of little else during his second term. Fortunately, the Florida legislature never agreed. Even then-Sen. Hillary Clinton came out against driver’s licenses for illegals in 2007 — at least after polls showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea. Public opposition forced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to drop his plan to grant illegals driver’s licenses, and he’s a man who doesn’t give up on bad ideas easily.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave illegals in-state tuition. He also directed his temporary Senate appointee to vote for the Schumer-Rubio amnesty. This totally impressed Wall Street, but cost him his erstwhile biggest supporter, moi.
Gov. Rick Perry pushed through in-state tuition for illegals in Texas, and then lectured Republicans, saying, “If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.” (Romney’s response: “I think if you’re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have a heart. It means that you have a heart and a brain.”)
Gov. Mike Huckabee promoted in-state tuition, voting rights and public services for illegals, on the grounds that companies like Toyota and Nestle wouldn’t invest in Arkansas “if we send the message that, essentially, ‘If you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.’”
Rick Santorum gets exercised about immigration only when he’s running for office, but while in the Senate and throughout the 2012 campaign, he opposed employer sanctions for hiring illegals. Newt Gingrich was for amnestying all illegal immigrants except felons, which he planned to accomplish with a review board to consider the individual case of every illegal immigrant in the country.
The only Republican who has ever opposed the media and big campaign donors on immigration was Mitt Romney. You know, the guy we just kicked to the curb. On immigration, the elites speak with one voice: The donors want cheap labor, and the media hate Republicans who push ideas that are wildly popular with voters.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney repeatedly vetoed bills giving illegal aliens in-state tuition. He also vetoed a bill to extend health coverage to illegal aliens. And he made clear he would veto any bill allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, so those never made it to his desk.
While Jeb was one of the first governors to demand driver’s licenses for illegals, Romney was one of the first governors to strike a special agreement with federal immigration officials allowing Massachusetts state troopers to arrest illegal aliens.
But with the cheap-labor plutocrats up in arms during the 2012 presidential campaign over Romney’s suggestion that their serfs “self-deport,” all the Republican lickspittles rushed to denounce his untoward remark. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker — all of them lined up to take Sheldon Adelson’s loyalty oath, swearing that, as far as they were concerned, illegal aliens should be treated as honored guests.
You better pray for a “flip-flopper” on immigration, conservatives.
At least Bob gave his arm in defense of our country. I’ve thanked him several times, and I meant it. What has Jebbie or Milt done that comes close to that?
For a mannequin.
“The unions support amnesty.”
So does the Chamber of Commerce.
Define amnesty because according to Walker’s past statements he supports a “pathway to citizenship”. There already is a pathway to citizenship. It’s called legal immigration.
Until Walker defines “amnesty”, “pathway to citizenship” and “securing the borders” we really have no idea what his policies mean. These terms mean different things to different people.
When asked in an interview if he could envision citizenship after someone has paid fines etc., his reply was “Sure.”
I heard once she prefers "Bush"...
The Jeb Bush candidacy is a bad joke. He really will be embarrassed.
I know that WI has also joined the lawsuit over Obama’s executive action with amnesty and Walker has stated that he believes that the executive action is not legal and should go through the legislative process. That is not a direct quote. I’d have to look up
link.
That doesn’t mean that he isn’t for amnesty of another type like a pathway to citizenship with in his words “people going to the back of the line” or paying fines etc.
ALL of the candidates will have to define these terms and how they relate to their policies. Immigration is a big issue. They better get it right.
OR PICTURES!
She’s only seen one iteration of Mr. Etch-a-sketch.
You realize we nominated John McCain and Bob Dole?
There used to be an entry at Wikipedia named R.I.N.O., and under that entry, they showed a picture of Romney (and others). That photo had disappeared by the time of the 2012 campaign.
Milt looks fairly lifelike in post 25, but 27 Romney is a taxidermied Canadian body double named Julian Armstrong.
RIP Jules.
So did Romney. And so did Mad John McLame. And drunken crying John and Mitch the Conservative hater.
Who cares if SWMNBN and another Bush wind up as candidates? Neither one will do anything to change the direction the country is headed.
One box left, just one.
He’s the original Stepford Husband.
I very much do, and conclude “we” are doing it again. That’s why I believe the outcome will be predictable.
Sorry, Ann - but this obsession with Romney has gone on for too long now. I pretty much love her, but she needs to find a new candidate.
Her version of Romney being conservative is just not rooted in reality.
I do not believe it is overrated. I was keeping very close tabs on what was happening in Iraq at this time. We attained a victory quickly with very few losses, and after the fighting had mostly ceased, the Former soldiers of Saddam were waiting to see what we would do.
What we did was to inform them that they were fired, we weren't going to give them any money, and they were sh*t out of luck as long as we were there. We compounded the problem by throwing all the Sunni's out of the government just because they had been members of the Bath party, (EVERYONE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BATH PARTY. YOU HAD TO BE.) and told them *they* were sh*t out of luck as long as we were there.
We then told them that their longstanding enemy, and the people whom they had been oppressing for generations, were now going to be in charge of *THEM* and that they could look forward to retaliatory payback from the Shias.
If I were an Iraqi solider, I would have set myself about the task of destroying us, and that is exactly what happened. Attacks started occurring all over Iraq. The Sunnis decided we needed to be killed in any manner possible, and so they set out to do it. Bear in mind, these were all the people who knew where the weapons and explosives were, and we deliberately made them into our enemy.
It was the most bone headed, brain dead, imbecilic idea that anyone could have come up with. In World War II, with the Nazis, who had caused us far more trouble and bloodshed, we didn't do anything so stupid.
We hanged the worst offenders, but we left the rest of them run things, and cautioned them to keep their noses clean.
We kicked a hornet's nest when all we needed to do is make an example out of Saddam and the worst offenders, set up a provisional government that included everyone, sit back and make sure it handled it's business, then get the h3ll out of there.
ISIS wouldn't have been created because the Iraqi Sunnis wouldn't have felt disenfranchised.
You corner a rat, and a rat's gonna fight. Bush and Bremer cornered the Sunnis, and I expected them to do no less than what they did. Anyone should have seen that coming.
Anyone.
Never say never...We are not the ones who count the votes...
She still has a hard-on for Mittens I see and she is still lying for him.
Ann, go home. You ceased being relevant years ago.
No more Bushes and Clintons.
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