I agree with you, Jim. Once they are granted rights, the dems will dictate to us all. Conservatives have to pull together.. also we have to stop looking for perfection candidates. Everyone makes little mistakes..as long as they don’t lose core convictions, I can forgive. Right now, people are running scared due to the media making it look as though, the republicans are done. Not so. Conservatism in business when implemented works well every time. I would like to see the borders closed and the US to enforce the laws. It’s just a matter of time for a terror attack.
The Goldwater 1964 election put Republicans in the tank for years. The universal feeling at the time was that the Republican party was done. If you look back at that time, it was just a year after the assasination of JFK, the house and senate and president were democrat so what could you expect. America was on a big democrat high but the conservatives stuck to their principles and we finally got Ronald Reagan. But we really have to do something about immigration. Why is it that it is okay to say that we should have more immigration but it is never okay to say that we should have less immigration?
Somehow we have to take this Hispanic sensitivity thing and turn it around. We should ask: Do you really believe that illegal aliens only do the jobs that Americans won’t do? Do you think that a million immigrants is too much? We have to come up with some questions to ask the people. Hispanics are not the only ones who have a stake in this question.
Conservatives have to do polling and focus groups on the immigration issue and then we have to hire professional public relations people to present our views in the most polished way possible. The Democrats are very slick and masters of word use but somehow the Republican party does not have its act together when picking a theme and articulating in an effective way.