What I don’t get is why R. Paul wants all those illegals to stay. Philosophically, that’s what Libertarians want - it’s a plank of the LP platform - but I have no idea why that want that. I realize why teh “regular” GOPers want it, to keep wages low and have plenty of workers to keep a certain percentage of unemployed to satisfy big business.
Did you read Sultan Knish’s recent article about the Republican Party? The best assessment I’ve ever read. I’ve find a link for you if you haven’t read it.
Basically we’re doomed unless people like us take over the party. It’s been rotten all along and those running it just made noises of the sort that conservative voters liked so we’d vote for them. But now they don’t even bother with the noises any more.
Each time people fail to or refuse to vote for the winner of the Pubbie nomination because he (or she) “can’t walk on water” (as one of our emeritus FReepers once put it), there is no visible conservative turnout, so the next nominee runs even further to the left. That’s literally the only problem there is in the polity.
We need flat tax.
We need reasonably unfettered hydrocarbon production, to the tune of turning the US into an energy exporter.
We need term limits.
We need voter ID.
We need to purge the judicial benches of libs.
We need to regain control of the public educational system.
We need to ban Islam — it isn’t a religion, it’s medieval fascism, and the Koran is a medieval Mein Kampf.
Less generally, we need to repeal Obamacare.