Yes, I've been getting that feeling on several FR threads recently. Clearly there are a lot of Freepers who think it will all be just fine and we'll win every election if we adopt a harsh Mitt Romney position, complete with harsh rhetoric delivered in a harsh tone, demanding that every illegal should be thrown on a bus in handcuffs, hauled to the border and dumped, accompanied by any children they brought with them, or had while they were here.
Travis McGee: We’re damned if we do or don’t. Demography is destiny ...
Yes, demography is destiny. That's why continuing to approach this problem the Mitt Romney way is a political suicide pact for the GOP. However, saying "We're damned if we do or don't" sounds a lot like you've fallen for the left-wing echo chamber's propaganda: that the Democratic Party's triumph can't be stopped, resistance is futile, and we should all just accept it and assimilate.
We need to drive a wedge between the legal Latinos on one side (our side), and the illegal Latinos and Democrats on the other side. Then we deport the illegals, with a few exceptions. Then we win.
The GOP definitely has a problem in this as far as future elections.
How they will deal with-it without self destruction, much like the Reagan amnesty that generated many Dem voters of today, or the GOP civil war that McCain and GWB caused in 2006/2007, is beyond me.
It should be obvious too that the Romney strategy of running on 'self deportation' got hispanics to deport Romney from getting near the WH.