Posted on 11/16/2006 4:22:15 AM PST by peyton randolph
With the resignation of Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, President Bush intends to fill the post with Florida's Mel Martinez, a Hispanic who led the battle in the U.S. Senate for amnesty for illegal aliens.
"Martinez is going to lead the fight for amnesty that Bush could not win when Republicans controlled the Congress," one angry RNC member told The Washington Times' Ralph Hallow.
Unable to extract an amnesty bill from Denny Hastert and Co. in the House like the McCain-Kennedy bill he supports, Bush is looking to cut a deal with San Francisco Nancy.
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This will be the final nail in the coffin for the GOP.
Yes.
Probably, and it will destroy the GOP. And there will be a serious third-party conservative contender in the 2008 election to challenge McCain and Hillary.
I will never vote for John McCain. He is selling out our country with this amnesty bill. As are the Democrats and Bush.
Pense's compromise would have been a much better bill.
It's a stupid question. Of course a Bush - Pelosi amnesty is on its way. It'll be at least as bad as the one supported by the Republican Senate last year, and will ruin what's left of the United States of America. We can ill afford to add 10-20 million or more future liberal dependents on to the taxpayer's rolls.
"Pense's compromise would have been a much better bill."
Leaving the door open to "pathway to citizenship? amnesty?
I don't put much stock in Buchanan's opinions.
If there is to be a "final nail in the coffin for the GOP," it will be an inside job. And that stinks.
Will have to look for the link, but one analysis I read of the election stated that NOT ONE Republican candidate that ran on a restrictionist (anti-amnesty) immigration platform won.
This was true even in areas with immediate illegal immigration problems (such as in AZ - see the defeat of J.D. Hayworth).
So as much talk as there seems to be among some segments of the conservative base about how horrible Bush's plan is, the gut check of the election apparently shows that the nation is not supporting mass deportation.
There comes a point where to survive politically a *political party* has to work within the constraints of *political realities.* Failure to do so is what kills parties---unless, of course, the party is killed from within by a small group of people who won't accept political realities.
There is substantial support for enforcement of the borders. There is no substantial support for mass deportation (the common view of what is the opposite of amnesty).
So very disappointed in Mr. Bush.
And I'm a very conservative Republican.
Actually they do care and voters are responding to those who wish the fix current mess we have now.
BTW, sybeck1 immigration demagougue J.D Hayworth is looking for new work, while someon who proposed a solution, John Kyl(whowas trashed on FR) won by a comfortable margin.
So do you think there's anything the base can
do to change this direction. If so, what? If we
innundate the GOP maybe with voices, since 90%
of us want ILLEGAL immigration stopped.
This is the most vexing of their (Bush, Rove, RNC, et al) [il]logical premise; that all Illegals who will be granted Amnesty, WILL vote R.
Perhaps some will, but the majority will be co-opted into the Dhimi party, so why are they so anxious to add millions of new Dems to the rolls for the upcoming 08 elections?
Will have to look for the link, but one analysis I read of the election stated that NOT ONE Republican candidate that ran on a restrictionist (anti-amnesty) immigration platform won.
You're exactly right. Voters will endorse such things as English as the language of govt. and public schools, ID's for voting, etc.etc. but they do not respond to the harsh rhetoric of mass deportations or attacks on ones ethnicity.
Pense's amnesty is better than the Bush/Kennedy/Pelosi amnesty? Why?
If we are going to have amnesty for illegals then we should let ALL CRIMINALS OUT OF PRISON!
No doubt about it, that was the one issue that our President and the dems totally agreed upon.
England has the right attitude concerning illegals, they are placing a cap on how many legal immigrants can enter and stay in their Country, they are deporting illegals, I heard that on their local news when I was there couple weeks ago.
See it's stupid chest thumping rhetoric that turns people off.
There is a big difference between a person picking food or building shelter and a murderer or rapist.
The Dems spent very little time on the immigration issue in the last election. They would like nothing better than have a Republican president sign a blanket amnesty bill. Once done, all those new amnesty granted Americans will vote for Democrats. They will just tell them that Bush only signed it because of them, and the media will make sure that is what they hear. This is no legacy for Bush, it is an embarassment.
I also am disappointed in Bush. I am disappointed in his nomination of Mel Martinez as Chairman of the RNC, in his allowing his wife to run her mouth in public about her pro-choice leanings, and in his stance on immigration. You have no idea how it pains me to say this.
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