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No surprise here. I've been saying all along that Americans favor a pathway to citizenship for illegals and that anti-immigrant extremists were hurting the party's image with their actions and rhetoric. This election is proving that. Both Tancredo and Hunter went nowhere and the one candidate that didn't bow to the fringe is now on his way to the nomination.

We must elect John McCain this November and support sensible immigration reform so that the GOP can secure the Hispanic vote. Anything else and the party is finished.

The WSJ and their friends can't get amnesty passed without completely destroying the rule of law in the minds of the public, and when President Obama or President Clinton comes to seize their lucre, they'll be screaming bloody murder for the rule of law that they put down in their search for increased profits.

While they can easily understand a balance sheet, the folks at the WSJ have scant comprehension of the true worth of so many of life's intangibles: the rule of law, societal comity, mutual respect. To paraphrase the song, "They don't know what they've got 'til it's gone..."

“We must elect John McCain this November and support sensible immigration reform so that the GOP can secure the Hispanic vote. Anything else and the party is finished.”

I agree. I’ve been saying we lost the Hispanic vote (which was trending GOP) because we allowed the Tancredos of the GOP to be the face of this debate. Plus we allowed some real nativists (anti Hispanics) to use this as a reason to go back to some not so great times in American history when Americans of Mexican descent were told to “go back across” which at the same time is when some racists whites told blacks to “go to the back of the bus.”

So here on FR don’t want to hear that and they’ll just lump us in with the WSJ, open borders crowd as they call them. They should go talk with the Hispanic community and ask them what they really think of illegal immigration. They wanted stoped just like most of us that are concerned about the issue. They just know that rounding them up is not going to work and it the rhetoric sounds racists. THAT IS A FACT, PEOPLE.

If FR wants the conservative movement to dwindle, we’re off to a great start. We had a good chunk of this population coming our way, but it’s a no go now.