[PSUAdam]

There is something to what he says. Just listening to talk radio over the past few days I've heard several conservatives and even several DEMOCRATS call in and say that they are not happy about George Bush and the Republican Party...BUT they WILL vote for a GOP candidate that is pro-border security. This is starting to rile our base...and the more "in-your-face" the media is about glorifying illegals...the greater the backlash from the conservative base.

[Liz]

Unity at last. This is definitely a consensus issue----other than the cockeyed Teddy and Harry, we have not seem many Dims rah-rah the alien cause.....and most of the Pubbie base is furious.

[johnny7]

BUT they WILL vote for a GOP candidate that is pro-border security.

80% of AMERICAN CITIZENS would vote for a candidate who sealed the borders and cracked-down on illegals!

[Sender]

It wouldn't be terribly hard to close the border. It WOULD be very hard to eject the 20 million illegals here now...and that is a political nightmare that no politician wants to face. You know the very same MSM that regularly trashes Bush and all things conservative, who only shows deaths from Iraq and rants about evil corrupt Republicans? They would festoon the airwaves with endless video of mothers and babies being rounded up and deported, edited of course to make it appear cruel and barbaric. Then they would roast the politicians that made it happen. Not to mention the big business interests that are desperate to keep their Mexican undercaste here to boost their profits. Any politician that actually does the deed will be at the same time a hero and yet labelled the worst tyrant since Hitler.

I say that first things first, we close the border. Period. Then we can discuss the gigantic influx we have already absorbed. One thing at a time.