Posted on 02/04/2015 6:15:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s good to see conservatives have gotten back to letting the New York Times choose their nominees for them.
The only silver lining to Mitt Romney being pushed out of the presidential race — temporarily, I hope — is that the media’s preferred GOP candidate, Jeb Bush, is catnip to the stupidest influence-seekers, so Wall Street will be wasting all kinds of money over the next few months.
Then, Shemp Bush will declare and knock Jeb out of the running, only to be replaced by Zeppo Bush. I wouldn’t be putting a lot of money on another President Bush, unless we’re talking about the next president of Mexico.
Most candidates for office at least wait to get elected before betraying voters on immigration, because who doesn’t like surprises? Sen. Marco Rubio, for example, has spent his entire Washington career pushing amnesty, after saying repeatedly when he was running: “I will never support — never have and never will support — any effort to grant blanket legalization, amnesty, to folks who have entered this country illegally.”
It’s almost refreshing that Jeb doesn’t even bother to lie. To the contrary, he’s remarkably frank about his intention to pass amnesty, calling illegal immigration “an act of love.” Well, sure — in the sense that someone’s getting screwed.
I wonder if amnesty operates as a magnet for illegal immigrants … hey, does anyone know if there have there been any measles outbreaks lately? But I’m sure Jenny McCarthy is responsible for the nonstop viral outbreaks in the U.S. since 90,000 poverty-stricken, unvaccinated Central American kids poured across our border last year. Polio will be next.
Recently, ICE agents in Michigan captured a major Mexican drug dealer. They knew he was here illegally, but every time they asked him his immigration status, all he said was: “Obama.”
You know what’s an even bigger magnet for illegals than a politician’s promise to pass amnesty in the future? Governors offering them driver’s licenses and in-state tuition right now.
Guess who was one of the first governors in the nation to propose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens? Jeb Bush. He talked of little else during his second term. Fortunately, the Florida legislature never agreed. Even then-Sen. Hillary Clinton came out against driver’s licenses for illegals in 2007 — at least after polls showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea. Public opposition forced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to drop his plan to grant illegals driver’s licenses, and he’s a man who doesn’t give up on bad ideas easily.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave illegals in-state tuition. He also directed his temporary Senate appointee to vote for the Schumer-Rubio amnesty. This totally impressed Wall Street, but cost him his erstwhile biggest supporter, moi.
Gov. Rick Perry pushed through in-state tuition for illegals in Texas, and then lectured Republicans, saying, “If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.” (Romney’s response: “I think if you’re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have a heart. It means that you have a heart and a brain.”)
Gov. Mike Huckabee promoted in-state tuition, voting rights and public services for illegals, on the grounds that companies like Toyota and Nestle wouldn’t invest in Arkansas “if we send the message that, essentially, ‘If you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.’”
Rick Santorum gets exercised about immigration only when he’s running for office, but while in the Senate and throughout the 2012 campaign, he opposed employer sanctions for hiring illegals. Newt Gingrich was for amnestying all illegal immigrants except felons, which he planned to accomplish with a review board to consider the individual case of every illegal immigrant in the country.
The only Republican who has ever opposed the media and big campaign donors on immigration was Mitt Romney. You know, the guy we just kicked to the curb. On immigration, the elites speak with one voice: The donors want cheap labor, and the media hate Republicans who push ideas that are wildly popular with voters.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney repeatedly vetoed bills giving illegal aliens in-state tuition. He also vetoed a bill to extend health coverage to illegal aliens. And he made clear he would veto any bill allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, so those never made it to his desk.
While Jeb was one of the first governors to demand driver’s licenses for illegals, Romney was one of the first governors to strike a special agreement with federal immigration officials allowing Massachusetts state troopers to arrest illegal aliens.
But with the cheap-labor plutocrats up in arms during the 2012 presidential campaign over Romney’s suggestion that their serfs “self-deport,” all the Republican lickspittles rushed to denounce his untoward remark. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker — all of them lined up to take Sheldon Adelson’s loyalty oath, swearing that, as far as they were concerned, illegal aliens should be treated as honored guests.
You better pray for a “flip-flopper” on immigration, conservatives.
Disgusting.
My puppy love with Ann has been over for a long time but damn she can be hilarious.
Yeah I agree with you. The Chamber of Commerce really has sway over republican candidates. Shite they are on the same page as democrats on this. I think Cruz has established his opposition to amnesty based on the principle of executive overreach. whether he supports it through congressional legislative action, i don’t know. thoughts?
I’ve NEVER understood her apparent infatuation with Romney.
He is literally NOTHING. If you could find the term “Empty-Suit” in a dictionary, a picture of him would be shown.
Virtually no one that voted to elect Romney liked him. I’d wager that 80% of his voters wasn’t voting FOR him, they were voting AGAINST 0bama. That was certainly the case with my wife and I; along with everyone else I know.
Why in the HELL could she POSSIBLY want him to run again? There’s no basis for it. Nobody likes him, and on top of that; he’s a ‘Massachusetts Liberal’!
I believe it’s about time for her to get on a broom and fly off to one of the moons of Jupiter, where she can spend the rest of her days. (assuming she’s a female)
She has ZERO credibility left as far as I’m concerned. She is DONE!
“Not supporting Scott Walker, whom it would seem meets ALL of her criteria, truly.”
Scott Walker is pro-amnesty, which she is against.
he wants to tighten the border and stop amnesty, he is too smart to say anything about mass deportations if he wants to run in 2016
So it’s been said— but is THAT true? I think not, since Walker with AFSCME, SEIU and govt. employees unions of other acronyms- like teachers AFT etc. No anti-union governor would be for immigration amnesty. The unions support amnesty.
So, keep repeating the opposition talking points within the coming repub primary. It really helps a true conservative get trounced.
Not easy to discern. That side of her planet is currently facing away from the earth.
http://www.ontheissues.org/international/Ted_Cruz_Immigration.htm
And neither Bush was an imbecile, in fact, Dubya's only real negative prior to election was his view on illegal immigration. That happens to be the issue at hand but it was far from the only one in play.
That said, however, I think she has a point, because Jeb. Jeb is an empty suit minus the suit. Put him in the Oval Office and the gardener would have to be reminded not to water him. And both he and Hillary are finding out that "It's My Turn Now" is a crashingly unimpressive campaign slogan.
Walker fought unions— lots of them. He is not pro amnesty, and he has actually accomplished what Coulter’s lover boy Christie has only blustered about— and did it in a state that STARTED the statist govt. union movement many years ago. It’s dead in Wisconsin, and in Milwaukee in particular.
I think too many Grateful Dead concerts have finally softened Ann’s brain.
Mitt left the GOP because of Reagan, and if Cruz got the nomination, I think Romney could very well campaign for Hillary
She probably picked up something from one of the many leftists she dates
“But the I thought she was smart enough to know what a “generation” is too.”
She’s correct. George H.W.’s father was a senator.
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I've got to hand it to Ann Coulter, when she's hot she's hot!
She has a knack for nailing b@stards to the wall.
I fell off the Coulter bandwagon some time ago... but that's funny, right there.
Yes it sure is, I wonder who she stole it from?
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