Battles with Integrity

I had to shake my head at this article in the Chron, filed from my hometown, of the chilly reception Dubya got in the OC (particularly in wealthy, white, southern OC) because of his "immigration policies" (which really don't amount to much other than trying to throw sops to xenophobes while allowing his buddies in big business to import more cheaper labor).

Outside the hotel, protesters from the Orange County-based Minutemen -- a citizens' border patrol group made up of conservative activists, many past Bush supporters -- expressed outright anger at the president, who has called the organization a "vigilante" group.

"He's encouraging people to come by pushing this amnesty and guest-worker program," said Jackie Carroll of Anaheim, a member of the Minutemen. She said she regrets her vote for Bush because "he's putting the country in peril."

Carroll... Carroll... say, isn't that an Irish name? Who let that filthy, papist, potato grubbing, whiskey-drunk trash into this country?

On Sunday, in the upscale hamlet of Newport Beach's Balboa Island -- where Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 2-1 -- the disappointment with Bush was palpable.

Republican Glenn Campbell, 40, a power-plant worker, and his wife, Lynette, strolled the picture-perfect collection of shops and sea cottages and talked about Bush with a frown. He noted that while his wife still supported the president, they were not happy with his policies on immigration.

"We need to enforce the laws on the books that we have," Campbell said. "We have to send military to the border -- and build what we have to to secure it."

Though he said he had great sympathy for immigrants, he said the priority that Bush has failed to address is to "secure the borders."

Campbell??? OMFG, they're letting the oat-munching, sheep-sticking, woad-painted, whisky-drunk Scots in here, too???

Who the hell does he think keeps that hamlet "picture perfect," trims its greenbelts, cleans its pools, staffs its restaurants, picks its fruit, slaughters its meat? I'll give you a hint, it ain't the charmed sons and daughters of Newport Beach, reduced to the indignity of driving the BMW down to Fascist Island because they wrapped the Cayenne around a lightpole roaring down PCH at 125 mph. Unless he's planning on using the military to reduce that workforce to shackled slaves, or putting other less-than-caucasian minorities in their place at gunpoint, he'd better be prepared to live in a very different world.

Knuckle-dragging f#?kwits.