Shock Poll: Hickenlooper: 42% Tancredo: 41%

[AuH20]

They had political cartoons about that type of thing concerning the mass immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans. It turns out, mass immigration is not a problem, if you know how to handle it.

That was a very long time ago. Migrations were in the hundred thousands as opposed to the millions. It's a completely different world with modern transport eliminating vast distances and with the addictive welfare state that has emerged. The melting pot has been smashed to pieces.

 

[Zarn Solen]

That was a very long time ago. Migrations were in the hundred thousands as opposed to the millions. It's a completely different world with modern transport eliminating vast distances and with the addictive welfare state that has emerged. The melting pot has been smashed to pieces.

Wouldn't extending the line of communication help with that?

 

[RonPaulMall]

But he is including those willing to learn English but are still more comfortable with Spanish. It's great you can grasp other languages, but some people struggle. Yes, I also realize there are people who do not care and even try to learn English. I don't like those ones, either.

But for everyone else, what is the difference? What do Coloradans care whether their new Mexican ghettos are populated by people speaking Spanish out of choice or out of ignorance? As a candidate for citizenship, isn't a person who is simply too stupid to learn the language an even more absurd choice than a person who can but chooses not to? How far down the rabbit hole of insanity are we going here?

 

[AuH20]

But for everyone else, what is the difference? What do Coloradans care whether their new Mexican ghettos are populated by people speaking Spanish out of choice or out of ignorance? As a candidate for citizenship, isn't a person who is simply too stupid to learn the language an even more absurd choice than a person who can but chooses not to? How far down the rabbit hole of insanity are we going here?

The real travesty is those of Mexican origin who are ILLITERATE in Spanish. This is a disturbing trend.

 

[RonPaulMall]

They had political cartoons about that type of thing concerning the mass immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans. It turns out, mass immigration is not a problem, if you know how to handle it.

Actually, all that demonstrates is that mass immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, in an entirely different time and in a completely different context, aren't a problem. We've had plenty of time to gauge the effect of mass immigration from Mexico in places like Southern California, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona and Texas. The results are not pretty.

 

[AuH20]

Wouldn't extending the line of communication help with that?

A cultural renaissance would help in that regard, and all parties involved would retain their cultural identity. No one wants to transform our new immigrants into mindless, vapid "new age" consumers, but they need to be introduced into the ideals that defined this nation.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Hickenlooper has been nuts. The gun issue, the death penalty, coddling illegal aliens...he's begging to be beaten.

No surprise this poll shows Coloradans like the death penalty.

 

[Zarn Solen]

A cultural renaissance would help in that regard, and all parties involved would retain their cultural identity. No one wants to transform our new immigrants into mindless, vapid "new age" consumers, but they need to be introduced into the ideals that defined this nation.

But you cannot introduce them, if you don't try. It makes no sense.

As for Tancredo, he was not even being asked to try. Others were trying to reach out with a translated debate, and he got his panties in a bunch.