I've given thousands of dollars to the Party over the years.
I've done data entry, manned phone banks, driven old people to polls, put up signs, removed signs after election day. I've worked 10, 12, and 20 hours per day at the polls and afterward on election night as a Poll Watcher, Runner, Driver and Election Official.
In the run-up to two elections for President Bush I worked 20 hours a week for months--after my regular 40-50 hours were done and have sacrificed tens of thousands of dollars in billable hours in addition to the priceless and unrecoverable time with my family and my own mortality that this has required.
My Dad was a social worker. I grew up in somewhat poor circumstances in housing projects and minority neighborhoods and I can tell you on several occasions I went with him in the middle of the night to take a foster kid or a mentally ill person out of potentially dangerous situations. There are legal Latino immigrants in my family. I haven't got a prejudiced bone in my body and I've always been particularly stung, given my own family history, to have charges of racism casually thrown at my Party by "Progressives."
Tell me, given all that I've done why I should have to hear the President's minions and their proxies refer to me as a racist, or blithely dismiss me as a lunatic who expects the "death penalty" for illegal immigrants because I expect people to obey the law. Tell me, after all that I've done for this President why I have to listen to him accuse me of not wanting what's right for America.
Mr. White House spokesman, I finally scraped my "W" bumper sticker off my car today; My heart is broken. Tell the President that I worked so hard to elect "Happy Birthday." And then tell him to support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, as he promised twice he would do.
This Bill is a betrayal of the Republican Party and all that it stands for. The Party of Lincoln must not become another Party of aggrieved minorities of any nationality or any color: the leftists can have their group identity politics. It is a game that a party I belong to will not and must not play. The party I belong to must support the rule of law and must regard Americans as equal before it without any regard as to whether they belong to the largest or smallest, fastest growing or most slowly dieing demographic.
The Bill is a betrayal of America. I can hardly believe a man I worked twice to elect has decided to embrace it. Tell the President "Happy Birthday," and tell him as far as my support is concerned, goodbye.
Thank you for a thoughtful, well written appeal to all that is decent and honorable... if any honor is left in this administration, they would be wise to listen and listen well.
You had a very thoughtful post.
I thought you might want to ping nthompsonwhitehouse since he is the person from the Whitehouse.
Very well said and a hearty Bump!
We need a intervention with Bush, the same as is done with alcoholics, drug addicts, etc. We need an in-your-face demonstration of how his selfishness and bad decisions are destroying our "family," our nation. That intervention has already begun, on the Internet and talk radio. And since our President insists on continuing to "drink" from the open-borders well, our task to ramp up the intervention is clear.
Thank you, sir, for your able contribution to that effort.
Congressman Billybob
Linda Chavez can _speculate_ about bigotry, but her own criminality is a matter of _record_.