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Human Events
GOP bordering
on victory
By Ann Coulter
9/24/2014
Everyone is on tenterhooks wondering what the Republicans’ national
strategy for the November elections will be. Shouldn’t they be thinking
of that soon? The GOP desperately needs a “wave” election to rack up
Senate seats this year, because the next two election cycles are not
favorable for Republicans.
Let’s see, what would make a good national issue?
Democrats are far savvier than Republicans when it comes to winning
elections, and I note that Obama has decided to put off his “executive
amnesty” until after the elections. Does that ping any neurons in your
tired “Diversity Is a Strength” synapses, Republicans?
Another obvious place to look for a good national issue is the polls.
According to months of polling, the No. 1 most important issue to
voters is immigration — by a landslide. In Gallup polls in July and
then again in August, Republican and Republican-leaning Independent
voters chose immigration as the “biggest problem” facing the nation.
Commenting on its July poll, Gallup noted that more than twice as many
Republicans as Democrats called immigration the nation’s No. 1 problem,
suggesting that by “problem” they mean illegal immigration, not the
failure to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.”
In Gallup’s August poll, immigration was again voted a bigger problem
among Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents than either the
economy or even Obamacare. It was the third “biggest problem” for
Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents, after dysfunctional
government and unemployment/the economy.
The magnificent Republican Tom Cotton, running for the Senate against
amnesty-supporting Democrat Mark Pryor in Arkansas, says he’s gotten
more questions about immigration than any other issue. He says voters
keep asking: “What can we do to stop the border crisis. … What can we
do to stop Obama issuing another unilateral amnesty?”
That sounds like a terrific opening for the GOP to shout: Vote
Republican!
But while individual Republicans are talking like Tom Tancredo, the
national GOP seems strangely reluctant to make this election a
referendum on immigration. If there is a single Democrat running for
office this year who isn’t forced to take a position on Obama’s coming
amnesty, Republicans aren’t doing their job.
Which they aren’t. How about some national ads denouncing Obama’s
executive amnesty?
Democrat Mickey Kaus suggests that Republicans’ insistence on keeping
immigration an isolated issue raised only by individual candidates is a
warm-up to the big GOP sell-out on amnesty.
If Republicans think they can betray their own state’s voters as long
as the national media don’t call them on it, they should ask
themselves: Is The Drudge Report national? Do they think Matt Drudge
won’t notice? The Daily Caller, Breitbart.com, all of talk radio — any
of those “national”?
In for a dime, you’re in for a dollar, GOP...
Read the rest of the article at Human Events
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