Posted on 06/07/2006 1:39:39 PM PDT by B Knotts
The Democrats lost in San Diego last night in a special election many thought they would win. After all, the race was to fill a seat left vacant by a Republican congressman who had to resign when he pled guilty of corruption. President Bush’s approval rating in a California Field Poll this week is around 28% percent (the lowest in that poll’s history since just before President Nixon resigned in 1974). And in the first round of voting, the Democrat, Francine Busby got 44% of the vote and the Republican Brian Bilbray, a former congressman, led a big field of Republicans with only 15% of the vote.
But with 96% of the vote reported, Brian Bilbray has 49.48% of the vote and the Democrat has 45.28% (there are two minor candidates). With a margin of almost 5,000 votes, Bilbray seems certain to win.
So what happened? Why was the Democrat only able to go from 44% to 45%? How did the Republican go from 15% to victory?
Here’s the bottom line: A conservative reform-candidate won in San Diego last night. The result of this election speaks volumes about what will succeed and what will fail for Republicans this November.
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It is so simple: secure borders, no amnesty for illegals (from any country), and reduced immigration. That is what the majority of Americans want.
so the Dems lose and somehow portay this as a moral victory? LMAO!!
Hopefully they'll have more moral victories like this.
Ironically Dem talking heads have blamed Team Rove for their less than expected results in 2000, 2002, and 2004. So now they take the "if you can't beat 'em" strategy. Will they blame Rove for tricking them again this year?
Illegal immigration has been a problem for a LONG time. I wrote a term paper about it in college a lot longer ago than I'll admit, it's not a new issue. Like "global warming" the media is trying to tell us what matters most and setting the agenda, and with this one the real goal is working it seems...divide and conquer. What are we going to do, build a wall along the border and look like Berlin? No one has a real solution yet, let's face it. Not one that is reasonable, that would actually work.
You honestly believe this is media driven? I don't, I think people have gotten fed up. What's dividing the Republican party is an inability or unwillingness to listen to the people and think they can just keep treating us as if we were stupid children who don't know what amnesty is.
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I think the media has pounced on it as a way to divide Republicans, yes. It's a real and serious problem, but not a new one. Suddenly it's all we hear and it sure has people angry with each other in the GOP. Far more so than with the Dems.
This is a rare time that I wish the President was a little more responsive to public opinion, like his predecessor.
And, politicians who run on those issues will win.
I hope and pray we see a lot of new, fresh faces in Washington, DC after this election!
And he won big time with this slogan.
"No one has a solution...."
What arrogance, what a grand assumption!
The answer is actually well known, and not very complex at all.
Enforce the existing laws, end the exclusion of local L.E. from checking their status, drop any hint of "amnesty".
Done with clear determination, as opposed to the current token efforts, the invaders will find it better to return to where they came from with whatever they have been able to loot, rather than risking losing it all at deportation.
Not complex, very little in the way of new law required, just funding and determination to actually do the job.
Yes, you are probably right. It just seems that the solutions they all come up with are so contrived and pandering.
It's not about immigration, it's about the loss of our national and cultural identity and the validity of our national ethos.
We should be afraid about losing our American identity and our Western European/Anglo American identity, the best, freest, most productive and prosperous and generous nation on Earth and turning into a POS like Mexico or the Middle East.
Mexicans don't give a damn about this country and it's standards, they don't want to assimilate, they just want to use it as an ATM and a toilet.
That is to obscure the real issue, hiding their unwillingness to do the job with the tools they already have, behind a cloud of meaningless rhetoric.
"This can be the story again and again this fall. Republicans are not perfect but liberal Democrats are unacceptable as an alternative. "
BINGO!!
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