But Don't Take My Word for It...
Peggy Noonan:
Sure wish we'd get another Reagan---a President proud to be a conservative, who didn't feel the need to hyphenate or qualify it.
I suppose the more RINOs we send to the Hill, the more likely bona fide conservatives will rise, right?
The disinterest in the White House and among congressional Republicans in establishing authority on America's borders is so amazing--the people want it, the age of terror demands it--that great histories will be written about it. Thinking about this has left me contemplating a question that admittedly seems farfetched: Is it possible our flinty president is so committed to protecting the Republican Party from losing, forever, the Hispanic vote, that he's decided to take a blurred and unsatisfying stand on immigration, and sacrifice all personal popularity, in order to keep the party of the future electorally competitive with a growing ethnic group?
This would, I admit, be rather unlike an American political professional. And it speaks of a long-term thinking that has not been the hallmark of this administration. But at least it would render explicable the president's moves.
The other possibility is that the administration's slow and ambivalent action is the result of being lost in some geopolitical-globalist abstract-athon that has left them puffed with the rightness of their superior knowledge, sure in their membership in a higher brotherhood, and looking down on the low concerns of normal Americans living in America.
I continue to believe the administration's problem is not that the base lately doesn't like it, but that the White House has decided it actually doesn't like the base. That's a worse problem. It's hard to fire a base. Hard to get a new one.
Sure wish we'd get another Reagan---a President proud to be a conservative, who didn't feel the need to hyphenate or qualify it.
I suppose the more RINOs we send to the Hill, the more likely bona fide conservatives will rise, right?
posted by Teflon at 7:30 PM
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2 Comments:
Teflon, there is one possibility the hectic, overwrought public refuses yet to consider.
Mexico could be the next Cuba or Venezuela on a far more frightening scale. How stable is any Mexican government?
Say Vicente Fox changes heart and keeps illegals from creeping across the border to fund 30% of Mexico's practically feudal economy, how long before the next revolution? For decades the U.S. has been working diplomatically and economically with our neighbor to avert the immense threat that could confront America should Mexico's government become superCuba.
Remember the crisis over Soviet missiles in Cuba? Try Chinese missiles in Baja. The public had better awaken to realities of our world and how vulnerable we appear to our enemies internal and external. Our leadership confronts a much more complex problem than the press has fed to the public, so far.
Well, that is what blogging is all about. Just a thought.
Vig-
I don't disagree with you regarding Mexico's corruption and instability. The fact is that Mexico is in dire need of a revolution. It need not be a socialist one, but that is always a possibility in Latin America given Fidel and Hugo's evil influence.
Either way, we should not prop up Fox's corrupt regime at the expense of destabilizing our own country. That is what we are doing by allowing illegal aliens to swarm our cities. In helping Vincente Fox stave off a revolution in his country, we're sowing the seeds for one in our own. And this time, it won't be as genteel as it was when it was led by assimilated Americans.
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