The Wall Street Journal editorial page said this
The Wall Street Journal editorial page said this
Normally, this would have been a "Who said it?" but it's too late in the week. This isn't completely shocking, since the business wing of the GOP, which the WSJ speaks for, has always desired immigrant labor, and there's always been a split between that bloc and the more nativist rank-and-file talk-radio wing. But still:
Mr. Obama created a potentially fruitful opening to the GOP when he failed to do anything of the sort legislatively in his first term—a failure for which he was repeatedly scored in his September interview with Univision. A nimble GOP adversary might have seized the opportunity to present himself as the real immigration reformer.
But not Mr. Romney, who often pandered to his party's nativist wing (especially after Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the primaries), even endorsing what he called "self-deportation." That may have endeared him to one or two radio talk show hosts, but it proved a disaster on Tuesday.
And not only with Hispanics: Exit polls show that Asian-Americans went for the President over Mr. Romney by a whopping 73%-26%, an 11-point improvement over Mr. Obama's margin in 2008. How many other non-white groups can the GOP lose and still consider itself a national party?
No doubt this editorial will provoke letters denouncing us for being soft on the issue. Now is an opportune time to ask those disapproving readers how many more Tuesdays like this one they'd care to repeat?
They were followed in short order by Sean Hannity:
Sean Hannity said Thursday he has “evolved” on immigration and now supports a “pathway to citizenship.”
Hannity told his radio listeners Thursday afternoon that the United States needs to “get rid of the immigration issue altogether.”
“It’s simple to me to fix it,” Hannity said. “I think you control the border first. You create a pathway for those people that are here — you don’t say you’ve got to go home. And that is a position that I’ve evolved on. Because, you know what, it’s got to be resolved. The majority of people here, if some people have criminal records you can send them home, but if people are here, law-abiding, participating for years, their kids are born here, you know, first secure the border, pathway to citizenship, done.”
Frankly, I find this turn of events rather stunning. I guess necessity is the mother of...evolution, or, to invoke two cliches in one sentence, elections really do have consequences. The GOP hierarchy wants this issue to be forgotten by 2016, so it's a lock that something will get done in the next year. Let's hope it's a real solution \for 12 million Americans who work and contribute to society, but without documentation.
Where is all the condemnation by conservatives now that Hannity has embraced immigration reform which includes a "path to citizenship?" Those are treasonous words a week ago.— chasing history
Good quote for the angry old republicans ....
"The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost."
Donald Rumsfeld 8/25/03
Thanks, Don!!— wokmaster- 9 years ago. Obama starts his second term in 2 months. — tr88
- ===]]] Those are treasonous words a week ago. [[[===
Isn't it funny how all of a sudden Hannity has a completely different view on this issue? For years he strongly expressed a completely different perspective. All of a sudden he want to see a path to citizenship.
If I didn't know better, I'd think it to be an example of someone throwing their principles overboard simply for the sake of political expediency.
If I didn't know better.
Too funny.
But what's even more hilarious is that it won't work. Republicans can only lose on this issue. If they back reform, Obama will get the credit and their base will be angry. If they oppose reform, their obstructionism will be fully on display, and they will be further alienated from a fast-growing demographic.
It's hilarious. Hopefully, they will back reform and suffer the consequences. Unlikely given their explicit strategy of obstructionism - but we can certainly hope it will happen.— Talking point sleuth - "Get someone to explain to you what tangible means. "
F##$ off.— Hamlet - Cant come up with a response? — tr88
- "I love that after decades of rhetoric to cut taxes, Republicans are saying Obama won because he was promising to give people stuff."...typical liberal feeble-mindedness...a tax cut is giving people free stuff..ha..haha..ahahahahaha...people keeping the money they earned is a gift..ha..haha..ahahahahaha....TPS - go back to the kitchen sweetie, men are talking here.— 2ndNlong
- Romney almost had the immigration thing figured out. He just didn't put on enough spray tan before his Univision interview.— wokmaster
- That was a response, moron. Act like an @$$ and that is the response you get. At least this is on point. You are a like a typical representative of your party. You and your friends should say hello to the wilderness. You're going to be there for awhile.— Hamlet
- "a tax cut is giving people free stuff" . . . Yeah, like free national defense, free highways and schools, free parks, free navigable waterways and air traffic control, free food and drug inspections, free maintenance of the currency, free relief from natural disasters, free courts of law, free police and fire protection, and on and on. It's all free because as Cheney told us, deficits don't matter.— montani semper liberi
- @wokmaster: Do you think it's wise to only have one party in control? I'm not saying Republicans are the answer, but when I look at Philadelphia, one party running things for decades hasn't worked out so well. And thanks for the website info yesterday.— Commentdant_Klink
- You're welcome. No, I don't think it's wise to ever have one party in control. I think Philadelphia is a good example of that. I think balance is a good thing.
However, I don't believe that most of what passes for "Republican" these days is fit to govern. I posted a link to the GOP platform in 1956. They held many of the same principles, but they were sane. They didn't have the 24/7 propaganda machine, known as Fox News, telling them how evil the opposite political persuasion was.— wokmaster - What's the over/under on Obama's bowing in Burma?— 2ndNlong
- What? — wokmaster
- ""a tax cut is giving people free stuff" . . . Yeah, like free national defense, free highways and schools, free parks, free navigable waterways, etc."...typical liberal lack of logic. How is paying fewer taxes equal to paying no taxes? Even funnier, the folks who aren't paying taxes are complaining that those that do aren't doing enough. The nation is sliding to the stupid.— 2ndNlong
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