You don’t seem to think that McCain would push his amnesty down our throats the minute he got into office. I do. I also think that such an amnesty would destroy this country, most probably by secession votes from various states in the next decade or two. The fact that we cannot enforce our laws to throw out people who don’t belong here – just because there are “too many” of them – would imply to the normal person that no one will be fighting to preserve the union this time.
Many people poo-poo this possibility, as if it could never possibly happen here. I would remind them that Quebec has been trying to secede from Canada for a long time, Utah has always had some interest, and the people who marched with signs saying, “We didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us,” certainly would be likely candidates for secession votes. Amnesty will destroy this nation.
If McCain gets in, the amnesty will be a foregone conclusion, but if it’s a dem, the chances are much less likely that an amnesty will pass, since the dem idea would be far too radical and would repulse everybody.
For this, and this alone, I would never vote for McCain. But it isn’t amnesty, alone. McCain has all other sorts of problems, too.
I’m very perplexed by this attitude that some have that we must try to win every single election. That is not a rule to live by. It is true that one usually wants to win, but not in all cases. This is certainly one such case.
P.S. The dems are going to implode over illegals, also, when they figure out that their nominee (whichever one) is in favor of more than what Spitzer almost got tossed out trying to do.
Both of these parties are now seriously misaligned and in need correction and reassociations.
I would also note that I am just flabbergasted that anyone would be surprised by this reaction to McCain. It was obvious that this was going to happen when we had the shamnesty debate last summer. Anyone who acts “surprised” is either disengenuous, lacking memory skills, or was on Mars during the Senate debate. That was the time that many of us made it very clear that we would never vote for McCain. People can look it up all over the blog archives.
