DEMOCRATS HOPE THE GOP CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION

…Governor Scott Walker has lost his lead position in Iowa

 

All those expected to be high in the GOP polls, are hugging the bottom poll positions.

It is amazing that the current mob of those running for the Republican presidential 2016 nomination do not realize what they are doing by focusing solely on the immigration issue.  Why in the world don’t these potential candidates at least look at why those in their own party are looking at political outsiders such as Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina? 

Yes, Donald Trump did start his run on the immigration issue.  But lately, his focus has moved on to other issues that support his “Make America Great Again” slogan such as more jobs, the waste in government spending and on his version of health care for all.  The reason that the Republican party’s members are focusing on all those outsiders is that they are totally fed up with the professional politicians.  These individuals are not doing or offering to do what these party’s members are wanting from their representatives in congress.

In addition, one must ask why are those in the other party are showing up by the thousands to hear an unknown US Senator from a small US state?  Bernie Sanders is getting much larger crowds by far than any of the other candidates of either party, and he seldom has much to say on the immigration issue.  Most of his audiences are coming to hear his views on correcting the nation’s income inequality, dealing with America’s poverty issues, in making universal health care a reality and reducing the cost of higher education.

Just look closely at those GOP politicians that were expected to be at the top of the ticket, but are currently at the bottom of the polls, and look at what they are currently focusing on.

The previous front runner for the Iowa Caucus, Scott Walker, who is now running well below Trump, Carson and Fiorina, is still focusing on the immigration issue.  But this time, he’s shot himself in the foot as he’s now pushing for building a wall on America’s northern border with Canada.

Yep, and Walker made his statements about this on a major Sunday political show, NBC’s Meet The Press.  The Wisconsin Governor Walker actually said that building a wall on the northern border was “a legitimate issue for us to look at.”

Yes, this was his own hilarious and ridiculous idea.  No wonder he's not polling well.

The Washington Post writer, Eugene Robinson wrote the following about Walker’s comment: “What’s he [Walker] going to do about the Great Lakes, mine the shoreline? Station heavy artillery at Niagara Falls in case some crafty terrorist tries to come over in a barrel?”

On the same Sunday, New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, said that as president he would have the chairman of FedEx “show these people” at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) how to track visitors the way his company tracks parcels.

Per Christie, “You go online and at any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is,” Christie said Saturday at a New Hampshire town hall meeting. “Yet we let people come into this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them. . . . We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in and then when your time is up.”

Since people are not packages, and they move around and are not stamped with bar codes, how does Christie think these visitors would be tracked?  Would ICE be injecting them with a GPS chip that could be tracked with an FBI or NSA satellite?

The Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, also a candidate at the bottom of the polls and focusing on immigration, he wants to stop the law for America’s birthplace citizenship.  It is particularly interesting for Governor Jindal as this is the same law that made this Louisiana Governor a US citizen.  Jindal’s parents were not US citizens when Jindal was born in the US. (Technically, that makes Governor Jindal an “Anchor Baby”)

As to Scott Walker’s wanting a wall on the Canadian border.  Could that be so that his political competitor, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, might be sent back across the border?  Because you see, Senator Cruz was born in Canada of a US parent.

How do these potential nominees think this sounds to those of us that value that America is a “nation of immigrants”?  Isn’t there a statue on a small island in the New York harbor that greets those coming here with something on its base saying, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” 

What Donald Trump does say about immigration is total nonsense and his proposed remedies are not even feasible, but some GOP voters are still eating up Trump’s unworkable border proposals.  But there are others that are starting to ask questions that deal with important issues that affect them directly such as increasing the minimum wage and more jobs.  These voters are now gravitating to those potential candidates that are taking on those issues and not focusing on immigration. 

The reality is that those that are talking mostly about these other issues are not the current members of Congress or are they the American governors.  Those current members of the US Congress are apparently forgetting that according to the polls, the current do-nothing US Congress has an approval rating below 10%.   And that’s the worst congressional approval rating…..ever.  And the state’s governors that did not extend Medicaid or agree to supporting Obamacare, they are being reconsidered by many of their constituencies.

It’s no wonder that the American public is looking to outsiders as potential US Presidential nominees.

The reality is that as long as the potential nominees continue to focus mainly on immigration, the more dangerous it is that they continue to alienate the fastest and largest growing minority groups in the country.  To say that the Republican party is digging a hole for themselves that will be impossible to climb out of is becoming obvious.  But they seem to not want to see the forest for the trees.

President Obama won in 2012 with 73% of the Asian American vote and 71% of the Hispanic vote. Mitt Romney who supported “self-deportation” for immigrants, he lost with less than 31% of these groups.

If the GOP candidates continue to focus only on the immigration issues, the Democrats won’t have to do much to win in both the next regional and national elections.

Copyright G.Ater  2015