Posted by
Arnie on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:41:31 PM
Most of the articles I’ve read on the Wall Street Journal opinion page have been more favorable to conservative issues that the liberals. I could be wrong. But today, the liberal stance was as apparent as a woodpecker on a pecan. It favors the amnesty stance for reasons of votes.
“We've written often about the merits of immigration reform, and we have our own problems with parts of the Senate bill. But it's worth spending some time on the larger politics of the issue, especially for Republicans. They're caught between a passionate minority of their party--who oppose any reform that allows illegals a path to citizenship--and the larger electorate, which is more moderate and wants to solve the problem. Like Democrats on national security, this is a classic case in which pandering to the base will harm the GOP overall.”
The article further explains the importance of the Hispanic vote, and not passing the Bush, Kyl, Kennedy, McCain amnesty bill would hurt the party, not only in the 2008 elections, but for years to come and the republican party would remain the minority for decades.
“By the way, the growth in the Hispanic population will continue regardless of what happens with immigration from now on. The number of Hispanics who already hold green cards guarantees that their share of the electorate will increase over time even if Congress could seal the Southern border tomorrow. The GOP should be competing for these voters rather than driving them away with a barely concealed message of "Mexicans, go home."
Notwithstanding the small but loud segment of the GOP base preoccupied with the issue, hostility to immigration has never been a political winner.” Read more....
This is the same stance the liberal democrats have. It’s all about votes and the future of the party, and whichever party panders to the Hispanics the best will get their votes and the party will have the power. Come on, whatever happened to virtue, doing the right thing because it’s the right thing. We are supposed to be a nation of laws. Laws that the people can respect and willingly abide by. Doing the right thing is following the laws and not changing them for the purpose of pandering to one group to guarantee their favorable votes. A group that follows those premises cannot be trusted to honor any promises it may have made to you.
When people intentionally break the law, they need to be punished. The US has had laws on the books that deal with immigration that would have closed the borders, it would have prevented millions of illegals from illegally crossing the borders had the law been enforced. It was not. So now, we are to allow that same government to pass new laws that will enable those millions to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that all other immigrants have to work for, to stand in line and patiently wait their turn to get those same freedoms and opportunities. Makes a lot of sense, a lot of pig sense, a lot of nonsense.
The conservative base that rose up against the amnesty bill, the base that rose up against their own party President understands that virtue and doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, will win the hearts and minds of Americans, when they understand why. People are looking for that kind of a leader. Someone they can trust to defend the Constitution and the country from invasion. That kind of leader we have not had for some time now, but that does not mean the country has forgotten what good moral virtuous leadership would mean. There is a yearning in the hearts of the people for that kind of leadership.
Americans appear at times to be way out of touch with the basics of many issues, but this time the vast majority of Americans, both conservative and liberal understand what is at stake, and it is not the votes of the Hispanics.
WS OpinionJournal, I thought you were better than this.