[Cold Heat]

I did not like it either Saber. That was pre-911 and the political reality was not to round them up and deport but to try to mitigate the situation. Those ideas have thankfully been shelved. But my complaints were made to my reps. and the white house. I did not air them much on FR unless asked directly or in defending my patriotism after being called a disrupter, Bushie, Socialist or some such thing.

[Sabertooth]

I did not air them much on FR unless asked directly or in defending my patriotism after being called a disrupter, Bushie, Socialist or some such thing.

Fair enough, but I have aired my concerns in the open forum. In fact, I've posted some of the more critical threads on Bush's immigration policies, and several of them have reached 400 or 500 posts.

Since Free Republic is a barometer of the mood of the Republican electorate, and we know it's lurked on by many in power or their staffs, aren't we doing a service to the conservative cause be being open about these serious concerns?

If the bally-hooed "Latino outreach" is seen as ethnic pandering (and I see it that way), and such pandering threatens to cost Republican votes in upcoming elections (as it does mine), whether through third-party defections or poor turnout, don't we want that known?