posted by Damozel | If only there were more reasonable conservatives like John Swift! I'm sure that those who, like me, are caught up in the perplexities of the debates and the pissing contests the media set up between the candidates, will endorse his helpful suggestions for the debates:
1. Wiseguy Questions for the Next Presidential Debate. "In the last Republican presidential debate, sponsored by Fox News, moderator Britt Hume borrowed a hypothetical scenario from the TV show 24, which just happens to be a Fox program. Getting the candidates to tell us what they would do if they were a character on a television show is...a good way of engaging Americans who might be bored with presidential elections because of the lack of...nteresting characters.
"Each of the candidates responded to Hume's question by trying to make the case that they would be just like 24's Jack Bauer if they were elected President.... Sure, it would be great to have a President who was willing to torture his own brother or shoot one of his colleagues in order to prevent a terrorist attack, but I think we need to ask for a bit more from our presidential candidates."
Swift proposes a series of questions based on The Sopranos which
are designed to get at some of the issues of concern to sensible conservatives. On the immigration question, an earlier post of his gets at a largely neglected issue candidates would do well to address:
2. Canadians: The Other Illegal Immigrants.
With so much attention focused on illegal immigrants from the south there has been scant notice of a far more insidious infiltration from our porous border in the north. No one knows how many illegal immigrants from Canada currently reside in the United States. And it is extremely difficult to find out since Canadians, unlike Mexicans, look and speak just like normal Americans. The fact that they are able to blend in so easily makes them, in my mind, even more threatening to our way of life than immigrants from other countries. Some of you might not even realize that Canada is an entirely separate country. Some of your neighbors and co-workers may be Canadian and you might have no idea. Aside from overuse of the word "eh?" and excessive drinking of Molson, many Canadians (at least the English-speaking ones) seem just like us on the outside...
I don't know what can be done about this problem. Our border with Canada is very long but I think that is all the more reason that we get started on building an electrified fence along the border as soon as possible....
He makes a number of other excellent points which I can only hope our leaders will take up sooner rather than later. As he points out, Canadians have already infiltrated our white male power structure and nobody even realizes it. Bill O'Reilly and Pat Buchanan, take note!
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