It goes waaaaaay back. Here's a shot of Eunice Kennedy Shriver snuggled up to Former First Lady Barbara Bush.
Posted on 06/01/2007 1:38:16 PM PDT by freedomdefender
President Bush had had enough. His last chance at another legacy legislative achievement, immigration reform, was in peril, and from his own people, conservative Republicans. He wasn't going to take it any more. At a training school for border agents, the president ripped into his own people for opposing his bill. Bush did so indirectly, so a guided tour through the speech may be in order.
The opponents, he said, "haven't read the bill," a polite way of saying their ignorant.
They are opposing it with "empty political rhetoric." They're vacuous, too.
They worry the bill "would make somebody else look good." They're selfish.
They call it an amnesty bill. "That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens." And they lie.
They "need the courage to go back to their districts" and fully explain the bill and then they need "the courage necessary" to enact it. They're more than likely cowards as well.
OK, vote against it then "if you don't want to do what's right for America." They want al Qaeda to win.
He accused opponents of immigration reform of using distortion and scare tactics "to frighten our citizens." That's exactly what the Democrats accused Bush of doing in 2004 and 2006 but, hey, it worked for him then and it might work for him now.
Just as the campaign used to do, after Bush accused his opponents of being unpatriotic and un-American, a senior official approached reporters to say, "In no way was he questioning anyone's patriotism or desire to do what's right."
To paraphrase an old expression, who are you going to believe? Me or your lying ears? After all, it's not President Bush's fault if the opponents of this measure are ignorant, selfish and dishonest, even if they are members of his own party and were once his most fervent supporters.
You can't blame Bush for wondering about his choice of friends. Take some of the landmarks of his presidency.
The Republicans never got around to making his tax cuts permanent when they had control of Congress and now the Democrats aren't going to.
The Republicans are wavering on the Iraq war and 11 of them came down to the White House to tell him so. "Cut and run" is beginning to sound like a sensible strategy, maybe, rather than something to pound the Democrats with.
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal and suddenly the president's party is sounding like Republicans of old, grumbling about the federalization of a state responsibility and saddling the states with costly and cumbersome mandates.
So who is on the president's side? On immigration, it's that arch liberal that GOP conservatives love to hate, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
Kennedy sprang to the president's defense on immigration - "the president is right" - and spoke out against "bumper sticker slogans that aim to divide us further."
There you have it, fellow Americans, George Bush and Ted Kennedy, uniters not dividers.
In an especially unkind cut from the president's own side, Newt Gingrich, the architect of the "Republican Revolution" before that became a term of derision, said the Republican Party was in collapse because Bush political adviser Karl Rove, and, by extension, the president himself, had run a "maniacally dumb" campaign in 2006.
Gingrich said this in an interview with The New Yorker, not generally thought of as a Republican house organ, in which he also suggested that to win the White House the Republican candidate will have to run against Bush.
Thus, the most interesting contest of the campaign may be President Bush versus his fellow Republicans. Don't worry, Mr. President. Ted will always be there for you.
Love your tag line!
Some party members are still solid. We mustn't split from the GOP. Third parties such as the Constitution Party, the Libertarian, and the Independence Party never get enough to fight inertia of the State organizations which are in the hands of the two-party system. Hence, we must re-capture the GOP. What we must do is organize as an conservative assembly within the Party, and take it back. That was how Reagan was able to do so much. The entire old establishment which dug in its heels to the hilt to defend abortion "rights", the welfare state, and the United Nations "internationalism" was swept out en masse by the Reagan Revolutionaries...who stuck to their guns...and outed the old varmints. We had a real house-cleaning.
Meanwhile, the old varmints have been sneaking back in. But we don't have to leave them there. We can have that house-cleaning again. But we need to rally around a candidate. We need to get the Non-RINO crowd of candidates thinned out throwing their support to Hunter or even Fred Thompson...so that the RINOs don't prevail.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
I am. When I called my bank I didn't have to push a button to get someone who spoke English. Now, even using my ATM I have to select English. We didn't have ATM's in 1965 but I'm damn sure that if we did they wouldn't have printed spanish at me. Any one who says these aliens are assimilating, ask them about this concrete indicator of how much assimilation is going on, and who is doing it to whom.
It goes waaaaaay back. Here's a shot of Eunice Kennedy Shriver snuggled up to Former First Lady Barbara Bush.
>We mustn’t split from the GOP.<
I will never again vote for the globalist party! I left the GOP when Bush decided that 3rd world jobs were more important than the US ones. I won’t be going back now that I’m an Independant. Give those 3rd parties a chance and they’ll get together enough to defeat the ragged GOP.
What was true then is still true today. Thanks for the repost.
Better keep praying. Jeb is waiting in the wings, and after him, Jeb's half-breed son is also being groomed. He'll be the PERFECT candidate. He looks Mexican and speaks fluent Spanish. By the time it's time for him to run for office, All these millions of Illegals will be citizens and Bush/4 will be a shoo-in.
No, merely illiterate.
What would the knee-pad brigade do without the "Day in the life of" thread?
What I fear is the real conservatives in the House are going to get rolled in 2008 from the backlash against this bill. It's always our side that has to keep making the sacrifices because we're lacking conservative leadership at the top.
Yeah. And did you see the "Beltway Boys" on their Fox News show on Saturday misrepresenting the Immigration issue...and the two Arizona Congressional losses, JD Hayworth etc...as evidence that the issue was what tanked them. In part it did, but not for their being wrong on the issue. It did because the Democrats ran as more "credible" and more opposed to the illegal aliens...and less single-issue.
So the backlash is more severe against conservatives in the GOP, who are always at far graver risk of being dissed by Base supporters for inconstancy than the Rats ever have to worry about.
Frankly, I think we should make a determined effort to re-unite those conservatives who have already split off. The Independents, the Libertarians, the Constitutionalists and so on.
Get back to basics. Small government. Way smaller. National Defense. America First foreign and trade policy.
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