[nonsporting]

"And I am worried that a backlash to newcomers would cause our country to lose its great capacity to assimilate newcomers." W

We're not assimilating them. They are an alien presence.

Of the 19 declared presidential candidates as of this writing, Rudy Giuliani is the most logical choice to forge this new coalition of conservatives.

Let's see: pro-abortion, pro-deviancy, anti-rkba, ..., now there's someting we can all rally around.

[theothercheek]

We can rally around winning the war that Bush made a hash of and we can rally around stopping Islamofascism and homegrown terrorism and we can rally around stopping runaway spending in Washington. Not every conservative is a social conservative - and this election is starting to show that. But if we succeed in creating a coalition that crosses party lines, the next candidate we support could be a conservative Dem like a Zell Miller. There’s strength in numbers.

[NordP]

"We're not assimilating them. They are an alien presence."

They are a bona fide invasion.