[Badeye]

Deb,

He didn’t get serious about border security until the Amnesty bill was defeated in a humiliating fashion. Thats just the plain truth, he dragged his feet on it for several YEARS after 9/11, in a false belief that by legislative efforts the GOP could entice hispanics into the party.

As we have seen it was an absymal failure. What I can’t get over is how they came to that strategy in the first place, it never had a chance of working.

JMHO.

[Deb]

No, it never had a chance of working, but it did work in Texas and a lot of Bush people credited the Hispanic vote with putting him in office because they came out in such huge numbers compared with other Republican candidates. That's what influenced his thinking.

Geez, you have to give him some credit for abandoning it when he saw the wave of support against it.