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God, talk about unable to learn from history. We've had two elections on WoT and Iraq, and in both cases, the GOP has won huge when it has stayed firm on these. Immigration is NOT local, and will never be viewed as such, because locals foist it off on the feds.

You're delusional.

In case I wasn't clear... this is the "Republicans in the House stand up to Senate BS (representing the people) and block that piece of crap they were marching in the streets for" story from last month...

Only the NYT spin it to divide the useful idiots in our party, and looking at this thread (accounting for the usual 7% of posers), they continue to succeed.

We've had two elections on WoT and Iraq, and in both cases, the GOP has won huge when it has stayed firm on these.

It's a hand that's been overplayed. The war in Iraq is not popular and even some of the base is starting to say to get out. Couple that with a porous southern border and knowing that terrorists can waltz across the border any time and that we have millions of unknown illegals all over the U.S., running on the WOT becomes a joke.

Immigration is NOT local, and will never be viewed as such, because locals foist it off on the feds.

You've got to be kidding! Locals foist it off on the feds? How many cities and local governments have attempted to enforce existing border laws, only to be shot down by the feds? And it's the local governments that are paying and paying for illegals' health care and education. And now cities, like Hazelton, are trying to pass laws to protect their own cities from the devastation illegals cause only because the feds refuse to do anything. Illegal immigration should be a federal issue, but locals are trying to do something because the feds wimp out.

We've had two elections on WoT and Iraq, and in both cases, the GOP has won huge when it has stayed firm on these.

That was one year and 43 years after 9/11. This is 5 years and like it or not, terrorism isn't a big concern right now among the voters, especially not Iraq.

It plays really well here on FR among those that would always vote GOP no matter what but the support for those issues has been played out. You can't keep going to the same well over and over.