It is deeply important to the president, a former Texas governor who sees the status quo on immigration as a failure for the nation and a looming disaster for his party. It is seen as a major legislative victory within reach. And it is seen as urgent — now or never for him, most likely.”
Yes, it is a disaster for the party, but not for the reasons he thinks. 6 years of lack of enforcement and lax border security, a tin ear to concerns of the grassroots, and an overeagerness to do the wrong thing on amnesty, and we have a divided and disspirited Republican base.
There will be no Republican base in my opinion. When hard-core Repubs such as myself are willing to in essence throw their votes away on 3rd party candidates. The GOP is cooked in 2008 and probably in 2012. They think we hate, fear Hillary Clinton enough to put this behind us and vote for them. Boy, will they be surprised when this doesn’t happen.