[Qbert]

"So say an amnesty (immigration reform) bill gets to Obama’s desk giving him his prized legacy item and then the GOP wins big in 2014 as with 2010..."

The second part's not going to happen. The GOP will lose seats (possibly even the House) if they allow amnesty to go through. All they have is turnout- amnesty will be the last straw, and Conservative voters will simply stay home. You can only be jerked around for so long by these people...

[tacticalogic]

You can only be jerked around for so long by these people...

Historically, there's only one way to effectively deal with extortionists. Giving them what they want only makes them keep coming back for more.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The second part's not going to happen. The GOP will lose seats (possibly even the House) if they allow amnesty to go through. All they have is turnout- amnesty will be the last straw, and Conservative voters will simply stay home. You can only be jerked around for so long by these people...”

Dem turnout will be suppressed and GOP turnout will be motivated. You will hear more and more how the IRS targeted ‘conservative’ groups and how we need to support GOP congressional candidates in 2014 to make sure it doesn't happen again.

FNC will continue to downplay immigration and focus on scandals to keep GOP voters buzzing.

Look at the posted threads here and comments to that effect.

As I said, McCain won his GOP primary in 2010 (as well as 2008) and he is as pro-amnesty as you get.

Now 2016???