Sounding the death knell of the GOP

By Joshua Herring

Most people blame President George W. Bush for having destroyed the Republican Party. As much as I mourn for America, due to the impact of his presidency, I must say this isn't altogether true. He's had plenty of help dealing a near death blow to American liberty and undermining our national sovereignty. Rhetoric about liberty and conservatism on Capital Hill has become a cacophonic anti-American extravaganza. Yet, the one thing amidst an avalanche of GOP compromised convictions that are sounding the death knell of the Republican Party more than any other at this time is immigration policy.

During the Nixon and Reagan presidencies both men won elections by a forty-nine state landslide. There was a common denominator in the equation that led to their success. Ninety-six percent of their votes were cast by whites. In 2004, George W. Bush Jr. received almost 60 percent of the white vote, and 90 percent of those who voted for him were white, but the real most important part of the story lies beneath the surface.

According to Pat Buchanan, it was "evident in 2004, when President Bush nearly lost his reelection bid to a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts with a voting record indistinguishable from Teddy Kennedy, the Nixon-Reagan formula no longer assures victory." In his book State of Emergency Buchanan goes on to note that the white majority in America has steadily declined from nearly 90 percent of the population in 1960 to 67 percent today. There is truth in Buchanan's assertion that the Immigration Act of 1965 began the importation of a new electorate.

Be assured that I am not condoning unfair treatment of anyone along racial lines or any other lines. However, there is an important factor playing itself out here that is undermining the Republican Party; causing a shift in paradigm and platform that isn't good for anyone, least of all the Republicans seeking to benefit by it.

Among the problems such thinking has brought about there are "anchor babies" born to illegal Mexicans that become U.S. citizens at birth. Then there are welfare and human services programs being provided to criminals for entering and then residing in our country illegally. They are rewarded for it because they are the future coalitions and constituencies of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and other liberals campaigning to become President of the United States at this time.

This is good news for Hillary, but not so for the other two just mentioned. They will have to change parties or alter the Republican Party platform dramatically. They will choose the latter of the two, of course. Another thing Buchanan pointed out in his book, is that the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly — if we fail to secure the border the Southwest will soon become so Hispanicized — any candidate who pledges to seal it and maintain the separate identify of the United States will lose all the electoral votes of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

I realize America is the last great hope for many downtrodden people of the world. But at the current rate of influx people from Third World Countries will make up over 50 percent of the U.S. population by 2050. At such a time, after the minority white vote is split between Democrats and Republicans, the GOP as it stands would not have the slightest chance of winning a presidential election. The party will have to cater to foreign immigrants much to the detriment of Americans whose families have been living and working here for generations.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities . . . Theodore Roosevelt, the Knights of Columbus, 1915

With the Republican Party shifting more and more in favor of Anti-American immigration policies the GOP is — by virtue of trying to compete with the Democratic Party — painting itself into a corner from which there will be no escape. Not only are they digging a hole too deep to crawl out of. The people they're selling out for will throw dirt in on top of them until the GOP is effectively dead and buried.

The time to rescue the Republican Party and save the republic itself is now. Placing a liberal masquerading as a conservative like John McCain in the Oval Office simply will not serve. Alan Keyes, who is widely known for his eloquence, actually has a three word solution to the problem of illegal immigration: enforce — the — law. In an environment rife with political spin the beauty of this solution lies in its utter simplicity. As an immigration policy it cannot fail to achieve its objective and stabilize the nation. In the words of Woodrow Wilson:

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. (Address to New Citizens, 1915.)

© Joshua Herring