As for immigration, he is right in saying that this is just one issue in conservativism and that it is being manipulated by the Dems. I think there are also some evil influences (see under “White House”) whipping up anti-Latin American sentiment just to portray conservatives in a bad light and also to make sure that Latin American immigrants don’t even think about voting anything but Dem.
I think a certain group of people on the right have unfortunately cast the whole immigration issue in terms of their irrational hatred of Hispanics. There are many, many other illegals here, and if you don’t live in a border state or in certain cities, you may actually not even see many Latin American immigrants, legal or illegal.
There are naturally going to be more in general because Mexico is right next door, whereas it’s a little harder to arrange the trip from Somalia, Southeast Asia or the Balkans (all of them still manage to produce illegal immigrants, and among the legal ones, many were brought here by the US government and put directly on welfare). But the issue goes beyond one ethnic group, and I think if it could be refocused to eliminate the hatred expressed by some, we might be able to make progress on it.
Actually, forget that. Now that Obama’s in the White Hut, there’s not going to be a good resolution to the issue.
As long as Democrats are able to offer affirmative-action preferences to ‘Hispanics’ the Republicans aren’t winning them over, on average.