The Bad Crazy of Internet Right-Wingers #1

The good stuff is down there, but if you want context I will provide that first. But seriously, good stuff down there.

A few days ago, Senator Marco Rubio, one of the principal architects of the Senate immigration reform bill, solicited the public's help in improving his bill. The public took him up on his offer and flooded his website with over 1000 comments. And they say immigration isn't an important issue to Americans? At any rate, despite admitting the large number of comments, Rubio's staff has only displayed 147 of the comments as of the time of this writing.

I scanned through them and was at first disappointed to not find my own politely worded, prodding of the legal language in the bill and suggestion for clarification. Instead of reasonable, moderate comments like mine, Senator Rubio's site prominently displays swaths and swaths of scathing, raving, misspelled, barely legible CAPS-LOCK-ENGAGED criticism from ultra-conservative hardliners. Let's just say there's enough crazy on there to out-crazy a C-PAC after-party.

My disappointment turned to glee when I began to realize why it was that Senator Rubio had selected only the most extreme responses. Some people theorize this is because he wants an out. The idea is, according to proponents of this theory, that if Rubio wants to bail on the whole immigration reform deal, he can point to an incensed public to justify backing away from his own bill.

That's nonsense. Rubio can not back away from his bill at this stage. Even if he backs away from the bill, the cat is out of the bag, and if he does get primaried, his political opponent will bring this bill up. It doesn't matter if Rubio drops or passes the bill, he will be clobbered with it by the extreme right till the day he dies, and even after that. The "damage" has already been done, now all Rubio can do is either hand himself a legislative accomplishment to go along with the hisses and jeers of the extreme right, or he can keep only their consternation with nothing to show for it. And Rubio is nobody's fool.

So why did he do it? I think he is attempting to cast the opponents of the bill as extremists that don't represent the party. The comments are rude, racist, and plain out unhelpful. They are also hilarious  which is why I will sample some of the best ones for my dear readers.

And now, to the main course!

Leonard Aquilino

04/17/2013 05:54 PM

I think you fell into the Amesity trap..Your bill doesn't show anything but Amesity...I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR YOU IN 2016,but now you are pushing your version of Amesity to the American People...You better check your pants..I think you lost your balls somewhere..

I'm a movie buff myself but I don't think I've seen either Amesity or American People. What does this have to do with the bill?

Patrica Madison

04/17/2013 05:56 PM

People who were deported in the USA were serious bad people. They had to have six felonies to even see a depotation judge. NO raids. Obama no raids. Yet ..you will. let the millions deported...childrer molesters..polce killers..come back into the USA. they get to furnish their own proof. and cannot be challenged. Really. No racial profiling. So theUSA is a racist bigoted nation...then how die we get YOU? explain that! THIS BILL MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FREE PHONES..FREE MINUTES....A STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMY SET UP INSIDE OF THE USA FOR THE IMMIGRANTS AND GUEST WORKERS...MAKING THE USA PAY WAR REPARATIONS TO MEXICO CHINA..AFRICA.......I AM SO ANGRY I CAN HARDLY TYPE AND EVERY TIME YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE.....ANOTHR HORROR IN THAT BILL. THIS IS THE DEATH OF THE USA. RUBIO HAS SUCCEDED IN DOING WHAT CASTRO COULD NOT..WHAT CHAVEZ COULD NOT AND THE CORRUPTION IN THE USA SENATE. LORD. THEY SHOULD ALL BE JAIL.

Patrica has connected all the dots. Rubio has outdone even Castro and Chavez by negotiating a reform deal. Now there is no escape for the American citizen from the state controlled economy specifically for the immigrants and the guest workers! Also something about China and Africa. At least she admits she is raging out of her mind.

john lallemano

04/17/2013 06:00 PM

What is it that you dont understand about the word "ILLEGAL'?? You can in fact deport all illegals back to mexico,canada,etc by bus,train,etc and stimulate the bus-train economy at the same time--and you can bill the illegals for the payment up front or stay incarcerated until they do---dont tell me that there are too many illegals or that there isnt room in the jails---there is plenty of room----

John should be a speech writer for 2016 Republican Presidential candidates. Can you imagine the Republican hopeful going up on stage and reading Johns comment verbatim. And you think Romney tanked with Hispanics.

ARNOLD G ALEXANDER, MD

04/17/2013 06:01 PM

NEVER reward bad behavior.
"Illegal" and "undocumented" represent BAD BEHAVIOR!!
1.) CLOSE THE BORDER!!!
2.) Prevent illegals from holding, getting jobs. e-varify etc
3.)When they have no jobs, they will leave on their own
4.) Hire some of the 20% unemployed USA Citizens in the category of workers that would leave to replace the illegals.
5.) Absolutely NO benefits to any illegal, other than a one-way ticket out.
SIMPLE!!

How many medical doctors do you know who can't spell "verify"? This is a very common ailment for ultra-conservatives, along with chronic idiopathic capitalization, an acute case of bad grammar, and severe deficiency of proper punctuation.

EDGARD MORALES SR.

04/17/2013 06:02 PM

NO AMNESTY, PERIOD !!!
WHAT PART OF THIS DO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND? SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST, THEN SEND ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY, THEN THEY ALL CAN APPLY AND MAKE A LINE AND WAIT THEIR TURN FOR A VISA. NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAWS!!! THERE ARE ALREADY LAWS IN THE BOOKS AT FEDERAL AND STATES LEVEL; MAKE THEM ALL OBEY THE LAWS !!! TO INCLUDE THE PRESIDENT !!! WE AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF ALL OF YOU POLITICIANS NOT TAKING CARE OF AMERICA, AMERICANS AND "WE THE PEOPLE" FIRST !!! THE AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE STRUGLING AND HURTING ECONOMICALLY; AND YOU WANT TO GIVE AMNESTY TO MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? I HAVE LOST ALL RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT BLIND!

I'm beginning to see a trend here. No amnesty? It's not quite clear enough, more capitalization would help solidify that conclusion.

Walker Jones

04/17/2013 06:05 PM

Senator look at the Amnesty
Bill passed and signed by
Ronald Regan. Started off
with 800,000 and turned into
3 million. There has been
no enforcement. Your bill
has the potential of being
ten times worse and no
enforcement will take place.
No Amnesty. Close the Borders. The enemy is within.

If it was starting to seem that the only thing anti-immigrant ultra-conservatives could bring to the table were uncultured diatribes, we are reminded that all hope is not lost with this gem of an extended haiku. My favorite part is the cryptic warning at the end.

Kenneth Humphrey

04/17/2013 06:10 PM

Without secure boarders there should be no bill!!The english required should be legit,as a former Federal employee many become citizens without a working knowledge of english.Do not extend special privlegess to their families!

Secure boarders? "english" (it hurts my eyes to see that "e" not capitalized) and "privilgess"? This man is on to something about a lack of "working knowledge of english."

Theodore Marcelak

04/17/2013 06:13 PM

It should be MANDATORY that should be able to speak ENGLISH before becoming a Citizen of the The UNITED STATES of AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's already the law, but let's not let that stop the impressive streak of exclamation marks Theodore has going.

And I'm not even half way through all of them.

To be continued...