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The GOP's Harsh Immigration Stance Will Cost It
Michael Gerson ^ | May 14th 2010

Posted on 05/14/2010 8:43:16 PM PDT by Steelfish

The GOP's Harsh Immigration Stance Will Cost It

By Michael Gerson May 14, 2010 Has the Republican Party become, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently charged, the "anti-immigrant party"? The accusation is overbroad. Republicans (and others) who are offended by chaos at the southern border, who are concerned about the strains illegal immigration places on public services and who believe enforcement should precede comprehensive reform are not necessarily "anti-immigrant."

Reid has an interest in painting with the broadest possible brush to motivate Hispanic supporters in his own, uphill reelection campaign.

But it would be absurd to deny that the Republican ideological coalition includes elements that are anti-immigrant -- those who believe that Hispanics, particularly Mexicans, are a threat to American culture and identity.

When Arizona Republican Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth calls for a moratorium on legal immigration from Mexico, when then-Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) refers to Miami as a "Third World country," when state Rep. Russell Pearce (R), one of the authors of the Arizona immigration law, says Mexicans' and Central Americans' "way of doing business" is different, Latinos can reasonably assume that they are unwelcome in certain Republican circles.

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To: Steelfish
those who believe that Hispanics, particularly Mexicans, are a threat to American culture and identity.

And your point is what AH? That we should allow the invasion of our nation? That we should allow for the destruction of Western culture, our way of life and in fact accept our own genocide? Mr Gerson you are an evil SOB and and enemy to my family, my community and this nation. If you want to live in Mexico please do. If you want to speak Spanish, adopt Mexican culture and immerse yourself and your family in the third world please do...in Mexico or anywhere else. Otherwise GFY!

41 posted on 05/15/2010 3:39:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.
Agree.

Idiots like Gerson (and McCain, and Bush Jr., etc.) who embrace the merger of our homeland with Mexico - are not allies of Americans.

42 posted on 05/15/2010 3:50:52 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (What (child) would Mohammad do?)
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To: Steelfish

http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/05/12/if-conservatives-oppose-amnesty-hispanics-will-punish-them-in-november-the-numbers-say-otherwise/ This threat from the Left doesn’t hold water. Yes the Hispanics will someday be a big Democrat voting block, but for now their power is an illusion.


43 posted on 05/15/2010 4:16:26 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: unkus
I agree. A RINO won't please anyone inside or outside the party, so what could possibly be the benefit?

You know what's killing us? It's the attitude displayed by one utter ass who got up at one of the, I think, Clinton/Bush debates and whined that they should stop attacking each other, and blah blah blah.

We're dying from the "non-judgmental" attitude that's just a method of disarming those who are in the right (and usually on the right).

44 posted on 05/15/2010 4:56:59 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("You seem to believe that stupidity is a virtue. Why is that so?"-Flight of the Phoenix)
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To: icwhatudo

I’ve actually done business with illegal aliens (Albeit it was food service). They constantly botched my orders and belittled me when I asked them to change their orders. They also had a strange, entitled attitude, like they were somehow entitled to botch my order.


45 posted on 05/15/2010 7:37:46 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: Steelfish

well there ya go.


46 posted on 05/15/2010 9:04:30 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Steelfish

You forgot the RINO Alert notice.


47 posted on 05/15/2010 9:18:28 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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