No, “saber rattling” means cheap tough talk instead of the hard work of convincing people of the correctness of our position.
Sensible immigration reform, not to mention enforcing the laws we already have, is a reasonable position that we could sell to the country. But simplistic rhetoric and ethnic slurs play into media caricatures, turn off people on all sides of the issue and make meaningful reform all the more difficult.
I agree. And immediately dumping an otherwise good possible candidate because he or she doesn't adopt the 'send them all home NOW' policy is only helping liberals in their continued march toward domination in this country.
We need to remember that liberals didn't get all their favorite policies in place in one fell swoop! They worked at it, incrementally, over the past 50 years. If we demand that our candidates try to do everything we want, immediately, the will not get elected by those who listen to the MSM and are convinced that adopting those policies will put black people back in chains, and force women to stay at home and have babies. You can laugh, but we have to deal with those 'low information' voters, or I should say they have lots of information, but all the wrong kind. We can scoff at them all we want, but they will go out to vote, and we have to REACH them, somehow, before they do.