This is another example of the destruction of
America by the Democratic Party, assisted by false Republicans like Marco
Rubio, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
Mark Levin was in apoplexy over this on last
night’s program (April 12): http://www.marklevinshow.com/rss/ilevin.xml
DL
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KUHNER: The siren song of amnesty
GOP’s Hispanic designs will founder on the rocks of entitlement
The Washington Times
Friday, April 12, 2013
Republicans may be committing a fatal error. During its proud
history, the GOP
has embraced heroic causes decrying slavery, preserving our union, defending
modern capitalism, opposing Soviet communism and protecting unborn children. It
is a seminal institution that has been pivotal in forging a free and prosperous
America. If wiser heads do not prevail, however, the party is on the verge of
committing suicide.
Leading Senate Republicans, such as John McCain
of Arizona, Marco Rubio
of Florida and Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina, are part of the so-called “Gang of Eight” pushing for
comprehensive immigration reform. The proposal also has the support of
numerous Democrats, including President Obama. It
calls for tougher border security, which will never happen. That is a ruse. The
southern border will remain porous. Yet, at the heart of the proposal is what
left-wing multiculturalists have been demanding for years: a pathway to
citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants. In short, the bill
grants mass amnesty.
The GOP
establishment thinks amnesty is the key to unlocking the surging Hispanic
electorate. Republicans have a major problem with Hispanics. For example, Mr.
Obama received 71 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012. Even former President George W. Bush
an open-borders conservative who championed close ties with Mexico was barely able to
get 40 percent of the Hispanic bloc. Hispanics now constitute a major part of
the Democratic coalition. Since their numbers are swelling, the demographic
future looks bleak for the GOP.
Demography is destiny. Many Republicans fear they represent yesterday’s America
old, white and male.
Yet, amnesty is not a magic
bullet; rather, it could ricochet and slay the GOP
elephant. Exit polls have consistently shown most Hispanic voters do not
rank immigration reform as a high priority. It is not even a top-five issue. If
it was, then President Reagan’s
amnesty should have brought millions of Hispanics into the Republican big tent.
It didn’t. In fact, for the past 25 years, the trend has been in the opposite
direction. Hispanics in increasing numbers are backing Democrats. The
reason is simple: They want big-government liberalism.
The open-borders crowd is peddling the
myth that Hispanics are “natural allies” of the GOP.
They are supposedly deeply Catholic and, therefore, more “family-oriented” and
potentially open to embracing Republican positions on abortion, homosexual
marriage and stem-cell research. They are supposedly social conservatives
masquerading as moderate Democrats the future shock troops of the Christian
right.
This is false. The 2012 exit polls
clearly revealed Hispanics voted Democrat owing to Obamacare. This was (and
remains) their No. 1 issue. An overwhelming majority of Hispanics embrace
government-run health care because they support a lavish entitlement state
subsidized housing, free education, Pell Grants, long-term unemployment
benefits, welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security and disability
insurance. In other words, most Hispanics are natural Democrats. They prefer
statism and higher taxes to small-government conservatism. They are not
“values” voters. They vote their pocketbook. The Catholic Church openly criticized
Obamacare, especially its contraceptive mandate and the administration’s war on
religious liberty. No president has been more anti-Catholic, Christophobic
and pro-abortion than Mr. Obama. If socially conservative
Hispanics couldn’t oppose a radical leftist like him, they will never flock to
the GOP.
Amnesty is a poisoned
chalice; Republicans drink it at their peril. By
allowing a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, the GOP
is paving the way for permanent Democratic rule. The
Democrats’ voting rolls will swell with newly legalized foreigners. States with
heavy Hispanic populations will become Democratic strongholds. Texas and
Arizona will no longer be red states. Florida will flip from purple to blue.
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will be unwinnable. The Republicans will be reduced
to a regional rump party, clinging to the South and the Prairie states. They
will go the way of the Whigs into the dustbin of history.
America is not a Third World
nation. It is based on the rule of law. Amnesty rewards mass
law-breaking and undermines national sovereignty. It
essentially encodes the pernicious principle that our borders do not exist and
that we are unwilling to protect our homeland from a huge southern invasion.
The costs have been enormous crowded emergency rooms, exploding crime, gun- and
drug-trafficking, the immense drain on social services and cultural
Balkanization. Illegal aliens are not refugees. They are criminals. Amnesty is nothing more
than surrender.
This is why any amnesty will
fracture the GOP,
and force millions of conservatives including myself to form a new party. We
will not abandon our nation. We will not accept it becoming a socialist empire.
We will not embrace a United States of Mexico.
Republicans beware: Your
political future is at stake.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a radio
commentator on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
