“That is the position of Mecha…good to know whose company you keep.”
Sorry Pierre, that’s simply a historical FACT. Go look it up. You could try a Google Search on “Mexican War” or “Spanish Colonial Frontier” or “St.Augustine Florida”. (While you are there, look up “straw man” as well.) Facts are stubborn things. Try to stay focused on the FACTS. I realize they make your position harder to defend, and that you are too emotionally wedded to your position to change it, but they do tend to carry weight with people who look at things rationally.
I’m dealing in facts here, not speculating about what candidates polling data may or may not be hypothetically telling them. The only poll that counts happens at the ballot box, and the anti-immigrant forces have consistently lost there, and rather spectaculary.
I say again, “Where is the Trancedomania?” If the people who delight in hating “Juan McCain” have so much support, why did he get the nomination?
Another place anti-immigrant forces have consistently lost is the State of California. Thanks to Prop 187, and the backlash it caused, California has moved from being politically competitive to rock solid Democrat, and it is likely to stay that way for two generations.
In 1994 California’s Hispanic voters; voters who are generally pro-life, culturally conservative, and highly entrepreneurial, were slapped in the face by the Republican Party. They were told that they were dirty, unwanted, and worse, they were told they were not “real Americans” and all but ordered out of the country, despite the FACT that Hispanics founded California. (Los Angeles was founded in the year 1781 by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula. No Pierre he wasn’t a Bostonian.) When the smoke cleared there were no Republicans holding statewide elected office in California. None, Zero. The California GOP has regrouped and after a lot of work there are now, 14 years later, a grant total of THREE Republicans in statewide elected office in the State that once had Ronald Reagan as Govenor. Those three Republicans are Gov. Schwarzenegger, Insurance Comissioner Steve Poizner (the McCain Campaign California Co-Chair incidentally) and Bruce McPherson, who Gov.Schwarzenegger appointed Secretary of State.
I fail to see how emulating the tactics that lead to the self-destruction of the California Republican Party would be good for the national GOP, or good for the country.
