Posted on 01/11/2009 9:10:22 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Down to single digits in his days left in office, President George W. Bush is warning the Republican Party not to become "anti-immigrant" as it regroups from defeat and retools its leadership.
"It's very important for our party not to narrow its focus, not to become so inward looking that we drive people away from a philosophy that is compassionate and decent," the departing president said in an interview broadcast Sunday, nine days before his term ends. "My call for our party is to be open-minded."
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I guess. They might as well manufacture new citizens like they print off new money.
This government sucks.
No he is not.
Being seen as anti-immigrant will cost the Republican Conservatives tens of millions of votes
So does allowing more and more illegal immigrants. It's time to send them back. It's anti-ILLEGAL immigrants... not anti-immigrant. My wife is a first generation LEGAL immigrant. Stop blurring the two.
Being seen as “anti-women’s choice” will cost the Conservatives similarly.
So you are pro-infanticide? Is this what you want to say?
Instead of all you yahoos jumping on the President for his (wise) observation, why don’t you figure out some way to come across as “pro legal immigration” and “pro-life” and Conservative at the same time?
This statement is so idiotic it doesn't deserve an answer.
My original question was to all the FRiends that claim they have no problem with LEGAL immigrants.
If all illegals are made LEGAL, then IMO, they all should STFU.
For to do otherwise, shows a different, unattractive quality about them. Don’t you agree?
I must disagree with your position on Mr. Bush’s departure.
Let the door hit him on the ass.
He destroyed the party and the country on this issue.
So...Donna....what part of President Bush’s statement is wrong?
Unless we embrace our new fellow citizens, we will continue to wander the political desert.
That’s President Bush’s message.
New citizens are a revenue stream for the government and business.
Considering the financial condition of the federal, state and county coffers...well, you understand the dilemma.
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My original question was to all the FRiends that claim they have no problem with LEGAL immigrants.
If all illegals are made LEGAL, then IMO, they all should STFU.
For to do otherwise, shows a different, unattractive quality about them. Don’t you agree?”
The only thing I find ‘unattractive’ is you wanting to destroy our sovereignty. You’re using circular logic. Why not give all criminals freedom from their crimes? Just because you want something ‘legal’ doesn’t make it right.
If you'd been around on FreeRepublic during the debacle known as the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" debate, you would have seen that the vast majority of conservatives are pro legal immigration.
Washingtonians are destroying this country by willfully evading the proper enforcement of our current immigration laws.
Amnesty to illegals was handed out during the last round of "immigration reform" in 1986. We have not forgotten how Washington went back on their word.
BTW, I'm pro-choice, as long as that choice is life.
Seems to me that Bush and the Republican congresscritters have been doing that for the past 8 years to make nice with the ruthless Democrats.
“Unless we embrace our new fellow citizens, we will continue to wander the political desert.”
They are NOT FELLOW CITIZENS! They are CITIZENS of other countries...many of them enemy countries. What part of that can’t you understand? Are you a citizen of this country? Legally?
We need to get rid of the current so called Republicans.
Good lord...what an idiot.
but he has many right here who think just like him....Big Tent
“He was forced to appoint”
OK, how was he forced? It was a weird shift from Harriet Miers to Roberts.
Conservatives moaned & complained, but how did that “force” him? I would like to know that.
McCain's support for amnesty was such a great draw to him in 2008 wasn't it?
Being seen as “anti-women’s choice” will cost the Conservatives similarly.
You support killing babies...nuff said.
Instead of all you yahoos jumping on the President for his (wise) observation, why don’t you figure out some way to come across as “pro legal immigration” and “pro-life” and Conservative at the same time?
It's obvious you don't spend much time here because if you did, you would realize that we support LEGAL immigration. What part of illegal do you not understand?
Exactly right, posters like me kept using your own words to expose your self-described uber liberal attitudes so you had to hide from what you yourself wrote.
Many of us here clearly remember your invective filled (nazi, jack-booted, kkk, are you a moron or do you just play one on Free Republic?) rants directed at anybody who called you on your professed liberalism.
Many of us remember that every time anyone brought up the American victims of crimes committed by illegals your response was always...."YAWN".
No, we remember who you are.
If they make the existing illegals "legal", then the crime pays and we can expect a lot more of them.
People who have the personal drive and intelligence to follow the laws required to legally (in the present sense of the term) immigrate here are the ones we want to come here. The corner cutters and rule breakers are the ones who will kill our country.
But the party isn't going to respond to a group which isn't a source of either money or votes.
Our objective should not be to make the party court us. Instead, it should be to actively regain control of the party.
We can best do this by uniting behind and actively supporting conservatives at the state and local level. Winning primaries with them. And, then, general elections.
It will be a tedious process. But it will produce better results more quickly than would a third party.
I hope he is proud giving our money to people that don’t deserve it. The money we worked hard for. But, when has that ever stopped politicians.
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