Posted on 08/25/2004 5:51:56 AM PDT by MikeJ75
PASADENA, Md., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is by Constitution Party Presidential candidate Michael Anthony Peroutka whose running mate is Dr. Chuck Baldwin from Pensacola, Florida.
Interesting story in the "Washington Times" (8/23/04) headlined: "GOP To Finesse Immigration Issue" -- the applicable definition of "finesse" here being, in this context, to trick or use fraud. Or, some might say, to lie. So, about what, exactly, is it the GOP is going to use trickery or fraud or lies, to deceive us? Illegal immigration.
This story, based on an interview with Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the Republican Platform Committee, reports Frist as predicting that the GOP Platform will oppose amnesty for illegal aliens but not oppose a proposal advocated by President Bush -- which is, of course, an amnesty.
On January 7 of this year, Mr. Bush proposed a so-called immigration "reform" which would allow millions of illegal aliens in our country to remain in the country as guest workers for renewable three-year periods if they have jobs. These illegal aliens could eventually apply for permanent legal residence.
The "Washington Times" says the President's plan has "deeply angered" many Republicans and it has not been well-received by some of Mr. Bush's closest friends and allies. For example, Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who will deliver the keynote address at the Republican Convention, says: "I'm trying to understand it. But, to me illegal means illegal." He says he's having a hard time reconciling the Bush plan with our being "a nation of laws."
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) says he has "heartfelt reservations about allowing illegal immigrants into a U.S. guest-worker program that seems to reward illegal behavior." The President's proposal "seems" to reward illegal behavior? No, sir, his plan DOES reward illegal behavior.
The "Times" quotes Sen. Frist as saying about what the GOP Platform will say about immigration: "The document has to reflect the President's principles and at the same time the party's principles and policies."
But, what cannot be reconciled cannot be reconciled --- at least not honestly. The truth is the President's "principles" regarding illegal immigration are, well, UN-principled. Thus, there is --- at least according to Sen. Frist --- this need for some "finesse" on this issue, some trickery, some fraud, some lying.
In all honestly, what must be said must be said. It doesn't really matter what the GOP Platform says on immigration this year because Mr. Bush has already ignored the 2000 Republican Platform he ran on. This Platform, among other things, criticized the Clinton Administration's "lax enforcement" of our laws regarding illegal immigrants.
The mentioned Washington Times article was previously posted on Free Republic. Here's the link to that earlier post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197784/posts.
Let's see. GWB is for giving criminal aliens legal status. That is, rewarding criminal behavior. He is for outlawing free speech as his CFR signing proved and just the other day said so-called 527s should be muzzled too. His running mate, Dick Cheney, said yesterday that he opposes an ammendment to define traditional marriage. GWB's nephew is quoted saying that border patrol agents are too agressive of late and certain weapons should be taken away.
Is GWB supposed to be the conservative candidate? Am I missing something? And I am supposed to vote for whom?
Is this guy trying to lose?
Sometimes I wonder. The media calls him the "most conservative president ever". If this is true then the definition of "conservative" has shifted waaaay left.
That has been my question lately. What else would explain his actions?
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) says he has "heartfelt reservations about allowing illegal immigrants into a U.S. guest-worker program that seems to reward illegal behavior." The President's proposal "seems" to reward illegal behavior? No, sir, his plan DOES reward illegal behavior.
Deeply angered some Republicans?......show me the money.....
imo
A old time Republican would be shocked at the kinds of vileness at which today's Republican Party simply looks the other ...
imo
I know.
Shocked and disgusted.
Sad but true..........
Amnesty
Kerry is both for and against amnesty. His "for" plan goes a little farther. Here is Kerry's "for" plan, "Permanent amnesty and US citizenship is hereby granted to all people of the world regardless of where they are. This is phase one of the UNization of America. All people of the world will recieve social security and free heath care. If you are in a once foriegn land, we will send a medical time to you. Please send the bill for your childrens college education to the White House."
Kerry's "against" plan; See "for" plan.
..maybe someone has moved the (constitutional) goalposts??? ...the ignorant U.S. voters? ...the liberal-owned Media.
The Federal Courts have bent the goalposts and busted the concrete foundation.
"The following statement is by Constitution Party Presidential candidate Michael Anthony Peroutka
You don't need to read any further. These are the "fine conserservatives" who are doing everything to defeat Bush and elect Kerry.
These are the people Kerry is counting on.
Kerry Hopes to Turn Disenchanted (conservatives)into Swing Voters (i.e. Kerry-voters)
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - Sen. John Kerry got right to the point: He knew he was invading a Republican stronghold, and he urged conservative voters to consider him because in some ways, he argued, he's more conservative than President Bush.
Kerry argued that President Bush has governed more as a radical than a true conservative, noting his record federal-budget deficits, his "rush" to war in Iraq and what Kerry called the potential threat to civil liberties posed by Bush's Patriot Act, which strengthened police powers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "You deserve a government that lives by the same values as you do," the Democrat said.
Kerry's strategists and some independent analysts think the Massachusetts senator has a chance to pick up significant support from Republican voters because some conservatives are unhappy with the president over the war in Iraq, the skyrocketing federal-budget deficit and free trade policies that sent some manufacturing jobs overseas.
Who is really running the show?
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