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2008 Republican Platform
GOP website ^ | 09/01/ 2008 | GOP Platform Committee

Posted on 09/05/2008 6:52:16 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

We oppose amnesty. The rule of law suffers if government policies encourage or reward illegal activity. The American people’s rejection of en masse legalizations is especially appropriate given the federal government’s past failures to enforce the law.

(Excerpt) Read more at platform.gop.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008rncconvention; aliens; mccain; mccainpalin; mcplatform; platform; rncplatform
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To: VictoryGal
i sense it, too. and i have been around the block a few times. they are laying in wait and playing a game. then, they will screw us. just watch.

sarah is our ace in the pocket, but even she needs a "vetting" from bedrock conservatives on Illegal Immigration. It must be done and it must be done soon. we need to know where she stands and what she will do in opposition to the forces like mcCain and Graham whom you KNOW are just waiting for another chance to SHOVE AMNESTY through. people are lame if they let their guard down NOW, after all we have been through, beating it back time after time after time.

21 posted on 09/05/2008 7:59:54 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Be the FR HERO! Find & Post The Palin Stand on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" vs. 2008 Platform)
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To: TexasCajun
McCAIN may be been a P.O.W., but Illegal Immigration was and is M.I.A.

22 posted on 09/05/2008 8:01:26 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Be the FR HERO! Find & Post The Palin Stand on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" vs. 2008 Platform)
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To: AmericanHunter
shhhhhh.... we are not supposed to wake up so soon after the big party!!

that goes against the RNC script.

seriously, it heartens me to visit this thread and see freepers still on their toes, telling the RNC, you better not screw with us, we are WATCHING YOU on Borders/Amnesty , and taking NOTHING FOR GRANTED in the midst of all the euphoria over Ms. Palin, as nice a gal as she is--McCain and his crack team have the levers of the Party right now. many of them are open borders types. caveat emptor, folks, caveat emptor

23 posted on 09/05/2008 8:05:07 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Be the FR HERO! Find & Post The Palin Stand on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" vs. 2008 Platform)
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To: cripplecreek

“The same goes for Sarah Palin. I don’t care if Alaska doesn’t have a major illegal immigration problem, if she wants to hold the second highest office in the land she better find an opinion fast. “

Politicians will say anything to get elected. We know McCain’s record. I wonder what her’s is?


24 posted on 09/05/2008 8:09:09 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Unless you are nice and thoughtful you will be ignored. Write in Thomas Sowell.)
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To: cripplecreek

“The same goes for Sarah Palin. I don’t care if Alaska doesn’t have a major illegal immigration problem, if she wants to hold the second highest office in the land she better find an opinion fast. “

Politicians will say anything to get elected. We know McCain’s record. I wonder what her’s is?


25 posted on 09/05/2008 8:09:25 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Unless you are nice and thoughtful you will be ignored. Write in Thomas Sowell.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
>>many of them are open borders types. caveat emptor, folks, caveat emptor<<

What!!!??? You mean even this guy?


26 posted on 09/05/2008 8:11:12 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: gidget7

“We MUST take back Congress no matter who is elected. Find out who is running, across the country, for Congressional and Senate seats, and donate as much as you can.:

Exactly. With McCain/Obama the choice at the top all our energies should be put into the Congressional contests.


27 posted on 09/05/2008 8:12:22 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Unless you are nice and thoughtful you will be ignored. Write in Thomas Sowell.)
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To: cripplecreek

You know, if you look at my past posts from way, way back, you will find that I despise McCain but there is a time and a place.

As much as I despise McCain I am more afraid of the non-Muslim community organizer.

McCain has done some good things too unlike Obama and that is what I am focusing on.


28 posted on 09/05/2008 8:16:26 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: tiki
but there is a time and a place.

Fortunately nobody can dictate when and where those are to me.
29 posted on 09/05/2008 8:25:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Thanks for the additional comments. You take care.


30 posted on 09/05/2008 8:27:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac President.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
McCain is going to have to talk about the illegal aliens sometime before the election...

He'll just stonewall it for the next 2 months. What's to say? We all know he takes the absolute most extreme and least pro-American stance there is.

31 posted on 09/05/2008 8:35:44 AM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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To: Sunnyflorida
She is probably being told by the RNC establishment and McCain's A Team of professional campaign consultant types, to shut up and dont rock the boat and dont talk immigration/border issues that is my take. we will soon see if she will stand up to power, and also stand up for the american people, who are OVERWHELMINGLY opposed to Amnesty and McCain's plan. This to me will be the real test of Sarah Palin in the next few weeks over and above a prime time speech.
32 posted on 09/05/2008 8:36:18 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Be the FR HERO! Find & Post The Palin Stand on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" vs. 2008 Platform)
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To: cripplecreek

“I’m guessing you didn’t have the religious experience so many others seem to have had last night? LOL”

LOL indeed. I’m seeing it in my friends. All of sudden McCain is the greatest gift God has given our country.


33 posted on 09/05/2008 9:30:10 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Hey, did McCain even mention this violent, coast to coast illegal invasion of our country? Did he utter one single word about it?

Is there a party groupie in the house that can explain this?

34 posted on 09/05/2008 9:34:26 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: demshateGod

The man could have opened his speech with a partial birth abortion and closed it with a homosexual rape and the true believers would be on their knees with tears in their eyes, praising him for his moderation.


35 posted on 09/05/2008 9:35:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
McCain is going to have to talk about the illegal aliens sometime before the election...

How stupid can this population be?

After I heard McCain praise migrant workers and their kids last night, while in the next breath McCain promises to retrain Americans that have lost their jobs..

And he didn't utter one single word about this violent invasion of millions.... Good Grief. Not a freaking word....

36 posted on 09/05/2008 9:41:01 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: tiki

>>As much as I despise McCain I am more afraid of the non-Muslim community organizer.

McCain has done some good things too unlike Obama and that is what I am focusing on.<<

For example, I think McCain (and Palin if she has to take over) would try to appoint pro-life judges. But after amnesty, I also believe that the leftists will have huge majorities and eventually take over all 3 branches, (no more pro-life judges, more socialism, leftists push through everything they want), but perhaps McCain does not see that far into the future.


37 posted on 09/05/2008 10:55:06 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: dragnet2
>>After I heard McCain praise migrant workers and their kids last night, while in the next breath McCain promises to retrain Americans that have lost their jobs..<<

From the platform: Global competitiveness will increasingly require an entrepreneurial culture of cooperation and team work. Making the best talent part of our team is the rationale for the H-1B visa program, which needs updating to reflect our need for more leaders in science and technology while we take the necessary steps to create more of them in our own school systems. By complementing the U.S. work force with needed specialists from abroad, we can make sure American companies and their jobs remain here at home.

OK, my prediction is that they (both parties) will try to increase the H-1B quotas to numbers far greater than the increases (if any) of new jobs for engineers, scientists, etc. And if I am correct, that would decrease the opportunities and wages of engineers, and discourage US students from studying engineering and science. Which would feed a vicious cycle in which they would increase H-1Bs even faster.

I say continue the H-1B program, but don't make the quotas so high that you take jobs from US citizens.

The platform says lower taxes on business. If they can do that in congress it will help, but I'm afraid that even if the jobs are not there, they will keep pushing for unlimited H-1Bs.

50 years from now, I hope we don't have a country in which workers lack the technical skills to compete in the world economy, and lack the skills needed for our own defense.

38 posted on 09/05/2008 11:35:53 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: DoughtyOne

Thanks D1. Come back to the forums when you can.


39 posted on 09/05/2008 11:39:48 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Ha...if you’re a traitor, join the club.

I believe that the NAU agenda will make illegal immigration a thing of the past and with it (NAU) will go our government as we know it...like the EU, making us beholden to a whole system of laws much different than what our constitution dictates.

Sarah, or no Sarah, I’m not voting for either candidate.


40 posted on 09/05/2008 1:36:09 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Don't blame me.....I support DUNCAN HUNTER. / RIP LeRoi Moore Our loss, heaven's gain)
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