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No Nationalists on Jack Kemp's "Shining Hill," Says Patrick J. Buchanan
WND.com ^ | 07-19-04 | Buchanan, Patrick J.

Posted on 07/19/2004 8:11:10 AM PDT by Theodore R.

No nationalists on Jack's 'shining hill'

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

"A struggle is underway for the soul of the Republican Party, between a minority of protectionist xenophobes and those who are pro-trade and pro-immigration."

Thus does Jack Kemp begin a column in which he jettisons the black conservative running for Congress in North Carolina whom he earlier endorsed. Kemp accuses Vernon Robinson of "running a very negative and aggressive anti-immigration campaign ... contrary to the core values of the party of Lincoln."

Jack is right about that struggle for the soul of the party. But why is it necessary to demonize disagreement? Webster's defines xenophobia as "fear and hatred of strangers and foreigners." What evidence is there that Robinson is not a man of good heart?

Jack cites George Washington as having "famously quipped in 1788, 'I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.'"

But, as James Fulford of VDare.com notes, Washington was talking about a persecuted Dutch minority that had supported the American Revolution. Few of the illegal aliens here were victims of persecution, and not all are necessarily virtuous. Their only common characteristic is that all have broken our laws.

Can Jack seriously believe the Father of Our Country would have approved of amnesty for 8 million to 14 million illegal aliens and an immigration policy that will leave us in 2050 with 100,000,000 Hispanics, concentrated in our Southwest, with scores of millions not speaking English and loyal to nations not our own?

Jack says illegals come for work, not welfare. Most do. But why, then, did Jack oppose California's Proposition 187, which would have denied welfare benefits only to aliens here illegally? Why, as HUD-meister, did he hand out housing subsidies to illegal aliens?

Jack believes being pro-illegal is good politics. But Gov. Pete Wilson overcame a 20-point deficit to win re-election in 1994 by backing Proposition 187. Wilson was the last Republican to win major statewide office before Arnold, whose best issue, pollsters say, was opposition to Gray Davis' handing out of driver's licenses to illegals. Even John Kerry now opposes driver's licenses for illegals.

The Dole-Kemp ticket, however, unfortunately lost first-time Hispanic voters to Clinton-Gore 91 percent to 7 percent. And California, which Nixon carried five times on national tickets and Reagan swept four times, is now routinely written off by the GOP in presidential elections, partly due to the surging Hispanic vote.

Since Bush took office, his free-trade policies have produced a net loss of 2.6 million manufacturing jobs, one in every six in the United States. The textile and apparel industries in the Carolinas have been especially hard hit. These jobs have historically been the access ramp to the American Dream for blacks, Hispanics, single moms and the working poor. Is Vernon Robinson wrong to want to stop shipping these jobs off to China?

Our open-borders policy is forcing millions of our workers into a Darwinian competition for jobs with desperate immigrant folks willing to work for less than the minimum wage. Unlike Jack, these Americans are not often invited onto the boards of Empower America, the Heritage Foundation, G2 Satellite Solutions, SmartCOP, Oracle, Hawk Corp., IDT Telecom, ING Americas, Thayer Capital or Thomas Weisel Partners.

After naming all the big men he met with in Mexico recently, Jack thunders, "[T]he best way to stop mass migration from Mexico is not to militarize the border." Did Jack ask his Mexican chums, then, why they have militarized their border with Guatemala?

Before using derogatory terms like "reactionary" and "protectionist xenophobes," Brother Kemp might read a little more deeply into American history than Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln."

The first act of Congress Washington proudly signed on July 4 was the Tariff Act of 1789. Abe ("Give us a protective tariff and we shall have the greatest country on earth") Lincoln was not only the father of 70 years of Republican protectionism, he raised the Morrill tariff 12 times. And, sorry to report, the old Rail Splitter spoke openly and often about sending slaves back to Africa.

Teddy ("I thank God I am not a free trader") Roosevelt called free trade a "pernicious doctrine."

Jack twice refers to America as a "city on a shining hill," Reagan's signature phrase. But Reagan slammed import quotas on steel, machine tools, computer chips, and Japanese cars and motorcycles – to save the Big Three and the Harley "Hog." Which Reagan did, God bless him.

And as the Gipper said in 1983: "This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position."

By the way, Jack – the phrase is "a shining city on a hill."


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The Dole-Kemp ticket. Remember this 8 years ago: it was to show how Kemp-style "compassion" could win the election. Unfortunately, it fell 111 electoral votes short of its goal.
1 posted on 07/19/2004 8:11:14 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.
The Dole-Kemp ticket. Remember this 8 years ago: it was to show how Kemp-style "compassion" could win the election. Unfortunately, it fell 111 electoral votes short of its goal.

I think that Bob Dull was a bigger problem with that ticket than Jack Kemp.

2 posted on 07/19/2004 8:12:39 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: Theodore R.
And as the Gipper said in 1983: "This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position."

IN 1986 Reagan signed off on the largest amnesty program for illegals in US history. Huge mistake in judgment by Reagan and something thats come back to haunt America ever since. Jack Kemp supports amnesty for illegals. Kemp is deadwrong! Conservatives need to learn from their mistakes and not support policy that damages the nation.

3 posted on 07/19/2004 8:18:55 AM PDT by Reagan Man (.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)
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To: TonyRo76

"The only thing they didn't try was running as conservatives."

Yes, where is the Republican Party leadership? They have been MIA's for years. They are letting the RATs roll over them, and us!

WE NEED A REAL LEADER TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!


5 posted on 07/19/2004 8:24:23 AM PDT by olinr
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To: Theodore R.

Buchanan is right again. [almost] There is no longer a struggle for the soul of the Republican Party. Psst Pat the RINOs have stomped the Elephants. Bush campaigning for Specter was the final spear in the heart.


6 posted on 07/19/2004 8:32:06 AM PDT by ex-snook (Trade deficits export jobs and the money used to buy America and all we get is a cheap T-shirt.)
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To: Theodore R.

"Compassionate" neocon globalism is merely a rehabilitation of LBJ's "Great Society" policies.


7 posted on 07/19/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Theodore R.
The Dole-Kemp ticket...fell 111 electoral votes short of its goal.

Uh... how many electoral votes did Buchanan-Ezola get?

8 posted on 07/19/2004 8:43:26 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: dirtboy
I think that Bob Dull was a bigger problem with that ticket than Jack Kemp.

Absolutely. Clinton/Gore would not have won against Kemp/Dole, or even Kemp/[insert conservative name here].

9 posted on 07/19/2004 8:45:43 AM PDT by jla (http://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/memorial_fund.asp)
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To: ex-snook
There is no longer a struggle for the soul of the Republican Party... Bush campaigning for Specter was the final spear in the heart.

And YOU said during the 2000 election that AlGore was your second choice for president, right behind Pat Buchanan.

That makes you worse than any RINO I have ever seen.

At least Arlen Spector never said he would vote for Al Gore.

10 posted on 07/19/2004 8:47:48 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
"And YOU said during the 2000 election that AlGore was your second choice for president, right behind Pat Buchanan. "

Yep. I would rather vote for a job-protecting Democrat than a job-exporting RINO. You might gather that I'm not voting for Specter. Voting for a RINO only encourages further breeding.

11 posted on 07/19/2004 9:10:44 AM PDT by ex-snook (Trade deficits export jobs and the money used to buy America and all we get is a cheap T-shirt.)
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To: ex-snook

Wouldn't you feel more at home over at Democratic Underground?


12 posted on 07/19/2004 9:24:35 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
"Wouldn't you feel more at home over at Democratic Underground? "

See your doctor, ask him if a shrink would be right for you.

13 posted on 07/19/2004 9:33:55 AM PDT by ex-snook (Trade deficits export jobs and the money used to buy America and all we get is a cheap T-shirt.)
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To: Reagan Man
"IN 1986 Reagan signed off on the largest amnesty program for illegals in US history."

This brings wonderment about from exactly where the amnesty force is coming when there is a documented history of leaders who can even be quoted as knowing the action is heinous in consequence appear to go against their own character or principles to see it accomplished.

14 posted on 07/19/2004 9:58:52 AM PDT by Spirited
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Paddy B and the left-wing hootenannies strike again
15 posted on 07/19/2004 1:24:19 PM PDT by SoIA-79
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To: ex-snook

Your political philosophy can be summed up like this:

"I will accept more more late term abortions, higher taxes, homosexual marriages, more power to the UN and explicit sex ed for school children as long as you let the union bosses dictate trade policy."

Which, now that I look at it, makes you even worse than the RINOs.


16 posted on 07/19/2004 1:39:15 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: Theodore R.; Willie Green; afraidfortherepublic; A. Pole; hedgetrimmer; XBob; Elliott Jackalope; ...

Just a co-incidence that Jack's on the Board of Directors of Oracle?


17 posted on 07/20/2004 5:41:21 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)
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To: ninenot

I am not a huge fan of GWB on outsourcing and jobs but Kerry and is bunch scare me. I guess I will be holding my nose, voting for the GWB, and hoping for better in 2008.


18 posted on 07/20/2004 5:45:49 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
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To: Theodore R.; Constitution Day; stainlessbanner; 4ConservativeJustices; sheltonmac
Kemp accuses Vernon Robinson of "running a very negative and aggressive anti-immigration campaign ... contrary to the core values of the party of Lincoln."

Well if Vernon changes his mind and wants to start shipping people out of the states after they're already here, he will be more along the lines of the 'core values of the party of lincoln'. Is that what Mr. Kemp is suggesting?

19 posted on 07/20/2004 6:11:49 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: ninenot
RE: Oracle

Another ILLEGAL immigration cheerleader, Rudolph W. Giuliani, has business interests in Mexico. What is Mr. Kemp's money trail(s)?

Thanks for the hint.

Another lane along that trail could be Free Market Petroleum and Venezuela

"The incredible but true story of Free Market Petroleum"

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sati071203.htm

20 posted on 07/20/2004 8:09:12 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
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