[cgk]

Pinging the Malkin list!

[sinkspur]

If Malkin thinks Hillary can win in 2008 on the basis of immigration alone, then she's as vacuous as her critics contend.

Nobody with any sense believes this.

[annyokie]

[Dahoser]

There's being frustrated with W's immigration policy, and then there's committing suicide by supporting the spawn of Satan over it. Not to mention actually believing what she says.

[stylin19a]

Hillary is tricky...she already has a record of supporting Pres. Bush in the WOT and the war in Iraq, just not his methods. She also supported the intelligence in going to war with Iraq.
Do not underestimate this "lady"...

[MegaSilver]

PING

[ladyinred]

God help us. Abe was wrong, you CAN fool all of the people all of the time!

[marron]

I have long said that nothing would be done about illegal immigration until hispanics began to vote Republican. As long as they voted lockstep for the Democrats, the DNC was not about to oppose it, and the Repubs would be forever disarmed with the slightest charge of racism.

This election they broke sharply toward the Republicans, not a solid majority, but enough to remove them from the equation for future elections as far as the Democrats are concerned.

And so, in the blink of an eye, the Dems will choose new ground. As I mentioned on another thread, I (quite by chance) found myself listening to a rant on Air America last night, and the on-air talent was in a fit about illegal immigrants swarming across the border to steal jobs from good American workers. And now, it seems, that Hillary has chosen this as her issue.

To think, had Kerry realized he was going to lose the hispanic vote, he might have attacked Bush more forthrightly on his lack of border enforcement. Hillary knows she needn't worry about it, she will gain more middle american votes by pointing out the obvious than she will lose in hispanics offended. Anyone paying attention to polls would know that hispanic citizens oppose illegal immigration in about the same percentages as everyone else.

So she will be able to do what a Republican ought to have done but feared to do.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

LOL She will be the GOP's worst nightmare. She's already campaigning on the one issue that 80+% of Americans are angry about. Smart move. Too bad Republicans are so beholden to their cheap labor donors.

[edchambers]

I of course don't believe her for a second but I hope she keeps it up.I can see no downside, she can force the issue front and center and may force some weak kneed Republicans to take a stand.She may also end up alienating some of her base in the process.Looks like a win/win to me.

[Finalapproach29er]

"Boob bait for the Bubba's"
-- Sen. Moynahan 1992, on Clinton platform

[goldstategop]

I agree with Michelle Malkin. The "Open Borders" Republicans at the Wall Street Journal and over at the White House had better watch out. I don't agree with Hillary that often but when she's right, she's right. Even a broken clock can be right once in a blue moon. We want our borders protected and the danger to our cultural integrity and quality of life averted. The Bushies will impose an amnesty for illegal aliens in this country only over the bodies of the American people.

[26lemoncharlie]

Hildebeasts voting record in the Senate has showed a Centrist type record.She has bben and will continue to make sure that she stays that way. Maybe even going to the right a little. Why not throw the conservative right a few bones? This nightmare wants back in the White House!!

I've said it before, she will be showing up in church and she has. She will be walking on water by 2008 if she can. She will be in churches spouting her new found evangilical spirit. She will do and say anyhting to win that election and then the treachery begins!

George W. Has got to take this away from the Socialists. He's want his workers program, OK, then start taking clases at Isreal U for WALL Construction 101, and start CONTROLLING the borders and enforcing the 9/11 & EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS.

[Mike Darancette]

Only Nixon could go to China. I hope the Hildabeast keeps ragging on Illegals. Please make it a Democrat issue.

[reformjoy]

News Reports Tell Us So!
"IMAGE of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gradually morphing"

There She Goes!

Hillary is morphing - again - !!

[thegreatbeast]

I myself would never vote for Hillary.
But I would have voted for anyone talking about this seriously this year no matter what party, and it is one reason I want to look at Tom Tancredo for 2008.

[Bullish]

Oh yeah, we're really gonna' fall for that, Hillary.

[Plutarch]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has been focusing on the issue of immigration reform and border security - taking hard-line positions...

This proves that Hildebeast lurks on FreeRepublic and saw my Only Vanity Ever from two years ago:

Democrats need an issue-- what about immigration?

[cardinal4]

More than any other leader of either political party, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has been focusing on the issue of immigration reform and border security - taking hard-line positions that appeal to frustrated Republicans in a move that could guarantee her enough red state support to win the White House in 2008.

I stopped reading here..

[jpsb]

Michel as usual is right on target, this from another thread

Hillary will win a lot of support on this issue. Dumb she ain't, could it be that the Democrats are waking up? One can only hope, Bush in his pandering to illegals, in encouraging illegals to flood in the country might be sinking the GOP ship of state.

The GOP used to be the party of main street. Now it is the party of wall street. While the Dems have become the party of the hated ACLU. If Hillary can move to the right of Bush on issues like immigration, out sourcing and "free trade" there will be no stopping her in 2008. She will win in a landslide.