Buh-bye.
Amnesty will ensure it goes blue. FURP!! NO AMNESTY PIMPS!!
“Texas could turn blue! Let’s give the illegal aliens amnesty in order to stop it!”
Makes lots of sense.
And until we get past meaningless platitudes like this one - patently untrue - and learn to look at the issue objectively we'll never make any progress towards a sustainable solution.
Not ALL immigrants are assets. In fact I'd guess MOST these days are NOT, they are a drag.
It is ONLY about the party winning that counts. A message the resonates with a section here at FR.
This does annoy me. We have always been a welcoming party, and we have always been color-blind. What we care about is character and philosophy. If you believe in freedom and the constitution and essential decency, you're one of us.
That Paul thinks he has to lecture us means he doesn't know us. Which for a guy who wants to lead us is odd.
Either you have principles, or you don’t. If you need to weaken your principle to appeal to a certain segment of the population, then you are finished as a party.
I guarantee that if the Republicans took a stand against illegals, and sent them all back home, Texas wouldn’t be in danger of turning Blue.
President Eisenhower know how to keep Texas from going Blue.
Just a side thought. In Russia, the word “blue” is a reference to homosexuality. So I guess the Democrats really are the blue party.
No one is immune from Potomac fever. NO......ONE.
We are honestly ... screwed.
Nothing short of MASS deportations would save us now, and the chance of that happening is nearly zero.
Texas IS going to turn blue, trust me on this. Unless the Republican party does SOMETHING to attract the Hispanic vote. I do not believe that amnesty will do it, in fact amnesty will only speed up the process of Texas turning blue.
I honestly don’t know what the answer is.
Rand Paul was and is an unpredictable weirdo
Rand Paul commits political suicide.
In 1992 I met a Mexican-American woman in San Diego at a research foundation. She confided to me that Mexicans were coached to inflate their numbers to census takers for the purpose of having more government allocated to their list of needs.
If Mexicans will lie to census takers, they will also lie about other things and they will commit ‘soft’ crimes without hesitating. One such soft crime would be voting multiple times.
The 2012 election was not lost because of the lack of Hispanic support for the GOP. It was lost because conservatives stayed home rather than vote for Romney.
After election analysis pinned the loss on the old Perot bloc of blue collar conservative voters. These voters number more than 6 million. Their passionate participation would have given the GOP the Presidency.
Hispanics are not needed yet. But an eye must be kept on their tendency to break the law. Strong election observers are needed.
The way to secure the Hispanic votes are to attract them through better economic policy. Ultimately Hispanics want to climb ladders to prosperity. They have a fairly strong work ethic but they will take whatever freebies are for the taking and they will lie and game the system to milk the system of all freebies possible.
Get the economy into high gear and tighten on the freebies and Hispanics will vote conservative if they see a ladder for them to climb and it must be a conservative ladder, not a run of the mill corruption offering that the democrats bring to them.
General comment: Asked this on yesterday’s thread but no one replied.
—Someone care to explain why Freepers, supposedly more informed and intelligent than the average LIV or liberal, still harbor the fantasy that this idiot is a conservative and worse yet, promote him as one?
Someone? Anyone?—
So can we now safely assume people who continue to forward Paul as an acceptable candidate are in fact shilling for the GOPe? I would hope so. Because if we don’t figure out who we can ‘trust’ to uphold conservatism now, we’re all gonna be riding the Right Wing Romney-go-Round again shortly.
Remember the whole “Feet to the fire” thing? Well, was it all just talk or not?
Well...that nut didn’t fall to far from the tree!
The GOP couldn’t be more “inclusive” right now. Abortion, amnesty, gun control.....
Why?
Pimping to Turn the USA Socialist?
It's What the Uniparty wants.
Enforce existing laws!
Go by the existing laws to become a leagal citizen.. (Americans are supposed to obey the law) then start living the American dream.
American citizenship is not just given away in turn for votes.
Rand Paul should be run out on a rail for this!