Republican Party In Disarray Over Arizona Police State Law-- One GOP Candidate Wants To Micro-chip 'Em Like His Dog

Official GOP policy-- always & forever

You may have read about how some Republicans in Florida, a state whose GOP is partially dominated by Hispanics from Cuba who aren't thrilled with knee-jerk racism (unless it's directly at blacks), have expressed some doubts about that nasty little police state law in Arizona. Marco Rubio, desperately trying to not get indicted for fraud before November, has concerns. Jeb Bush, whose children are Hispanic, is worried about unintended consequences (never mentioning his racist party's intended consequence of ethnic cleansing). Karl Rove, who sort of lives in Florida now too is muddled and confused, welcoming it and wishing it had never passed at the same time. Miami-Dade retiring Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart strongly disagrees with the Arizona law. And Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is offended, flat out called it "unacceptable" and "un-American." You go, girl!

Most Republican electeds are laying low and running away from reporters but far more than those offended and troubled are those celebrating, especially racist California freaks Darrell Issa and Brian Bilbray. Perhaps the most bizarre reactions have come from the increasingly radicalized Iowa GOP. One of the most bigoted and craziest members of Congress, Steve King, couldn't wait to issue a statement: "The ‘open borders’ Obama Administration has postured itself in favor of amnesty over the Rule of Law. Now states like Arizona are being forced to step up and fill the void left by DHS and the Obama Administration. I commend Arizona for standing up for the Rule of Law and protecting American workers. This is the time for the Obama Administration to accelerate enforcement of immigration laws to make room for unemployed Americans, not grant amnesty.”

Nevermind that the Obama Administration is dealing far more effectively with the problem than the cheap-labor Republicans ever did, King is generally dismissed as a lone wolf and sideshow act. Turns out though, he's hardly alone in his state.

Third District GOP congressional hopefuls called for more R&D on illegal immigration – as in round-up and deport.

Speaking at a Tama County Republican forum Monday, six candidates for the GOP nomination to face seven –term Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell opposed amnesty for illegal aliens and called for tougher enforcement of border security.

“I think we should catch ’em, we should document ’em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going,” said Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician. “I actually support micro-chipping them. I can micro-chip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I micro-chip an illegal?

“That’s not a popular thing to say, but it’s a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under,” Bertroche said.

...Like the other candidates, [David] Funk had disdain for using the politically correct term-- undocumented workers-- for people who enter the country illegally.

Calling them undocumented worker “is like calling the drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist,” Funk said.
Illegal immigration is first and foremost a security issue, Scott Batcher of West Des Moines said.

“If we’re allowing illegals to come in, we’re probably letting terrorists walk across the border, too,” he said.
“Illegals are killing us financially,” added Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale. Illegal immigrants receive education, health care and other services, often without paying for them, he said.

Like his rivals, Zaun would not support amnesty for illegal immigrants in the U.S.

“All the illegal people who are here, put them on a bus and send them wherever they came from,” he said. “I want what my great-grandfather from Germany went through. They should go through the process that all people who have come to this country have gone through.”

Angry white bigots never pass up an opportunity to demagogue a problem instead of dealing with it seriously. All of them said they favor deporting the millions of men, women and children without documentation. I'm not sure what Zaun's great-grandfather from Germany went through but I known mine had a pretty easy time of it and I suspect his did too. This is an issue likely to be very popular with the teabaggers but with few others. No one, though, could be surprised that ethically-challenged, far right fanatic, Nathan Deal, currently running for governor of Georgia, has declared that if he's elected he will make sure Georgia has the same kind of police state law that Arizona has. If it does to the GOP nationally what it did to the GOP in California when they tried this kind of stunt, America will be a far better place.