Thread: The RNC & illegals: Liberaled-up GOP

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Friday, January 27, 2006

Party operatives will defend the Republican National Committee's endorsement of President Bush's "guest-worker" proposal with an incredulous, "Well, what did you expect? The president is the titular head of the GOP and the RNC's job is to promote its boss's agenda."
True enough. But more's the pity considering what the party apparatchiks have rubber-stamped -- amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"Bush aides and senior Republican strategists say that taking a hard-line stance against illegal immigration risks alienating Latino voters ... ," the Los Angeles Times reports.

Never mind the risk to the party base that knows a shameless pander when it sees it and, if history repeats itself, knows the American people will be left holding the bag for a policy that repeatedly has failed.

No matter how one slices, dices or juliennes it, Mr. Bush's plan is amnesty. It rewards those who have broken the law. It creates a climate that only will encourage more lawlessness. The record is abundantly clear that such programs not only accelerate the flow of illegals into the United States but also stifle productivity and growth.

Or as Philip Martin of the University of California-Davis and Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation argued in the November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs:

"In many countries, under many types of government, and across many time periods, experiences with guest-worker programs have led to an overwhelming and simple consensus among those who have studied the issue: There is nothing more permanent than temporary workers."

President Bush's "guest-worker" program is as sadly misguided as is the Republican National Committee's endorsement of it. It will result in exactly the opposite of what its proponents claim. And that's a decidedly liberal affliction that has no place in the Republican Party or the republic at large.

Will somebody with the time investigate and post all of the elected officials that support this tripe?

"Bush aides and senior Republican strategists say that taking a hard-line stance against illegal immigration risks alienating Latino voters ... ," the Los Angeles Times reports.

Never mind the risk to the party base that knows a shameless pander when it sees it and, if history repeats itself, knows the American people will be left holding the bag for a policy that repeatedly has failed.

Why can't the stupid party grasp this concept? It's not hard to figure out who exactly votes them into office. So if you take a hard line stance on illegals then what? Does that mean the hispanics will vote 20-80 against you instead of 30-70? Oh no. Yet you will make significant gains with the rest of America. You will reenergize your base and gain alot more disgruntled democratic voters and third party types too.

But you stupid party types go ahead and vote for amnesty and we'll see if you still have a job after this year. If you stupid party types want to destroy yourselves then be my guest. I really don't care anymore. Worst case senario is that me and alot of disgruntled conservatives will just stay home and watch the stupid party get voted out of office.

Yet you will make significant gains with the rest of America.

They would make significant gains amongst American Latinos as well! 51% of Chicanos favor tougher immigration laws.

That's the great paradox: the RNC is pandering to the radical left of the Hispanic population by doing this and alienating the more conservative Hispanic community.