"Not that it matters to Frist, since he won't win the GOP primary in '08, but this type of nonsense is giving the Hildabeast an issue to triangulate on to create a winning majority in the presidential election. If the Dims become the pro-immigration reform party, even if cosmetic, it will hurt the GOP do-nothings."
Consider: If Hillary takes the position that Republicans SHOULD BE taking, then Republicans will be forced to be either further right, or left of her.
Whatever one thinks of her, Republicans have left an open path for a democrat candidate to take a more reasonable policy position of immigration, from national security standpoint.
I'm sure Bush sits back, relying on the fact his own policy got him elected twice, and he doesn't have to run again.
Policy positions for Republican presidential candidates are their own business. Tancredo first out of the blocks.
Perot forced a balanced budget to be important in 1992.
Perhaps Tancredo will force immigration to be important in 2008.
ALERT: By 2004 we will have 30 to 40 MILLION illegal aliens in the US!
With that number you can forget ever getting them out because they will be in too many political offices.
Understood?
I'm sure Bush sits back, relying on the fact his own policy got him elected twice, and he doesn't have to run again.
Policy positions for Republican presidential candidates are their own business. Tancredo first out of the blocks.
Unfortunately, we are likely to have our next terrorist attack well before the 08 election cycle gets into full swing. There are only one or two potential candidates that have ANY interest in persuing the illegal immigration issue(Tancredo). The Republicans will be discredited and will find themselves swimming uphill. Hillary doesn't for a minute believe in stemming the flow, but has advocated that she will, knowing full well that MANY pubbies want it. The country will suffer severely from the attack and the Republican party will be blamed for not protecting us. I just can't see how they can continue to ignore it.