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Title: Graham: ‘I Would Veto Any Bill That Did Not Have a Pathway to Citizenship’
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... have-a-pathway-to-citizenship/
Published: May 10, 2015
Author: Alex Swoyer
Post Date: 2015-05-10 08:25:32 by cranky
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Views: 2256
Comments: 6
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a probable GOP presidential candidate, said in order to win the 2016 elections, Republicans need to gain Hispanic voters by pushing a “long, hard path to citizenship” reports the Washington Times. “If I were president of the United States, I would veto any bill that did not have a pathway to citizenship,” Graham said. Graham said he believes immigration is a key issue that will make or break the 2016 election. “I mean, we’ve got a big hole we’ve dug with Hispanics. We’ve gone from 44 percent of the Hispanic vote (in the 2004 presidential election) to 27 percent (in 2012). You’ll never convince me… It’s not because of the immigration debate,” Graham said to USA Today. Graham is expected to give a formal presidential announcement in the upcoming weeks.
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#6. To: cranky (#0)
The Republicans are in a pickle. Their demographics suck. They lost the Blacks. They're losing the Hispanics. That right there is a quarter of the electorate. Women skew Democrat by a few percentage points because of the abortion issue, but the Republicans have ALSO lost a chunk of the pro-life vote (which stays home instead of voting for them, because they've been so feckless). They never had the poor in the first place. Romney's "47%" was about right. There is 47% of the populace that the Republicans have written off from the get-go. They're fighting over 3-4% of the vote. The problem they have is that they wrecked their national security and libertarian credentials, both, with the War on Terror and domestic spying - and that's at least a percent and a half of that 4% that's in dispute. So, what've they got left? Well, the conservative-ish middle class, people angry at Obamacare. But, of course, Obama is leaving, and Hillary is perceived as a lot more moderate on many things, and tougher on others. The middle class that used to vote GOP has been hollowed out by free trade and crony capitalism. The religious right was betrayed. Essentially, the Republicans have a lock on the crony capitalist vote, which they serve, and have to bamboozle everybody else into voting for them, either our of hatred for Democrats, or because they buy the line. But fewer and fewer are buying the line. Asian immigrants are also substantial in number, and they all vote Democrat. So do the European immigrants. The Republicans have run out of electorates. They're shrinking. They offer little to anybody, because they've given everything to the billionaires. Which is why they won't win no matter who they run. They actually have to start agreeing to clip the wings of the oligarchy, which they will never do. If the Democrats were incompetent, they could always run about that. But Obama hasn't been all that bad, really. The wars are mostly over. We're not plunging in after ISIS. He got away with pretending that he killed Bin Laden. The stock market is at record highs, middle class people's 401(k)s have money again, the unemployment rate is (artificially) low, but the out-of-work rely on social welfare, and the Democrats provide that, Republicans want to cut it. Obamacare hasn't been satisfactory, BUT the Republicans offer nothing but "Kill it!" and the bulk of the American people WANT universal health. The bitter-ender Republicans expect to get everything their way. But they've really gotten pretty much NOTHING their way, unless they're crony capitalists. The GOP has locked up their vote. The Republican Party isn't salvageable. It's too corrupt. New parties are needed. A religious party, for example, would take some votes from the Dems; the Republicans can't because their love for money and violence is not Christian. There's already a Constitution Party. A Veteran's Party would be a very welcome thing. But these things don't seem likely. So instead we're going to get the Democrat rule that we've worked so hard to ensure. It was always a choice for the Republicans: go with the people, or go with the rich. They went hard-over for the rich. They made the same mistake as the French and Russian monarchies, which did the same thing. It's a fatal choice, because there are not that many rich, and if you tie yourself to them, they're chained to you like an anchor when times are hard. The Christians, most of all, should get out of the GOP. But they don't, most of them, because they're more political than Christian. To their temporal and eternal sorrow.
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