Posted on 07/02/2006 5:45:55 PM PDT by garbageseeker
I am...For 2 reasons...Maybe the commie will build some Mexican hospitals with the scores of billions Mexico gets from their oil and some of the illegals will stay home...
And 2, it's time to quit pretending Mexico is our friend...With a commie leader, we don't have to petend they are our friends while they put the screws to us....
And 3...Maybe they'll take back Mexico if we beg them hard enough...
PAN is probably RINO using FR's gauge. That's a whole lot better than a chavez clone.
Hell I knew you would. No need to explain.
OMG! Dane, you and I agree on something! Wow -- mark this post down! :)
LOL! :)
The comment earlier that it really doesn't matter who wins is dead-on. Corruption is endemic down there. The only difference is the amount by which those in power line their pockets.
The BS will continue to flow north.
The only way Mexico is going to clean up it's act is if the people do it themselves.
They need a "2nd amendment."
Boy have you got Mexico wrong.
The drug lords control the country, and they allow the people running to do so and they are not about to allow a functional Mexican government.
Absolutely correct!
Many Americans just don't relize how lucky we are to live in as conservative a nation as we do. Most of the rest of the world is, in comparison to us, well along the the road to statist serfdom.
South of our border, Fox is absolutely HATED by the basically everyone left of the Latin American center. Why? He's hated because they think he's a puppet of George W. Bush, that he supports the United States too much! I was just talking to a South American friend of mine-- naturally she thinks Fox is the worst Mexican president ever.
Well, actually he's the best. Make no mistake, there is a HUGE difference between the PRI and the PAN. The reason that Fox has not been able to reform Mexico more by privatizing it industries and so on is largely becuase the PRI spent a century accruing power and it still has more than enough to stymie him.
We do NOT need the Red Ken Livingston of Mexico City becoming president!
And Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is well to the left of the PRI, which is well to the left of our own beloved Democrats.
Lintening to the ABC news radio breaks--- the extent to which the MSM supports Obrador shouldn't amaze me, but it does. "No enemies on the left" is still in effect, I guess.
As Dane has pointed out, that only solves a part of the illegal alien problem.
We are intertwined with Mexico economically. It is like having something intertwined with your spinal cord. Surgery is impossible. Working with the new will require thoughtful strategy and tactics. We will have to make it clear to WHOEVER comes in that we are no longer their povery safety-valve (and make it so), since that is a large part of Mexico's defacto economic policy.
But to just say "close the door" is naive at best (don't ask what it is at worst).
Closing the door will work.
As I have said, demonstrating complete ignorance is NOT an FR value.
But since you are so dard smart, please explain the mechanics of cutting Mexico off. I hope you start with a baseline of our current interrelationships, the importance Zedillo had in economic policy, Fox's wins and losses and why as well as where NAFTA works and doesn't.
I can speak to all of these and more. You had better be able to before your "opinion" is seen as just the ranting of a fool.
That could very well be...
But with Fox in charge in the south and Bush in charge in the U.S., our borders are wide open and it's beens said that more drugs cross our border now than at any other time in history...
So I can't say I know what will work (in Mexico) but it's real obvious what doesn't work right now...And it's time for a change...
First off, it was the "liberal" PRI that outlawed abortion is Mexico and who has the only member of parliment calling on Mexico to stop illegal immigration and keep their people home. The PRI is not as liberal as they were made out to be, they stand for whatever idealogy will keep them in power at that given time. In fact the opposition leader to Fox in the Mexican congress was a Zell Miller type Democrat.
Second, you say the Obrador boogeyman admires marxists and is kahoots with them. Well, the "conservative" President of Mexico has been appointing hard core socialists to positions all over the country, many times in oppoistion to his OWN party. The "conservative" President appointed openly marxist Jorge Castañeda to a top position in his cabinent. There is NO EXCUSE for that -- it would be like Bush decided to make Ralph Nader his Secretary of Commerce. Why don't you condemn Fox for having marxists run HIS government? Whether PAN or PNR is in charge, the government cozy up to marxists.
Since Vicente Fox is basically the Mexican version of a RINO, he's clashed with own party in legislature on many occassions over simple conservative matters. Vicente Fox was elected president running under the banner of a supposely "religious right" party and yet he married his younger press secretary immedaitely afterwards without annuling his first marriage, a slap in the face to the Catholic church that earned rebukes from Mexican bishops.
The "conservative" president of Mexico has opposed us on the Iraq war, in the UN, on the enviroment, basically ever issue under the sun. The "conservative" government of Mexico continues to recoginize Castro. The "pro-life" Vicente Fox has never once complained about the abortion on demand policy in the U.S. or called on mexicans to oppose illegal abortion yet he loves to denounce our capital punishment laws at every turn (obviously speaking out for the "rights" vicious murderers is more important for him than innocent unborn babies). He's said horrible criminal U.S. politicians like Gray Davis and George Ryan are heros and role models.
If you can think of one issue where the "conservative" leader of Mexico disagrees with the "leftists" in Mexico, I'd love to hear it. I think he's actually governed to the LEFT of the last PRI government. If I was James Carville, I'd be kicking myself for opposing Fox since he's stood with me on every major issue.
The "conserative" President of Mexico is "conservative" in the sence that Linc Chafee and Mike Bloomberg are "conservative". He was elected with expectations to be the Mexican Ronald Reagan and instead he's been the Mexican Bill Clinton -- and he's even ADMITTED his policies are more like Clinton than Bush.
There is no execuse for Vicente Fox cheerleadering for leftist garbage and appointing socialists all over HIS government. The PRI doesn't have a majority in either house. Vicente Fox governs as a leftist because he is one.
No matter who wins, we lose. The political parties in Mexico summerized:
PRI
PAN
PNR
First off, it was the "liberal" PRI that outlawed abortion is Mexico and who has the only member of Parliament calling on Mexico to stop illegal immigration and keep their people home. The PRI is not as liberal as they were made out to be, they stand for whatever ideology will keep them in power at that given time. In fact the opposition leader to Fox in the Mexican congress was a Zell Miller type Democrat.
Second, you say the Obrador boogeyman admires marxists and is kahoots with them. Well, the "conservative" President of Mexico has been appointing hard core socialists to positions all over the country, many times in oppoistion to his OWN party. The "conservative" President appointed openly Marxist Jorge Castañeda to a top position in his cabinet. There is NO EXCUSE for that -- it would be like Bush decided to make Ralph Nader his Secretary of Commerce. Why don't you condemn Fox for having Marxists run HIS government? Whether PAN or PNR is in charge, the government cozy up to Marxists.
Since Vicente Fox is basically the Mexican version of a RINO, he's clashed with own party in legislature on many occasions over simple conservative matters. Vicente Fox was elected president running under the banner of a supposedly "religious right" party and yet he married his younger press secretary immediately afterwards without annulling his first marriage, a slap in the face to the Catholic church that earned rebukes from Mexican bishops.
The "conservative" president of Mexico has opposed us on the Iraq war, in the UN, on the environment, basically ever issue under the sun. The "conservative" government of Mexico continues to recognize Castro. The "pro-life" Vicente Fox has never once complained about the abortion on demand policy in the U.S. or called on Mexicans to oppose illegal abortion yet he loves to denounce our capital punishment laws at every turn (obviously speaking out for the "rights" vicious murderers is more important for him than innocent unborn babies). He's said horrible criminal U.S. politicians like Gray Davis and George Ryan are heros and role models.
If you can think of one issue where the "conservative" leader of Mexico disagrees with the "leftists" in Mexico, I'd love to hear it. I think he's actually governed to the LEFT of the last PRI government. If I was James Carville, I'd be kicking myself for opposing Fox since he's stood with me on every major issue.
The "conservative" President of Mexico is "conservative" in the sense that Linc Chafee and Mike Bloomberg are "conservative". He was elected with expectations to be the Mexican Ronald Reagan and instead he's been the Mexican Bill Clinton -- and he's even ADMITTED his policies are more like Clinton than Bush.
There is no excuse for Vicente Fox cheerleadering for leftist garbage and appointing socialists all over HIS government. The PRI doesn't have a majority in either house. Vicente Fox governs as a leftist because he is one.
No matter who wins, we lose. The political parties in Mexico summerized:
PRI
PAN
PNR
Here's a results source from the Mexican automated system.
http://www.elnorte.com/
Currently 17.68% in
Calderon 39.10 percent
Obrador 35.39 percent
Madrazo 18.84 percent
""Since Vicente Fox is basically the Mexican version of a RINO""
No wonder Bush loves him.
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