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I remember the “Fair Weather” Conservatives turning on Reagan during and after the Iran-Contra fiasco. Reagan wasn’t perfect but he was the best President we had seen in this country since Coolidge and some of the worst complainers were political operatives that should have known better. The alternative to Reagan was Carter and Mondale. The alternative to Bush was Gore and Kerry. No serious conservative thinker could honestly consider the idea that we would have been better off with one of those four liberal democrats as President rather than Reagan or Bush. It’s ludicrous.

Bush has always favored what could be called an open border and in truth it isn’t that different from what Reagan supported when he signed Simpson-Mazzoli in the mid 1980’s. We need to defeat the current attempt at “fast track” legalization by keeping the pressure on those Senators and Representatives that tip the balance. The ONLY hope we have of preventing it in the next administration is by electing a Republican Conservative like Thompson, Hunter, or Romney(?) that will veto any attempt at this type of “reform” in the near future.

“The alternative to Bush was Gore and Kerry. “

Pathetic, isn’t it?

Bush has been an unmitigated catastrophe in his second term.

Open borders is treason.

If the Republicans in Congress can’t produce a majority of their constituency to vote in opposition to this horrendous Kennedy-McCain contrived bill, if they fail to confront a lame duck President with near record low approval ratings, if they support a measure which every Republican candidate for President except one has distanced themselves from, if they lack the guts and spine and gonads to defy the Democrat Majority in Congress on this subject, if they ignore the overwhelming opposition of Americans from every part of the political spectrum on this subject - they are not fit to remain a viable political force in America. And they won’t.

I’m a Reagan Conservative who supported him on Iran-Contra and in nearly everything he did. I voted Republican for my entire lifetime of voting - registered Republican since Reagan ran against Ford in a presidential primary. I supported the present incumbet in his Presidential campaigns both times around. I have contributed to Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson’s political campaigns and I would vote for Mit Romney - but with great reluctance. NONE of the other candidates running have a chance or seriously represent Republican principles.

But if those Congressional Republican Rascals fold like a cheap deck of cards to this President on this subject, I will be very actively working for a third political party to replace them.