[Michael2001]

My initial reaction is to vote for a third party candidate and hope if he gets enough votes, and it causes the Republicans to lose the presidency it will send them a message.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, that will certainly improve things.

[Michael2001]

In the last election, many people at my Church refused to vote, saying that Bush would not look out for us. Not voting at all, doesn't help us much either.

[mlo]

Bush passed an amnesty bill? Wow. When did they ammend the Constitution?

[jwalsh07]

Did you read 245i and the underlying law?

Because if you didn't the one issue line to throw Bush from the train starts way over there.

[stands2reason]

It has passed already?

[shetlan]

My initial reaction is to trust President Bush.

[go star go]

Little bit afraid of Hispanics are ya?

[Fish out of Water]

Whine whine whine

[stands2reason]

You can do that---"send a message" and curse us with 4 years of Algore---but you will be banned from complaining about ANYTHING he does. Can you deal with that?

[Flint]

Well, you can always send some money to and vote for Al and Hillary.

[Thane_Banquo]

Bush passes this Amnesty Bill, something that not even the sneaky Bill Clinton would do.

Perhaps the sneaky Bill Clinton wouldn't do it, but Ronald Reagan did the exact same thing during his presidency.

[RCW2001]

My 'litmus test', when is come right down to election day and marking the ballot, is the '2nd Amendment'...

With that intact...everything else, shall I say, is 'negotiable'! :)

[Helix]

As I said on another thread, here is what my dad is doing:

My dad said he's mailing back the RNC membership survey in the postage paid envelope (minus donation) and is putting "Stop rewarding illegal immigrants" as the answer to D) In general, what do you think should be the top priority for the Republican National Committee in 2002?

[lideric]

Conservatives won't vote for Algore or any other liberal but they will likely stay home. What's a shame is that the illegals that will have their citizenship handed to them on a silver platter will register with the RATS and vote that way too.

[Charles Martel]

Did you see Bush's news conference earlier today, when he clearly said "NO BLANKET AMNESTY"? Hey, I'll scream as loudly as you, if he signs such a bill into law. Today's comments sounded as though he was thoroughly pissed at the House of Representatives over the immigration issue - and at the Senate for holding up judicial appointments.

[fire and forget]

We're not as informed as Bush is. Everything about this stinks to high heaven in my book, but I'm still waiting for the President to articulate his reasonings. Maybe some of them can't be circulated for political reasons. I will say this, however: Bush knows that Latinos tend to vote democrat; he knows that that demographic here is disproportionately unproductive and that too many of them form their own Spanish-speaking enclaves rather than assimilate into mainstream America; he has the stats about the disproportionate costs Latinos burden America with.

I can only hope he knows something we don't, and that he'll get the word out to his conservative supporters before too many are alienated and confused enough to not even bother to vote or else vote for impotent candidates.

[grimalkin]

I've read 245(i) in its entirety and it is not an "amnesty" bill. It's fine to disagree with the contents of the bill, but at least be honest about what it actually contains... otherwise, with the premise flawed, the debate is useless.

Another aside: voting for a third party candidate or not voting at all isn't helpful. We don't live in an ideal world and one must live with the fact that elected officials cannot possibly please all of us all of the time. The best approach is the realistic one... would you rather have a democrat in office? If yes, then go ahead and do whatever it is you need to do.

[glc1173@aol.com]

I really doubt that 245(i) will have much impact on the illegal-alien population.

245(i) is hardly "amnesty" - or there would hardly be such a huge population of illegals now here, a very high share of whom were here when 245(i) ended last spring!

Most illegals - Mexican border-skippers - just don't legally qualify for 245(i). They lack the required family ties.

History proves that 245(i) is a boon for Asian grad students who overstay student visas and marry some dumb American - not for Mexican border-skippers lacking both the $1,000 fee and the dumb gringa wife.

IMMIGRATION resource library - with public-health facts of immigration!

[Jewels1091]

Can anyone say clinton????? Isn't that what you guys did to Bush Sr.???? Thanks alot! WE got 8 years of treason and liars in the white house. Think before you vote...don't be dumb!

[Consort]

"My initial reaction is to vote for a third party candidate and hope if he gets enough votes, and it causes the Republicans to lose the presidency it will send them a message."

Yup, a repeat of 1992 when the staunch conservatives help to elect Bill Clinton (this is the only thing I hold against Rush). I guess you all figure that Hillary will do a better job. The conversatives punished Bush (41) because of "Read my lips" and they gave America a big fat lip with the Clintons.