Why hasn’t Romney pounded him on this issue? This is the way to defeat McCain. You can’t just say McCain is weak on immigration, you have to paint the picture of what McCain wants for America. Then ask people, if that is what they want. If they vote McCain, that is what they will get. This would help Romney shore up his conservative credentials and knock down McCain. He’s had months to do this. Why hasn’t Romney or Thompson or even Hunter or Tancredo done this? I don’t get it.
The data is there. If something isn't done, this country is going down the tubes. Even legal immigration will destroy us if it is not reined in. We are going to be a nation of half a billion in about 50 years. In just 23 years, we will gain 62 million more people, most of it from immigration, legal and illegal. It is the equivlent of almost the population of the UK. This at a time when our number of retirees will double to almost 78 million. We can't assimilate these kinds of numbers. We are going to be Balkanized along cultural and linguistic lines. And then there are issues like enegry independence, infrastructure, pollution, etc. We are going to have to run to stand still.
A major problem with negative advertising is that while it may effective at discouraging people from voting for your main opponent, it's far less effective at getting them to vote for you. People don't want to vote for candidates that make them feel bad. Prior to the McCain-Feingold abomination, outsider issue ads could serve a useful purpose here. Perhaps today they still can, but it's harder.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's time to set up a 527 to publish the truth about John McCain before Super Tuesday.