Source:The Young Turks– Cenk Uygur is not exactly sanest guy you’ll ever hear. Or maybe that’s just all the caffeine doing the talking for him.
“Bill O’Reilly is pegging Laura Ingraham’s opinion of using mass deportation to address illegal immigration as a “draconian” idea that would “destroy the Republican Party.”
The heated debate arose on Wednesday after O’Reilly asked on his Fox News show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” what Ingraham would do to address the tens of thousands of children and adults that have been apprehended trying to cross the U.S-Mexico border.
“No. 1, first thing you do is start deporting people, not by the hundreds, not by the dozens, by the thousands,” the conservative radio talk show host said.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.”
From The Young Turks
I disagree with Cenk Uygur on at least one thing here. Bill O’Reilly is not that much of a radical, or Nationalist on immigration, either for political reasons, or in general. He is actually in favor of some type of legal status for the 10-15 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Cenk seems to think that is just for political reasons. Fine, but O’Reilly makes a good point here that he shared with Laura Ingraham who was a roommate of Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter at the nuthouse. (Ha, ha) When O’Reilly said that “if the GOP takes this draconian approach towards illegal immigrants, they’re done”. O’Reilly because he’s read the polls and sees the changing demographics.
Today’s Republican Party is an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, male party that is located primarily in the South and to a certain extent in the Midwest and rural areas in the Mountain West. With the libertarian-right that doesn’t have much influence over the Republican Leadership when it comes to policy at least as it relates to social issues, immigration and foreign policy.
The Republican Party is not even a Caucasian party even though Anglo-Saxons are Caucasian. But an Anglo-Saxon party with other non-Protestant Caucasian ethnics tending to be Democrats or Independents.
The Nationalists in the Republican Party want to keep the Republican Party the way it is at all costs even if that means everyone else becoming Democrats. So instead of looking for ways to reach out to their non-traditional base of the party and the elected officials in their back pockets look for ways to prevent non-Republicans from voting, or even coming into the country, bogus (on a great day) Voter ID laws and mass deportations are a couple of examples of that.
If the Republican Leadership tries to do what Laura Ingraham suggested that they do in this video and they do it before the elections this year, we’ll see Democrats win back the House and hold the Senate. Why, because that would bring the Latin-American vote out for Democrats who normally do not vote in large numbers in mid-terms voting for Democrats. It would probably bring African-Americans out to vote as well again another population that doesn’t tend to vote heavy in mid-terms.
Bill O’Reilly is smart enough to understand that, Laura Ingraham is off of her medication apparently and doesn’t get it.
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