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The GOP never learns. Moving to the left is suicide.

Establishment Republicans think conservatives have no place to go. So if they move to the left on (for example) immigration, they'll pick up support. How? Because conservatives will stick with them to keep the even more radical open borders Democrats from being elected, while Latino voters happy about GOP amnesty support will move into the GOP.

But that's not what happens. What happens is this:

1) Some conservatives become disheartened and stay home on election day, which hurts the GOP.

2) The Democrats' even more radical immigration policy guarantees no Latino defections to the GOP. No matter how much amnesty or benefits the GOP offers, the Democrats will offer more. If President Bush promised to let half of Mexico move here tomorrow, the Democrats would promise two-thirds, call Bush's proposal racist, and get the La Raza endorsement. So pandering to immigrants gets no new votes for the GOP.

3) Even as the Democrats move ever further leftward, they successfully hide it from your average lethargic voter who gets his news from the MSM. There are millions of these voters, and all they know is that President Bush and the "Republicans" want to let the illegals stay here. The Democrats' policy is even more radical, but these voters don't know that. All they know is that the Democrats are opposed to the GOP proposal. So the GOP loses votes to the Democrats. Millions of people will vote Democrat because they don't like President Bush's mushy position, and because the 'Rat candidate for congress in their district has said he's "against" the President's proposal. They don't know he's against it because he wants something far more radical. They mistakenly assume he's for a hardline on immigration.

This is how we got into this insane position where polls now show the public trusts the Democrats more on immigration. The public knows what President Bush has proposed, and they don't like it. They know the Democrats are opposed to the President's proposal. But millions of people don't know that the Democrats oppose the President on this because they want an even more liberal policy. The Democrats aren't going to broadcast this fact. Instead, they quietly assure La Raza and other such groups of this, and those groups then get out the Democrat vote in immigrant precincts.

This same thing happened on the Dubai ports deal. It allowed the 'Rats to improve their standing on national security without moving to the right in the least.