That I don’t know what to believe.

The people of Arizona must let him know that he will be challenged in a primary and he will lose if he pulls this immigrant amnesty crap. He has been taking big dumps on Republicans for at least 8 years. He never should have been rewarded with the nomination for that reason alone.

Now, if reports are correct, he and Lindsey, are going to stick it to us one last time. Campaign finance was bad enough. This will be a fatal blow to all conservatives and Republicans as well.

I am sorry to those who liked him because he was a hero 40 years ago. Now, he has no problem handing the United States of America over to Mexico. Our honorable loser has got to either become a Republican very fast or he has got to be tossed out of the Seante.

Shamnesty, blah blah, I hate Mexicans, blah blah blah, the politician of the day who disagrees with me is a traitor to America, blah blah blah.

Can’t you guys wait till we actually see what is planned to start trashing people? Or do you AUTOMATICALLY believe HARRY REID at the mere suggestion that we may not be able to have Tancredo immigration policy?

I get really, really, really sick of the knee-jerk reaction from the Tancredo crowd around here.

Let me explain to you a few facts:

1. You guys lost the primary to your arch enemy. You do not control a majority of the party no matter how much you want to think you do.

2. We are never, ever, going to deport everyone. At some point, most of the illegal immigrants are going to be allowed to stay provided they keep their noses otherwise clean.

3. People agree with you on border security, and they agree with you on amnesty insofar as they define them. THEY DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU ON EITHER according to how you define them.

4. Your “victory” over the immigration reform bill in ’07 will ultimately result in more Amnesty and less border security. And in the meantime, we’ve had less security because of it. Thanks a lot.

“…another lying kool-aid drinker from Washington who could care less about his word or about that representative portion of our democracy!”

Our government is not a democracy, it’s not particularly representative, and I’m not sure it’s “ours.”

Great job, though, of shoving Latinos into the arms of Democrats; that should do wonders for our (sic) democracy for generations to come.

Let me tell you something. My step-mother is American of Mexican descent as is my wife and thus 1/2 my children. My in-laws family come from the State of Jalisco and the others family dates from this country from before the Conquistadors arrived on these shores. Most had to go through the process for citizenship legally and DO NOT support tossing citizenship to illegals willy nilly. When you give someone who has broken the law what they want for free there is no respect or pride for that gift. It’s just another branch of the welfare state. That’s not to say they don’t have compassion for those families who have been here for a long time illegally. With this type of immigrant there is no assimilation but instead a socio-economic wall is built between them and becoming American citizens.
Secondly we are never going to make aany progress fixing our party if we can’t or don’t hold our politicians to their word.

Once upon a time, we had a Republican president who signed an amnesty bill. His name? Ronald Reagan.

You don’t have to agree with everything Reagan ever did, but I truly doubt that even he, were he alive today, could escape the fate of being called a RINO, if not secretly a PINKO.

Meanwhile, I see erstwhile pro-choice wonder and nonentity Mitt Romney (what was the immigration status of his landscapers, again?) being pushed as a man who could have saved the Republican ticket. Ridiculous.

Anyway, if the diarist would like to know what form of government we have, he might want to go ahead and read James Madison’s Federalist no. 10. I’m a bit sensitive on this point because my father gave me this pop quiz when I was eight years old, and I failed. My excuse (a decent one, I should think) is that I was a kid, not a diarist at Redstate.

What respect is given a parent who tells a child over and over again “NO!” but never follows up with any discipline? How many resolutions did the UN give to Saddam over and over again but never carried through with the penalties? Look how that ended up. There has to be a functioning system in place with a path to entry into this country and citizenship AND there has to be teeth to the penalties for those you don’t follow the law and follow the established path. If not, those who violate our sovereignty will just laugh and make use of the revolving doors that are our borders! And this is much more than an immigration issue, it’s an economic issue and a cultural issue and, maybe even more importantly, a national security issue. And maybe the next people who will be laughing at our laws and our border security will be those who bring a Mumbai home to us.
Our country finds itself in a deep economic problem that has brought financial hardships to millions of American citizens. How is it fair that after our government takes our tax dollars to bail out every Tom, Dick and Harry that we find ourselves having to support millions of illegal immigrants
who have had to work under the table, or with stolen SSS#’s etc. Most not making enough to find themselves in an income bracket where they actually pay taxes
but ending up eligible for various government subsidies like food stamps etc. Even when our country wasn’t in the economic straights that it finds itself in now it was an almost insurmountable drain on a lot of hospitals, schools, prisons and every other form of infrastructure that some amount of our tax dollars finds its way to.
We HAVE to secure our borders, we HAVE to establish a functioning system to determine who is here and who stays and who goes, we HAVE to establish or enforce
laws nationwide that punishes hiring illegals.
This has to be done along with stabilizing our economy and establishing energy independence or we will end up crumbling from within. Drowning with burdens we cannot afford, dangers we cannot defend from and an end we brought on ourselves.
All of these problems took years in the making and will be VERY hard to fix. It will call for decisions and burdens that I am not sure today’s society is willing to endure.

I know a lot of this sounds cold and heartless. We are a country that prides itself on jumping to the aid of others in need, even those who hate us. But who will be there to lend that help
if we allow ourselves to be driven into abject poverty? Or give our sovereignty
over to organizations like the UN? Or, through carelessness, we end up fighting those who hate us on our own soil.

It’s late and I’m rambling, let’s just remember that tens upon tens of thousands
of our citizens have, throughout our country’s history, given their lives so we can have our freedoms, our culture and our homes. Let’s not risk losing those gifts, whose costs can never be tallied in dollars and cents, through laziness and carelessness

I am so grateful for the existence of Redstate and for all its contributors.
Thank you for great conversations and insights and to many more to come!

I am so grateful for the existence of Redstate and for all its contributors.
Thank you for great conversations and insights and to many more to come!