[Wolfie]

I think the whole “increase Republican voters” thing is a smokescreen to get the party faithful to swallow it. Its about cheap labor for big business, nothing more.

[dforest]

I believe you have that right!

[OB1kNOb]

Yep. You nailed it. It’s all about supplying a new peasant class, don’cha know.

[NonValueAdded]

And it won’t even be cheap! Imagine all those workers suddenly subject to the minimum wage law and gasp! unionized.

[353FMG]

“Its about cheap labor for big business, nothing more.”

There definitely is something more about it. This idea of globalization is what drives the dems, RINOs and Bush to sell out the country in favor of open or no borders. In an “ideal” one-world society, the desire for sovereignty and national identity will not be tolerated. Courtesy of socialism/communism and the UN.

[Prokopton]

“Its about cheap labor for big business, nothing more.”
I don’t buy this argument. Take a look at the Fortune 100 and try to find a company that would need uneducated, illegal alien employees.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list/index.html

[conserv8ive1]

The GOP is going to learn one simple fact real soon:
CORPORATIONS DON’T VOTE ON ELECTION DAY.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I think you’re right. But I also think Bush has some misguided personal commitment to helping Mexico, even if that does some harm to America.

[3AngelaD]

This is a debate that has been going on in Republican circles since the early 90s. There was and is a group of Repubs who, despite a total absence of supporting evidence, argue that Hispanics have more conservative family values and so would be ripe for recruitment. Anyone who has been around Mexicans and other Latin Americans knows that is a load of doodoo. Their birthrates of illegitimate children is as high as anywhere on earth. Their governments have been preaching marxism and socialism to them for decades. They are already Dems before they get here, and are living proof of the old adage, “I’m paul and anyone who will rob peter to pay paul gets my vote.” The family values true believers have given cover to the open boders, cheap labor wing of the party.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Its about cheap labor for big business, nothing more”

The stock market is at an all time high, partly because
big buisiness thinks Shamnesty is in the bag.

[freespirited]

Its about cheap labor for big business, nothing more.

I think it is only part that. I think Bush, Rove, Martinez et al actually believe this nonsense. At the root of their delusion is their own grandiosity: a belief that they have the insight, charisma, power of persuasion, etc to convince people to come over to their way of thinking and join their party. Of course this is absurd. How people vote is largely a function of their personalities and priorities.

In the final analysis, it comes down to the same old story. They dont call us the Stupid Party for nothing.