Posted on 12/02/2007 3:32:48 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Republicans need all the votes they can get next November if they are to have any hope of retaining the White House and winning back control of Congress. But one group of voters – among whom the GOP has gained considerable ground over the last few elections – now seems about to slip away, perhaps permanently.
Hispanic voters are poised to turn several red states blue come 2008, virtually guaranteeing a Democratic presidential victory and a pickup in congressional seats as well, according to a new analysis of Hispanic voting behavior. "Border Wars: The Impact of Immigration on the Latino Vote," released by the conservative Americas Majority Foundation, demonstrates that congressional Republicans' ham-handed approach to immigration will cost them dearly at the polls.
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EVERY legal immigrant whom I know is mad at the Republican Party - for not taking a STRONGER stance against illegal immigration!
It is pure racism to associate legal hispanic immigrants with illegals and to assume that legal hispanic immigrants side with illegal immigration. Of course, that’s what I expect out of the left, so there are no surprises here.
BTW, there is one way Chavez may be right: If illegals vote in sufficient numbers, then the Donks will win some of these states. But the Donks wouldn’t stoop to such illegal activity and voter fraud, would they? /sarc
She’s as bad as geraldo. She calls anybody who opposes illegal immigration a “racist”. I lost all respect for her when she went race-baiter.
Believe what you want, and sound like a DUer doing it, as if “I believe” is the pinnacle of logic.
Facts are facts, no matter what you want to believe.
On Fox News, after the YouTube debate they had a focus group and were analyzing reactions to candidates speeches. Whenever anyone made a pro-illegal comment, reactions were poor.
“I’’m afraid the return to 30 years in the minority wilderness is certain because of what has been done by conservatives acting out in a populist manner with no thought to the consequences. They even called what they were doing....principled. But don’t they all. History is replete with principled political stupidity.”
If the Republican returns to 30 years in the minority wilderness, they will have been ‘led’ there by Jorge Bush and Karl Rove, and their stupid forcing of the amnesty/open borders issue. Jorge tried to get this through the House since 2001, and was turned back year-after-year. Polls have shown for years that 70% plus of US citizens are opposed to the non-enforcement of immigration policies, and even the high, 1,000,000+, legal immigration. Bush and Rove were fools to continue pushing their amnesty nonsense when the majority of all US citizens so clearly did not want it. It is they who have damaged the party, and they will be responsible for whatever happens in the next few elections. How stupid of them to force and force such a divisive issue, especially with so little likelihood that poor, new immigrants will become Republicans.
As I said, 70% plus of US citizens have opposed what Jorge/Rove wanted since 1986 and before. There is still an unanswered question: will the voters finally make immigration their vote deciding issue? If so, Republicans will have surprising success in 2008. If not, the stupidity of Jorge and Rove will be largely to blame for any hard times that befall Republicans.
“See you at the bill signing.”
The ‘study’ she cites uses Randy Graf as an example, without pointing out that the RNC campaigned for one of his opponents IN THE PRIMARY, and withheld funding during the general election.
I’m guessing we would also have fewer Republicans in office if the RNC regularly aided the Democrats.
In news accounts, Graf was portrayed as someone who would pull mothers and babies out of their homes at midnight and beat them before tossing them over the border. It takes money to oppose this slander - but instead, the RNC encouraged it!
I will never, ever give a penny to the RNC again. And examples like this bias the report.
Facts are facts, no matter what you want to believe.
In other words, you think the pro-illegal immigration forces will turn this election over to the liberals?
I don't think so. Watch what happens.
No, I’m saying that what you feel and believe are irrelevant. What you know - i.e., what’s based on provable facts - that’s admissible.
NOT TRUE: Many legal immigrants dispise Illigal immigration and they and their decendents are sophisiticated enough to tell the difference between anti-illigal immigration (enforcing the law) and anti-hispanic racism; in fact I’ll go one further and say that they RESPECT pro-sovereignty anti-illigal immigration Republican Pols..It may also draw in any democrats that are dissaffected because of their nation party’s leaders stance on the issue which is pro-illigal. Union workers, blacks, and reagan democratic whites may make up for any loss the republicans gain and then some..!
(Wasn’t it a recent poll lately that showed 70% of likely voters are against drivers liscences’ for illigals?)..?
Besides, Chavez is another one of the politicians who thinks it's punishment to be returned to Mexico. Best she be kept away from the resort beaches too.
Linda Chavez, Mel Martinez, Lindsay Graham, etc., all need to retire from public life.
With the name Chavez she is naturally inclined to support her fellow birds of a feather.
Illegal immigrants are changing our demographics considerably. If America is to survive, we have to get a grip on illegal immigration and very soon. At no time in history has a group of ethnic immigrants been given the power to throw the balance of power in DC and America.
If the flood gate is not closed, and the illegals deported, and employers giving shelter and comfort and jobs prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, America is finished. Cooked. Done.
They appreciate the illegals about the way we appreciate someone who shoves in ahead of us in a ticket line.
These legal immigrants did it the hard way and were sincere about becoming U.S. citizens...and they're proud of it.
I don't think the libs should be counting their chickens just yet.
>> I admire Chavez but
She uses nasty rhetoric on the issue of illegal immigration attacking those who don’t agree with her liberal policies.
We really don’t expect Lindsey to be interested in those beach whores at the Mexican resorts, so what is his focus?
That kinda' takes away a lot of the fun on this forum.
It is, after all, a forum, and we all speak our piece, and that could easily be something we happen to believe.
Not to get all righteous on you but my entire religion is based on belief/faith and it works for me.
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