Oddly enough, a series of recent articles make the claim that if the GOP doesn't enact a "guest" worker scheme or take other steps to encourage even more illegal immigration, they run the risk of losing the (mythical) "Hispanic Vote".
First up is Ed Gillespie ("chairman of the Republican National Committee in the 2004 election cycle. His firm, Quinn Gillespie & Associates, represents clients who support a temporary guest worker program."). He offers the ludicrously titled "Populists Beware! The GOP must not become an anti-immigration party." I already responded to it in comments here. Perhaps we Americans could pool our money and hire him to come up with a way that the GOP could oppose illegal immigration while at the same time not appearing "anti-immigrant". Of course, just about anyone could come up with that simple plan, so I guess we won't have to hire Gillespie after all.
And, a few days ago Reuters reporter John Whitesides offered the same shtick.
Now comes Bill Kristol with "Y is for Yahoo", which refers to the "Anti-immigration yahoo Tom Tancredo".
He goes on to recite a series of instances of Republican candidates coming out against illegal immigration and then failing or facing problems.
But, since being opposed to illegal immigration is "populist" and since most voters are concerned about it, perhaps Kristol has - oddly enough! - missed the real reason those politicians have faced problems.
Namely, that the GOP is corrupt and will refuse to support or even work to undermine any candidate who opposes the importation of cheap labor. If Kristol is going to bring up these cases, isn't it rather odd that he would ignore that aspect? Very, very odd.
Immigration · Mon, 04/03/2006 - 02:54 · · Importance: 1
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Comments
BTW TLB, you missed a PIIPP.
Posted by: eh at Apr 4, 2006 2:47 AM
"why is it that non white's can't make a great nation"
Believe it or not, intelligent people are speculating about that, trying to answer just this question.
Posted by: eh at Apr 4, 2006 2:33 AM
to eh, 90 percent of the world is poor and non white.
why is it that non white's can't make a great nation of fair play for all? most black/brown and yellow people's of the world love the ideals of pure tyranny! most hate this nation, the mexicans love to burn our flag and kill whites for the fun of it, why is that eh?
but also ask one other question why is bush and both parties helping our enemies to kill us.
Posted by: Fred Dawes at Apr 3, 2006 5:22 PM
The average Joe is not interested enough to devote any time to finding out if this stuff about the "Hispanic vote" is really true or not. (And it is hard to imagine a MSM outlet publishing an analysis i.e. refutation -- too many numbers, too much logical thinking needed.) All he knows is what he sees or hears all the time, namely about the growing number of Hispanics, and so it makes sense to him.
Besides, it's very politically correct to consider the impact and interests of non-whites.
So this has legs and isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: eh at Apr 3, 2006 5:33 AM