Illegal immigration foes despair over GOP moves
Lich and voters like her are watching with despair as more and more Republican politicians edge toward a bipartisan plan that includes a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. “If the GOP agrees on this amnesty, they’re selling out their core values,” Lich said. “They’d lose us. They’d lose the votes of people who support them, and they’re not going to gain a lot of votes.”…
“I don’t know how you can even quantify the loss of enthusiasm,” said former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a longtime thorn in party elders’ sides for his aggressive stance on illegal immigration. “You’re not going to knock on any doors, make any phone calls or give any money.”
Other Republicans dismiss that worry. “Where else are they going to go?” asked Sig Rogich, a veteran Las Vegas-based Republican operative who has long pushed for a more immigrant-friendly GOP. “They’ll get over it.”…
“The economy’s terrible, people are struggling and hurting. It’s hard to go out and do what we were doing, at the same level, before,” said Michelle Dallacroce, an Arizona-based activist who had to take down the website for her group, Mothers Against Illegal Amnesty, because donations dried up. “We’re losing. We don’t have a voice anymore.”
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They’ll do what they did to Romney – stay home. And that’s what cost Mr. RINO squish the election.
Exactly. We have a huge flood of illegals taking jobs that Americans need. Heck, we have a huge flood of legal immigrants taking jobs too. Illegals are sending tens of billion of dollars out of the economy in remittances, and not only aren’t they paying taxes, they’re sucking up billions of taxpayers dollars for “free” medical and educational benefits.
The true cost of illegal immigration is staggering.
Rebar on January 31, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Probably a goo 80% of those that are Republicans are progressive politicians. Thanks conservative voters for not pushing them out of office. Thus, they want a super majority of Americans to be progressive so that they can do the progressive things they want and still hold onto power. So they are individually lining up to create a new block of voters to allow them to be immune to the conservative causes.
astonerii on January 31, 2013 at 4:15 PM
For good reason we are upset as the GOP has never been the party pushing amnesty, even if it’s rebranded as earn-esty!
Don’t do it GOP.
And this song by The Band seems to hit the spot for this. The lyrics “baby don’t do it, don’t you do it, P L E A S E don’t you do it, don’t you break my heart:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEBEpDLTKI&info=TheBand_DontDoIt
anotherJoe on January 31, 2013 at 4:15 PM
There is both a Libertarian and now an Objectivist Party on the ballet in Florida. Maybe there will be something a little more sane in 3 years, like a Tea Party candidate. Either way, I voted for Romney last year, but he’s the last Republican presidential candidate that I will ever vote for.
elfman on January 31, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Amnesty will kill the GOP.
GardenGnome on January 31, 2013 at 4:20 PM
If GOP manages to bork Ruby’s plans, it would be the best thing ever.
lester on January 31, 2013 at 4:39 PM
That’s the epitome of elitist Republican thought about it’s conservative base. It’s time to move on to a different/new party. I’ve already dropped my party affiliation. I’m done being treated like a patsy.
batter on January 31, 2013 at 4:46 PM
The GOP is just finishing off their suicide attempt of 2006-2008. The Weeping Boner and GOP Senators started this off by spitting in the face of the Tea Party right after the 2010 elections (starting with that criminal lame duck session for which GOP Senators colluded with treasonous dems to make a mockery of Congress and continuing on with the Weeping Boner’s failures to represent anything conservative … but to “understand” the Occupoopers, who didn’t even understand themselves). This new push for amnesty and treasonous printing of citizenships for illegals who spit on the idea of American sovereignty should pretty much finish up the end of the GOP.
You can’t stop a political party from committing suicide when its leadership has made its mind up. The GOP is done.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 31, 2013 at 5:14 PM
That statement right there is worthy of both an ass kickin and actually not voting at all.
arnold ziffel on January 31, 2013 at 5:17 PM
It’s like they say: home is where the heart is.
But here’s the other thing to note from that same quote:
Strategists are supposed to take a given agenda and find the best way to sell that agenda. The problem with GOP strategists is that they’re Democrats who think they’re there to set the agenda.
Stoic Patriot on January 31, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Go ahead GOP.
Screw us over one more time.
I don’t vote for Democrats or their cheap knock offs.
NeoKong on January 31, 2013 at 6:12 PM