OK, let's not make this thread about immigration, let's make it a Bush is a bleeding heart moderate, who is telling his base to essentially go screw themselves!
I support Bush as President still, but his clout with conservatism is over! All of us who have supported him and prayed for him over these years, defending against valid arguments from libertarians to independents, and then he turns around and diss's his base by ignoring us, and goes on to try and hoodwink people into beleive this POS legislation just hasn't been understood by those who oppose it, is out of his mind and does not deserve any longer to be supported by those who elected him!
He is totally committed to abandon the majority of conservative thought!
This is trivial in the real world, where the president and several Democrats, including Teddy Kennedy, spent considerable political capital trying to enact an immigration "reform" bill that nobody else wants. The president is said to be ever more concerned about his "legacy" and his Democratic allies' lust for all those Hispanic votes. The rest of us want first to close the border, continuing to furiously bleed Mexicans 24/7, before we talk about what to do about the 12, or 15, or 20 million illegals already among us. Mickey Mouse could understand that, so why not the pols?
You said:
...so let’s not make this an immigration thread.
Huh?
You're asking the impossible. Even the "Paris Hilton Is Stupid" threads are turned into immigration threads. FreeRepublic is, for the time being, a one-trick pony.