Immigration will be the issue

By November 2008, the war in Iraq will NOT be front and center in the minds of voters.  We are doing better and better there each day, and it looks like tremendous progress is being made.  A year from now, voters will be ready to tackle other issues.

The economy is strong, and will remain strong as long as Bush's tax cuts remain in place.  They will be there until after the next election, and Congress can't raise taxes in the meantime without finding a way to come up with the votes to override a veto.  Despite the best efforts of liberals and the media to induce a panic over the economy, we continue to have low unemployment, low interest rates, economic growth, and shrinking deficits.

So what will the big hot button topic be?

IMMIGRATION.

Congress will be unable to do anything on immigration before the election.  They tried to pass yet another amnesty bill today, the DREAM Act, but fell short on the cloture vote.  Failure here is actually good for the democrats... but they won't stop.  They will continue to try, and as a result will continue to remind Americans that liberals can't be trusted to protect American sovereignty.  If they do succeed in passing an amnesty bill before the election, that will pretty much be the nail in their coffin.  Even liberal New York is coming up strongly against new laws that help illegal aliens.

Meanwhile, Fred Thompson appears to be the only mainstream candidate articulating a comprehensive and coherent plan to reduce illegal immigration, while withholding the "path to citizenship" for lawbreakers.  John McCain, once thought to be the presumptive GOP nominee, now recognizes that amnesty killed his campaign.

Mark my words: the election is still over a year away, and all the issues the "certified smart" people inside politics think matter will be off the table by then.  But the immigration problem isn't going away between now and next November.  If anything, it will become more of a problem.  The candidate who can bring forward a solution now, and who can maintain a positive message about solving the problem over the next year, will be our next President.

Oh, and tip to all you Bush bashers out there: Bush ain't running.

Comments

[JustaDog]

I don't trust anyone that looks down so much as Fred Thompson does. It shows a lack of self-confidence.

Besides, check Fred's own site. In all the time he's been in the Senate is did nothing against illegal aliens - nothing. Now, as you pointed out, that it's a campaign issue he suddenly wants to get tough?

Sorry - he had his chance as a Senator and while throngs were flowing into the USA he ate creampuffs.

[Sakaki]

And who's better? Romney? Bullshi'ite.

It's either Thompson, or you are getting stuck with Hillary. And you can probably guess which is worse.

[Gullyborg]

In the 90's NO ONE was addressing the issue. It gets bigger every year. Logically, that means it used to be less of an issue than it is now.

I'd rather have a guy with the right solution NOW than worry about who could have been right back then.

The past is over, man. Look to the future!

[DirtCrashr]

I like what a guy posted at SondraK's blog: "...if California can evacuate 1,000,000 people with only a day or two of advance notice, and do so in an orderly fashion, can someone please explain why we can't export a few million illegals?"
The opposition/Amnesty types constantly whine and drone how HARD it's gonna be - including securing the Border.

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http://www.newsreview.info/article/20071025/NEWS
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i can imagine how ticked off Mexico will be to get all their criminals back.

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

Any Republican can beat any Democrat by emphasizing this issue. It cuts right across party lines among law-abiding tax-paying middle-class citizens and the Dems won't touch it because, as I said on my blog, they're "tied up in politically correct multi-cultural morally equivalent knots" about it - and, more cynically, they want the Latino vote and their contributions to the Ponzi scheme know as SS.