GOP short-sighted on anti-immigration stance

[BirminghamExaminer]

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The GOP seems intent on becoming a small tent party, an exclusive club of people who walk the line set out, some hint, by Minority leader Mitch McConnell (KY). Republicans who once sponsored or co-sponsored immigration reform bills, Republicans like John McCain of Arizona, suddenly became hearty supporters of the Arizona 'papers please' bill passed into law by the Governor of Arizona last week.

The only recalcitrant Republicans who get a pass are conservative Republicans who call themselves good Christian men but who have lurid affairs outside of marriage. Conservative Republican Aseemblyman, Michael Duvall was caught on tape bragging about his sexual exploits. Republican South Carolina Governor, Mark Sanford tearfully confessed that he hadn't been hiking the Appalachian trail at all during his mysterious disappearance last year. Instead he was with his mistress in Argentina. Nevada Senator John Ensign paid his mistress, her husband and their son on advice from his creepy C Street 'brothers.' It seems that Republicans can do or say whatever they like as long as they don't like President Obama.

When Republicans went postal on anti-immigration in the last week, it was not just disappointing, it was bewildering. As a party that is shrinking in size and power, they have very effectively cut a large swathe through the population that could be potential Republicans and they've done it with gusto. Other states' Republican leaders have vowed to follow Arizona's lead and make it legal and indeed mandatory to check anyone who might appear to be Hispanic for 'papers' in their own states.

A 2008 Census Bureau report projects that by 2042, non-Hispanic whites will no longer make up the majority of the population, where it is projected to fall from 68% in 2008 to 46% in 2042. Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and the draconian measures made by the state of Arizona earlier this week and the threats by other Republicans to follow suit simply makes no sense in terms of the future of the Republican party.

In just a few decades, Hispanics and other minorities will outnumber white people in the U.S. If the GOP continues to alienate every group of citizens who is non-white, the party cannot survive.

[IndianaJoe]

1. When you think about it, the GOP is short-sided on almost

EVERYTHING!

[provis99]

2. No wonder the GOP wants to go back to the '50s.

When white men had all the power, rather than just most of it.

[elocs]

3. Exactly. The GOP is pandering for short term gains that will lead to long term destruction.

They've lost Blacks, so no they want to write off Hispanics. I hope I live long enough to witness the true demise of the Republican party as they relegate themselves to the dustbin of history.

[BirminghamExaminer]

5. I was just thinking today that I can't WAIT for whites to be the minority....

and I am white. But I'm female. They're not only fu*king over non-white people, they are also screwing women everywhere. I hope that people are paying attention about all the much more insidiously quiet anti-choice laws being written all over the country. The one in Florida that will go before Crist would force women who want to have an abortion to see a sonogram of their baby and have its' movements/heartbeat, etc. pointed out to them before they are allowed to have an abortion.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

4. it will give Arizona a new Governor and maybe a new Senator as well

[classysassy]

6. The white mans fear

could it be that the whites are fearful of the brown people coming to america will hasting their days as the majority ethnic group and the good times will come to a halt.?