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Related: About this forumMontana House candidate: If immigration isn’t halted, GOP faces ‘extinction-level event’
By Scott Kaufman
Friday, May 30, 2014 12:34 EDT
On Wednesday evening, candidates for Montanas lone seat in the House of Representatives gathered to debate the nations hot topics one last time before next Tuesdays vote.
One of the candidates, Drew Turiano, spoke candidly about the dangers he believes immigration poses to the future of conservatism, generally, and the Republican Party specifically.
We should have a moratorium on all immigration to this country or according to all the data it will be the end of the Republican party and conservatism in ten years or less, he began.
Most immigrants who come to America, he said, are big government people, so theyre going to support the party of big government the Democrats. Theyre not going to support the party of small government the Republicans.
Why would they want to support the Republican Party anyway? he asked. Mr. Obama and the Democrats give them free education, free health care, free welfare, free housing free everything!
Republicans cannot compete with that, he continued. We will not win any future elections, we will lose unless a moratorium is placed right now on all immigration.
Who are these people these Democrats who are going to rule America in perpetuity? he asked. Theyre not Jackson Democrats, theyre not even Truman Democrats. I really dont even know who the Hell these people are. All I know is, they booed God at their convention a couple of years ago.
What does this mean for the future of Christianity in this country? he wondered. All I know is that Mr. Obama has populated his administration with self-professed Marxists and Maoists. What does this mean for the future of the Constitution? The Bill of Rights? Capitalism? Humanity?
American conservatives are looking at an extinction-level event in this country, he continued, unless we place a moratorium on immigration right now. Were looking at a political singularity the annihilation of conservatism in this country in ten years or less!
Last year, Turiano called for another Operation Wetback, referring to an Eisenhower-era program that deported over 1.4 million illegal immigrants. President Eisenhower, Turiano said, repatriated them along with their American-born children. President Eisenhower did that, it was called Operation Wetback. I think America needs another Operation Wetback.
Watch Turianos entire statement below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/30/montana-house-candidate-if-immigration-isnt-halted-gop-faces-extinction-level-event/
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Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)think of actually aligning their policies with what the people want. That pretty much says what Repubs think about the American people.
To them, "leadership" means barking orders and demanding compliance. Being "deciders."
IMHO, leadership means a bit more than that.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)And hurry.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)The people coming across the border from Mexico and points south, (fewer now than at any time since the 1940's, BTW...) are mostly socially conservative Catholic Christians. Seemingly a natural fit for the GOP. But because they have brown skin, the Repukes are going out of their way to make them feel unwelcome. And they have the gall to complain that the people they denigrate and hold in contempt gravitate to the opposing party?
safeinOhio
(32,727 posts)of a failure to adapt.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)aren't Republicans the party of big government when it comes to the private lives of women and gays, though?
I voted for Obama twice, yet I'm still waiting for my free car, my free drivers license, my free house, and my free girlfriend.
Hmm...or you add "moderation" and "adaptation" to your vocabulary. It's not so much the annihilation of "conservatism" that you face; it is the annihilation of your party's reactionary and regressive politics that is imminent.
I actually think that Republicans still have time to continue BSing around, yet be competitive (maybe not so much in presidential elections, but definitely House, Senate, and gubernatorial races). The clock is ticking, though, and once the time for re-apportionment arrives (and it coincides with 2020's Presidential election), they'll be doomed if they keep on like this.
Vogon_Glory
(9,132 posts)I used to think that Turiano's attitude was entirely white racism with a topping of Radical Right faux-Christianity. After thinking about it, I'm now wondering if his call for a total ban on immigration might have been influenced by a meeting with distant Italian cousins, who called him a stupido. From what little I know about Italian politics, Tea Party nihilism is not in vogue in la bella Italia.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)If it takes the extinction of the GOP to prove the adapt or die process of evolution - that works for me...
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Evolution just runs over you and your ignorance.
unionthug777
(740 posts)go to a rez and say that.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)It's what we call "bi-partisanship." And don't worry about ever returning the favor, cuz we know you guys NEVER budge, not even 1 tiny little centimeter...
Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)However, many of them are religious social conservatives, so y'know you might be able to win some of their votes if you weren't a bunch of racist dipshits. Just a thought...
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Pat Buchanan was at least a little more honest about it.
"If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?" ("This Week With David Brinkley," 1/8/91)
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)that white women aren't having enough children. I feel like it's maybe 1/3 that and 2/3 a desire to keep people too poor and busy to notice what the politicians are/aren't doing.