Posted on 12/31/2009 1:36:26 PM PST by AuntB
22 years ago Nov, in Houston, I had 27 stitches put in my head, being jumped by 3 non-legals. ‘Bout 6mos later was held up, robbed, at gun point, kicked etc by latinos at my work place. I have no sympathy or concern for their plight any longer.
I wouldn’t go to another country and behave as such, and so I have NO respect for those that break the law to live and work here in the States. My sympathy was stolen by blood and guns. My country is good and if this is the respect that is given, I return it 10 fold.
I am disgusted to drive by homes with a Mexican flag waving and no US flag beside it. I could accept both, but I WILL NOT accept a single Mexican flag waving in my country, our country. The disrespect is sickening!
After 9/11, I decided I was done forever with PC! Screw all that disrespect the USA!
Oh, wait...this is not about Virginia Beach, Europe, but Virginia Beach, USA? Oh my.
Jokes aside, my family used to vacation in Virgina Beach and other cities all along the coast from Maryland to Florida in the '70s and I don't recall ever seeing lots (if any) of 'Latinos' back then. For some strange reason hotels, restaurants, etc. still seemed to be able to provide very good services for acceptable prices. What's happened since then? (Someone must be making big bucks from the invasion - cui bono?!)
Thanks DJ!
Happy New Year, my friend. Not to embarrass you, but you are the Michael Barone of FreeRepublic, and I think I speak for most Freepers when I say how much I(we)have appreciated the high quality and prescient insights of your commentary throughout the years.
BTW. What did ya think about the “surrender” of the 5th Congressional District of Alabama? Talk about sticking to old Ronnie Flippo and Bud Cramer. Did anyone of us every believe that we would live long enough to see the GOP capture John Sparkman’s old seat? I think this is a very big deal, and I’m dying to know your opinion.
Amen to that, and I would throw in the less than stellar performance of the Chief of the VA Beach police during this whole sordid episode. He ought to be run out of town on a rail.
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These are three words I never expected to see together, at least while she was vertical. Did Meyera lose an election or just give up?
Oberndorf finally lost to a Republican challenger, Will Sessoms, in ‘08 (after being Mayor 21 1/2 years - and in continuous local office for 43 years).
Thank you for the compliment, though I’m probably not fit to hold Barone’s jockeys. Anyway... with respect to AL-5, it was likely to fall to us before long, given the top-down GOP trend in the district (although it hasn’t trickled down fully to the legislative level, yet, but that will happen, too). It should’ve fallen in ‘94 when we came within an inch of beating Bud Cramer. The only reason we didn’t win it in ‘08 was because we ran Wayne Parker again, who was a fallback choice, and he was best described as an old retread, and yet even as a second-tier choice, he still almost won. Had we run a first-tier candidate, we’d likely have taken it.
Initially, Dem State Sen. Tom Butler had claimed he was going to switch to the GOP and run for it, but ultimately changed his mind (he still hasn’t switched, which would put the GOP within 3 seats of winning the AL Senate). That would’ve been a barnburner between Butler and Griffith, though Butler probably would’ve been hammered for switching parties (as Griffith is about to be during the election season). Griffith’s State Senate seat fell to the GOP in a special election (and by a wide margin), which probably gave him pause. Was his switch opportunistic ? Yes. But in all fairness, he only just got to DC in the past year and probably made the discovery, as so many old-line Southern Dems did, that the Democrats at the State Capitol, for the most part, aren’t much like those in DC. He may not feel fully comfortable going over to a party he’s opposed most of his life, but if he wants a fighting chance to retain his seat, he might not have a choice.
His biggest problem now is the primary, because the Dems may not be able to recruit anyone substantial for the general (ironically, though, Sen. Butler is mentioned - it would be funny if the race is run in reverse as to what was expected in ‘08 - but Butler would have to give up his seat, in fact, any sitting legislator will have to do that in ‘10, so it may discourage anyone but non-legislators to go for it). Ag Commissioner Ron Sparks said no (he still feels he has a fighting chance to beat Artur Davis for the Gubernatorial nod) as did Susan Parker, so unless the Dems can persuade a legislator, whomever wins the GOP nomination is the likely winner.
Just as an aside on party switchers, unless the person is truly odious, I tend to support them for at least one more term to demonstrate they’ve “gotten with the program.” Party switching (for ideological reasons at least) should be rewarded on our side, because if we make it a hostile environment for them to do so, potential fence-sitters unhappy with the radicalism of the Democrats won’t bother. Right now, we should be applying as much pressure to those Dems that feel as uncomfortable as Griffith did. Once over, they tend to feel more liberated to move rightwards (since the act of even being in the Dem party means procedurally you have to support liberal organizational practices). Getting people to switch is also demoralizing for the party they leave behind, too. At this point when we’re in the minority, we need to use all the weapons in our arsenal (and not be afraid to).
The GOP needs to be turning up the pressure on Bobby Bright right now. He only won (and that in a district that hadn’t last voted for a Dem since 1962) because of a viciously brutal GOP primary runoff that saw the loser endorse Bright. He is ostensibly slightly more Conservative than Griffith, so it needs to be stressed to him (since he claimed to have agonized while as Montgomery Mayor which party to run under) that if he wants a second term and nice, less stressful career in DC worrying about reelection, it would be smarter of him to do it under our label (or, he can go down to defeat this November).
Murder rates are down. Clearly Americans are unwilling to do that job, so these immigrants are taking up the slack!
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