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Posted on 04/01/2006 8:13:09 AM PST by Pokey78
Hey Kristol...one can be pro-immigration and against illegal immigration.
"Okay. Let's not talk about substance--since the pro-immigration forces have in fact been winning that debate easily."
Back here on planet earth....things appear differently.
Hey Kristol...one can be pro-immigration and against illegal immigration.
I don't support illegal immigration, but fully support LEGAL immigration. There's a huge difference.
When 2008 comes around, middle class conservatives are going to ask "What have you done for me lately?"
The GOP needs a better answer than "we gave up our borders/security for cheap labor."
If that's the best they can come up with, they don't deserve majority status.
Hey Kristol...one can be pro-immigration and against illegal immigration.
First off, there is a huge diffrence between legal and illegal immigration. Second. Kristol only wishes he could be the conservative that Tom Tancredo is, instead of a dumbass pundit. Finally. Kristol forgets what Ronald Reagan once said, "A nation without borders, is not a nation". If the employer sanctions of the IRCA of 1986 were enforced by Bush41, Clinton and Bush43, we wouldn't have 15 million illegals in the US today. Reagan gave amnesty to 2.6 million. I seriously doubt, The Gipper would make that same mistake today.
If anyones a yahoo, Kristol fits the bill.
Oh, there is no doubt that the longer we allow people to immigrate -- and remain -- in this country illegally, the more politically difficult it becomes to stop it. What Kristol is arguing is that for the sake of political expediency we should surrender to illegal immigration so that Republicans will momentarily continue to be elected. In other words, to become more like the Democrats.
And in the process sacrifice our children's future to becoming an increasingly Balkanized mozaic of ethnic pressure groups that no longer see America as a whole of which they are a part. As the numbers of unassimilated residents from places where human rights are virtually unknown continue to increase, support for the essential aspects that make America free and prosperous will decrease.
The Reconquistas seem to think that there is something magic in the soil here that makes our country the best place to live. What they don't understand is that if they continue to swamp our society in such volumes that they need not learn the language -- or how to participate in a limited representative government -- they will only succeed in making this country increasingly resemble the places they left - squalid, corrupt and overwhelmingly uneducated.
This is what Kristol -- and apparently GWBush -- advocate for America's future.
When asked "What have you done for me lately," the GOP will reply, "Roberts, Alito, Iraq." If the GOP retains its majority after the 06 elections, there may be a third name added to that list.
Right. There's all this fear about the illegals draining us but the economy is humming along. If the economy were tanking it would be a different story. I agree with W's plan to make them legal, let them do the cheap labor.
I agree with Kristol on a lot of issues,and i like most of his articles/columns.However,Kristol misses the point and quite frankly his statement sounds more like msm disinformation.The GOP is not anti-immigration,just anti-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
One doesn't need a majority to be right.
No Child Left Behind, Medicare Presciption Drug coverage....with GOP government gimmes who needs the Dems?
It's going to be interesting to see who comes out of the primaries in 2008.
The Dems would be hundreds of times worse.
Getting a conservative onto the Supreme Court is more important to me than worrying about entitlements that weren't going to disappear in the first place.
That is such a self defeating argument...
I prefer to stand on principal. Bush and the Republican led Senate are a disgrace and have not earned my vote.
It's not self-defeating at all: it's a recognition of reality. The Democrats would be worse, period. Given that the GOP is still good on important issues--WOT and court nominations in particular--I see no reason to sabotage the majority.
And by doing so, you shoot yourself in the foot.
So much for being on the cusp of finally being able to get rid of the past 45 years of court-ordered liberalism.
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