Are Republicans that stupid???? Nobody with half a brain thinks that amnesty is a reasonable or smart thing to do. Immigration reform, reformed work visas and true enforcement . . . Yes. Amnesty and full citizenship and voting rights for those who flaunted our laws? Not no but HELL NO!!!!!! No part of compassion compels citizenship and voting rights for illegals??? Legal residency of some sort . . . maybe. Citizenship and voting rights? NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Have the big money folks held a gun to their heads? Why do they insist on wrecking the only voting block that can get them elected . . . middle America.
That's precisely what the GOP establishment is claiming their position is.
As for me, I say they can have a path to "legal residency of some sort" by returning to their country of origin. If they don't want to do that, too bad. Illegal is illegal.
“Are Republicans that stupid????”
Yes. The late, great columnist Samuel Francis referred to the GOP as “the stupid party” for a damned good reason. They hardly ever fail to disappoint conservatives.
To quote myself, as I have said repeatedly here at FR, “If the GOP is party to alien invader amnesty, they will cease to exist on the day after the next election. Don’t think it can happen? Check out the Progressive Conservative Party in Canada. the went from a governing majority to TWO seat in Parliament in one election.”
They lost 151 of 153 seats in Parliament! think about that. they lost 98.5 of their seats. Only the GOPe thinks they are immune to outcomes like that, but they are not.