Sounds familiar...just add Grifter.
Posted on 01/04/2007 4:36:23 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Tim Graham on January 3, 2007 - 14:59.
Just to prove that Fox News Channel doesn't live up to the liberal stereotype of Music to Conservative Ears, angry E-mailers are demanding someone denounce Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke for slamming conservatives who staunchly oppose illegal immigration. In their year-end Beltway Boys "awards show" this weekend, there was this clip of agreement:
Kondracke: "Our 'Dumbest Move' award of the year is Republicans trashing immigrants. And this - this has disastrous consequences for the, in the election. The Hispanic vote, which is the fastest-growing element of the population, went 55 to 42 percent Democratic in 2004. This time, it went 76 to 26. And it's all because of this stupid wall that the House Republicans wanted to build, and rejected their own president's plan for a comprehensive immigrant reform in preference to cozying up to radio talk show hosts."
Barnes: "I don't think it's the wall, per se. I think it's their whole attitude toward immigrants in general, but particularly Hispanic immigrants. It seemed mean-spirited, and, you know, American voters are generally not mean-spirited. You, you're going to have some kind of a wall at some point, but you have to a lot of other things, too."
Kondracke: "Yes. The wall only is the problem."
Later, the Beltway Boys also slammed CNN's Lou Dobbs:
Kondracke: "‘Blowhard of the Year’ award goes to CNN's Lou Dobbs. Now this is a guy who also could qualify for Turncoat of the Year."
Barnes: "Yes."
Kondracke: "When he used to be a cheerleader for capitalism and for corporate America. Now he is a demagogue, it amounts for populists and potectionists and xenophobes. And he doesn't have any answers."
Barnes: "And he's wrong. You know, the fact is, the rolling up our borders and pulling out of the globalized economy is a way to achieve one thing: a lower standard of living."
Kondracke: "Yes. Poverty. Yes, exactly. Absolutely."
Beltway insider bull pucky.
Just how completely out of touch can these 'boys' be??
Kondracke has a really personal problem here ~ he needs low wage illegals to work in his home 24/7; he's also usually too drunk to mow his own grass too.
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Also two of the biggest and outspoken candidates on immigration lost, Hayworth and Hostettler.
Hayworth actually won with 60% of the vote in his last 3 elections before 2006, but went down to defeat as he gladly drank the Tancredo political poison.
It was "W"'s call for amnesty program that really Pi$$ed off the majority of Conservatives , myself included .
If American voters really did oust the Republicans for speaking up about our porous border then it's obviously going to take another 9-11 with the terrorists coming through our southern border to wake us up (again). In my opinion it's inevitable.
All the hyperbole, and infighting over the issue cost us a lot of votes.
Now we will sit helplessly by and watch as the Senate version of the failed bill gets a liberal rewrite and is passed with the House on board this time around, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
Bush will certainly sign it.
It's what you could call a done deal and all the fighting was for nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The immigration nonsense cost us a lot, and we lost the issue to boot.
Yeah those defense warrior nancy pelosi hawks won(/sarcasm).
If you actually believe your italicized above, keep on smoking whatever you want.
The Boys are wrong - the fence did not cost them the election.
They are right in that the GOP is alienating future Hispanic voters. That will probably happen no matter what the GOP does.
The immigration blowhards on FR could have gotten behind a good bill such as Kyl/Coryn, but noooooooooo, that was "shamnesty".
Yep...we lost alright.
We lost to the Mexican invasion of ILLEGALS, and didn't respond. We look like the French going to war...marching with our hands in the air and waving a white flag.
What it cost us in the past is NOTHING compared to what it will cost taxpayers in the future, as we grant amnesty to 20 million lawbreakers, and grant citizenship to every Mexican baby that pops out on U.S. soil, from an ILLEGAL, law-breaking mother.....
You are a real downer aren't you, especially with your behavior of sucking your thumb in the corner and in the fetal psoition over the fact that some guy named Jose is tarring a roof in 100 degree heat and that is the end of the world.
Barnes' and Kondracke's take on illegals is the single reason I stopped watching both "Beltway Boys" and the roundtable on "Brit Hume" a few months back. Anybody who holds such open-borders, pro-illegal views is somebody I refuse to trust on any other matter.
Lighting up now thank you.
Sounds familiar...just add Grifter.
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