Posted on 11/22/2006 5:29:38 AM PST by Dane
Did you support passage of S.2611, the Senate immigration reform bill that would have allowed millions of illegal aliens the opportunity to obtain legal status, as well as the opportunity to pursue a path to citizenship?
The GOP share of the white vote also declined. The GOP share of the white vote was 58% in the 2002 mid-term elections. In the 2006 mid-term elections, it was 51%. If the GOP had gotten 58% or more of the white vote in 2006, it would have held on to both houses of Congress. Stating that the GOP share of the Hispanic voted declined proves nothing because its share of both the Hispanic vote and the white vote declined.
I believe you are incorrect about anti-illegal immigration candidates not doing well in the last election. Only about six and a half percent (6.5%) of the members of Cong. Tancredo's Immigration Reform Caucus lost their seats. Weren't somewhere around eleven and a half percent (11.5%) of all Republican seats lost? If I am incorrect about those figues, please correct me.
How many Democrats that defeated incumbent Republicans that supported H.R.4437 actually ran on a platform of support for both legalization of millions of illegal aliens, as well a path to citizenship for those illegal aliens? Many Democrats that defeated incumbent Republicans that supported H.R. 4437 attempted to portray themselves as being as tough or tougher than their Republican opponent on illegal immigration and border security.
What potential 2008 presidential candidate or candidates do you believe would make a good president?
What potential 2008 presidential candidate or candidates do you believe would make a good president?
I agree. I'd say it's more like electric blue helicopters with fluorescent orange day-glow paisleys.
PRND21 has posted that he might support Rudy for president. Apparently, his idea of someone who he could support for president is a cross-dressing liberal. I will not be voting for Rudy. I don't intend to cast a vote for a liberal drag queen.
Tancredo pulls the pin, throws the grenade and then jumps on it himself.
The begining of the self destruction of a single (albeit important)issue candidate who is trying to expand the interest of a bored and sanguine electorate.
Dane, you posted the following: "Huh, then why did 25 members of his immigration caucus and voted for H.R> 4437 lost, of most notice the two candidates he actively campaigned for, Graf and Hayworth."
Why did you falsely claim that twenty-five (25) members of Cong. Tancredo's caucus were defeated? Do you just make up facts and then post them at FR as truth?
President Bush continues to push for legislation that would legalize millions of illegal aliens and give those millions of illegal aliens a path to citizenship.
Mitt Romney WILL be the next President.
Once we reach debates, he will wipe the floor with all the others. He is too smart, too good looking and too well prepared to lose.
Place your bets, because it is a LOCK.
I know this is late, but I loved your post. Too bad nobody bothered to answer your questions!
He Tator Salad, you're confusing apples with oranges, er Mexicans with Canadians. Canadians working in the U.S. economy are a net plus to the economy. Mexicans are not. The Heritage foundation found that the cost to the U.S. Taxpayer is $100,000 per illegal over the life of *each* illegal. Because they are seen as potential voters, they are coodled and draw upon social entitlements, i.e., education, health care, foodstamps in a hugely disproportionate way, over any other constitutuency and that would include, 'um Canadians.
Your pithy questions to anti-illegal immigrant advocates are only clever by half.
A large number of anti illegal immigration congressmen got defeated. Democrats want Amnesty and Fast Citizenship for ALL Hispanics. That is what the Democrats want and there are not anywhere near enough Republicans opposed to that policy to stop them.
What part of the Democrats now control both the House and Senate escapes you? There are not enough anti Mexican immigration Republicans in the Senate to filibuster the bill! It is going to pass both houses and Bush has said many times that he will sign the bill.
Only a hanful of voters care what a Mexican immigrant costs society. There were not enough to elect several anti illegal immigration candidates. It was the pro mexican immigration candidates that won enough races to allow Democrats to take control of both houses of congress.
You are Clueless.
It is our outdated voting customs that that are to blame for this.
I should be able to vote a sequence i.e., Perotka, if he loses Tancredo gets my vote, if he loses, then the Republican gets my vote, if he loses the vote dies.
Ask the founding Fathers of the US Constitution, they basically set up a political 2 party electoral system.
Hey you can diss the founding Fathers, that's your right, as prescribed in the 1st amendment.
I mean no disrespect.
Well they did set up a winner take all system, especially for Congress, remember that when you go half-cocked about third and fourth parties.
What a frickin maroon.
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