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Gang Of 5 -Back Out to The Immigration Reform Wood Shed…One More Time.

NHGOP WoodshedThe only think I dislike more than having a progressive Democrat try to sell me their stupid narrative is when a progressive Republican tries it.  And that is exactly what the Gang of 5 was doing when they sent their pro-immigration bill op-ed to the Laconia Daily Sun.  (Turning us from “not a gun blog” into “not an immigration blog” overnight.)

While I have already fisked their letter, and Skip and Don have also weighed in, I wanted to take a second pass at offering up some reference material that demonstrates–or at least suggests–that skipping border enforcement, even just kicking it down the road, before implementing the legalization component, would be a disaster for the establishment Republicans, who clearly believe that supporting this will win them enough love and affection to secure their votes.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The Pew Hispanic Center Poll (not a Republican outfit either) provides some perspective.

A mind-blowing 75 percent of Hispanics tell Pew they want bigger government with more services. Contrast that with just 41 percent of the American public that says it wants bigger government with more services. (Some 45 percent of the general American population wants smaller government with fewer services. For Hispanics, it’s 19 percent.)

This Hispanic love affair with big government isn’t a short-term result of the Great Recession. It isn’t a temporary product of the first-generation poverty; immigrants, legal or otherwise, have always struggled through in America. This affection for big government is uniquely cultural for Hispanics, and so strongly embedded that it apparently persists for generations.

Some 81 percent of first-generation Hispanic immigrants tell Pew pollsters they prefer big government. In the second generation, it’s 72 percent. By the third generation, the number is just shy of 60 percent. Contrast that, again, with the mere 41 percent of the general American population that feels the same.

If you are an Establishment Republican, looking toward your turn at the levers of power, what’s not to like about that?  Progressive Republicans value the mighty state, and happily politic in hopes of being the ones who control the committees, the money, the power, and if millions of Hispanics want big government, then they want them to want it to.   But before that can happen, Republicans need to get elected, and if you start the legalization process on the terms f the current legislative proposal, that’s never going to happen.

Politico, c/o American Thinker

Politico recently calculated the nuclear impact that just 11 million illegal immigrants could have on America’s political landscape when they begin voting, in about 13 years. Reliably red Texas would be difficult if not impossible for the GOP to win in presidential races. Florida, Colorado, and Nevada would shift into the Democrats’ column in national elections. Even Georgia would likely shift into the Democrat’s column in Presidential elections, given that Mitt Romney won it by only 308,000 votes in 2012, and 425,000 illegals who can’t vote are currently estimated to live there.

Legalizing the 11 million alone, Politico essentially concluded, would move the presidency largely out of the GOP’s reach. So what happens when we legalize 30 million-plus and they begin to vote? If the news reports of recent weeks on the IRS, FBI, and NSA are any indication, we get massive, all encompassing, authoritarian government.

And 11 million is a low number.  According to the same article, the family provisions could escalate that 11 million by another 17 million, as family members came across the border, swelling the ranks of Hispanic immigrants to close to 30 million.  Immigrants who are comfortable with big government, and government largess.

If Establishment Republicans are hoping to secure their brand as “the other party of big government,” assuming that is not already the case, just how far to the left are they prepared to go to out-entitle the entitlement mentality of Liberal Democrats, because that is what it would take.  An all out race to buy votes with grand governmental gestures, all paid for with new debt on the backs of our children and grandchildren, presuming the weight of it doesn’t cause it to collapse in the first place.

There is another element to this push for legalizing millions of instant Democrats, proposed yesterday by Rush Limbaugh, which I just read this morning, here, that ties in with what I have been saying.

“I assume that some Republicans think there is a new group of people that would become their base. If they just got rid of these pro-lifers, if they just got rid of this religious crowd, if they just got rid of the Christians, if they just got rid of these gun nuts.”

(Jut noticed- Skip wrote about that here)

Rush is convinced that the Establishment GOP is embarrassed by its own base.  I would agree with that.  And I would add that it thinks it has a better chance of capturing the illiegal legal immigrant vote… than it has of convincing principled Republicans in the party base that they’re not just a bunch of moderate Democrats chasing votes so they can then be in charge of the runaway train.

Which just proves my point.  They are willing to be a bunch of moderate Democrats if that is what it takes to then be in charge of the runaway train.  They want to govern more than they want to lead.   So if Americanizing 11 or even 30 million new Democrats doesn’t win them more votes, then they’ll just act like regular Democrats until someone does vote for them.   So even their principles are lacking in principles.

It’s not about the principles it is about power.  Which means they are Democrats already, and not even bright Democrats at that.  And that’s why we call them RINO’s.

 

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