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Friday, August 7, 2015

Marco Rubio: "If Debate Is About Experience Hillary's Wins"

Marco Rubio: "If Debate Is About Experience Hillary's Wins"

August 07, 2015 2016 Elections , Compelling 0 Comments



By Jackie Salo , Aug 06, 2015
International Business Times

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio started out strong in the first GOP debate Thursday night as he invoked genuine passion while drawing from his narrative as the son of Cuban immigrants. His composure was all the more compelling on a stage polluted with insults and bombast.

Rubio's campaign has tried to position him as the Barack Obama of the Republican Party: young, working-class and full of vision. He did just this with his remarks Thursday night, comparing his personal experience with Hillary Clinton's.

"How is [Clinton] going to lecture me on student loans, when I owed $100k until 4 years ago?" he said, adding that Clinton would not be able to tell him about living paycheck-to-paycheck as he did growing up.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

“‘Clean Power Plan’ Really Ought To Be Called The ‘Costly Power Plan.’”

“‘Clean Power Plan’ Really Ought To Be Called The ‘Costly Power Plan.’”

August 04, 2015 Clean Power Plan , Costly Power Plan 0 Comments

Walker Mocks Obama Plan To Fight Climate Change

By AP, Aug 01, 2015

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- The Republican Party's jam-packed presidential class faced off Monday night in New Hampshire, where more than a dozen White House hopefuls aim to warm up for the first full-fledged debate of the primary season.

Here's The Latest from the forum at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

8:55 p.m.

Monday night's forum for the Republican candidates for president in New Hampshire has wrapped up.

One of the last candidates to speak was former New York Gov. George Pataki, who says his three terms leading the typically Democratic state show he can unite people.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Offering Black Americans the Hope of a Better Life

July 07, 2015 2016 , African-Americans 0 Comments

"Rick Perry Asks Black Voters To Give GOP A Second Chance"

 By Theodore Schleifer, July 2, 2015, CNN

Washington (CNN) Rick Perry on Thursday said the Republican Party lost some of its "moral legitimacy" by not vying for the black vote in past elections, adding that the GOP has "much to do" to earn the trust of African-Americans.

Perry, the former Texas governor and 2016 presidential hopeful, used a half-hour speech at the National Press Club in Washington to try and recast blacks' concerns as going beyond race, pitching his much-touted jobs record in Austin as the most enticing message to woo skeptical black voters.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

"[He] has base support. He has an energy on the ground."

June 18, 2015 Donald Trump , Newsmax 0 Comments
Michael Steele: Trump 'Resonates' With Voters In 'Uncomfortable' Ways 

By Sandy Fitzgerald, Jun. 17, 2015, Newsmax

Much of what Donald Trump says "resonates" both inside and outside the Republican Party, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Wednesday, and what he says "throws a monkey wrench" in the predictability most candidates rely on.

"He is unpredictable," Steele said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "The other piece of it, though, is he has base support. He has an energy on the ground."

While Trump has come under some fire over statements he made concerning the Mexican border and immigrants in his campaign announcement on Tuesday, "there are a lot of folks who look at the Mexican border the way he pronounced it yesterday," Steele said.

"I think that affords him the opportunity to not only be on that stage, but to say something that is going to make the party very uncomfortable over the next few months."

Steele noted that there are concerns among establishment leaders that Trump's campaign will become a circus, or "more about the cult of personality than actually running for the presidency of the United States," and if Trump follows the approach that he showed in Tuesday's speech, that could happen.


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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Gen. Powell, Who are the GOP's 'Dark Veins'? By Larry Elder

March 19, 2015 "dark veins of intolerance" , Articles by Larry Elder 1 Comments
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By Larry Elder, Mar. 19, 2015

The Republican Party, says former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, suffers from a "dark vein of intolerance." We salute Powell's service. He is a heavily decorated vet who served two tours of duty in Vietnam when things were hot and heavy over there.

But General, care to name names? Who are these "intolerant" Republicans? Why engage in accusation by innuendo? By all means, name them, shame them -- make them famous.

In the meantime, while Powell composes his list, we compile some questions to some possible left-leaning "dark veins of intolerance":

What color was Rep. Maxine Waters', D-Calif., "vein" when she said, "The tea party can go straight to hell"?

What color was Tavis Smiley's "vein" when he said former President Ronald Reagan "tortured" blacks?

What color was Spike Lee's "vein" when he said, "I'm convinced AIDS is a government-engineered disease"?

What color was Rep. Charlie Rangel's, D-N.Y., "vein" when he said, "George W. Bush is our Bull Connor"?

What color was Harry Belafonte's "vein" when asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism, said, "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich"?

What color was Danny Glover's "vein" when he called America "one of the main purveyors of violence in this world"?

What color was Bill Cosby's "vein" when he said AIDS "was started by human beings to get after certain people they don't like"?

What color was Will Smith's "vein" when he said, "AIDS was created as a result of biological-warfare testing"?

What color was Harry Belafonte's "vein" when he said, "We are living in terrorism as black people in America. And it has been that way since the dawning of slavery"?

What color was then-NAACP chairman Julian Bond's "vein" when he said, "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side."

What color was the vein of ex-U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, a man who marched with Martin Luther King, when he criticized convenience store operators in the inner city: "First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs" who have "ripped off" blacks?

What color was feminist attorney Gloria Allred's "vein" when she referred to you and then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice as "Uncle Tom types"?

What was the color of the Congressional Black Caucus's "vein" when they denied white Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., admission to the caucus -- though his district is 60 percent black? In denying him admission, one CBC member -- the son of the caucus's co-founder -- said of their blacks-only membership, "It's an unwritten rule."

What color was Al Sharpton's "vein" when he called black New York City then-Mayor David Dinkins a "n--ger whore"?

What color was NAACP Julian Bond's "vein" when he said then-President George W. "Bush selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics ... and chose Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."

What color was Sen. (then-candidate) Claire McCaskill's, D-Mo., "vein" when, after Hurricane Katrina, she said President Bush "let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black."

What color was Jesse Jackson's "vein" when he called Jews "Hymies" and New York City "Hymie-town"?

What color was Bill Clinton's "vein" when, according to the book "Game Change," he said about Obama, "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee"?

What color was Harry Reid's "vein" when he said about then-presidential candidate Obama, he's "light-skinned" with "no Negro dialect" unless he wants one?

What color was lefty Spike Lee's "vein" when he said he disliked "interracial couples" -- and gives them visual "daggers"?

What color was lefty Rep. Diane Watson's, D-Calif., "vein" when she slammed a black opponent for marrying a white woman: "He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."

What color was Rep. Waters' "vein" when she called then-President George Herbert Walker Bush "a racist"?

What color was Charlie Rangel's "vein" when he said about the GOP, "It's not 'sp-c' or 'n--ger' anymore. They say 'let's cut taxes'"?

Finally, General, every year Ebony magazine publishes its "Power 100," the list of "most influential" black Americans. Every year, the magazine excludes prominent black conservatives including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It shuts out Walter Williams, one the nation's most popular syndicated columnists, author of several books on economics and race, and former economics department chairman of George Mason University.

Ebony also excludes the man playwright David Mamet calls, "our greatest contemporary philosopher." Economist Thomas Sowell's weekly column appears in hundreds of newspapers. His books on economics, culture and race are absolute reads for those who study why some races, cultures and ethnicities survive while others perish.

These are just some of those on the left who possess "dark veins." Gen. Powell, your turn.

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Maher--The Socialist "Libertarian"

Maher--The Socialist "Libertarian"

March 16, 2015 Bill Maher , HBO 0 Comments
Bill Maher: GOP Happy To Give Gov’t Handouts — to ‘F*ckface’ Rich Kids

Mar. 13, 2015

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Friday, November 14, 2014

It isn't just GOP

November 14, 2014 Affordable Care Act , Jonathan Gruber 0 Comments
GOP’s Anti-Obamacare Push Gains New Momentum In Wake Of Gruber Video

Robert Costa and Jose A. DelReal, Nov. 12, 2014, Washington Post

The Republican Party’s ardent campaign against President Obama’s health-care law gained new momentum Wednesday as lawmakers reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress.

On both sides of the Capitol, leading conservatives said they may call economist Jonathan Gruber to testify about his remarks, which were made last year and surfaced this week in a video on social media. In the video, Gruber suggests that the administration’s signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of transparency” over its funding mechanisms.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

He's running, no formal decision

November 13, 2014 Fox News , John Roberts 0 Comments
Rand Paul Plays Party Healer After Midterms, With Eyes On 2016

John Roberts, Nov. 12, 2014, Fox News

“I’m glad I could be here and do it,” Paul told Fox News. “I do want to be part of bringing [together] all facets of the party. The party doesn’t need to be smaller. The party needs to be bigger.”

Paul is the rare Republican who is able to straddle many factions of the party without alienating any one of them. He is a Tea Party favorite and speaks the language of libertarians. And while some establishment Republicans view him with either skepticism or outright disdain, the presumed new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Paul’s potential presidential bid.

That’s a potent formula for surviving the caucuses and primaries.

Paul also has a lot of chits in the bank after the midterm elections. He traveled to more than 30 states to campaign for Republicans.

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Monday, November 10, 2014

ES Twitter Flash

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Friday, November 7, 2014

Taking weapons off the table--BEFORE negotiations

November 07, 2014 Barack Obama , Leon H. Wolf 0 Comments
GOP Majority, Day 1: McConnell Surrenders--Won't Be 'Shutting down Gov't'

Leon H. Wolf, Nov. 6, 2014, Red State

If you watched the respective press conferences of Barack Obama and Mitch McConnell yesterday, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Democrats had just picked up a bunch of seats in the House and Senate, and the Republicans had just suffered a humiliating defeat. 

 While President Obama was defiant and borderline delusional, claiming that the American people had not repudiated him and boldly proclaiming that he still had a mandate, and openly declaring that he would veto everything the Republicans sent his way and act on his own, Mitch McConnell was ruling out the use of the most potent weapons in his arsenal:

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Forgotten already?

October 29, 2014 Bernie Becker , IRS 0 Comments
GOP Offers Refresher On IRS Controversy
Bernie Becker, Oct. 27, 2014, TheHill.com

The House GOP video traces the IRS’s treatment of Tea Party groups back to 2010, when President Obama criticized the Supreme Court’sCitizens United decision, to the agency’s acknowledgement more than four months ago that it couldn’t find all of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails. The video also criticizes the IRS’s efforts to craft new regulations governing the 501(c)(4) groups involved in the controversy.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Granny throws down!

October 27, 2014 C-SPAN , Democratic Party 1 Comments
VIDEO: 82-Yr Old Black Grandmother Is So DONE With Democrat Party

 By Jennifer Burke, Oct. 24, 2014, Tpnn.com



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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

ICYMI: The Actual, True, Real Life Racist History Of The Democratic Party, Part II, By Larry Elder

October 14, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Civil Rights Act of 1964 0 Comments
President Lyndon Johnson signs 
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
By Larry Elder, Apr. 11, 2013

As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in that year's presidential election. After the Civil War, Abe Lincoln's Republican Party easily carried the black vote -- where blacks were allowed to vote. Unwelcome in the Democratic Party, most blacks voted Republican and continued to do so through the early part of the 20th century. It wasn't until 1948, when 77 percent of the black vote went to Harry Truman, who had desegregated the military, that a majority of blacks identified themselves as Democrats.

Yet, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats. For his key role breaking the Democrats' filibuster and getting the act to pass the stalled Senate, Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen, a conservative from Illinois, landed on the cover of Time magazine. President Lyndon Johnson called Dirksen "the hero of the nation." The Chicago Defender, then the country's largest black daily newspaper, applauded Dirksen's "generalship" for helping to successfully push through the bill.

Older black voters sometimes explain they're opposed to Republicans because of the "racist" Southern strategy. But Richard Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchannan, credited with inventing the "Southern strategy," considered the Democratic Party the party of the racists. Buchanan said: "We would build our Republican Party on a foundation of states' rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the 'party of [Democratic Georgia Gov. Lester] Maddox, [1966 Democratic challenger against Spiro Agnew for Maryland governor George] Mahoney and [Democratic Alabama Gov. George] Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.'"

But before that, another pivotal event occurred that helped the GOP-as-racist meme. In 1960, during the presidential campaign, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested following a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Atlanta. Hundreds of other protestors were released, but King was jailed on a trumped-up probation violation for failing to have a Georgia driver's license.

King's aides reached out to then-Vice President and Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. They also reached out to the Democratic nominee, John F. Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy called the Atlanta judge handling the case. Shortly after that call, the judge released King. Nixon, according to Harry Belafonte, a King supporter, "did nothing." Is that true?

Nixon, it turns out, had a much closer relationship with King than did Kennedy. In the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., records show considerable handwritten notes and correspondence between Nixon and King. This includes a 1957 letter from King acknowledging their previous meetings, which thanked Nixon for his "assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality," and praised him for his "devotion to the highest mandates of the moral law."

But in 1960, on the eve of the election, Nixon was in a tough spot. Nixon's public silence might be misconstrued as acceptance of King's arrest. On the other hand, as a candidate for his boss's job, Nixon worried about the political costs of appearing ungrateful if he chastised President Dwight Eisenhower for not taking stronger action. Eisenhower, however, was content to let the Justice Department handle the matter.

According to historian and presidential biographer Stephen Ambrose, while Nixon made no public comments, he telephoned Attorney General William Rogers to find out if King's constitutional rights were being infringed, thus opening the door for federal involvement. Nixon, a lawyer, was concerned about the ethics of calling a judge to get him to release someone.

Nixon, writes Ambrose, told his press secretary: "I think Dr. King is getting a bum rap. But despite my strong feelings in this respect, it would be completely improper for me or any other lawyer to call the judge. And Robert Kennedy should have known better than to do so." That Bobby Kennedy, also a lawyer, nevertheless made a phone call to the judge did not alter the issue of whether it was appropriate. In retrospect, an easy call, but not at the time.

Two million pamphlets titled, "'No Comment' Nixon Versus a Candidate With a Heart, Senator Kennedy," were distributed in black churches. Never mind that in 1956 Nixon revealed he was an honorary member of the NAACP. Or that Nixon pushed for passage of the '57 civil rights bill in the Senate. Or that Time magazine wrote that Nixon's support for civil rights incurred the wrath of one of his segregationist opponents, Sen. Richard Russell, D-Ga., who sarcastically called Nixon the NAACP's "most distinguished member."

But the GOP-is-racist meme can be heard nightly on MSNB-Hee Haw and in political science and history classes all over the country. Actor Morgan Freeman calls the tea party racist. Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., tells us that the GOP wants to "literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."

Keeping blacks ignorant of history remains crucial to this caricature of the Republican Party -- and to the monolithic Democratic black vote. Not so black and white, is it?

 Related:  ICYMI: The Actual, True, Real Life Racist History Of The Democratic Party, Part I, By Larry Elder

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Future of the GOP?

August 06, 2014 News.yahoo.com , Republican Party 0 Comments
'Liberty Kids' Shake Up L.A. Republican Party, Look To Other States

By Sharon Bernstein, Aug. 5, 2014, News.yahoo.com

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amir Zendehnam passionately supports marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Republican Party.

He is not alone. The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party's West Los Angeles central committee, is one of a raft of ethnically diverse young libertarians who hold seats in L.A. County’s huge GOP apparatus, injecting youthful energy into its operations at a time when the state’s Republican Party is nearly moribund.

After winning control the executive board of the Los Angeles County Republican Party in December 2012, the “Liberty Kids,” as they call themselves, are seeing the fruits of their activism. This year one of their own is running as the Republican nominee for Congress from the San Gabriel Valley, with Zendehnam serving as policy adviser.

The Liberty Kids are challenging the party's social conservatives and are drawing the attention of Democrats, who see liberal youth as part of their base. And in what could be a harbinger for the GOP, they have begun campaigning in other states, aiming to increase their influence beyond California.

"I want you to look around the room," Zendehnam said at a meeting last week, "because this is what the face of the Republican Party is going to look like."

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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Black Loyalty To Democrats Relies On Erasing History--What You DON'T Hear During Black History Month

July 05, 2014 Black Republicans , Civil Rights Movement 0 Comments


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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Cliven Bundy Is Leaving The Republican Party --Or did Republicans leave him

May 28, 2014 BLM , Cliven Bundy 0 Comments
Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy
By Morgan Whitaker, May 27, 2014, Msnbc.com

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.

Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.

“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.

Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.

“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.

“The question is, are they slaves the way they are, where they live as slaves to the charity and government-subsidized homes, and are they slaves when their daughters are having abortions and their sons are in the prisons?” Bundy said in the off-the-cuff comments first reported by theNew York Times.

“I am very quick in calling American citizens ‘patriots,’” one-time Bundy-supporter and Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller said in an interview after the remarks surfaced. “Maybe in this case, too quick.”

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Dem Candidate For Wisconsin Governor Threatens To Hand Out KKK Hoods--Confronted By Black GOP Delegate

May 10, 2014 Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan , GOP 0 Comments


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Racism? Bloomberg Says Tim Scott's Success Due To GOP Lowering Bar For Blacks --Don't libs LIKE racial preferences?

May 10, 2014 Bloomberg.com , GOP 0 Comments
Sen. Tim Scott
By Joe Newby, May 10, 2014, Examiner.com

It seems some in the so-called mainstream media have a very low opinion of black Republicans. Bloomberg writer Francis Wilkinson created something of a stir after attributing the success of Sen.Tim Scott, R-S.C., to some form of GOP affirmative action that lowers the bar for blacks, Twitchy reported Friday.

Wilkinson observed that Scott does not have a challenger, unlike a number of other Republicans. Wilkinson said he was told by an unnamed South Carolina Republican there are two reasons for this.

"First, Scott placed himself so far to the right that there was no space for a Tea Party challenge on ideological grounds. He has an 'F' on the NAACP legislative scorecard and a higher score on the right-wing Heritage Action scorecard -- 94 out of a possible 100 -- than fellow South Carolinian Joe 'You Lie' Wilson," Wilkinson wrote.

"Second, Scott benefits from a widespread recognition among Tea Partyers and conservatives in general that a high-profile black conservative is a thing most rare and precious. The act of supporting a black conservative is both an absolution for the past and a shield for the present and future," he added.

In other words, it's all about race, not the fact that Tim Scott is a very successful conservative Senator who has earned the respect of his base. But he wasn't finished, saying Scott, along with former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and former RNC chief Michael Steele are "members of an endangered political species for whom the bar is effectively lowered."

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Friday, May 9, 2014

Four Times As Many Journalists Call Themselves Democrats Rather Than Republicans --Water's wet, media are liberal

May 09, 2014 Conservatives , Democratic Party 0 Comments
By Katrino Trinko, May 7, 2014, Blog.Heritage.org

 Journalists may pride themselves on keeping their views out of their writing, but when it comes to the ballot box, significantly more identify as Democrats than Republicans.

 According to a study released this month by Indiana University’s School of Journalism, 28 percent of full-time journalists identify as Democrats, while a mere 7 percent call themselves Republicans.

 One number that might surprise Americans: Half of journalists identify as politically independent. Yet according to a 2013 Gallup poll, 46 percent of Americans see the media as too liberal, while only 13 percent see it as too conservative.

 The percentage of Republicans in journalism doesn’t mirror the nation’s political landscape. In an April Gallup poll, 25 percent of Americans labelled themselves as Republicans, while 29 percent identified as Democrats.
In 2002, the last time the study was conducted, 18 percent of journalists identified as Republicans and 36 percent as Democrats. A third called themselves independents.

 >>> Do you think the media are biased? CLICK HERE to take the Heritage poll.

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hey GOP, Meet 4 Dreamers Who Want Your Amnesty --Borders need to be secured first, including addressing over-stayers

May 08, 2014 Academia , Democratic Party 0 Comments
By J. Christian Adams, May 7, 2014, Pjmedia.com

Many in the Republican Party don’t understand the political ramifications of amnesty. If they did, they wouldn’t support it.

GOP reform advocates don’t understand that Democrats are pushing immigration reform because they want the country to turn permanently Democrat and to lurch leftward and unhook from America’s founding principles of individual liberty and limited government.

Republicans who support amnesty don’t understand the inertia of culture. They think the new citizens who will benefit from their amnesty can be reasoned with and persuaded by the force of argument to vote for Republicans.

Seriously.

The problem is these former illegal aliens and their children won’t even see the GOP narrative. Culture is a more powerful force than reason, and certainly more powerful than the Republican Party’s ability to generate and penetrate with a narrative. Race groups like LULAC have built a cultural edifice around these populations that no RNC Growth and Opportunity Project tweet will penetrate.

Establishment Republicans clamoring for amnesty can’t point to a single victory of the moderate GOP narrative against the cultural-media-money edifice of the left. Go ahead, name one.

The closest thing to a “victory” from the moderate pro-amnesty wing of the GOP usually consists of being subsumed by the agenda of the left.

That isn’t a victory. That’s eradication.

Instead of a Republican or conservative narrative, the former illegal aliens, now American citizens, will see the narrative created by folks like the four individuals who landed in my email box today.

A left-wing group sent me an email announcing a crop of “FirstGEN Fellows” to work on immigration issues. These are the people who want the GOP-driven immigration amnesty. Let’s meet them. First, Genesis Garfio. From the press release:

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