My point was Legal Immigration over the last 30 years, which is close to 20 million new citizens, plus another 10 million Green Cards, plus several million more “permanent” work visas.
I've been one of top immigration posters at Free Republic for almost 10 years.
In 2006-2007, during the Bush Amnesty, I got so disgusted with the Cato Institute I stopped reading it (and the WSJ editorial page, which I had read since the 1960’s).
If the mainstream “L” position on immigration has been modified, I apologize for not knowing that.
Your criticism of the GOP is spot on.
Uneasy alliances and political compromise is the price we pay for having any political power at all.
If you spend much time at Free Republic you will notice that Conservatives have never been more demoralized and fatalistic.
After the Gingrich implosion in 1996, after the Bush second term betrayal on immigration and Harriet Miers, after the McCain and Romney nominations, after relentless attacks from the likes of Chris Christie and Joe Scarborough, after the relentless incompetence of Boehner and McConnell, after 40 years of having no national strategy against the relentless attacks by the Hard Left MSM, many of the Conservatives here at Free Republic are at the point of walking away from the GOP, and, essentially, walking away from politics all together.
NP, at least we’re able to have a civil discussion about the same; I’ve come across too many, even here, that think party over principle is the winning order of the day (defines insanity yet again :P).
Falling into the (L) party, I’ve been nearly consistently disgusted with the 2-party cartel. For me, it was always too easy to see that the Dems dominate and the GOP was happy to be in the minority while doing the 2-steps-forward-1-step-back Left shuffle; while still being called stalwarts of the Founders *spit*. Neither follow the Const., nor any of the Laws they themselves pass (and the base reason to be against the current amnesty push).
I’ve been more than shocked that the blinders are starting to come off, though I fear the downward trend of our Republic is too steep to recover from w/out a true Civil War (not the so called same from the past).
I’m glad to see these ‘awoken’ Citizens start to question our ‘leaders’ and walk away from the current parties; I can hope they at least stay in the political loop. But even I am afraid, as noted previously, that even the ballot box these days is not the final solution any longer...