Posted on 10/19/2006 12:11:19 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Tom Tancredo wasn't the first to wave the flag on illegal immigration, but he's been among the most relentless. (That's good.) Unfortunately, he's also been among the most unyielding. (That's bad.)
By his willingness to sound the alarm, the Republican who holds Colorado's 6th Congressional District seat has become the face of the anti-illegal movement. Now it's time to achieve a solution, and Tancredo can play a leading role if he has the nerve to see it through.
We didn't support Tancredo's re-election bid in 2004, preferring challenger Joanna Conti who would have served without Tancredo's polarizing persona and single-item agenda.
But Tancredo has worked hard to advance an important issue that others would like to ignore, and we believe he can contribute to its resolution. Members of the House and Senate have hit a stalemate, but there are 12 million reasons they should forge an agreement.
We urge voters in the 6th to give Tancredo a chance to champion a comprehensive solution. We endorse his candidacy with trepidation. We know he'd have to swallow hard to make a compromise with the White House, but after Election Day it will be time to find common ground.
We provide this free advice to Rep. Tancredo: For every thing there is a season. A time to kick and scream. A time to be pragmatic. The issue has been joined. The public expects a resolution.
Tancredo's opponent, Democrat Bill Winter, is no stranger to public service and is a respectable alternative for voters who believe Tancredo is wrong on his issue and unlikely to help achieve a solution. Winter is a veteran of the Navy and Marines and offers a valuable voice on military matters. A former educator, he's ready to reform the unworkable No Child Left Behind law.
Winter also takes a sensible middle ground on immigration.
The Senate and President Bush have fashioned comprehensive immigration reform that includes border security, employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and an eventual path to citizenship. Tancredo says he doesn't oppose a guest worker program in theory but that border security must come first. A key area for compromise would resolve the impasse over the legal status of 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country. Tancredo has resisted any approach that could provide a path to citizenship for immigrants who fulfill various requirements. That's a cornerstone of the president's plan and the Senate's, and properly so.
We've come to respect Tancredo's effort to force the issue - he's a born provocateur. He'll need to show flexibility if he truly expects to solve the problem.
"I would love to see us pass something that really does something and get this behind us than to have a debate that becomes more rancorous," Tancredo told us recently.
It's entirely possible, and he has an obligation to get it done.
Can't. The only thing that's different is the size of the guest worker program.
Have you ever even ONCE put the blame for the party division where it belongs? Or do you just blame everyone BUT Bush?
Let us see if I have this right.
We legalize all the illegals in the nation at this time over a period of five years. Then we allow millions more to enter our nation under a guest worker program.
Thank heaven that fence is going up...
The only thing this plan lacks is a deed to a home and a $100,000.00 bank account.
October 20, the guy is a genius. November 8, the guy is ?????
"It shows how powerful the anti-illegal movement has become. Now the pro-illegal forces are attempting to save what they can."
They certainly are. And I can honestly say that it is a pleasure to know that those who have slammed Tancredo, over and over again, are now forced to encourage votes for him.
"Tancredo's polarizing persona"
People who talk like this #1, haven't read the Bible or, #2, don't believe it.
It's all about what's being called "polarization". Separation of the righteous from the wicked.
Man keeps trying to homogenize everybody into one insipid mass. God has been separating the sheep from the goats for a long time, finishing the job in Revelation.
Let's review a few definitions from the socialist/leftist play book. comprehensive solution : collapse on principle kick and scream : telling the truth (in opposition to leftist dogma) at any volume, while sitting or standing polarizing : any argument that advances the idea that our nation's laws should be upheld, or that there actually is a moral right and wrong pragmatic : accepting our point of view relentless : unreasonable, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to accept criminality, unwilling to support the DNC respectable alternative : term used to describe our candidates in order to infer their candidates are not respectable sensible resolution : one that sees our views implemented concerning all points single item agenda : support for any single issue (by itself or among many) we can't win on the merits, and must demagogue twelve million reasons : 17.2 million votes a leading role : getting behind our plan
So. Now Rove is behind Tancredo???????
Could you explain what you mean?
"The Senate and President Bush have fashioned comprehensive immigration reform that includes border security, employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and an eventual path to citizenship."
Seems like all this was contained in the last 'comprehensive reform' of immigration laws. How about we actually enforce the law as passed before we 'comprehensively reform' it?
Everything? I don't suppose there is any way for you to elaborate on 'everything', but do try.
Just look at your own posting history if you're having trouble with your memory.
Just ignore the Bushbots. Any disagreement with their golden cow sends them into a mindless rage against all things conservative. Any disagreement with Bush makes you a "DUer Bushbasher." It's not worst even responding to them. I mean, I stopped about a week ago.
"So. Now Rove is behind Tancredo???????"
No. He coopted the liberals, as this editorial shows.
There are many who believe that Rove's reputed "genius" is mostly the result of victories against empty-minded, nasty Democratic losers, always choosing the wrong issue like foreign policy. He's smiling now because Republicans have been pretty successful in absentee ballot efforts. All the Democrats got is trying to stampede the public into believing they're going to win.
As for immigration, that was genius. He understood the white liberal mindset very well. He, Bolten, Norquist, whomever, set up the false dilemma of "comprehensive" immigration reform. Rove "tipped" reporters that "conservative republicans house members" were going to be the problem. Twice, and all told because the reporters like to brag about their access. Then Rove had Bush go out and make speeches using code words to demonize conservatives who opposed his America-busting immigration plans. The Dems and MSM fell for it hook, line and sinker. Even Howard Dean jumped on the boat, giddy with the chance to define himself as sensitive and against conservatives. To this day they cast snooty remarks about those who call the Senate plan an "amnesty" even though Bush/Rove have relented and used the A word, "that word" that troubles Rove so, because he knows Bush lied.
It almost worked the stampeding except for Jeff Sessions and a few others casting light on the Bush agenda.
I don't support what Rove did and I know he's probably doing it for a backend bribe via a consulting gig after 2008 but I still admire the psychological mastery of the Dem mind.
"October 20, the guy is a genius. November 8, the guy is ?????"
Demonized by the Democrat wonk types and blogs for being a "genius" with his sneaky, un-wonkish strategy of making sure Republican voters get absentee ballot applications.
Proud to be a Bushbot.
Thanks Paul. I appreciate it.
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