Posted on 01/07/2004 7:45:17 PM PST by Remember_Salamis
Has anybody started an email/letter writing campaign in response to the president's proposed immigration initiative?
We need to show the president that he can't take advantage of his conservative base.
The democrats are letting the fringe left dictate their policies so completley that they are losing more and more of the Jewish vote due to their embrace of Islamics, more and more of their black and hispanic base due to their embrace of homosexuals and are at a 3 to 1 disadvantage with independents due to their comunistic approach to business and taxes. The GOP is NOT going to repeat that mistake by caving to a "base" that is both unreliable but downright hostile to bringing in new people that do not meet the "base" purity test. The democrats are now the stupid party.
That's precisely what he's saying, with the proviso that first you have to wave the magic wand and declare the illegals to be legal.
What he doesn't grasp is that adding one more ply to the ponzi scheme won't save it. It will only forestall the inevitable, and make the ultimate collapse that much worse.
The cure to socialist schemes (a la "the great society" and all its descendants) is not to open the floodgates to non-americans. The cure to socialist schemes is to end the socialist schemes.
Honestly, if I knew I was voting for someone whose core beliefs included the idea that socialism was good, viable, and necessary for my country, I never would have voted for Rove in the first place.
I certainly won't be repeating that mistake come November. I'm gonna sit this one out. Me, and upwards of 80% of the constituency.
I think we're finally gonna have the answer to the "well where are they gonna go if not with us?" question posed any time the countryclubbers at the "Grand" Old Party are queried on their betrayals of their base.
Their base isn't gonna go anywhere. Their base is gonna stay home on election day.
Their base is finally fed up with the game.
Yes, Virginia, "The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back" is based on a true principle.
Oooh, nice spindoctor work there!
Now, saying, "you betrayed your base, so you've lost our votes" is characterized as a threat?
What next would you propose? Perhaps an EO declaring that anyone refusing to support administration policy -- up to and including support at the voting booth -- is guilty of treason?
Yup, I agree.
Um, you do realize that your statement is value-neutral, don't you?
I think so too. This "paleo" crowd here are really the Perotistas. They're blue collar democrats who've been forced out of that party by the identity groups, secularists, feminist abortionists, anti industry envirowhacks and the gay/lesbian tong. They want DESPERATELY to be old Rostenkowski/Dingell protectionist union democrats, but the Democrat party doesn't want them. I'll bet many haven't voted GOP since Reagan in 84.
It's avoiding the worst consequences for breaking the law I guess. But it's not a reward. Giving them citizenship ahead of all those people trying to get in legally would be a reward. These people are going to pay a price that people who didn't immigrate illegally won't.
I don't get it. I really don't.
It's actually quite simple when you think about it. The military prosecuted the war, but on the home front, President Rove makes all the decisions.
Also, using Laura Bush's name in any correspondence to the VP office is a red flag and it might get you some attention of the WRONG KIND.
You need to contact Babs and DiFi. They're probably in your corner already. Good job!!!
Precisely.
But be smart about it.
Learn it on the sly, and don't let on that you understand the language.
Then, don't speak spanish. Just listen...
When you find yourself behind enemy lines, sometimes it's best to just play dumb, and listen. People will say one thing when they think you can understand them, and something completely different when they think you're just a dumb gringo who can't understand what they're saying.
Personally, I'd prefer to know what they're saying behind my back. And if I'm "just a dumb gringo who doesn't understand spanish", then "behind my back" discussions will happen right in front of my face.
So yeah, I will be learning spanish. You can make book on it.
But I won't be speaking spanish.
That argument cuts both ways.
There's that little matter of anyone who'd abandon their base, after all.
Question: When will the GOP learn that lesson about "ya dance with the one that brung ya"?
Answer: November.
No, you have real life confused with that Seinfeld episode where Elaine brought Frank to bust her Korean manicurists.
Who?
The problem with these "pie-in-the-sky" solutions to the issue, is that every single one of them refuses to acknowledge political reality, and is dependent on the existence of a political vacuum in America.
It's a cute little list, with some formidable formatting, but it amounts to no more than the musings of a keyboard political junkie with no earthly notion of the realities of government. If anything, these eighteen steps are eighteen goals, getting there is the trick, not listing them.
By the time we get to step two, the ten million existing illegal immigrants, will have forty two million American grandkids.
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