Posted on 06/27/2007 8:21:20 AM PDT by flixxx
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Immigration and the GOP How to make Republicans a minority party once again.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
Immigration reform stayed alive in the Senate yesterday, albeit not without continuing rancor among Republicans. Restrictionists seem to believe the issue will harm the GOP if it succeeds, but we think the political reality is closer to the opposite: The greater danger for Republicans is if it fails.
We've written often about the merits of immigration reform, and we have our own problems with parts of the Senate bill. But it's worth spending some time on the larger politics of the issue, especially for Republicans. They're caught between a passionate minority of their party--who oppose any reform that allows illegals a path to citizenship--and the larger electorate, which is more moderate and wants to solve the problem. Like Democrats on national security, this is a classic case in which pandering to the base will harm the GOP overall.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Then solve the problem. Just make sure the problem has been correctly identified, and that the proposed remedies actually solve it.
For instance, I do not see the problem as being a lack of unskilled workers, welfare recipients, or future Democrat voters.
You are correct. If amnesty was the will of the people, the bill would have passed last year. Year after year, well-designed polls find that the vast majority of Americans want the borders secured. It’s not just a few right wing nuts, WSJ, and you know it. It’s the American people.
When it comes to immigration, F the WSJ! (Thank you Michelle Malkin)
TWJ - The New Socialist/Globalist Rag. Then can't stand that the majority of the American people are against this. Hopefully the WSJ will continue to become irrelevant.
Spin, spin, spin, spin...more total BS. This piece is about as dishonest as anything I’ve ever seen in print.
Don't you think it was immigration itself that doomed the GOP in California. The voter base changed. Demographics. This bill will make all states California demographically, and California will go off the reservation politically with naturalized illegal voters.
Hannity had Dick Morris on the show last night and Morris hit the nail on the head. Morris said that Bush is adamant that the Mexicans coming over the border in droves will instantly become Republican voters that will allways remember the gringo president that made it all possible.
G.W. has to be smoking wacky weed and doing mushrooms and peyote!!!!!!
Morris said also, though that the Rats believe this too, but they know that the illegals will and already have voted for Rats over Re-pubics all the time.
Unfortunately it is not. Using false documents to do so is, however IIRC.
“Articles like this by not only WSJ but most especially the editors of
the Editorial Page, are the main reason we have cancelled our decades
long subscriptions.”
Same thing for my parents.
They tired of financially supporting editorial writing in favor of
the invasion of the USA by an army of identity theives.
Then enforce the law, Secure the border.
Result - everyone but the illegals and their supporters are happy.
GOP sweeps to victory. Simple, yes, desired result, yes.
Yeah, you only have to read into the second sentence of the second paragraph to know that the whole article is BS:
“caught between a passionate minority of their party”
How about correcting the to th passionate MAJORITY of the party and of the ELECTORATE!
The WSJ has lost all credibility on Shamnesty!
“Restrictionists” is wrong.
“Pro-Law-Enforcement” is right.
WSJ are Pro Amnesty for Lawbreakers.
The WSJ editorial board is in severe denial about what the attitude of most Americans is toward legalizing the 10s of millions of illegals and allowing them to bring in and legalize additional family members from abroad.
Far from taking the issue “off the table,” if the bill passes, it will be a bigger issue in the upcoming election than if it fails. An enraged populace will seek to punish their representatives who so adamantly defied the wishes of the American people on this issue.
As to the political reality of which party these illegals will vote for, the WSJ is either completely disconnected from reality or, as I believe, is being intentionally dishonest here to fool the gullible. We are to believe millions of low income, uneducated Mexican and Central American peasants are NOT going to vote overwhelmingly for the party that promises them more government benefits and socialism? And that panders to the most racist and irrendist elements among them? The advice from the WSJ to Republicans is to allow tens of millions of future Democrat voters to become part of the electorate, because otherwise Republicans might anger hispanics? Perhaps the Republican party should simply disband now, so as not to offend its opponents.
And of course, the WSJ pulls out that favorite tactic of dishonest immigration demagogues, conflating illegal and legal immigration, pretending that those opposed to amnesty are simply “hostile to immigration.”
The WSJ is repeating the big lie. A huge majority of Americans don’t want this “legislation” to pass. They want our laws enforced, the fence built and our borders closed. Period. We just cannot absorb large numbers of immigrants at the pace we are doing now. Nor do we want a bilingual or bicultural state.
exactly.
Very Excellent Post.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Interesting, there is some news floating around out there with comments by former Sen. Alan Simpson (Simpson-Mazzoli).
From a speech at Texas A & M, he states that “all immigration policy is base (on) four things: emotion, fear, compassion or racism”. No wonder the administration is calling us fearmongers and racists - they truly believe in the Immigration Bible according to Simpson - part of his speech below:
“Former Senator Alan Simpson Speaks At Texas A&M Conference
COLLEGE STATION - Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson says that all immigration policy is based four things: emotion, fear, compassion or racism.
“Congress will pass or kill any immigration bill for one of these four reasons,” he notes, adding that these are also weapons used to distort the public’s view of the immigration issues.
Simpson, the coauthor of the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, spoke to a large group of scholars and policy makers attending a Texas A&M University conference titled “Presidential Rhetoric and the Politics of Immigration.” It was the seventh annual conference sponsored by the Program in Presidential Rhetoric at Texas A&M.
“During this year’s conference, we have been examining the use of language and symbols in presidential immigration policy and how this might influence public beliefs and attitudes,” said Martin Medhurst, coordinator of the program.
After telling the audience not to worry, he wasn’t running for anything, Simpson effectively used humor to bring up some serious issues. He pointed out that presidents are not good at dealing with immigration because of all the issues connected with it and because emotion, fear and racism tends to freeze people in place.
Saying there is no such thing as a “temporary worker from another country,” Simpson explained that this is because workers come and bring their families or form families here and they become permanent. Then he quipped that the poem on the Statue of Liberty doesn’t say anything about “legal or illegal tired, hungry and poor.”
“What is in our national interest?” he asked. “ The first duty of a sovereign nation is to control its borders so we must keep in mind what is best for all the nation.” Simpson added that acceptance of others cannot be forced.
“Political correctness just stuffs a sock in the mouth and doesn’t cure racism. It just tramps it down and later it comes out like Mount Vesuvius erupting,” he emphasized.
“Caring and finding common goals, destiny and language is what will bring people together,” he added. ...”
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