Patrick J. Buchanan: GOP's amnesty caucus raises the white flag - Republicans won't

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GOP's amnesty caucus raises the white flag

Pat Buchanan: Republicans won't win Hispanics by capitulating to Obama

Published: 8 hours ago
by Patrick J. Buchanan

On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama.

We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious about securing the border against yet another invasion. Only after an independent commission agrees the border has been secured will the 11 million be given green cards and put on a path to citizenship.

The next day in Las Vegas, Obama, reveling in victory, instructed the four waving their white flags that the defeated do not dictate terms.

Get cracking on comprehensive reform now, Obama instructed Marco and John, or I send my own bill to the Hill, granting amnesty to every illegal alien, with no preconditions.

Putting the 11 million illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship should begin not after the border is better secured, but the day the bill is signed.

In a pointed lecture to Rubio, the Great Hispanic Hope of the GOP, Obama said, “We have done more on border security in the last four years than we have done in the previous 20.”

A graduate of the Saul Alinsky school, Obama can smell the defeatism in the Republican Party. And he knows how to treat supplicants begging for a fig leaf to cover the nakedness of their capitulation.

But why are the Republicans surrendering their “no amnesty” stand, which has been party policy since America rallied to the GOP’s opposition to amnesty in 2007, when a national grass-roots uprising routed McCain, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush himself?

McCain fears the future. We got 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, and the reason is our position on illegal aliens, he argues. Until we get this behind us, we will never again get the 40 percent of the vote Bush got. Either we capitulate to Obama and La Raza, or we are doomed.

Why is McCain wrong?

He is wrong on principle. Should a majority of women tell pollsters they are against overturning Roe v. Wade, does the party abandon its pro-life stand and cease calling for Supreme Court justices who might overturn Roe?

What kind of party is that? What kind of people do that?

Who thought in 2007 we could rout the establishment of both parties?

Washington is not invincible. But you cannot rally the people if you are not prepared to lead and fight.

Republican capitulation on amnesty is not going to win Hispanic votes, but it will demoralize the party base.

McCain, the amnesty champion today and in 2007, got 31 percent of the Hispanic vote against Obama.

Why is he an expert on what the party should do?

When those 11 million illegals have completed their path to citizenship and become voters, why should they, or the millions more family members they will have brought in by then, vote for the GOP? Hispanics are not small-government people. They believe in and benefit disproportionately from Big Government.

Some 53 percent of Hispanic children are born out of wedlock, and 52 percent of Hispanic families are headed by single women.

Big Government provides their kids with Head Start before school, free K-through-12 schooling, Pell Grants and student loans for college, and two or three free meals a day at school for the kids.

Big Government provides food stamps, welfare for mom and earned income tax credit checks should she work. Big Government subsidizes her housing and provides free health care for the family through Medicaid.

A Pew Hispanic poll found that by 3-to-1, Hispanics would favor a big government with more services to a small government with fewer services.

Why would these folks vote for a Republican Party that promises to downsize the Big Government upon which they depend for sustenance, security and survival? Why would they vote for a party that is going to cut capital gains, income and inheritance taxes they don’t pay?

The 11 million illegals, who came with nothing, are poorer than the Hispanics who are already citizens.

When we make citizens of them and the family members they bring in, our welfare state will explode and the social safety net will sag under the weight of millions of new beneficiaries.

Republicans win between 27 and 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Add 10 million new Hispanic voters, and Democrats will realize a net gain of 2 to 4 million new voters.

There goes the Southwest, and there goes the presidency, forever.

Amnesty would be the greatest victory for mass lawbreaking in U.S. history. It would reward those who broke our laws and make fools of those who waited in line back home to come to America.

And this is about more than economics. It is about our sovereignty, our security, our national culture and our national identity.

This fight is not yet lost, and even should we lose, is it not better to go down fighting than to ask for terms from Barack Obama?


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So easy to understand.

Thank the Lord for Pat Buchanan. It is honest and important statements like this one that are the reason he is not allowed on the main stream media networks anymore.

Me and Pat B are too honest for the major networks these days.

W

Irrespective of any action Republicans now take on illegal aliens, the media, complying with their buddies in the White House & Democrat party, will continue to duplicitously portray them as evil & the problem, with direct & veiled references & assertions that Republicans & conservatives are racists. Democrats have co-opted the racism message on blacks as an example. Look into history & the only legislation Republicans objected to were versions that were laden with 'other' issues that were intended to be poison pills on legislation Republicans would have agreed to. In fact, much of the progress legislatively done on the past two hundred years, was initiated by Republicans. W/o their efforts & support, Democrats would still have segregation laws on the books & be treating blacks as less than human. But the media & liberal professors in academia have so distorted the history that today, many blacks actually think Republicans were the obstacle. Democrats are trying to claim Lincoln. Lincoln was REPUBLICAN, not a Democrat. Point is, capitulating is insane. W/o border security, the influx of additional illegal's will be huge as those new entrants seek the same great freebee deal current illegal aliens may get. If the border is so secure, then why do tons & tons of illegal drugs get into the USA? In addition, someone in power is obviously profiting from that illegal drug activity, because BILLIONS of dollars of ill-gotten illegal profits is getting OUT of America. How is that happening? I suggest many politico's who are opposed to proper border security, plus some Republicans seeking profits as well, are secretly profiting from that illegal drug activity. There is NO WAY that this could go on for decades, w/o hundreds of millions being intercepted at that border. Only those complicit in such activities, could make it possible for the TONS of drugs to get in & the BILLIONS in illegal profits getting out. Those cartels are not investing that money in the USA. It would cause too much notice. Questions would be asked about massive investments & money going into bank accounts, since major deposits require federal forms notifying the authorities. Then again, few federal laws & regulations are actually enforced anymore, so what can we expect? LOL Point is, no secure border, no immigration deal. Make the case on the news, even if ONLY Fox News provides a bully pulpit to make your case. You know the others will distort, even lie, to support any liberal progressive cause. They all look to be rabid socialists!