LL at Lady Logician – a former Minnesota blogger who transplanted to Utah, and didn’t skip a beat – notes that the simultaneous Democrat drive for low-information voters and their war on conservative minorities and women have all come together against Mia Love, who has come from behind to lead in the polls for her Utah US House seat.
LL quotes a Mother Jones hit piece on Love:
Though a child of immigrants, Love has embraced much of her party’s tough stance on immigration. She has implied that she would back deporting the US-born children of illegal immigrants so as not to reward “bad behavior.” Yet by Love’s own account, she is what Republicans derisively call an “anchor baby”— someone born to immigrant parents specifically to game the immigration system and secure legal status for family members.
Love doesn’t talk about this aspect of her family’s immigration story now that she’s running for Congress, but she once said in a little-noticed interview that her birth on US soil helped bring her siblings to America. In January 2011, Love told the Deseret News that her parents, Jean Maxime and Marie Bourdeau, came to New York in the 1970s, fleeing poverty and looking for a better life. Love said that her parents immigrated legally, but were forced to leave their two young children behind in Haiti because their visa didn’t allow them to bring the kids.
Mother Jones (which, I have to confess, I thought went out of business in the late eighties) calls Love an “anchor baby”.
See a problem with this “reasoning?”
LL does:
The rest of the agenda media has dutifully lined up to run with the story that “anti-immigration immigrant” Mia Love is some an anchor baby – knowing full well that the term stems from the practice of ILLEGAL Immigrants who come to the US for the express purpose of giving birth on US Soil so that their citizen child will not be sent home. Mayor Love’s parents did not come here illegally. They didn’t need an anchor, they had their visas and they certainly could – in time – have filed for their children to join them here legally and without having another child.
So the accusation lies out there – Love lied about her family history.
And that’s really all that matters. I’m pretty convinced that the mainstream and liberal media know that the smart people can see past this fairly transparent untruth. But it’s not the smart people that they’re aiming for.
The title isn’t quite accurate. Dems LOVE conservative women like Michele Bachmann. She’s done more to raise money for Democrats than anyone else out there. She’s also the reason so many moderate Republicans cross over to vote for other candidates (see her race with Graves).
gosh Sanity what a pathetic attempt at a thread jack – take your BDS somewhere else or address the subject of Mitch’s post.
Well InSanity, as usual you post your moronic, off topic drivel. Why don’t you ask old Jimmy Graves if he practices what he preaches to help the middle class. Let’s see him go out and grab 50 homeless people and put them up in his luxury hotel for a week for free. Or, better yet, ask him why he’s spending so much money on his campaign to get to the house to grab more power, when that money, if donated to worthy charities, would have helped, oh, I don’t know. Maybe some middle class people that are down on their luck?! He’s a pathetic, left wing hypocrite just like you!
So Sanity, you’re ok with Democrats raising lots of money off Bachmann and then spending it in a continuously losing cause?
jimf, you have to remember that Keynesians like “Sanity” also believe in the Broken Window Fallacy, so yes, they do believe that spending money on a continuously losing cause is Stimulus.