Re:You got it wrong, buddy (Score 1)

Most republicans/conservatives are against illegal immigration and want to close up the borders.

The national GOP leadership wants to duck the immigration issue because Wall Street Republicans and neocon pundits--the people with money--want lax immigration policies.

It's little people with less influence in the GOP who want immigration reform.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), the most vocal opponent of illegal immigration in the House, has been warned by the White House's Karl Rove over breaking with Bush's "moderate" stance on immigration as Bush panders for the hispanic vote. The national GOP has even threatened to run a candidate against Tancredo in the next primary election.

Thing is, the Mexicans tend to vote Democrat for statist social services, which has led paleo-conservative pundit Samuel Francis to brand the GOP "the Stupid Party" since they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by not cracking down on illegals while alienating their grassroots Middle America voters who will sit out this election in protest.