Posted by
Darvin Dowdy on Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:27:03 PM
My essay last week was a warning to those Middle Americans who, last June, emailed, called, faxed, yelled, screamed and stopped dead the McCain/Kennedy/Bush immigration plan. The warning was not of an impending assault by the dem’s. No but from our own party members who align themselves behind the Bush/WSJ globalists that have hijacked "our" GOP. These globalists will attempt to spin a web or cocoon around our group thus diminishing the importance of the entire illegal immigration issue. Again, they’ll try to steer policy makers away from “us”. They’ll point to the downfall of the Hunter and Tancredo campaigns as “proof” that the anti-illegal immigration movement is not what it appeared to be and “don’t be concerned about it”. “On the contrary” they’ll say, “those who take up the anti-illegal cause are destined to failure”. And the politicians will listen, unfortunately.
A perfect example of this globalist shell game/slight of hand tactic is in a politico.com article by Ben Adler on Friday( link ). Here’s an example of Mr. Adler’s knife being pushed slowly in Tom Tancredo’s back (metaphorically of course):
“Despite Tancredo’s laser-like focus on immigration — during debates, he talks about it even when he’s not asked about it — experts agree his candidacy is going nowhere and that he’s unlikely to even play the role of spoiler.
Tancredo offers multiple reasons — his lack of money chief among them. But his candidacy also raises questions about the potency of the immigration issue as a central 2008 battleground.
In reality, polls offer conflicting evidence on voters’ level of concern over immigration. When voters are given a list of issues and asked to rank their importance, immigration sometimes makes the top four. “But when it’s open-ended, Iraq, terrorism and health care always come out ahead,” said Douglas Rivlin of the National Immigration Forum.”
One can almost hear the gloating Mr. Adler snickering. And this Douglas Rivlin character is a known immigration advocate. Just google the guys name! Not an objective person to quote from. But Ben does spin a mighty tight web here. And some will be convinced to jump ship and support one of the Big 3. John McCain should thank spin meisters like this Adler fellow for his recent upsurge.
Not that Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter don’t deserve some blame. They have run the most inept, backwards campaigns. No winning strategy whatsoever. They just figured they’d stand behind the bloody pulpit, espouse the truth and project out their best Mount Rushmore profile and by doing that, well Middle America would swarm about them. They’d have to wade through throngs of adoring supporters! No aggressive, winning strategy at all by these two gentlemen. It just never dawned on them that big dollar donors might be the same ones who want to keep the flow of cheap labor open and might also mightily oppose their campaigns. Dollar wise, that is. And it might take some ingenuity and imagination to figure out how to raise money elsewhere in order to keep their campaigns afloat. Never occurred to them! And, evidently still does not. DD