[SBell]

The immigrant from Mexico isn't voting for Republicans ---- the entire border area is going more and more to the democrats.

Certainly. I'm thinking of the 50 or so Texas "Mexicrats" that fled the state and shut down the Texas House. If you look at a list of those Dems who fled the state it reads like a Mexican phone book...and they shut down the Texas government. It's bizarre.

I assume your solution is to do the right thing and damn the torpedoes. I don't totally disagree. Blacks in this country have been totally brainwashed (last election I had black friends tell me that Republicans were literally going to put them in chains...no joke), they voted 90% Dim and it didn't matter.

It's still too close for comfort. It still blows my mind that Bush won with less than the popular vote. He could sweep '04 or it could be a nail-biter. Pissing off Hispanics is a dangerous prospect.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...assume your solution is to do the right thing and damn the torpedoes....

Works for me. He'll lose more votes than he wins with open borders and amnesty.

[texastoo]

Some of the Hispanics that I convinced to vote for Bush in 2000 have already said they are going to vote Dem. the next election. The reason is the Medicare Bill. They don't think it is good enough and the Democrats will give more benefits. They don't think their parents should have to pay the $35/mo. plus $250 for pills.

[DustyMoment]

"Pissing off Hispanics is a dangerous prospect."

And pissing off Republicans could be a more dangerous prospect. Currently, I'm considering whether or not I want to leave my vote for president blank next fall. I'm growing very disenchanted with Bush and, to be sure, I'm not casting a vote for any of the 9 dwarves.

Bush may be a better choice than any of the dwarves but, IMO, he's not that much of a better choice. Consider the following:
1) TSA
2) Dept. of Homeland Security
3) Steel Tariffs
4) Education Bill
5) Agriculture Bill
6) McCain-Feingold (CFR)
7) Immigration Reform
8) Medicare Reform (unfunded Prescription Drug benefit)
9) Ballooning National Debt

My question is if we dissociated Bush from this list of crappy legislation and associated Clinton with it, would we be outraged? Why does Bush get a pass?

So far, his biggest accomplishments are his tax cuts and the War on Terror. I'm not sure there is an equal balance between those two items and the previous list.