Posted on 05/21/2007 8:24:48 AM PDT by Theodore R.
The (Republican) party's over
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 21, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Vox Day made the point during Bush's first term that he thought George Delano would do more damage to the Republican party and conservatives than any Democrat could do. It turns out that he was entirely correct. - Physics Geek (Warning: Website contains graphic language)
I'm not particularly interested in rubbing the White House's latest treachery in the faces of the Three Monkey Republicans, who are finally beginning to see and hear a little of the evil that has always been readily apparent in George W. Bush. What's more interesting than the fact that this latest attempt at a Mexican migration amnesty should seal the deal on Hillary Clinton's inauguration is the possibility that we may finally be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican Party.
This is far from certain, of course, as politics tends to swing back and forth like a pendulum, if rather less predictably. It's always possible that the Lizard Queen might overstep herself like she did at the beginning of her husband's presidency and revitalize the twitching corpse of the GOP. But although she is tone-deaf, Hillary isn't stupid and I would be very surprised if she demonstrates a failure to learn from her previous blunders.
The president's Mexican migration plan could spell the end of the Republican Party in two different ways. The first is the obvious one, which is that Mexicans are significantly to the left of even moderate Republicans, as can be seen by examining the ideologies of Mexico's three major political parties, the National Action Party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Although PAN is considered to be the "conservative" party, it rejects adherence to right-wing principles in favor of the "adoption of such policies as correspond to the problems faced by the nation at any given moment."
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In other words, it's the pragmatic party, similar to the Bush-Dole-Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. Mexico has a parliamentary system, so although PAN's Calderón won the 2006 election, he did so with only 36 percent of the vote. That's why Republican support from Hispanics has never broken 40 percent, which means that granting amnesty to 12 million Mexicans likely means at least eight or nine million more Democratic voters in 2012.
The second, and more intriguing possibility is that conservatives finally realize that the pragmatists who run the party can no longer be trusted and leave. This is becoming ever more obvious, as the Republican commentariat and party elites support pro-abortion, pro-migration, pro-foreign intervention presidential candidates while the only pro-life, anti-migration, pro-American Constitution candidate, Ron Paul, is subject to constant attacks meant to marginalize and silence him.
Ronald Reagan is dead. There's no longer anything conservative about the Republican Party, it is merely the Democratic Party's away jersey. So stand up for your principles for once in your life and leave the sinking ship to the moderates and pragmatists. Yes, Hillary Clinton will win in 2008, but she's going to win anyhow thanks to Iraq and immigration. Console yourself with the thought of how after eight more years of Bush- Clinton-Bush-Clinton rule, the nation will be more than ready to embrace real conservatives and a party genuinely devoted to human life, human liberty and the American people.
If you're still not sure – if you're still not entirely convinced that the Republican Party is not on your side in any way, shape or form – then consider the following news excerpt from The Boston Globe about the migration amnesty:
A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat. But the administration called for the provision to be removed due to concern that it would be too difficult to figure out which illegal immigrants owed back taxes.
“Yes, Hillary Clinton will win in 2008, but she’s going to win anyhow thanks to Iraq and immigration.”
No, she won’t and no she wouldn’t have.
As I said on another post, all the people know to do is punish the GOP for the failures of GWB — simple Pol Sc. 101.
You better hope not. No matter what Republican is nominated, the alternative would be that you will get highter taxes, no military to protect you, San Francisco will the the model for all cities, Los Angeles or New York will be the model for States. What the hell, anything is better than a total loss of America.
HRC’s dream would come true with one-party rule. The 60s are here again! LOL
” So stand up for your principles for once in your life and leave the sinking ship to the moderates and pragmatists. Yes, Hillary Clinton will win in 2008, but she’s going to win anyhow thanks to Iraq and immigration. Console yourself with the thought of how after eight more years of Bush- Clinton-Bush-Clinton rule, the nation will be more than ready to embrace real conservatives and a party genuinely devoted to human life, human liberty and the American people.”
I’m fear that after this treason and 8 years of Hillary there will be no country to get back; we’ll be just another third world turd pile.
How so ? She supports this bill too. Additionally her moonbat winged party won't let her get past her Iraq vote.
Fred Thompson’s gonna beat her like a red-headed stepchild.
No, she won’t and no she wouldn’t have...
...hope does spring eternal, doesn’t it...I’m resigned to at least four years of Her Shrillness, beginning in 2008...particularly if Fred Thompson is the candidate, who half the country has never even heard of...
Maybe I'll riot this time...
“..it is merely the Democratic Party’s away jersey.”
Good line...
Good line. For my part, I have absolutely had it with the Republicans. I don't know what they represent anymore, but I do know it isn't me or much of anything I believe or want. I have grown extremely tired of supporting them and continually being disappointed by them. I'll probably still vote for the Republican presidential candidate (because the thought of Shrillery in the Oval Office is absolutely horrifying), but I just don't have the stomach to prop up imbeciles like McCain and Graham (not that they're in my state anyway).
Michael Savage was saying two years ago that Bush had a cabal with the Clintons to get HRC elected. I thought he was nuts, but the way Bush has been acting, he seems not so crazy. Could Bush be this dumb? Someone (Rove, Cheney, etc) has got to know that this will kill the Republican party.
The current bill that would provide amnesty to the 20+M illegals already here with Z-Visas to open the door to 20+M more will give the Democrats what they have lusted for since the New Deal; an unbeatable voting majority socially engineered through the tax code. Once this happens, the US will veer left in a manner that will make France look like a Libertarian, conservative utopia.
Rino GWB has had plenty of Rino help plus the support of many on FR who refused to acknowledge that the emperor had no clothes on,(just a literary reference).
I backed “W” to the hilt until after the last general election when he threw off any pretense of being conservative.
Remember France.
It's only been three years since there were posters on this website who declared the Democrat party dead.
” Console yourself with the thought of how after eight more years of ..., the nation will be more than ready to embrace real conservatives”
No matter how often I hear the “if we lose badly enough we’ll win” mantra, it fails to work. I don’t know why these guys seem absolutely infatuated with the idea of the GOP losing, but it’s their stock in trade. The Republican party must die and faux conservatives be defeated and then ‘real’ conservatives will win.
Of course somehow this ignores the fact that if the Republican party dies and ‘faux’ conservatives all lose, the Democrats will seize on this opportunity to push the country left and make victory even less likely.
I have a different philosophy: in order to win big, first win small. Don’t plan on losing first in order to win; it never works.
“...hope does spring eternal, doesn’t it...”
Either that or I bang my head against the wall all day. ;)
Where I’m from, people would vote for Homer Simpson for Prez before they would vote for Hillary. It’s largely black here, as far as Democrats go. Obama is the man among Democrats. I may have a skewed perception since I’m in the South but she can’t win without the South OR the black vote and she just ain’t gonna get either.
New tagline, courtesy of Vox Day.
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