The Wall Street Journal editorial page said this
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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.
on second thought wok too bad your dad didn't use one— rysagr- Rsygar obviously represents the anti-intellectual wing of the Tea Party.— wokmaster
- really wow so insightful. well not really— rysagr
- It's reported that Christie called Obama last night to congratulate him but emailed Romney later. Damn...— chasing history
- For all of the Republicans who believe that their candidate was not conservative enough, check out the GOP platform for the 1956 Republican convention when President Eisenhower was nominated for re-election.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838— wokmaster - I love this excerpt: "Republican action created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as the first new Federal department in 40 years, to raise the continuing consideration of these problems for the first time to the highest council of Government, the President's Cabinet."
- the gop wants immigrant labor will? so the dems just want to let them all in but NOT have them work right? i'm sure the hollywood left is having americans cut the grass on their 20 million dollar homes out in la right?— rysagr
- Immigration is a no-brainer for Obama. It will either (1) force Republicans to further alienate Latinos or, (2) force Republicans to alienate their base. No matter which way it goes, it will be a political victory for Obama.
And to top it off, it happens it will be an accomplishment that works to the Dems advantage. If it doesn't happen, it will make it just that more obvious that the Republicans are interested in nothing but obstructionism.— Talking point sleuth - rysagr is still around eh?
Say, rysagr, any comments on how you could have been so completely wrong about the accuracy of the polls?
How do you explain your belief in librul conspiracies that turned out to be so completely wrong? Have you come to realize now that your whole conspiratorial belief in a "librul media" is similarly vapid? Have you come to realize how completely bogus rightwing pundits are?
Do tell, rysagr, do tell.— Talking point sleuth - ===]]] And what else does it mean when conservatives say that "Latinos share our values"? [[[===
It means that some of them are waking up to political reality, and therefore they need to jettison their previously "heart-felt" beliefs. Romney, whom they voted to be their leader, has provided excellent leadership in showing them how to jettison "heart-felt beliefs" for political purposes.
Meanwhile, they will soon realize that they have a huge agenda. If they do turn their back on previous "heart-felt beliefs" and endorse immigration reform, then they will be contributing to an important accomplishment under Obama's administration. Imagine that. What a horror for them - contributing to a significant accomplishment for the country when Obama will get credit.
This is going to be hilarious to watch.— Talking point sleuth - How many Latinos voters were disenfranchised by states which hurried through new voter ID laws? How many Latinos would have been affected by the laws that PA tried to pass?
And the GOP thinks that "Latinos share their values"? That IS hilarious.— wokmaster - "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."
So half the GOP wants them, other half deports them, wonder why they don't vote for them.— gibby58 - The best historical analogy is the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s, the right wing faction led by Millard Fillmore.
- The GOP doesn't just have a problem with Hispanics. On Tuesday, Asians went overwhelmingly for Obama, by a margin similar to the Hispanic vote. Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks look at the GOP and they see a party that is overwhelmingly white and dominated by politicians from small town and rural America. And this doesn't even account for single white women.
And the party won't make inroads until it reconfigures its nominating process. Starting with the Iowa caucuses, which are dominated by extremely conservative rural folks, forces every GOP candidate to tack so far to the right that getting to the middle is nearly impossible. Remember, in Iowa, Michelle Bachmann was taken seriously as a possible presidential candidate. Rick Santorum is stumping there even now. If the party repeats the process of 2012, it's going to be the same thing all over again.— wokmaster
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