The 2006 Comprehensive Immigration Reform aka Massive Amnesty spearheaded by G.W. Bush was the beginning of the end of the GOP. The result was a loss of Congress.
Loss of Congress and wrongheaded GOP policies of banking and regulation led to the financial meltdown that gave the country over to Obama.
And what of democrat policies? We can always count on them to be traitors to the Constitution. But we can’t have the GOP join them. Had the GOP opposed amnesty and the policies that led to the Wall St. corruption and crash, they would control Congress and the White House today.
Instead we got John McCain in 2008 who is in effect a democrat. In 2012 we got the bottom of the whole rotton barrel in Romney.
2012 should have been a cakewalk for a GOP nominee but it gave 4 more years of Obama.
And 2014 should be a cakewalk for the GOP control of the US Senate. But the GOP establishment will squander that too and won’t mind the lost opportunity as they are bought and paid for by entities that do not care for American Conservatives.
And now we are here with clarity in the corruption of Mississippi and the wrongful death of innocent Tea Party conservatives in Mark Mayfield.
This conservative is not forgetting what the GOP has become.
Specifically, continuing the sub-prime apocalypse requirements put in place by the Klintoon administration made the sub-prime meltdown inevitable. Some think Glass-Steagall had something to do with it, but the fact is that throwing away some goofy regulations with one hand is not bad in a free market, as long as you aren't mandating that banks make billions in worthless loans with the other hand.