[TommyDale]

I'm wondering if Bush's advisors understand that this is a wedge issue, and the GOP candidate running to be his successor will lose on this issue alone? A very large number of people don't want an amnesty program for illegals.

[strange1]

***yawn***, should come up here to Michigan, in dearborn all the billboards are written in arabic, there's even an Army recuiting billboard wriiten in arabic, same goes for the phone book.

So what's a few million more illegals.. /sarcasm

[Dane]

I'm wondering if Bush's advisors understand that this is a wedge issue, and the GOP candidate running to be his successor will lose on this issue alone? A very large number of people don't want an amnesty program for illegals.

If true then why did voters vote in nancy pelosi and the democrats and that 1/3 of the GOP of Tancredos's immigration caucus, lost.

[FreeInWV]

The INS/Border Patrol should also be severely reformed or privatized. They created this problem through incompetent enforcement both at the border and inland as well. Their naturalization process is horribly incompetent too. There is no need to continually employ people who do do this poorly. They are the problem. Perhaps future employees should be motivated by performance based compensation.

Perhaps we should kill 2 birds with 1 stone and retask the BATF to do their work.

[southlake_hoosier]

Maybe we should change the word. Maybe people in the US think illegal really means legal.

I propose right here and now that henceforth illegal aliens become knows as criminal aliens.

Now, that there is a wording everyone should understand, maybe even the Whitehouse and the Congress.

[Kuksool]

I think Bush sees his role as taking all the hits with the GOP base with unpopular issues and enabling the 2008 GOP successor to run free of the wedge issues.

For example, Bush can support a guest worker program and raise the minimum wage , thus freeing Rudy, McCain, & Mitt from having to make definite stands on these issues.

[EnochPowellWasRight]

"I'm wondering if Bush's advisors understand that this is a wedge issue, and the GOP candidate running to be his successor will lose on this issue alone?"

I wonder if Bush's advisers understand that importing 50 million new Democrats will end the possibility of him ever having a Republican successor? At least not after they "earn" their stolen citizenship!

If his will is done on this issue, the Republican Party will never again be a majority party after about 2012.

[b4its2late]

A very large number of people don't want an amnesty program for illegals.

You are correct and I am one of them, but I don't think the pols, including Bush, give a damn. Time will tell.

If they give amnesty, we can expect at least 2 times as many immigrants coming into the country and a that point they will be legal due to amnesty given to their relative. Pretty scary, if you ask me.

[RJL]

I'm wondering if Bush's advisers understand that this is a wedge issue, and the GOP candidate running to be his successor will lose on this issue alone? A very large number of people don't want an amnesty program for illegals.

The Republicans may hang on for a while, but they will be finished as a political force as soon as Bush signs amnesty and enables 20 million Democrat voters.

Apparently the Dems are correct, Bush is too stupid to run the country.