[dirtboy]

I thought Hillary was eager to oppose illegal immigration, and depict the Bush administration as winking at it.

She apparently is, and that's my point - if the Bush Admin doesn't quit giving their base the tin ear treatment over illegal immigration, it won't matter who the GOP nominates in 2008, they will in all likelihood go down to defeat because the base won't come out.

[Americanexpat]

"...the base won't come out."

I believe you are absolutely right. Thye Dems are on the attack and the Republicans are crouched in their foxholes waiting to be overrun.