Memoirs From a Young Conservative

Reading my daily dose of Hot Air I watched the Governor Palin interview with Matt Lauer…and wow, she did great.

One of the things that caught my eye on this post was:

Getting the hispanic vote is one of top 3 priorities of the GOP over the next 4 to 8 years. Are there any noted hispanic leaders in the GOP?

Open Letter to all Politicians:

STOP PANDERING TO HISPANICS.  You want to know something?  Yes, most of us are socially conservative.  We believe in hard work, personal responsibility, family values and many other things that define conservatism.

But how can you really ask us to stick with a party that decided to stick a wasteful feel good useless wall along the border with absolutely no talk of a wall along the Northern border?

I want a secure border.  But what does the wall really accomplish other than waste a lot of money and not actually secure the nation?

I like Congressman Henry Cuellar’s (D – Laredo) idea of a virtual fence.  I like the idea of a guest worker program to help stimulate the economy and protect immigrants.  I like the idea that the free market can work just like it has in McAllen, where our economy is one of the fastest growing in the nation, despite the nation’s downward turn.  Our cost of living is low but our quality of life keeps growing.

A fence that extends for a few hundred yards on either side of one of the international bridges just wastes tax dollars and doesn’t actually secure the border.  In the meantime it does take away land from border residents and affects the quality of life of those of us who live in border towns.

Want to win the Hispanic vote?  How about you talk real solutions for securing the border and cool it on the talk about the fence?  Maybe deploy more national guard troops or border patrol agents and setup a virtual fence with more cameras.

But a fence ONLY on the Southern border?  No wonder us Hispanics are upset.

Before you start labeling me ~open borders~ it might be worth your while to read back in the archives of this blog to find out all that I went through on my own college campus whilst defending the position of securing the border.

Don’t think I’ve forgotten the insults like being called a “race traitor” just because I’m a conservative.