“Much as we may wish to deny it, the country just isn’t conservative enough anymore to elect a Bachmann or a Santorum.”
So the solution is to make the country even less conservative by supporting amnesty? If we don’t fight amnesty now, soon it is too late. What people don’t realize is that amnesty attitude will destroy the country permanently. If you don’t start enforcing the law (deportations, e-verify, fence) and oppose any form of amnesty, more and more people will come here, stay here and eventually, one way or other, end up voting. And no matter what GOP is doing, former illegals will vote dems.
If Newt is surrendering already in the GOP primary phase, how do you think he will behave when he is the President and him, McCain, and Harry Reid sit down to plan “comprehensive immigration bill”. You can’t trust House or Senate to stop the insanity if you have open amnesty freak in the White House.
No. I never said I agreed with the idea of embracing amnesty. I'm saying, on the whole.. across the plethora of issues, the country has shifted to the left.
Of course, each individual issue -- whether it's immigration, health care or taxes -- should be fought aggressively. But the undeniable fact is... overall.. we're in an era in which the Dems can have as their standardbearer the most leftist occupant of the WH (I'll never call him my "president") in history, and, regardless of the damage Obama and his cabal have done to this country, the odds are against his defeat in 2012. It says volumes, IMO.