The official publication of the Democratic National Committee still doesn’t get it.
Republicans are betting that opposition from Tea Party activists and the party’s most conservative supporters will have less impact because of the dire electoral consequences of continuing to take a hard line regarding immigrants. The senators on Monday released a blueprint for a new immigration policy that opens the door to possible citizenship ahead of a Tuesday speech on the subject by Mr. Obama in Las Vegas.
From Day One, the Tea Party movement has been about spending by our supposed representatives. I’ve been involved with the movement from the beginning and have spent the last four years traveling the country speaking to Tea Party groups. Every single gathering dealt with federal spending and nothing else. If there has ever been an anti-immigration reform Tea Party event it’s been a well-kept secret. And on the off chance one may have occurred, the group involved didn’t understand the movement any better than the Times does.
The above is true. Has never stopped demonization of the Tea Party anyway.
From a practical matter, the Republicans must accept that they must hold the line, ride out the storms as best able, while the culture is worked upon by different parties. Anything else is disaster.
They must hold the line.
And if the Hispanics of this country refuse to vote for any who does not allow illegal aliens citizenship, or standing, then we will see how slavery, and then segregation, existed for so long in this Republic–because men sometimes look to their own interests and kin outside of any objective standard of right or wrong.
You simply do not get to invite yourself to part of someone else’s nation. Yet I will be the one demonized for saying that.
Hold the line. If Hispanics wish to turn this nation into the hell-holes Latin American nations have all too often been, I, one powerless individual, say it is wrong. We will have rule of law, not rule of ballot box and only rule of ballot box.
If we are done as the America that was, then let it all be done. The Hispanics, if they wish this, may kindly go to hell. So, my Hispanic friends, what do you wish. Right, or might? I do not think you can get both on this issue.