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    Hard line on immigration helps GOP

    Hard line on immigration helps GOP

    JAMES P. PINKERTON
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    June 14, 2007

    Today, it looks like the immigration issue is ripping apart

    the Republican Party. But tomorrow - 2008 - could be a different story.

    Specifically, it's George W. Bush who is ripping up Republican unity. Reflecting his own rich kid Texas roots - doesn't everyone own a ranch, requiring lots of nonwhite people to do the work? - Bush is determined to bring the benefits of the Tara Plantation lifestyle to more of his fellow millionaires. But what about the middle class, which finds its wages depressed, its culture besieged and its sovereignty challenged? Well, frankly, Bush doesn't give a damn.

    One who sees this cynical ethnic manipulation clearly is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In a piece written for the June 11 Human Events, Gingrich accuses the administration of seeking to "blackmail the American people by threatening to refuse to enforce the law without a new bill." He continues: "A number of powerful figures in the Bush administration and in the Senate have been saying that if we do not agree to pass this destructive bill, they will never enforce the law."

    Yup, that's blackmail, all right. Or maybe, in a time of suitcase-based terrorism, it's an even worse crime than that.

    Proving Gingrich's point, Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Insecurity and Amnesty (OK, that's not what it says on his business card, but it should), announced, per The Washington Post, that enforcement is a "hostage" of those who oppose the Bush amnesty bill. That is, either opponents give in, or Chertoff won't enforce the existing law. Correction: Chertoff won't pretend to enforce the law.

    Because the White House is adopting this win-at-all-costs strategy, it's possible it will get its bill through. That is, Bush will forsake his conservative base and use, instead, a floating coalition of liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), aided and abetted by opportunistic power-politickers such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

    Is that a stable base? Will it prove effective, for example, in getting conservative judges confirmed? No, of course not - but Bush doesn't care about that anymore.

    In the meantime, down at the grassroots, the Republican Party is moving - and regenerating. With the exception of the Bush-toadying Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), all the other Republican presidential candidates are getting "right" on immigration.

    Even Rudy Giuliani, who flirted with open-borderism while mayor of New York City, is on board. On Tuesday, Giuliani issued a 12-part policy manifesto, No. 2 of which reads, in its entirety, "I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders and identify every non-citizen in our nation." No reference to such Bushisms as "guest workers" and "compassion" for those who cross the border illegally.

    So, all of a sudden, the potential silver lining in the immigration debate is becoming visible. If the Republicans, post-Bush, can reconstitute themselves into the party of homeland security and national sovereignty, then the recent immigration debate - which highlighted these security-sovereignty issues, putting them front-and-center on the national agenda - will prove a blessing in disguise. Once again, the GOP will have issues that will pull "Reagan Democrats" back into the Republican fold.

    Democratic office-holders could, of course, pre-empt this Republican comeback by embracing no-nonsense border security and national integrity as platform planks of their own. And that's exactly the position taken by such populist red-state Democrats as Sen. Jon Tester of Montana and Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia - both of whom voted against the immigration bill last week.

    But, fortunately for Republican fortunes at the presidential level, Democrats - including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards - are firmly in the grip of Teddy Kennedy-style bilingual/multicultural liberalism.

    In a showdown between liberalism and conservatism, conservatism will win. And so, if they can get Bush out of the way, Republicans have a window of opportunity in next year's election.

    http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny- ... 6199.story
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    In the meantime, down at the grassroots, the Republican Party is moving - and regenerating. With the exception of the Bush-toadying Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), all the other Republican presidential candidates are getting "right" on immigration.
    They are "getting right" because they were shocked at the millions of folks like us who finally made our voices heard.
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    I think the real question here is how long will they stay "right?" They have changed their minds before... all that is but Tom Tancredo, who should be the next president of this country. Too bad he doesn't have the money to buy his way into office like the "front runners."
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