Because I've never heard anyone outside Tancredo take a hardline position. Who do you think the next cycle's candidate is? I don't know of anybody.
In a “ringing” endorsement given through HIS SPOKESMAN to the Associated Press, Gov. Mark Sanford has FINALLY endorsed Republican presidential nominee John McCain 2008
Sanford had been a state co-chairman of McCain’s 2000 campaign in South Carolina
Read my post again. I don't think we'll get the candidate until voters say "no more" and reject their nonsense. The elitists that keep offering up this cr@p will continue to do so as long as Republicans will vote for it. As Karl Rove is quoted as saying "Where are they going to go?" He basically thinks voters are a bunch of suckers.
What the heck is "hardline" about enforcing the law? Characterizing immigration enforcement using those terms just plays into the pro-amnesty bunch, IMO.