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My reference to the Rove/Tancredo incident is from numerous posts at Free Republic on the subject. I do not have any other specific reference at this time, although I have seen the remark quoted elsewhere, as well. Is Rove denying that he told Tancredo to stay away from the White House? If he has specifically denied that widely quoted statement, tell me where, and I will not use that in my attacks on Rove's lack of analytic ability.

I do not want to be unfair to Rove; certainly not bear false witness, if those reports are in fact in error. My conviction that Rove is incompetent is not based upon that statement. Although, I must tell you, that even if Rove denies it, his position on immigration remains obvious in the President's continued avoidance of the real kernel of the issue.

As for your little lecture on the "real world:" In the real world, people do not put all their eggs in the one basket represented by a Republican Party that has backtracked on its own platforms in recent years; will not stand up for rooted Americans as opposed to mankind in general; will not keep within a reasonable budget; will not adhere to the "strict construction" of the Constitution promised in 2000; and embarks on a redo of the cruel and despicable foreign policy of the Dean Rusk State Department, from the 1960s, as a studied insult to other countries, in trying to force them to accept "Democracy"-- a form of Government, which has never worked in any multi-ethnic country, without a dominant middle-class. (See Democracy In The Third World.)

America is a many generation long proposition. What you feel is essential today, is not what I feel is essential today. In the real world, any people who do not provide for tomorrow--for the continuity of their heritage, down through the generations--are doomed to a chaotic future. What is absent in the politics of both parties inside the Beltway today, is any affirmation of a fundamental belief in the American system, as the Founding Fathers vouchsafed it to us. Absent that affirmation, our choices may include the lesser of two evils, but please do not pontificate on that particular choice being dictated by reality. It most certainly is not. At best, it is one of three or four choices that Conservatives will be debating over the next 7 1/2 months.

William Flax