← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · sun tzu
Thread ID: 8883 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-09
2003-08-09 01:56 | User Profile
Mickey Kaus is Jewish, by the way. Also, I am not a white nationalist, but I think border control is a good issue, and you people are fired up enough to do something about it. So keep reading.
[url=http://slate.msn.com/id/2086666/]http://slate.msn.com/id/2086666/[/url]
[QUOTE] California's Missing Candidate: Is there any vote-rich niche left unexploited by a candidate in California's gubernatorial recall election? You bet. A big niche. Specifically, none of the major candidates is displaying conspicuous doubts about the state's current policy of acccommodating itself to continued illegal immigration, especially from Mexico. ... It's not as if a "border control" platform wouldn't command substantial voter support, probably even majority support. (California's widely-criticized anti-illegal- immigration Prop. 187 passed by a large margin, remember.) It's not as if there aren't enough targets to attack:
1) Gray Davis has pledged to sign a bill to allow illegal immigrants to get drivers' licenses. According to reporter Jill Stewart's latest column, the new law "does not even require the illegal aliens to apply for U.S. citizenship or submit to a criminal background check," as did a law Davis vetoed as too permissive last year;
2) "California today extends in-state university tuition discounts to its resident unlawful immigrants, even as we charge over double that amount for American citizens from out of state," according to Victor Davis Hanson in National Review;
3) Republicans, after a temprorary post-9/11 retreat, are once again proposing measures that would, among other things, retroactively legalize yet another wave of illegal immigrants, providing an obvious incentive for the next wave. ...
As 3) suggests, the Republican party, eager to win Hispanic votes, is no longer reliably speaking up for those who are worried about the immigrant influx. Democrats certainly aren't speaking up for them. Even labor unions, obsessed with replenishing their ranks with immigrants, are no longer standing up for the unskilled workers whose wages are threatened by competition from illegals. ... When you have a strongly felt popular concern that's ignored by the two main parties and stifled as politically incorrect in the established press, you have the conditions for a successful Wallace/Reagan/McCarthy style insurgency. Certainly you'd think an articulate "border control" candidate could rip off 15-20 percent of the vote in a Bustamante/Schwarzenegger/Huffington field. And 15-20 percent of the vote, remember, could still be enough to win on October 7. ... Who will step up to claim this niche and give voice to these voters' legitimate concerns? Rep. Elton Gallegly, you have 25 hours. ... [Do you agree with this 'border control' cause?-ed. We have to have some limits 1) to help raise wages of low-skilled U.S. citizens; 2) to help prevent California from becoming a Quebec (with France next door); 3) to support social equality, which seems hard to achieve in an open-borders world of educated, well-paid elites and slums of dirt-poor unskilled laborers.] ... 3:34 P.M. [\QUOTE]
Get to work, white nationalists! You have 25 hours to influence the country. This really is the best opportunity to shape the border control debate to come along in decades.
You will need 65 signatures and $3500 to get on the ballot by tomorrow - Saturday.