Superb rant and nice reminder that a return to honorable discourse is essential. Personally, I don't put much stock in the people who are trying to discourage me from voting pubbie this fall on the basis of newly-trumped up complaints about old issues (especially when they ignore President Bush's incredibly impressive record on everything else, as backhoe's fabulous links demonstrate). Yes, immigration is crucial, but fixing this decades-old problem needs logic and rationality, not hysterical emotion, pouting, and mataphorical foot-stamping that we have been seeing lately.
I genuinely expect better of FReepers than some of the stuff I have glimpsed lately. We can have honest and respectful disagreements on many issues, but when it falls to name-calling, you have to wonder how much we're infiltrated by pseudo-conservatives from the Dirty Underpants site. I refuse to be alarmed by professional alarmists on ANY issue.
But who are you referring to...As you can see on this thread as well as most threads, the name calling comes from the self-proclaimed Bush defenders...They are the DU folks yer talking about???
I have been hammered as a BorderBot myself of late. While I try to keep it civil, that doesn't mean that I have to just sit beck and take it.
The border issue is vital because if the President gets his way and makes even the thirty plus million illegals in this country now citizens, it's already too late. Game over. That is more then enough reliable votes for the Rats to keep them in power for the foreseeable future. This country as we now know it will cease to exist. If you think I'm wrong on this please tell me how you think I'm wrong. What nuance of the Presidents plan am I missing. Mexico is a Narco-State. If this amnesty disaster goes through, we're well on our way down the same road. An earlier poster claims that this amnesty will make Mexico more like us. I say nonsense. History shows again and again starting with the Roman Empire that it will be the other way around.