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"I don't speak for Free Republic.

However, I support their decision on VDare. It's extremely important that people who are serious about stopping illegal immigration stick to arguments about legality and not open themselves to charges of racism."

That is impossible in this day of multiculturalism, where platitudes like 'diversity is our greatest strength' have come to substitute for real debate. In order to talk immigration and not open oneself up to charges of racism pretty much means that you must take the left-wing positions. You must support amnesty (or 'earned legalization'), you must support increased and unending mass legal immigration, you must support rewards for illegals like drivers licenses and in-state tuition rates, and you must express nothing but total enthusiasm for the effects of mass immigration on the country.

Stray from any of those and someone will call you a racist or imply your motives are racist. The ethnic interest groups (La Raza, Mecha), Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, immigration lawyers, the media, academics, AFL-CIO,......, someone will accuse you of being 'anti-immigrant', 'anti-Hispanic' and xenophobic.

It is a sad day when the mainstream, majority view of Americans (which again is reduced legal immigration, and serious attempts to stop illegal immigration) and those who dare give public expression to it are called racist and xenophobic when they are neither. It is a shame that the views of the elites who have created this unwanted and unpopular immigration policy go virtually unchallenged because of the unique way in which this issue doesn't cut neatly down party lines.

So you may have some specific example of where you think VDARE crossed the line, but my point is that simply giving expression to what are in fact mainstream views (which VDARE does) will get you called racist these days by someone. If it has gotten to the point where the GOP won't take pricipled stands for fear of being called names then defeat is inevitable, because the only way to operate w/o being called those names is to adopt both leftwing rhetoric and positions.

I could be wrong, but I think Americans would respond favorably towards a candidate who aggressively countered these bogus cries. It shouldn't be that hard; one effective way would be to simply point out that when they call him names they are in fact calling most Americans names since they share the exact same feelings.

Stray from any of those and someone will call you a racist or imply your motives are racist. The ethnic interest groups (La Raza, Mecha), Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, immigration lawyers, the media, academics, AFL-CIO,......, someone will accuse you of being 'anti-immigrant', 'anti-Hispanic' and xenophobic.

Yes, of course these groups call anyone who isn't for open borders a racist. I'm not worried about what they may call me. But, we should all be concerned about what mainstream people think.

I always make it clear that I am against people coming to this country illegally. I don't care who they are, what color they are, what language they speak or where they come from. All I care about is if they entered legally.

Therefore, I have no need for the white doe as my symbol. I think all citizens of this country should feel the same way no matter their original heritage.