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To: RedStateRocker
The flaw in your argument is thinking that you can win these people over by placating/pandering to them. You can't. A number of Pubbie pols have tried (J.D. Hayworth, McCain) and gotten trounced for their efforts. Because they don't vote for Dems because Pubbies are mean to them...they vote for Dems because the Dems hand far more "freebies" than the Pubbies.

And furthermore, you're speaking dishonestly. They're illegals...plain and simple. To call them anything else is to live a lie. Whether from Latin American or anywhere else, an illegal is still an illegal.

71 posted on 12/03/2013 8:21:18 PM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Go ahead and live in denial.

I want to win elections. And that means coming to grips with the fact that anyone using certain words is and will be considered racist. And once you are labeled that you are not going to win many elections.

Anyone who thinks they can use words like ‘illegal’ instead of ‘undocumented’ or refer to blacks as being in the lower part of the bell curve is irrelevant in politics today and to come. You can’t use the ‘N’ word unless you are black, that’s just the way it is and the way it’s going to be for a long long while. Likewise, accusing blacks of being ‘on the democratic plantation’ and the like are simply going to backfire.

I don’t give a crap if someone scoffs at ‘political correctness’; this ain’t the world the founding fathers, or even Reagan knew. The choices are adapt or die. As a white male there are things I cannot do or say that a black and/or a female can. Just like 100 years ago there were things I could say and do that they couldn’t. I can whine about it or I can try to figure out how to get the message across that free markets and limited government result in the greatest good for the greatest number.


73 posted on 12/03/2013 9:30:39 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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