[af_vet_rr]

You ceded the issue to them.

I know that a McCain/Palin administration or an Obama/Biden administration will pass amnesty - Palin's comments to Univision were a loud and clear indicator that McCain still loves the amnesty bill he and Teddy Kennedy came up with. I'm not happy, not happy at all - I voted for somebody other McCain in the primaries, although I did vote for McCain last week for President.

In your eyes, perhaps I ceded the issue, but I feel like Conservatives were sold out and taken for granted (and taken for a ride).

I think you'll see just how far that gets the GOP in 2012. McCain has a slim shot at winning this time, but we'll see if the GOP can win without us in 2012.

[lentulusgracchus]

Conservatives were sold out and taken for granted (and taken for a ride).

Affirmative-truth bump.

It's always been a (convenient?) Bush delusion that they could pull enough of the Hispanic vote to make a difference in a general, nationwide election.

They were fooled by the not-so-subtle differences between the migrants from northern Mexico ("Nortenos") that Texas gets from nearby Mexican states, and the migrants from the Mexican interior and south who are much, much "leftier", much more PRD than PAN, and much more antagonistic toward gringos and our culture. Those are the folks who flock to L.A. and put up that repugnant monument that reads "it was better before they came" -- "they" being us, the citizens of the United States.

But for the Bushes and their audience, it was always about cheap labor anyway. Everything else was secondary at best.