To put it bluntly, I'm calling your bluff on this issue. Put up or shut up. You seem to have conveniently forgotten the removal of Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham in 2000 specifically due to the immigration issue. He was targeted by immigration reform groups who pointed out his record to voters, who in turn decided his "bring in the world" policies were not to their liking.
If you think Republicans are invulnerable, no matter what their position on amnesty you are sadly mistaken. The election is two months away yet, and they have a slim majority in the House. All it takes is for a few to go down in flames, and they lose it all.
Really? Then again, he was a freshman Senator who got in on Engler's coattails in 1994, and couldn't do so hot in 2000.
Here's my question: Are you willing to blow judicial nominations, the tax cut, the war on terror, a sensible forest policy (which Bush has recently been pushing), and a host of other things that Bush has done RIGHT in his term of office over a disagreement on this issue?
Even if I were to disagree with his policy, I would not be totally cutting off his support.
Oh, and keep in mind - if those immigration reform groups had their way a few decades back, Michelle Malkin might still be in the Phillipines as opposed to being here.
And, by the way, here's the numbers on immigration:
When it comes down to the level of immigration, while a plurality (49%) wants the levels decreased, 48% say they should stay the same or be increased (36% stay the same, 12% increase).
And, as far back as June, 2002 (nine months after 9/11), 52% still felt that immigration was a good thing. And by a 51-31 margin in December of 2001, people felt immigrants contributed to the country as opposed to making problems.
http://www.pollingreport.com/race.htm#Immigration
If anything, the contribute/cause problem numbers have REVERSED from 1994 (the heyday of Prop 187), which were 53-29 saying they caused problems (see above URL).
I don't think you can claim credit for Abraham's loss.
You seem to have conveniently forgotten the removal of Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham in 2000 specifically due to the immigration issue. He was targeted by immigration reform groups who pointed out his record to voters, who in turn decided his "bring in the world" policies were not to their liking. I forgot about that too! As the immigration crisis worsens we will see more of this in the GOP.
It is interesting though that Abraham’s time in the political wilderness was quite short. The Bush Administration seems to hate the thought of any open borders liberal being poltically irrelevant.