This is exactly what Tancredo is doing. By voting for him in the primaries we are giving validity to his cause and forcing the other candidates to heed his message.
Of course the RINO's will tell us that by voting for someone other than the consensus frontrunner we would be undermining the eventual candidate and putting him/her in a bad place relative to the Demos candidate.
So, for example, if Condi were to run in 2008 and she made no suggestions that she would crack down on illegal immigration, it would be right (both ideologically and pragmatically) to vote for Tancredo.
However, the RINO's would say that it would only make us out to be racists and sexists and would undermine Condi when she goes up against Hitlery.
This is all BS though because it is finally official that our votes do not count. If the margin of victory is large, than any one vote is immaterial. However, when the margin of victory is small our votes are overwhelmed by waste, fraud, and abuse ... made even easier by motor voter, absentee voting, early voting, and computer voting.
If we vote against illegal immigration then we are supposedly going to be labeled racist and lose the Hispanic vote. If we vote in favor of illegal immigration ... oops I meant to say a guest worker program ... then we will be overwhelmed by the illegal Hispanic vote.
And if it is too damn easy to become a US citizen, then the value of US citizenship is debased. And if it means less and less to be a US citizen then our votes our debased, our livelihoods are debased, and the whole enchilada is debased.
Unfortunatly, many others don't get it.