Posted on 01/10/2009 8:33:16 AM PST by bimboeruption
Edited on 01/10/2009 8:35:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President George W. Bush told a group of Texas reporters Friday that he regretted immigration policies were not reformed while he was in office.
"I'm very disappointed that it didn't pass," he said in an interview with correspondents from his home state. "I'm very worried about the message that said, 'Republicans are anti-immigrant.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
A consistent view from the politician who believes we are an economy and not a nation.
Exactly! "The Republican party is anti-immigrant"! So he's putting the "image" of party before country? How about the United States is a nation of laws and therefore anti-ILLEGAL immigrant?
The RNC called me for money yesterday and I refused. Caller kept going through the spiel and I thought it's a bunch of "oh the democrats are bad" marketing baloney. The actions of the Republicans have been pathetic.
BS. We had an amnesty in 1986. The USG estimated that 1 million would apply and the real number turned out to be 2.7 million. We now have 12 to 20 million illegals in this country and about 400,000 anchor babies born annually. There are also almost 11 million Mexicans living here. It is far better to be poor in America than poor in Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America.
Hopefully when Bush goes, so will many of the sanctimonious “Republicans” that supported him.
When Red State declared that the phrase “Jorge Arbusto” was “racist” and would be banned, I stopped going there. There’s no point in supporting Republicans if they do the opposite of what you want them to.
You’re exactly right Karl. Good for you.
There is something absolutely unbearable about watching someone supposedly on your team, do destructive things to the nation. For this reason, I wish Bush would resign today. Yes I’m serious. This puddin head has seldom gotten it, and he is embarrassing not only himself with these comments, but our party as a whole, and more importantly Conservatism as a whole.
Get the F out of Dodge Mr. President. And for God’s sake, please don’t think Jimmy Carter is a role model to be emulated. Go fishing and live a long life. Just don’t do ‘foot in mouth’ from the sidelines. Please!
Blackwell is in favor of amnesty, i.e., getting to the back of the line for citizenship.
It’s my opinion that we hear very little in the media about tens of millions of illegals coming here, and a whole lot about a few hundred that have returned to Mexico. And guess what, travel back across the border was always something that took place. So we’re not seeing that much out of the ordinary right now. The media is just blowing it out to take pressure off the illegals to go home. If the public is convinced it’s already taking place, they won’t demand it. The only thing is, they probably aren’t going back home in any actually significant numbers.
Can't argue with that. But in all fairness, Bush never claimed to be a conservative. In fact he was quite clear about his immigration stance back in 2000. He even gave speeches in Spanish.
But alas, we were once again faced with a bad or worse choice scenario and have been ever since. We were screwed no matter how things went and at least we didn't have to suffer Gorebasm's
I'm not defending Bush in any way but he didn't lie about who or what he was.
But it was never about any noble reform. It's about The Family continuing in power, specifically in the form of George P., their Hope of the Future.
Anyone who doesn't believe that need only refer to the astonishing, psychotic rap from Big Daddy Bush the other day about how he thinks Number 1 Son should be President.
"Clueless" doesn't begin to describe the man.
“You rank right up there with Klinton and Carter as an idiot.”
Having live through both, I heartily agree.
Father like Son, only the Son actually took the additional step of ruining the conservative movement.
A dumb and very unhelpful statement. W seems determined to prove himself as dumb and clueless as his detractors have always said. The US takes in at least 1,200,000 legal immigrants and refugees each year, and has been at that level since GHWB. But, if the majority of the party doesn't give him standing ovations for wanting to grant citizenship to 12 to 20 million lawbreakers, then the party is "anti-immigrant."
W, and Rove and McCain and others have done incalculable damage to the Republican party by pushing this nonsense, that the party rejected time and again, pushing it for most all of his two terms, and causing a pointless and damaging internal fight. Then they had to insult and denigrate anyone who disagreed with them. Maybe W's old, stab-in-the-back friend Vicente Fox has it right: W is the cockiest person he's even known.
"See you at the bill signing." And I expect W will be there is Obama manages to get amnesty passed, smirking and still insulting those "anti-immigrant" Republicans.
Good riddance to this RINO phony. And, no, no one can say he's kept us safe until five or so years after he leaves the WH. If anyone wants to declare he kept us safe now, then he has to be 100% responsible for 9/11. Who knows how many terrorists W's refusal to enforce the borders have allowed into the US, and who knows what plots might be afoot to be carried out after he leaves office.
>>Can't argue with that. But in all fairness, Bush never claimed to be a conservative. In fact he was quite clear about his immigration stance back in 2000. He even gave speeches in Spanish.<<
Yes, Bush did. He called himself a "compassionate Conservative." Now we know what he meant.
Father like Son, only the Son actually took the additional step of ruining the conservative movement.
I regret this guy ever became president.
As he waves goodbye from the helicopter, on his way to his family fortune, the country behind him now resembles a smoldering crater...
Obama is Bush's legacy.
>You would think he would get the message that there is a difference between IMMIGRATION and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.<
Not when you believe in a one-world government like he does. To believe in it, one first has to renounce his own country.
How can he possibly justify illegal immigration and at the same time claim that homeland security is his primary concern?
Here's Blackwell's immigration policy:
Did you support the comprehensive immigration reform proposed during the Bush administration?
Blackwell: No. I basically believe that it was still not strong enough in first protecting our borders. But more importantly than just protecting our borders, we have to have an approach to this problem that reestablishes the rule of law. If we have been anything as a country in our 232 years in existence, it is that we have been a country that respects the rule of law. So the guidepost for any approach to our immigration challenges, illegal immigration challenges, has to be the reestablishment of the rule of law. While I think we had a positive impact on the shaping of the final document, the job was not complete and it was not satisfactory.
What is your solution for the 12 million people who are here illegally?
Blackwell: First, I think what we have to do first is stop the bleeding, meaning protect our borders. We then must have a reasonable--within the construct of our budgetary limits--have a program that basically says we will go after illegal immigrants, particularly those we suspect are engaged in criminal activity and we will prosecute and deport them. We then will have a system that puts folks who have come here illegally but haven’t engaged in criminal activity at the back of the line. So, the message we must continue to send is that we will strengthen, at every turn, the rule of law.
Go here to read about all of Ken's policies: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41426
I wanted to vote LP, but voted in Florida, and it was so close and there my voted counted.
I meet a lot of conservative Republicans that would vote LP, if the party moved to where people are mentally.
Even I had trouble with Ron Paul’s foreign policy. Too radical. In hindsight he would of been great as our Republican Candidate. In a way, as much a outsider within the GOP as Obama was to the DP.
I think he would of lost.
But we conservative/libertarians would of had something to show for it.
Liberal Big Government GOPers would of been apPAULled.
For the GOP, we are on a generation swing. A lot of the party ‘leaders’ are old. They need to go. Romney is a airhead political opportunist. Go. Huckabee is cloying fraud. McCain is near neigh senile and needs to join Bob Dole at the early bird buffet.
I’m looking forward to Palin, Joe the Plumber, Jingle. Anyone young.
Older GOP have had their chance, the f’ed it up, went along to get along, ruined trashed the GOP brand.
They suck, they are not personally important, and no matter what these lying frauds and opportunist say, nothing is to be trusted. Let them write books no one will read and give speeches to the South Dakota Time Life Insurance Agents Bi-annual Sales Award Dinner.
I am no fan of George Bush. He stabs conservatives in the back when ever he can. But did you see who is coming into office? Think of Bush times 10. Four years from now, Bush is going to look a lot better than he does now.
I sadly agree.
Another Tea Party is long overdue.
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