LEAVE RICK PERRY ALONE! LEAVE HIM ALONE!
Posted on 08/20/2011 1:39:45 PM PDT by bubbacluck
Peter Robinson, a former Reagan speechwriter, agrees. "It was in Ronald Reagan's bones — it was part of his understanding of America — that the country was fundamentally open to those who wanted to join us here."
Reagan said as much himself in a televised debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," he said.
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"He was a Californian," Robinson says. "You couldn't live in California ... without encountering over and over and over again good, hard-working, decent people — clearly recent arrivals from Mexico."
That the U.S. failed to regain control of the border — making the 1986 law's amnesty provision an incentive for others to come to America illegally — would have infuriated Reagan, Robinson says.
"But I think he would have felt taking those 3 million people and making them Americans was a success."
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Thank you!
So you are citing a FR post of a blog post to buttress your argument that Perry is a POS Commie? Wow.
Yup
You are wrong. It wasn’t as big of an issue. There wasn’t the backlash in 1986 that there was in 2007, when they tried to pass that amnesty bill. Secondly, there weren’t as many illegals in the country in 1986, so it couldn’t have been as big of an issue.
I fail to see how NPR has any standing whatsoever to use certain actions or statements of Ronald Reagan to lecture modern-day conservatives about anything.
My preferred response to this would be to lecture leftards on their own failings, using Ronald Reagan’s actions and statements to demolish their agendas.
Whereas, today, illegals HATE America, they don't want to become Americans. They want America to be just another Mexico.
Idiots.
How nice of NPR to write about what Reagan believed in -— when it fit’s their narrative of course.
Reagan was wrong on amnesty. He later regretted that decision.
If Mexico was filled with very conservative white people who were sneaking into this country by the millions would NPR be so “open border”? Not.
I only wish that they would've locked down the border with a fence after Operation Wetback...when the country still had a spine and stomach for such actions. California might even be a livable place today.
Just don't give them jobs or free health care or government checks and they will head home.
Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.
If I remember correctly, Reagan had three big hitters: destroy the Soviet Union, build up the military, and lower taxes. As long as he stood true to those three, he could be forgiven the extraneous stuff.
This country is at a point now where we may have to take some bad with mostly good in our candidate. The times do not dictate being real picky and choosy about a candidate's bonafides.
He should have some demonstrated core values.
Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.
Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.
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