Jeb Bush tells Republicans to ‘stop acting stupid’ on immigration policy

If Freepers are sprinting towards stormfront, they have been running a marathon on illegal immigration - they've been enjoying that style of xenophobia for at least a decade, as I noted yesterday.

Anonymous found this thread, where Freepers react to Jeb Bush noting, like Reagan, W. Bush and McCain did before him, that yelling about Hispanics may not be the best long term strategy.

cripplecreek knows illegals are counted in the census, so we're doomed. Somehow?

The country is petty much done for now.

Some 30 million plus illegals is enough to create some 50 congressional districts and they don’t even need to vote to do it. Its pretty obvious that neither party has any intent to do anything and even FReepers are now screeching to shut up about immigration.

Cowboy Bob knows Hispanics are mostly all Illegal Aliens who love to vote Democrat:

If we deported all the Illegal Aliens, then the number of Hispanics left in the US would probably not be worth pandering to...

Fee knows that until all whites get it together and vote against blacks and Hispanics, they're doomed:

There are 101 million white registered voters, there are only 14 million black and 14 million Hispanic registered voters. If whites unite on this issue and vote one party, illegal immigration amnesty no longer is an issue. Latinos and blacks vote as a bloc, why can’t white America. Whites have no one to blame but themselves.

Soul of the South know Hispanics don't deserve nice things, on account of how ungrateful black people are:

The Republican Party fought a bloody and brutal Civil War to keep the slaveholding states from separating from the union and keeping slavery.
A Republican President issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Republican Party freed the slaves by passing the 13th Amendment.
The Republican Party adopted the 14th and 15th Amendments which made the former slaves citizens and gave them voting rights.
Republicans in the House and Senate voted in large majorities (over 70%) to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act over strong Democrat opposition.
In 2006 Republican President G.W. Bush signed a 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act, passed by large majorities of Republicans.

In 2008 African Americans voted 95% Democrat in the general election, perpetuating a decades old pattern of voting against the Republican Party candidates.

Mr. Bush, given the history with the African American voter why will giving amnesty to people illegally in the country ensure Hispanics vote for Republicans?

throwback is getting rambly and nonsensical. Point is, Reagan.

I think the differing views on illegal immigration result from class. If you were born with the “silver spoon” or currently have one firmly implanted in your face (aka Jeb, McCain, Graham), you tend to look down an the native lower class as lazy.
As a result, you see these escapees from the Latin American lower class that are more diligent, and you think the opportunity here should go to them because they are willing to work for it.

The problem is that the Democrats with some help from Republicans have created the safety net/hammock, but now they'd just as soon import the help to compensate for the indolence they created.

Republicans like Jeb Bush seem to have little empathy for the native blue collar type.

Democrats are smart. They've been importing a new lower class that leans their way, and have been converting the middleclass into government employess. Fiscally unsustainable, but like Christy said last night, they don't seem to care.

We need a Reagan again that can connect with the blue collar crowd, strengthen their numbers in non-government jobs, and slam the door on these socialists being imported from the south.

mardi59 is still fucking a very old chicken

REMEMBER THIS WOMAN JEB BUSH? TERRI SCHIAVO WAS MURDERED AND YOU SAT BACK AND DID NOTHING!!!! This jerk has the audacity to speak of faith and family when he could have stopped them from killing her. I could care less what this jerk has to say. TERRI will follow him the rest of his useless life!

Boogieman explains that the GOP has a plan to stick it to Freeper-types:

Their strategy is to refuse to enforce immigration laws until we are deluged, then wring their hands and tell us that we have to pander to hispanics, since they are already here. It’s naked extortion, from our own party leaders.

Vigilanteman has a suggestion:

Singapore and Malaysia, two of the more immigration friendly countries in Asia, also add caning to the usual penalty of fines and/or imprisonment.

We're not talking about an old school spanking. We're talking about stiff strokes with a rattan cane soaked in water by a martial arts expert on the bare buttocks. People who have been caned report that a month or more passes before they can sit down or even take a crap without considerable pain.