[RiflemanSharpe]

We keep voting republican and we keep moving to the left. I voted for John Cornyn for US Senator from TX because he came off a s astrong conservative. He now support the illegal amnesty. There are far to many RINOS out there. I would for once like a true conservative to vote for.

[discostu]

Gotta use the primaries to get better repubs in. House races are best for that because they're very localized, senate races are tougher, national (the presidency) toughest. That's the natural progression of moving the body politic, shove it one direction during the primaries but keep it electable in the generals which is why the wider the general election the slower the push needs to be. I'd love hard core conservatives in the senate and White House but with the exception of a few states it simply isn't going to happen.

[olliemb]

You keep saying amnesty--amnesty means total forgiveness and no strings attached. The people that are upset about amnesty keep saying amnesty and really are not giving the whole immigration concept a good listening to. Before anything is written you are already yapping about RINO and voting for another party, etc.

If those writing it say it is not amnesty, and if amnesty means forgiveness without any special procedures then what Bush is presenting is not amnesty. I suspect then you would have preferred Ron Kirk a flaming liberal democrat over Cornyn who walks and talks like a conservative but disagrees with your version of immigration.