For some perspective on how fucking crazy Republicans have come

[kpete]

For some perspective on how fucking crazy Republicans have come, ten years ago this month, Republicans were pitching an absolute fit about allowing Elian Gonzalez to go back to Cuba, demanding he be made an American citizen because… his mother almost walked across the border. Ten years later, they want to kick out Hispanic citizens because… their mothers walked across the border.
via:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/dolphins-make-difference.html

[scarletlib]

1. Well they saw Elian as different

This would have been a 'stick it to Fidel"' and all the loathsome communists. So that made it okay for them to want to keep the boy away from his father. As for all the others trying to get here--they have no political value to the repubs.

[Cresent City Kid]

2. Actually the repubs are split on this

The rank and file are knuckle draggers who want wall off the border, and there a few at the top who like the cheap labor, like Bush who caught hell for proposing amnesty.

[BeFree]

3. So

You are saying the republicans will stoop so low to use a boy for their own *values* but discard anyone that can't be used?

And, like Crist, trash his political family just so he can continue to hold an elitist position? Some patriotic someones they are, eh?

[NBachers]

4. Someone contact Donato Dalrymple for a Statement