Immigrants: the new gay

With two weeks to go until the election, it is obvious what the Republican strategy is in the closing weeks of the campaign: bashing immigrants. I don't know if these ads came out before, but today I saw immigrant-bashing attack ads from Pawlenty, John Kline, and Michele Bachman. Losing on the Iraq war, terrorism, the direction of the country, ethics, and competence, Republicans have apparently decided that the only thing they can do is bash furriners. Maybe this will play well enough with the mouth-breathing crowd to win a few racist Republican votes. Who knows?

Unfortunately, even Democrats are hopping on the bandwagon; I saw an immigrant-bashing attack ad from Tim Walz too, meaning that bashing immigrants probably plays well in the First District. Sad.

The Pawlenty ad is particularly disgusting in my opinion, where he pledges that illegal immigrant kids won't get in-state tuition at Minnesota colleges under his watch ever. Yes, it would be horrible for Minnesota and our economy if kids who have been going to high school and even elementary school in this state went to the U of MN and ended up being engineers or something. Terrible, I tell you. Kids should definitely have to pay for the crimes of their parents and be doomed to a life with no education, don't you think?

I wait for the day when people will grow up and realize that those who are having the truly devastating impact on our economy and the middle class are Republicans and the overpaid corporate wankers who give them campaign contributions. I think I will be waiting a pretty long time, though.