Not only do the demographic changes increasingly make life difficult for the averge American (by lowering wages and forcing people to flee from overcrowded and foreign neighborhoods), the changes will end forever any chance of a Republican being elected to National office. Now, if only we can get Bush to change his mind on immigration and pledge to enforce the law.
That's the irony isn't it? The Republicans are providing the rope with which to hang themselves. Come on in third world poverty stricken potential Democrat voters. Not to mention forget the rule of law.
Finally gets it? Rush has said this before, this is not a new position for him.
This is perhaps the most important piece of socio-political analysis I've read in a long time. I live in California and have worked as an INS lawyer and seen what's happening. This state has already become a Third World country. At this point I honestly don't know if those states still less affected, where these demographic changes are just beginning (most of the South, Rocky Mountains except Colorado, perhaps New England) will have the foresight and desire to limit the change and preserve their integrity. If so, folks who want to live in a more traditional America will need to relocate to one of these places and try to focus on their personal/local lives. Problem is, the federal government Moloch will still be omnipresent. The only other alternative is another country like Australia that seems, at least under the Howard government, determined to prevent drastic change in national identity. Believe me folks, Rush is right - the long-term picture is not good.
I'd say that this is about 4 years late.
I would like to see the hispanic vote broken down to who the Cubans voted for, the Mexicans voted for , the Porto Ricans, the Phillipinos voted for and ect. voted for. They should not lump all hispanics together.
So Rush is finally getting it? Is Rush actually letting people talk about this?
So Rush is making this point, less than one month BEFORE the election, because!
Another so called "conservative" just like O'Reilly.
I agree with Rush that tremendous numbers of Americans are socialists at heart. In fact it is probably a majority of Americans who have this mindset.
It could very well be that Bush is doing as well as he is because most Americans consider him more likely to deal effectively with Islamic terror.
I am terribly concerned about immigration, but it seems that no one thinks anything will ever get done about it. We should take the best and the brightest from wherever we can, if we're going to take anyone at all. Not people who will be a drain on the system, or people not interested in assimilating.
If anyone has some good news on this front, please share it. But no one ever seems to.
If I'm off base here, I'd be delighted to be wrong!!!
Part of what he's saying is true.
But part of what he's saying is also due to Bush's lack of communication skills and his failure to cohenertly and claerly communicate with the public the importance of our involvement in Iraq and its significance in the war with terror.
Bush has also made serious mistakes on the immigration issue, among others. The Administration should have come down like a sledge hammer on the Iraqi insurgents, should be playing up the new threats from Iran, Syria and Korea better and should have better planned out the anticipated aftermath of our victory there.
I don't believe Carl Rove is the political maven the Administration makes out to be.
And finally, a certain segment of the population unfairly associates Bush with wealthy elitism - extremely ironic given the nature of his opponents.
But Rush is right - Bush SHOULD be miles ahead of Kerry. Kerry is a traitor, a gigolo, and an extremely repellent looking individual with a political record all over the map. And he's married to the Bride of Frankenstein. Further, Kerry's record in Congress is beyond unremarkable -its a giant negative.
The educational establishment in this Country has been monopolized for decades by the far left, as has the mainstream media. Yet WHERE do you see wealthy Republicans setting up newspapers? What kind of retaliation has struck the educational unions which assume blatant political postures supportive of left-wing Democrats?
Whoever successfully challenges and destroys the left in this country - and that will never be Bush - he's too decent a guy - will have to be shrewd, sly, manipulative, ruthless and heavy-handed and do it with a benevolent smile on his face and the affability of a Ronald Reagan. We need someone who can smile in the face of people like Teddy Kennedy's and Diane Feinstein, while figuratively twisting the knife in their livers. And that's a tall order, but one we must somehow meet.
It probably doesn't help that we're all on FR when we should be in bed with our spouses "watching" Jay Leno.....(or not watching-wink-wink)
When Bush started spending like a liberal on education - increased the budget by 30-40% - the liberals still had to be against him and so came up with the "underfunding" line, used again by Edwards last night. So even as Bush increases funding by unprecedented amounts, he's accused of "underfunding" NCLB by 28 billion dollars, a number just pulled out of the air. This is an average of $560,000,000 per STATE - so called underfunding - yet NO ONE in the media challenged where that figure came from, what it meant, or whther it was even reasonable.
The single greatest effect on this year's election will be Democratic voter fraud.
If you can videotape people entering election booths on election day...do it.
Democrat lawyers will be on hand in battleground states to persecute you.
Duh. I lost alot respect for Rush when Bush floated his amnesty plan last year. Rush called it a "principled" stand. What a load!
Massive illegal immigration was bound to cause this. It is not only the republican party that is doomed, but also America itself. America will eventually balkanized and collapse much like eastern Europe or the old soviet union (and like the Roman Empire).
What most people don't realize is that the Roman Empire faced exactly the same thing the we face. Rome had its own Mexican Border-the Danube river. When thousands of uncultured, uneducated barbarians massed just on the other side of it, begging to be admitted and wanting asylum, Rome went liebral and let them in. Rome then eventually ceased to have a unified language, culture, and identity. Rome then collapsed and a thousand years of intellectual darkness followed. America has chosen to do the same as Rome, which has sealed her fate-balkanization and destruction.
America's future is bleak. Either democracy collapses and we get a dictator or we balkanize and all become third world. Many have been predicting this, sad that only now-when it is too late-that people are waking up to see the inevitable.
This has been a subject he has touched on very rarely. I'm glad he's beginning to bring some attention to this.
I'm glad to see Rush leave his rah-rah, party line stance, if only temporarily, and speak the truth on immigration. Bush's unwillingness to enforce the immigration laws while this country is being swamped by an invasion of poorly educated, largely unskilled workers will one day earn Bush a place among the Presidents of least repute.
Rush misses the boat here. California will not become more important in national elections but less. It will NOT continue to grow as it has.
In addition it ignores the trend of Republican victories over the last decade.
The ONLY reason this election is close is because of the RATmedia lies spewed forth 24/7 without respite. If there was a conservative media telling the truth the RATS would be dead.
And he does not seem to be aware that the "greatest generation" is the biggest source of RAT support there is. In NO way is it conservative.
Here's another non-PC truth: The Catholic Church loves all these immigrants. The Catholic bishops are big supporters of open immigration. I heard "conservative Catholics" on a "conservative" Catholic radio station recently gloating over the news that Protestants are soon, if not now, a minority in America. Well, that's because of open immigration. It may make for a bigger Catholic church, but it's bad for the country. It risks turning America into something like the countries of central and South America, where socialism and political corruption rule. (And where the Catholic church may be strong, but freedom is weak). Sorry to be politically incorrect, but there you have it.