If our party, the GOP, continues to be on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue, we need to start thinking about what the '07 - '10 judicial nominations are going to look like.
There is far more at stake here than illegal aliens. The GOP's continuing support of this, against all logic, is going to prove incredibly costly in the coming years. This has the potential of actually allowing the Dims, as a party, to get back up off of the floor, and resurrect itself as a viable political force.
The GOP continues to ignore this at it's, and the nation's, peril.
I couldn't agree more with you. After watching the democrats run the House in the 70s and 80s there's no way I'd ever want to see them get control of that body again.
Class war populism is something that Democrats do very, very well. And in "What's the Matter with Kansas" there is one very, very valid point. When Clinton decided to get behind NAFTA and chose free trade globalism, he threw away economic populism as an issue and economic populism is the only weapon the Democrats have that can blunt cultural values. After NAFTA it was all downhill for the Democrats. They lost mayoralty after governorship and the House and the Senate.
Illegal immigration, free trade, outsourcing, are issues that harshly impact Joe Sixpack voters in both parties. The party that will champion Joe Sixpack's economic interests AND respect his cultural values will be the majority party for the next generation.