Kamikaze Kasich

Amazingly, in a year where a party outsider is crushing the establishment candidates with calls for stopping illegal immigration and deporting those who are here, John Kasich thinks it will be a winning strategy to promise Amnesty with 100 days of his inauguration.  It is as if the man has no idea what has driven the campaign thus far.  Rubio has be handicapped throughout this campaign because of his support for something short of Amnesty in the Gang of Eight.  JEB, who described illegal immigration as an act of love, flamed out despite over $100 million in funding.  George W. Bush tried to get comprehensive immigration reform that had a Path to Citizenship, not Amnesty, and the electorate rose up against it to such a degree that it died.  Nearly a decade of clear signals from the people has not pierced Kasich's skull.  I wonder if he is trying to torpedo his already sinking candidacy.

If Kasich doesn't win Ohio, he should drop out.  If he wins only Ohio, he will be mathematically unable to get the 1237 delegates to win the nomination and he should drop out.  He can only be a spoiler and create a convention fight that is unlikely to benefit him or his party.  However, as noted in an earlier post, he has no elective future after his stint as governor.  There isn't much of a downside for his shenanigans and the establishment might even appreciate it.

Dump Amnesty to Defeat Trump

http://www.kausfiles.com/2015/11/30/why-doesnt-the-gop-elite-give-up-on-amnesty/

Kaus is really onto something here.  Why, when the base of the party is clearly attracted to Trump because of his stand on illegal immigration, doesn't the party just adopt that view.  This is what your voters want.  They want it so much that they will vote for Trump.  Trump!  Trump is looking more and more like the eventual nominee because the voters don't trust insiders.  The party can't wait to try amnesty yet again in spite of their voters.

 

I don't think the party has time to reverse this problem.  With JEB's campaign barely limping along and Rubio under the stain of his Gang of 8 foolishness, there isn't a credible candidate who can seize the anti-amnesty flag from Trump.  The most likely candidate with elective experience who could steal the mantle is Ted Cruz, and the party leaders hate him far more than Trump.

Illegal Immigrants can also be Terrorists

Apparently, some of those refugees that President Obama wants to admit to the country over the objection of half the governors are impatient.  Yes, they decided to cross the border independent of the president's demands for Syrian asylum:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/report-8-syrians-caught-at-texas-border-in-laredo/

Keep in mind that these are the ones we caught.  Recall that 10 to 20 million - perhaps more - illegal immigrants have already sneaked into the country.  These are the people that George W. Bush, Barack Obama, JEB, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, et al. can hardly wait to legalize via amnesty.  Let's do a bit of calculation here.  Back in 1986, three million were granted amnesty, so this current crop of 10 to 20 million (or more) have crossed the borders since then.  Say 30 years, just for a nice round number.  Also, let's stick to the 10 to 20 million range.  That means anywhere from 330 thousand to 670 thousand foreigners manage to sneak across our borders EVERY year since 1986.  On the low side, that is about a thousand a day who are successful!  And we just caught 8 Syrians.  How many did we NOT catch?  I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.

Distrust the Candidate

Immigration is one of the biggest issues of this election season and most of the Republicans are on the wrong side of the debate.  Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have essentially the same view on immigration despite being from rival parties.  Marco Rubio, who is in the process of unseating Jeb as the establishment's preferred candidate, tried to get amnesty passed several years ago but has since disavowed it.  Sort of.  He has declared that he would not reverse Obama's Dreamer Act; that would be the one that Congress declined to pass into law but the president enforced it anyway.  Hey, faithfully execute the laws is so passé.  Basically, Rubio has shown his cards.  He is going to claim to be a border hawk and against illegal immigration until - should he win - he is inaugurated.  Then, hello amnesty!  Too many Republicans have a short-sighted view on immigration.

 

The fastest growing immigrant group is Muslims.  Islam is entirely incompatible with the First Amendment.  Rather than forcing new immigrants to live under the rules that they knew existed when they chose to immigrate here, we are seeing self-censorship of anything that might upset Muslims.  Those who don't practice self-censorship are the bad guys in most media reporting.  "If you hadn't drawn that cartoon of Muhammad, you wouldn't have been shot.  It's your own damn fault!"  There will come a time when an area is majority Muslim and it will vote for Sharia law.  This is a when, not an if.  Muslim immigration has done wonders for Paris and Stockholm but I'm sure it will work out much better for us.

 

Rubio probably thinks that because he is Hispanic, he will benefit from an Amnesty.  He is delusional.  Amnesty is Republican suicide.  Ever notice how the Democrats are so concerned that Republicans will never win the White House again if they don't change their views on illegal immigration?  If the other party were ruining its chanced to compete with mine, I certainly wouldn't mind and absolutely wouldn't give them advise that might harm my party's chances.  Sure, the Democrats only want what's best for Republicans.  BS!  Republicans, being stupid, have swallowed this nonsense and are prepared to give millions of votes to the Democrats by passing some form of amnesty.

 

Amnesty is an existential threat to the party and yet most of the candidates are in favor.  Few have learned from history.  Republicans lost California thanks to the last amnesty.  Lose one more big state and their presidential prospects will vanish for many years thereafter.

 

This is why Trump still dominates.  Carson and Cruz are on the same page with him but Trump is the one who trail blazed the issue and he may ride it all the way to the Presidency.