Generic Republican Guy
In non-breaking news, pasty white Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant says his Republican Texas district doesn't much like the idea of immigration reform. He's not a fan either, because if we were to actually let some of these folks
vote, well,
they'd probably vote for the other team:
The proposed immigration overhaul “is very unpopular in my district,” said Marchant, who represents suburbs west of Dallas. “The Republican primary voters, they’re being pretty vocal with me on this subject.” Besides, he said, “if you give the legal right to vote to 10 Hispanics in my district, seven to eight of them are going to vote Democrat.”
Ah, the GOP dilemma in a nutshell. They wanted to support immigration reform so as to prove that they were not racist towards the brown people; they
cannot support immigration reform because those brown people might then vote against them. There's no solution to that one that doesn't require far-right Republicans to stop demonizing immigrants and minorities, and
that isn't going to be happening anytime soon. So they're stuck.
Here's an idea: don't treat people like crap and maybe they'll vote for you. Crazy-ass thought, I know. Just tossing that one out there.