11-23-2008, 04:09 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Wags, if it isn't already obvious, that branch of the Losing Party ™ is being relatively quiet. For good reason. The Republicans are evaluating the evangelical wing of the party with an eye towards kicking their butts out, so as to avoid another beat-down in the next national election cycle.
As swamp pointed out, she's a Governor. They tend to be a bit more pragmatic than the ideologues populating the senate and the fringe wackos populating the House. Her position on immigration is also quite pragmatic, and I for one welcome it. It's time we just stopped the whole hullabaloo and acknowledged that we've got a lot of defacto citizens who work hard and are trying to raise families and merge into the populace.
Sure, there are criminals among them, but just being here should not be a crime.
and merge into the populace.
well, this is debatable on the "merge" It seems in my community at least they are still speaking their own language and doing their own thing...the merging is jobs. Since the economy has changed they are not coming acoss so readily and so that tells the tale they are interested in getting out of the USA what they can and not that they like America and want to be a LEGAL part of it.