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Rubio's Amnesty: A Path to Oblivion for the GOP

sleroi Wrote: Jan 31, 2013 12:48 AM

How does opposing this legislation hurt the GOP? Supporting this isn't going to suddenly cause Latinos to vote Republican, but it will disenfranchise the base. Remember 2010? The tea party, by rallying against Obamacare, energized the base, got out the vote and we overwhelmingly won. After 2 years of Boehner backing down time and again, and moderates painting the tea party as extremist, and nominating a moderate, we lost with Romney receiving less cotes than McCain. This is a bad bill. It gives the left what they want, instant probationary regularization, with no way, try as Rubio may, to incentivize fulfillment of securing the border.

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socalchris Wrote: Jan 31, 2013 4:03 PM

Because it turns off a huge number of voters. Reagan was cheerful and optimistic and yes compassionate towards people who made mistakes seeking a better life in the only way they see possible. Bush did well with Latinos. Romney killed his chances by pandering to the tea party on this issue. He wound up exactly like Meg Whitman. It wasn't because he was too moderate. It was because he didn't follow Reagan and Bush's example. We have never had a hard liner president. I'm not surprised (though disappointed) Romney didn't break that trend. Thanks for your respectful dissent from my comment.

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Rubio's Amnesty: A Path to Oblivion for the GOP

Apart from finding out that Barack Obama did far worse in his re-election than nearly any other incumbent who won re-election, the only thing that perked me up after Nov. 6 was coming across a Time magazine published after the 2004 election, when George W. Bush won a second term.

In the mirror image of all the 2012 post-election analyses, the Democrats were said to be finished, out of ideas, hopelessly unpopular. It's like watching MSNBC, with the word "Democrats" replaced with "Republicans."

Democrats had thrown everything they had into beating Bush, crushing the Howard Dean wing of...

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