This presidential election will likely be the voters last chance to put teeth into the uproar that defeated the amnesty bills during 2007. If amnesty advocates such as McCain or Huckabee (don’t believe his recent conversion) win the Republican nomination, I expect the voters will be ignored on this issue in the future. If it’s not a vote-deciding issue now, then the pols will conclude that it never will be.
Then they’ll again listen to the Chamber of Commerce and immigrant advocate groups rather than the majority of Americans who oppose amnesty and non-enforcement, but don’t vote the issue at the polls.
Senator Santorum....
“John McCain was the guy who was working with Ted Kennedy to drive it down our throats, and lectured us repeatedly about how xenophobic we were, lectured us, us being the Republican conference, about how wrong we were on this, how we were on the wrong side of history, and that you know, this is important for his…because having come from Arizona, knowing the strength of the Hispanic community, that we were going to be seen as racists, and he wasn’t going be part of that, that he was not a racist, and that if we were for tougher borders, it was a racist thing. Look, John McCain looks at things through the eyes, on these kind of domestic policy issues, looks at it through the eyes of the New York Times editorial board, and accepts that predisposition that if you are not, if you stand for conservative principles, there’s some genetic defect. “