[Fishrrman]

richrussell writes:
Look, I'm all for kicking the bastards the hell out. But that won't fly at election time. The people who will vote on that issue in the affirmative are grossly outnumbered by those who will vote in the negative.

I wonder what percentage of the illegals who were excused under the Reagan amnesty now "vote Republican"?

Probably not very many.

Why should those excused by the Bush amnesty behave otherwise?

I will _never_ vote Democratic again (well, if Zell Miller was to run against Bush, I might reconsider). But if the amnesty goes through, I could well "sit on my hands" come the '04 election. As I suspect many others might do as well.

Cheers!
- John

[richrussell]

First of all, this isn't an amnesty. Like I said- the people yapping here are the Libertoids and the Paleos, it would seem.

FACT: THIS IS NOT AN AMNESTY

Basically, the plan is to allow some sort of 'guest worker' status for some of those who are already about and working. And I doubt it even this will pass.

[FITZ]

I wonder what percentage of the illegals who were excused under the Reagan amnesty now "vote Republican"?

At one time --- the "hispanic vote" was primarily Republican ---- after the 1980's amnesty it went the other way -- Clinton won 80% of the "hispanic vote". There is no evidence whatsoever that amnesty pandering did the Republicans any good at all --- it did not.