Republicans in the ruling class have no clue about how much amnesty and open borders are fatal flaws with the overwhelming majority of American voters - Republican, conservative, working class Democrats.
Too many of these “promising” “conservative” candidates - Barbour, Christie, Romney, Daniels, etc., etc., are DOA with real American voters because of their stand on amnesty. This was so evident at CPAC, which is NOT an assembly of true American-values conservatives,but of political insiders and elites who think that the body politic is a bunch of rubes whose wishes they can ignore because they are so much better and smarter than them. None of them, living in their mansions in gated communities from where their spoiled children go off to private schools, have a clue as to what illegal immigration is doing to the average American’s healthcare, school systems, job opportunities, and safety.
Amnesty and open borders from their perspective are just distant statistics on labor costs and voter registrations that can be wielded to their personal benefit, power, and enrichment.
Understand this - any Republican who does not take a strong stand on securing the borders and banning all amnesty has a chance of winning an election. They might secure the nomination because that is a game amongst insiders and the political class, but there will be no support for them come election. They won’t get the volunteer workers; they won’t get the grass roots contributions, and they won’t get the stay-at-home vote.
The parade of amnesty lovers at CPAC shows that the Republicans still have a long way to go before Americans can embrace them.
They understand completely. They don't care. Its the sure-fire way for the RinoCrat Oligarchy to avoid coming Constitutional accountability
as well as improving the job security of the federal bureaucratic parasitic class.
I’ve noticed the same thing, establishment Republicans just don’t get it on amnesty.
I’ve given it some thought and have come the conclusion that this is because their lives have not been personally effected by the criminal illegals that impact the lives of so many of us. The only illegals that these elitist Republicans come into contact with are the nannies, the housekeepers, the hard working landscapers or care givers that have truly come to this country to become a part of of our society. They don’t experience the drive by shooting or the gang violence and other problems in their kid’s school, even if their kids happen to go to public school (which most of them don’t), it just not in their neighborhoods.
Take some of these elitists and put them in a house in Mesa, AZ, or somewhere in Texas and make them live there for a year. Make them send their kids to the local public school and see if they change their tune. Let them see what it’s like to have helicopters flying over their homes at night, shining spot lights into their yards as the authorities chase some illegals who were just involved in an accident, or robbing a 7-11. Then ask them how they feel about illegal immigration.