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You're dreaming. Something like sixty two million Americans, most of whom are Republicans (you know, those idiot quislings you and the other Tancredo fans love to hate) just reelected Bush to a second term, and they knew damned well what his policy on the border was. I sincerely doubt that the Mexican border policy will be the major issue of the next presidential election. Tancredo won't be running against Bush anyway. If he wants the Republican nomination for president, I'm guessing he'd better find a way to best Cheney, Rice, Allen, McCain, et al, in the REPUBLICAN primaries without pissing on the Republican base. Good luck.

Anyone but McCain though. Go Tancredo!!

You are very wrong about me hating sixty-two million (62,000,000) Americans that voted for President Bush. I am glad those Americans voted for President Bush and not Sen. Kerry. I certainly wanted President Bush to defeat Sen. Kerry. I did not want Sen. Kerry to appoint judges to the United States Supreme Court or any other court. I think the appointment of judges was one of the important reasons why this country needed to have President Bush reelected. I think he has done a very good job in appointing judges.

Those Americans did know "damned well" what President Bush's policy on the border was. However, Bush voters concerned with border security knew they had a choice between a Republican candidate whose border policy was terrible and a Democratic candidate whose border policy would have been just as bad and probably worse. President Bush was most certainly not reelected because a majority of his voters agreed with his border policy.

Immigration and border security were rarely mentioned by either candidate. The only time that I remember immigration being mentioned in the debates was when Bob Schieffer asked a question about it in what was I believe the final debate. He prefaced his question by saying the issue that he had received the most e-mail about was immigration.

Poll after poll have indicated that a majority of the American people do not agree with President Bush's immigration policies. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey was conducted among 1005 adults between May 12-16, 2005. Respondents to the survey were asked their opinion of President Bush's proposal "to allow foreigners who have jobs but are staying illegally in the United States to apply for legal, temporary-worker status." Only thirteen percent (13%) of poll respondents favored this proposal, while twenty-five percent somewhat favored this proposal. However, thirty-nine percent (39%) of poll respondents strongly opposed this proposal. Nineteen percent (19%) of poll respondents somewhat opposed this proposal.

With regard to your list of potential candidates for the Republican nomination that Cong. Tancredo "better find a way to best . . . without pissing on the Republican base," I believe that Cong. Tancredo would welcome the opportunity to debate immigration policy with any of them. I do not believe Vice-President Cheney will run. However, if he does, I would enjoy seeing he and Cong. Tancredo debate the issue. I also don't believe Secretary of State Rice will run. If she does run, then maybe she can explain why she believes the Minutemen are "vigilantes." Sen. McCain supports amnesty for illegal aliens and has joined forces with Sen. Kennedy to sponsor legislation giving amnesty to illegal aliens.

The Republican base does not support President Bush's plan to give legal status to illegal aliens. The Republican base does not believe the Minutemen are "vigilantes." The Republican base does not support Sen. McCain's plan to give amnesty to illegal aliens.