skippy the bush kangaroo: how stupid are the repubbblicans?

Thursday, April 29, 2010

how stupid are the repubbblicans?

they are so stupid, their new "paperz, pleeze" law in arizona is going to cost them a lot of brown votes. mistermix @ balloon juice:

i’ve got nothing, and it’s open thread time, so let’s talk about my mother. she’s 74 years old, brown (us citizen from mexican parents), and tough as nails. she spends her winters in a small town near tucson, a few miles from where she grew up.

since the arizona immigration law passed, i’ve been thinking about what’s going to happen the first time she’s pulled over and asked for her papers. the results of my thought experiment aren’t pretty. to say that she’ll be unintimidated by the local cops is a gross understatement. my concern is for the officer who pulls her over, as well as the police department and town that she’ll sue. life gets a little dull for the retired, and the family joke is that mom has a titanium grudge carrier, so i expect she’ll do her part to bankrupt her local municipality, and enjoy doing it.

mom’s a proud goldwater republican. she was happy with reagan, voted for bush ii in 2000 (but not in ‘04), and has long been active in the local republican party. but i can say with absolute certainty that she will not vote for a republican, for any office, ever again. she’s the proudest person i know—proud of her family, her achievements in life, and her mexican heritage. and, whatever else this new law is, it is profoundly disrespectful. i don’t know if this law will kill the republican party in arizona, but i can assure you that they’re already dead to her.

we think mistermix nailed it on the head when he wrote whatever else this new law is, it is profoundly disrespectful.

it's disrespectful to an entire race of people who want to live life as americans. there is no way in hell that america is about proving you are an american. that in itself is the very antithesis of liberty and freedom.

the gop has shot itself in the foot, and has hastened its demise by several years w/this law.

posted by skippy at 8:52 AM |

3 Comments:

You want to hear an outcry. Try pulling over white people. After all, there are white illegals also. Go after some of those "Snowbirds".

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Jerry Critter, 10:11 AM PDT

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Chuck, 2:45 PM PDT

So the GOP dies out. Not to worry--there will be another party to take its place faster than you can say "George Wallace".

The unbounded opportunities for graft and corruption guarantee us a fertile incubator of political parties.

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Chuck, 2:46 PM PDT

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