[steplock]

Why does no one seem to wonder about these campaigns for votes OUTSIDE our borders?

Does anybody care anymore?

[South40]

You Bush basher you. :-0

[TheDon]

President Bush's nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns "reprehensible."

It is reprehensible! Who ever heard of giving LEOs plastic pellet guns? What are they supposed to do with them? Give them to their kids for a Christmas present?

[WhiteGuy]

Team bush,

Putting Americans First?

[keats5]

Oh well. I can't control my family either.

[television is just wrong]

I call not protecting our borders really STUPID!!!!!

[Torie]

I wince when ignorant scions try to make substantive policy points. Ouch!

[Final Authority]

It is all over. All the Dems have to do is run this guy saying these things over and over again. It is indeed all over except for the counting of the dead (euphemistically, of course).

[Howlin]

Your link does't work.

[Riley]

Here's the deal. USBP has Stingball guns in addition to their M-4s (in 5.56 mm) and their sidearms (often Berettas in 9mm).

Stingballs are a plastic or gelatin pellet the size of a grape that are filled with a Capsicum-based irritant, kind of like pepper spray. You don't want to be on the receiving end of a bunch of officers shooting stingballs at you. Really, really unpleasant. Been through military CS training? These are, I am reliably informed, worse. The idea is to incapacitate a suspect in situations where you don't want to use deadly force, like using a stun gun, or a taser, or pepper spray. Nothing wrong with that. I don't know what Bush's nephew is complaining about. If you're a Mexican and you're not entering the US illegally, and you're not posing a hazard to the BP officers that caught you if you tried it, then you won't get shot with Stingballs. Don't F with La Migra, and you'll be fine.

My main (not the only) gripe with W is that he seems to be allowing Fox to dictate US border policy. That is something that needs to be addressed. The source of the article however, Associated Press, leads me to believe that this is just another attempt to drive wedges into the conservative base. Leftist media organs can be counted on to churn out mountains of anything that they can think of to divide conservatives before this election. I have seen lots of articles on a variety of subjects that attempt to do this very thing in the past couple of weeks.

• In short, Stingballs are nasty and issued as a supplement only
• AP is still a bunch of Commies- anything that comes from them ought to be viewed with suspicion
• W is NOT my ideal candidate for a number of reasons, but he's who we've got this time around
• Bush's nephew has a job to do- casting for votes among Americans living in Mexico. He ought to stick to that, and sit on his opinions
• Non-issue, designed to divide us.

[Captain Peter Blood]

What is it with George P. Bush and others. Not only do we need to arm our Border Guards we need to close them.
We have the technology to monitor the Mexican Border and the Canadian one and we need strict controls on both.
I am sick & tired of the RINO's and Lefties that condemn doing what is necessary and right, Controlling our Borders.
Mexico has the Army patrolling their own southern border yet they feel it is their right to criticize us for thinking of doing the same on our southern border.
I am tired of idiots like Asa Hutchinson not enforcing the Immigration and Border Laws we have.
Hell lets take those troops we are bringing home and put them on the borders along with the pilot less drone planes and use the same technology we had during the Cold War and spike our borders with sensors so that we know when as much as a jack rabbit crosses over into our Territory.

[jocon307]

ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH! This schmuck can't even speak spanish? Bush in now, somebody really mean in later. I am EXTREMELY tired of living in an Hispanic country, I've had it it. MEXICO: Cure your corruption, your crime, your poverty, don't bring it all here.

Maybe George P. can be pres. of Mexico one day. I remember back in 2001 (before Sept. 11th), I said "we need to get al gore back, Bush wants to be president of Mexico, bill clinton wants to be mayor of harlem" Sometimes I think it is still true.

Mexicans, STAY HOME!

[Reagan Man]

President Bush's nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns "reprehensible."

Plastic pellets? They should be issued the real McCoy.

[Free Trapper]

The other side of the Rio Grande is now considered to be overseas.....learn something new every day.

[L.N. Smithee]

"If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible," Bush said of the guns, essentially paintball projectiles filled with chile powder. "It's kind of barbarous."

"Kind of barbarous." Good God, is this an accurate quote? I hope he doesn't go into politics.

[Plumrodimus]

If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible," Bush said of the guns, essentially paintball projectiles filled with chile powder. "It's kind of barbarous."

I saw a show on the History Channel (Tactical to Practical, I think...) where pepper mace-filled paintballs were already approved for law enforcement use against our own civilians. Why wouldn't we use them against illegal aliens too?

[k2blader]

Why would any American citizen oppose pepperballs being shot at illegals breaking the law trying to cross our border?

[Calpublican]

George P. won't be speaking at this convention. This may be one reason why.

His mother is Cuban, but this is not excuse for speaking in this way.

[Calpublican]

Am living now in Southern California. Whatever we do to protect against illegals is too little too late. This is northern Mexican, and I mean it.

And forget about protecting against terrorists who want to cross the border! It's not politically correct. I'm voting for Bush and holding my nose because he's doing nothing to prevent the problem.

[Penner]

He also acknowledged that "there are some people in our (Republican) party who don't see the benefits of immigration,"

Just those of us law-abiding citizens who can't afford to live in tony gated communities and have seen immigration turn our once nice towns into filthy, crime-ridden slums.