Immigration Extremists and the “Incredible Shrinking Party”

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Posted 01/29/09 at 05:24am

V-DARE Logo On Tuesday we wondered aloud if the new GOP Hispanic Outreach Team had been locked in the closet during the Senate debate over kids health care. Unfortunately, it appears things were much worse than we ever imagined for the Team's brave members. More on that in a moment.

Today, representatives from V-DARE, a dubious website named after the first English baby born on American soil, will present their surprising take on "Immigration and Future of the Republican Party" at the National Press Club.

They will be accompanied by the anti-immigration political commentators Bay Buchanan (former senior Tom Tancredo advisor) and James Pinkerton. Immigration extremists Marcus Epstein and Peter Brimelow (author of the celebrated tome, Alien Nation) will also attend, mostly as eye candy.

But seriously, just take a closer look at these folks and the humor fades. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

In 1999, Brimelow started the Center for American Unity, where he remains president today. The center's most important project was a Web page called VDARE, named after Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World in 1587.

Brimelow has written that he once planned to bestow Dare's name on "the heroine of a projected fictional concluding chapter in Alien Nation, about the flight of the last white family in Los Angeles." He was, he said, "dissuaded."

What about Pinkerton?

Pinkerton wrote that white Americans today "are lacking a proper sense of national-racial consciousness, the knowledge that one's own is best, the triumphant joy at feeling oneself to be part of humanity's finest."

In a February 2008 CNN interview, Buchanan defended those who lift up Barack Obama's middle name to question his heritage and challenge Obama to repudiate his middle name. Buchanan said that the question of whether Obama "has Muslim in his blood" is a real concern for a lot of Americans.

Epstein? He writes, in "Tom Tancredo vs. Third World Miami, "Capital Of Latin America"

Most Americans don't mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers-as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture."

Even the Cuban immigrants, still preponderantly white, law-abiding, Republican-voting, affable people are not desirable if they don't assimilate.

BREAKING: Turns out the entire GOP Hispanic Outreach Team is being held for a ransom of $1 Thousand-er $1Million-US Dollars by the anti-immigrant fringe of the Republican Party, who are drawing straws right now with their friends over at the Center for Immigration Studies and FAIR to see who gets to have Lou Dobbs' anchor baby.

Simon Rosenberg, President and founder of the progressive think tank NDN, summed up the politics of the situation the GOP finds itself in succinctly:

"The right is using the same old playbook it has been using for decades, but the game has changed. If they continue applying their anachronistic 'Southern Strategy' brand of racial politics in the new much more tolerant age of Obama, they run the risk of being a minority party for decades to come."

Maybe these folks should rename their event, "Welcome to the Incredible Shrinking Party."

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