Finally a politician who "gets it" and a Conservative to boot who isn't in bed with the devil on this.....kennedy and the libs.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing
This is in the heartland of the country. I can't imagine what the coastal areas have become.
And please give me an ATM mahine that assumes I speak english. After all this is AMERICAN TERRITORY.
I thought Karl Rove was a genius?
House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.
President Bush, to the great detriment of the country and the Republican party is not listening. The Republicans had better be prepared. They will lose their majority in the next election and the Democrats will impeach George Bush.
Hayworth's views are clouded by the fact that he is in a gerrymandered House district.
Has it occurred to anyone that many conservatives have realized, too late, that Bush's policies include several collossal failures that all but the most lemming-like GOP loyalist can see? These representatives fear repurcussions at the polls, and the smart ones are pre-spinning losses as a "conservative backlash" rather than an embrace of democratic principles.
I have no doubt that there will be some conservative backlash at the polls. I contemplate my own daily. But the realist in me knows that it will be hard for all the true conservatives to skip the vote, or vote third party in the face of a Hillary. So I doubt the backlash will be sizeable. Instead, any congressional losses (my opinion of the presidential situation is yet unformed, as I maintain doubts of the electibility of Hilary) will be, in my opinion, because Bush mis-represented conservative (and yes, REPUBLICAN) ideals to the electorate. He was a spending liberal, an internationalist, and a tactical fool as commander in chief of the military. He did it all under the name of Republicanism - when it was in fact more Franklin than Teddy. Our failure as Republicans, was allowing him to take up the mantle that he did not deserve and drag it through the mud. Now the shallow, average, uninformed voter will knee-jerk reject the GOP. And who can blame them, since in all likelihood the candidate will be another open-borders, Globalist, Rockefellar Republican?
My point is that we, as conservatives are to blame as well. We stood by and told ourselves "hey, it's better than Gore. Sure beats Kerry." That was our standard. It's better than Gore. It brings a tear to my eye to reflect on the nobility, the uncompromising virtue, the tenacity, the fortitude, in that statement. How proud I am.
I know it is terribly "unpragmatic" (as if pragmatism was a virute in and of itself) and quixotic of me, but we really need a true conservative candidate. A Fair-trade, border-security oriented candidate who knows that democracy can not be imposed with a gun, and understands that where the masses are corrupt, their leaders (yes, even those that are elected!) will be as well. How about a candidate with the attitude that we will bomb you to hell if you harbor terrorists, and never drop a single foot soldier in? Did Reagan decide to spread Democracy in Libya?
..."many of them plan to be absent from the polls"
Oh, reading the threads..er, uh Tea Leaves. Grow some doo-dads boys. I do not want this illegal activity..Period.
Up until last week I supported Bush's guest worker program. 500K communists have changed my mind.
Takes guts to smack McCain like this, since the lunatic holds vendettas for decades. Want to commend this representative.
As for who might be willing to take up the hard labor many illegal aliens now perform on U.S. farms, Mr. Rohrabacher had a suggestion. "The millions of young men who are prisoners around our country can pick the fruits and vegetables," he said. "I say let the prisoners pick the fruits."
But then they'd miss their favorite soaps!
Though I agree. Better they be out in the fields if people want cheap labor, then sucking up funds to supply them cable TV and net access.
Tancredo, I still continue to dislike even if we are on the same side in this issue. Fact is the president advocated this program during his election, and is doing so after his election. For whatever reason, he actually believes in this amnesty proposal and thinks it's the right thing to do. Yeah, he's wrong, but it's a lie to say he's doing this because he's not up for re-election or wants Reps to fail in '06. Ironically, he thinks this will help the Republican party.
It looks like we are being invaded. Civil War is not out of the question.
Aren't Arizonans the most pissed off about illegals crossing into their state constantly? How can it be that McCain can be in support of this bill?
HOORAH!!! I just knew all my emails to politicians would pay off! (LOL)
Yeah, but too bad they've got to be threatened with their jobs before they listen to constituents and enforce laws that are already on the books.
Sign me,
One Mad Conservative!
Absent from the polls?? It would take a lot to keep me from the polls.
As long as the Republicans keep federal spending to a minimum and behave responsibly on matters like border enforcement, I'll be at the polls. They can't ask for more than that.
The Vichy Republicans are going to get to go home and get one of those jobs that american don't want to do.
I doubt this very much. Unless of course conservatives are determined to bring on and even more "dire" consequences by helping liberals get elected.
How childish.