[rhombus]

Instead, the immigration interest groups and others seem intent on radicalizing the debate, in making it clear to many people who aren't yet committed to one side or the other on this issue that the pro-immigrant side is nuts and the anti-immigrant side is more sensible.

It isn't a matter of being pro- or anti- immigrant. It's a matter of being anti-illegals. Even Podhoretz slouches into this imprecise language that smears the fundamental point.

[EternalVigilance]

It isn't a matter of being pro- or anti- immigrant. It's a matter of being anti-illegals. Even Podhoretz slouches into this imprecise language that smears the fundamental point.

While you are certainly correct, overall this is a very important article, IMO.

The bottom line point is that these demonstrations are helping us, not them.

We have had the initiative on this issue for a long time. They, through these marches, have tried to take that impetus back. Again, IMO, they have failed.

This is NOT the time for us to be reacting to them. This is the time for us to redouble our political efforts.

In any war, the army that gains and keeps the initiative always wins.

If you're reacting, you're losing.

[kabar]

Agree completely. Podhoretz's imprecise use of the language plays into the hands of the Dems, i.e., the GOP is the anti-immigrant party. With 11.2% of the American population foreign born, it is the wrong message to be sending.