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Charles King of Boulder writes:

Paul Krugman’s column, “GOP race card a joker” (News, Aug. 27), is indeed the real “joker.” My dictionary defines “joker” as “a hidden clause in any paper, document, etc, which largely changes its apparent nature.” Krugman seeks to paint the “anti-illegal immigration” views of Republicans such as Tom Tancredo, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Giuliano as the equivalence of being “anti-Hispanic.”He begins by implicitly comparing the case of Willie Horton, the black convict, who in 1988 committed armed robbery and rape “on a weeklong furlough” in 1988 with the “recent murder of three college students in Newark, N.J.” by two Hispanic illegal immigrants. As if there were no great differences between the crime by a legal black American citizen and the multiple crimes by two illegal immigrants, the murder of three college students primarily because of gross negligence on the part of law enforcement officials of Newark. The difference is illegal immigration which threatens to devastate America unless controlled soon.
Had the Newark officials reported the former crimes of the two illegal aliens to ICE their second horrific crime would have been avoided. In his need to be minimally credible Krugman acknowledges that “Tom Tancredo flew into Newark to accuse the city’s leaders of inviting the crime by failing to enforce immigration laws.” The only reason why Tancredo flew to Newark was to protest the failure to enforce our immigration laws. Nothing whatever “anti-Hispanic” or “racist” in his intentions or actions. In no sense is Tancredo “anti-Hispanic” or in any way an advocate of “racial fear and animosity"—as it appears Krugman would like us to believe. How dumb or illiterate does he think we readers are?
Later in his column, Krugman’s intention is confirmed when he openly accuses the GOP as having a “race-based electoral strategy.”
His final paragraph ends his partisan rant: “For decades it (the GOP base) has exploited racial animosity to win over white voters — and now, when Republican politicians need to reach out to an increasingly diverse country, the base won’t let them.” Hogwash! And, of all things!, by a columnist of none the less than The New York Times!

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READER COMMENTS

Sadly Charles, many agree with Mr. Krugman. They just cannot take their blinders off long enough to see the damage being inflicted on our country by unfettered illegal immigration.

Paul Krugman jas been a left-of left socialist for decades. For those who want the scoop on this clown, check out Don Luskin's "Poor and Stupid" website. Luskin's made a living tracking this liar and exposing his lies. Krugman has proven to be such reliably fertile territory that hardly a day goes by when Luskin isn't exposing this fraud for what he is.

Newark ,New Jersey is a sanctuary city.These are the cities who allow illegals to break the law over and over until they kill someone.

What happened in New Jersey is a tragic result of cities being sanctuaries for illegals.

Only after a horrible ,outrageous crime is committed does these cities do something.Still some cities still do nothing.

Denver being one of them.

After an illegal criminal killed Donnie Young in cold blood,they still are a santuary city.
How many more police or citizens have to be killed in order for Denver to stop it's sanctuary policy?

Right Hank, but who's checking on your exalted Mr. Luskin, and what qualifies him to produce informed commentary other than having a forum and a loud mouth? And is your Mr. Luskin any relation to the illustrious Casey Luskin, anti-evolutionist nonpareil and the living breathing definition of wingnut?

Krugman, like Dowd, is nothing more than the Limbaugh of columnists.

His writings are more aptly suited for lining the bird cage than anything else.

You can find a cornucopia of documentation revealing Paul Krugman as a socialist quack right here. Bookmark it. The next time you read one of Krugman's tin-foil-hat, Moonbat rants, check the below for the facts:

http://poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp

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