"I wish it could be remembered that it took all Republicans to elect President Bush and give the majority in the Senate and House. I thought that FreeRepublic was a conservative web-site meaning they stood by the GOP. Reasonable people can agree to disagree rather than alienate our fellow Republicans."
Yes and that "majority" gave us (1)the non-reform of McPain's unconstitutional "Campaign Finance Reform" which Bush said he would veto, then refused to; (2)the largest expansion of federal entitlements in forty years (Medicare drug program); (3)a doubling of the federal expeditures and federal bureacracy for "education"; (4)unrestrained federal discreationary spending; (5)McPain's Al Queda Bill of Rights; (6)failure to invoke rules to end the fillibuster of judicial nominations; (7)failure to reform social security (headed to bankruptcy); (8)and constant appeasement to the domination of the congressional agenda by war-like Dimorat leaders who know how to fight, politically.
Its not a "conservative" record to be proud of and at many points along the way, it was only pushing from the GOP base that moved either Bush or the GOP congressional leadership back on track (Meiers).
So, you want everyone to now applaud a Bush eleventh hour ploy to finally (pretend to) enforce what he was constitutionally mandated to be enforcing all along? To what end?
Have you even looked at the spiraling down immigration enforcement figures over the last six years? Doubtful.
They put to the lie any real intent by Bush to enforce existing law much less any "reformed" enforcement rules.
You confuse the GOP leadership with the GOP base it has abandoned.
I was not commenting on the performance of the GOP leadership nor the GOP base. I was commenting on FreeRepublic and how it has changed in tone. Your response is a prime example of twisting my comment.