An Inconvenient Issue: Illegal Immigration & The GOP

"The GOP leadership is waking up to a persistent reality, and it’s one that has fundraisers and strategists at the RNC up at night. Conservatives, the core constituency of the Republican Party are irate. Far from a passing hobbyhorse, the illegal immigration issue has galvanized Republican voters like no single issue in recent memory, and conservatives are refusing to let it go.

The Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill, backed by the President and pushed by the GOP establishment was more than a mere legislative miscalculation, is was the straw that broke the conservatives’ back. Moreover, to listen to conservatives, it wasn’t merely the legislation itself, but the strategy used by those trying to sell the bill. Conservatives are hopping mad at what they regard as unparalleled arrogance on the part of their Party’s own leadership - arrogance that has rank and file Republicans digging in their heals, and vowing to go all the way in their efforts to defeat anyone associated with the bill."

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