The baby boom is a reality. And it means national health care as they age, whether you like it or not.
And who in the GOP walks, rather than "talks" about borders ? A lot of people walk, but in the direction of open borders, amnesty, and guest worker programs. Do you see the corporate GOP allowing a nominee who supports real border security or do you see someone Dane-style who talks about "compassionate" guest worker programs that will "only take jobs Americans don't want" ? If that is what the GOP throws up in 2008 and I suspect that it will be, American workers will throw their lot behind anyone who promises to help them against someone who actively wants to reduce them to the Mexican standard of living.
Sorry I don't want to pay for a bunch of old hippies!!!
You obsession with the illegal immigration issue is making you create your own delusional world.