At least for the first 3 paragraphs, anyway. Then she moves on to her usual wingnut talking points.
But really, keeping a high school girls’ basketball team from playing in a tournament because you don’t like a law in the state they were going? That’s a ridiculous, knee-jerk overreaction that punishes nobody except the kids.
We can ill afford to toss Palin things like this to be right about, lest she gain something resembling credibility within the next two years.
She looks kinda like one of Hitler’s chauffeurs in that all leather outfit.
What’s up with that? Did she pay for it herself this time?
Ah, but look at the backdrop. I think she was going for a Patton motif.
I can’t help but be reminded of Patton’s own words:
There used to be a wall of sorts around sports, that isolated it from politics. The Olympics used to do this very well. Now we have the opposite any sports team that disagrees with Arizona is intermingling the two. The Phoenix Suns and their idiot players voted to enter the fray with their Los Suns jerseys, the NBA throws in their support and then MLB puts in their own two useless cents. The interviews I saw with Steve Nash and others were friggin ridiculous. Not once did you hear the term “illegal”. Idiots should stick to the one thing that they’re good at that protects them from putting themselves at risk in the real world.
I take it you were equally disgusted about Curt Schilling waxing right wing on all sorts of topics during his career?
They already had a tradition of using that jersey for “latino nights” They just dusted it off to protest the new law.
Sure, like if the real world does not affect them as citizens.
Of course, one could be cynical and believe that the suns also see immigrants as customers, but even if that is the case, trying to tell them to put a sock on it is really un-American.
I’m aware of that. Now while I don’t like the idea, trying to simply ingratiate yourself to an audience is one thing. Doing so in a way that throws your weight on the side of illegal aliens and against the laws crafted by elected officials is quite another. Take into account that a solid majority of Arizonans support the law, then it even looks like a bad business move.
Careful with that “un-American” knee jerking you’ve got there. You’re gonna lose that last tooth.
Then to me it looks then as an even more gutsy move.
Meh, that warning coming from a guy that demonstrated many times before that he is incapable of realizing that he was/is being jerked around by unreliable sources, is a warning that I will disregard.
Hispanics can be Americans too, Jr.
But not real Americans, surely?
Not Republican Americans??!!
All she needs is a riding crop. That would be awesome.
And if I believed or said otherwise, this contribution would be illuminating and valuable.
Instead, it turns out to just be a waste of perfectly letters of the alphabet.
I find reality to be quite a reliable source. Again, we differ.
Oh really?
Suffice to say, you will never learn. But is good that others learn how unreliable you really are when looking for evidence,
Yes I read that and it made me glad I edited some of the harsher parts of my post here.
Now here’s the thing. Surely you can see why Hispanic Americans, and decent Americans of other ethnicities mightbe against a law that would essentially put people up to greater scrutiny just for being Hispanic.
Consider this thought experiment. A police officer encounters a Mestizo looking fellow with a strong Spanish accent who has no ID. Just walking down the street, claims he left his wallet to home. What would you have the officer do? Let him go or make him go get his ID?
Just to keep it balanced say that officer encounters a white fellow with a strong Yooper or maybe Canadian accent, what should he do?
Steve Nash is a Canadian (and a legal one at that). Why the hell would we give a damn what he thinks about Arizona’s immigrant policies?
At least in my experience, most of the Mexican-Americans I know have little tolerance for illegal immigration; essentially the illegals make them look bad in many ways.
I can. But I say, suck it up. I have olive skin and dark hair, and I used to have a beard. I guess could pass for light Middle Eastern, because after 9/11 I was usually singled out at the airport for extra scrutiny. Was it my choice? No. Was I happy about the hassle? No. But I understood that this was a cost of keeping another 9/11 from happening. But I was happy that steps were being taken and never whined one bit about it. In fact, I made it a point to be very polite and thank the people who were tasked with the job.
As far as I understand it, there wouldn’t be grounds to stop him and ask him that—either person. He has to be stopped for something else. Only then can he be asked if he is a citizen. Bricker went into this is detail in the GD thread, I believe.
To your larger point, I think, I do not feel it necessary to treat the northern border and the southern border identically. Why? Simply because we KNOW many, many, many more people sneak in from the south. Given limited resources, it’s right to put the resources where the problem is. If the numbers shot up in the Northern Peninsula, then I’d allocate resources there. I truly want zero illegal immigration. I know a lot of people are here illegally due to overstaying their Visas, and a dedicated look into that may mean overloading resources into communities that are known to harbor Visa-overstayers from, say, Ireland, or Eastern Europe.
I see the direct-to-DVD already. Palin : She-Wolf of the GOP.
I wish it were that easy. His celebrity gives him a larger megaphone than most of the rest of us. But I did lose a lot of respect for him due to the reasons you brought up.
That’s my personal experience, as well, but that might be too selective a group. The people I see whining about this the most are 1) those considerably to the left and 2) those on the right who run businesses who have taken advantage of the situation so long they now feel as if cheap illegal labor is a right.