Thread: Compassionate Conservatism Fades South of the Border?

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Compassionate Conservatism Fades South of the Border?

By Eneas Biglione : BIO | 08 Feb 2006

The recent decision of the public relations firm Allyn & Company to take charge of the task of improving Mexico's image in the United States and Canada has angered some conservatives. They have labeled Rob Allyn -- Allyn & Company's president and CEO -- a traitor and have threatened to boycott the firm.

In a stern response, Allyn declared: "I have gotten so tired of the way people treat Mexico. I believe in the cause, so I love the opportunity to share my views. I've held these views for a long time. I relish the opportunity to help in some small way." He added stingingly, "The conservative movement I signed up for stood for tearing walls down, not building them."

Indeed, Allyn & Company's website boasts that Allyn's public relations team worked with great success on President George W. Bush's 2000 primary campaign. The firm later aided Vicente Fox in his successful bid for the Mexican presidency, the same Vicente Fox who is the first conservative president elected in Mexico after an unbroken 72 years of socialist governments controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Mexican voters entrusted Fox with the responsibility of overseeing great change: to tackle corruption, insecurity, and poverty and to promote improved relations with Mexico's neighbors. Fox perceived the broadening of NAFTA with the United States and Canada as a way to strengthen Mexico and confront the country's weaknesses. He never plundered or begged, but saw in the exportation of Mexican products and workers a possible solution to Mexico's woes. Fox's government stimulated the production and exportation of high-technology manufactured goods and used diplomacy to try to negotiate a temporary visa program that is more generous to low-skilled Mexican workers. Of course, the chronic corruption, wild public spending, and poverty that Fox's government inherited from the PRI are not easy conditions to reverse after only five years in office.

Fox has been at the United States' side during several international scandals: the first occurred when the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro revealed statements made during a private telephone conversation he had with Fox in March of 2002. During the call, the Mexican president requested discretion from Castro during the UN Summit in Monterrey and, more specifically, asked that he not insult President Bush or the United States during his stay in Mexico.

The second scandal is more recent. At the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Fox proudly declared that Castro and the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had not succeeded in their attempts to dissuade a majority of Latin American countries from signing bilateral free trade agreements with the United States. After hearing this remark, Chavez repeatedly insulted the Mexican president and even branded him a "puppet of the [American] empire". In both cases Fox risked much for the United States and paid dearly for it in his credibility in certain Latin American countries.

It is worrisome, then, that the United States -- the most powerful country in the world and an excellent example of the institutions that a country must adopt to achieve prosperity -- is devoting so much time and so many resources to the construction of a wall on its border with Mexico. The anti-Mexican hysteria does nothing more than add to the arguments of enemies of the United States and discourage the world's conservatives from working side-by-side with the United States on the true fronts of the fight against the Axis of Evil.

The contract between Allyn & Company and the Mexican government is far from treason. It exemplifies, instead, a search for better communication between countries whose conservatives ought to be natural allies in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, as well as on many other battlefronts as well.


Eneas Biglione is a Senior Fellow at the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research (HACER).

Sounds to me like we struck a nerve.

The anti-Mexican hysteria does nothing more than add to the arguments of enemies of the United States and discourage the world's conservatives from working side-by-side with the United States on the true fronts of the fight against the Axis of Evil.

The only Axis of Evil I see is Bush, Cheney, Fox and Rove.

saw in the exportation of Mexican products and workers a possible solution to Mexico's woes.

This is where he made his first mistake.

Are they upset over something?!

The recent decision of the public relations firm Allyn & Company to take charge of the task of improving Mexico's image in the United States and Canada has angered some conservatives. They have labeled Rob Allyn -- Allyn & Company's president and CEO -- a traitor and have threatened to boycott the firm.

Traitor huh? Well you know what they say? If the shoe fits...

In a stern response, Allyn declared: "I have gotten so tired of the way people treat Mexico.

So what? I'm tired of the way Mexico treats us.

I believe in the cause, so I love the opportunity to share my views. I've held these views for a long time. I relish the opportunity to help in some small way.

If you love Mexico so much, why don't you pack your bags and go live there then?

"The conservative movement I signed up for stood for tearing walls down, not building them."

Of course you did. That's because you are a phony and a neocon globalist who doesn't believe in borders, doesn't believe in the nation state, doesn't believe in a nations sovereignty, doesn't believe in perserving our language and culture. You are for one world economy/one world government. It's people like you who are destroying this country from within for the sake of profit and that makes you a traitor.

saw in the exportation of Mexican products and workers a possible solution to Mexico's woes.

Some solution that is. We don't want you here in your own country. Head North if you want to survive. Go ask America for a handout because we're not going to take care of you. Yet Mexico is still a cesspool and these locusts are running America into the ground. Yet Vicente Fox is still super wealthy.

Fox's government stimulated the production and exportation of high-technology manufactured goods and used diplomacy to try to negotiate a temporary visa program that is more generous to low-skilled Mexican workers.

More like forced his agenda down our throats.

Of course, the chronic corruption, wild public spending, and poverty that Fox's government inherited from the PRI are not easy conditions to reverse after only five years in office.

Could you be any more of an apologist? I understand that you can't fix everything, but Vicente has done nothing, he's made no progress whatsoever. If the US closed the borders and took away Mexico's remittance and drug money then that country would be ripe for a civil war. The US is the only reason Mexico isn't in total chaos. How many more times are we going to keep being the safety valve for Mexican incompetence.

Fox has been at the United States' side during several international scandals: the first occurred when the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro revealed statements made during a private telephone conversation he had with Fox in March of 2002. During the call, the Mexican president requested discretion from Castro during the UN Summit in Monterrey and, more specifically, asked that he not insult President Bush or the United States during his stay in Mexico.

Since when do I care if some idiot stands up for Jorge Bush? We don't even like the idiot in our own country and wish that he would get impeached. It's not like Vicente Fox hasn't made some insulting remarks of his own against our country and it's people either. We don't want or need Vicente's help. With friends like Vicente who needs enemies.

It is worrisome, then, that the United States -- the most powerful country in the world and an excellent example of the institutions that a country must adopt to achieve prosperity -- is devoting so much time and so many resources to the construction of a wall on its border with Mexico.

Maybe if millions of Mexicans weren't invading this country stealing, raping and murdering thousands of Americans per year then we wouldn't need a wall. Maybe if Mexicans would obey the laws of this land, come here legally and stop acting like a bunch of arrogant, law breaking savages then we wouldn't need a wall.

The anti-Mexican hysteria does nothing more than add to the arguments of enemies of the United States and discourage the world's conservatives from working side-by-side with the United States on the true fronts of the fight against the Axis of Evil.

The only axis of evil I see is the two men running the presidency and the minions that work for them. I really don't want to work with Mexico because quite frankly, we've been trying that route for years and quite frankly I don't see the return investment on our end. I don't see what great we are getting out of it. It seems to me that the only people profitting from this are the globalists business owners, the corrupt politicans and the Mexicans themselves.

The contract between Allyn & Company and the Mexican government is far from treason. It exemplifies, instead, a search for better communication between countries whose conservatives ought to be natural allies in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, as well as on many other battlefronts as well.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what the hell has Mexico ever done to help us on either fronts? Mexican cartels are pushing their contraband down our throats with the help of the Mexican military and from the blessings of both of our incompetent governments. Mexico has never sent one troop overseas to help us fight the terror front either. Mexico tried to blackmail us on Iraq saying they would only help if we legalized all of their Mexican lawbreaking citizens. Some ally they are. Again with friends like this....

So you can take your we need to be better allies talk and shove it up your a$$. Mexico isn't a friend, they are a bunch of parasites who have been exploiting our hospitality for years. Mexico has mistakened our kindness as a weakness for far too long and it ends now.

In a stern response, Allyn declared: "I have gotten so tired of the way people treat Mexico. I believe in the cause, so I love the opportunity to share my views. I've held these views for a long time. I relish the opportunity to help in some small way."

So does this mean that he's working for free?