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It will be interesting to see how Republicans vote on the immigration bill. If the sentiments still run toward the "send them back to Mexico idea" then the GOP isn't going to make much headway with minorities. Women, minorities, gays, and the working poor are becoming stronger voices in politics and these are groups that favor Democrats. If the GOP doesn't join the rest of us in 21st century, they will become irrelevant.What? The dems are suddenly going to talk about REAL issues? Surely you troll
Oh, I think the dems are happy to talk about limiting raises to soc sec and other slow down to entitlements, but only if they get 600 bil in more revenue.
The gop's getting its ass handed to it over social issues, but they just had 10 guys and one woman in clown costumes doing debates to see who could be more batshit crazy.
The problem for the gop (and country) is that the gop isn't talking about how to do healthcare without govt controlling insurance contracts, or how we can turn illegal guest workers into citizens with liveable wages, or how we deal with the reality of a couple of million same sex 'unions." They're even still hung up on a morning after pill. How silly is that? There are issue debates conservatives can win, but they arent focused on those. And there's nothin inherently un-conservative about raising money via taxes from medical providers to pay for healthcare, so providers get consumers. It's called faciliting markets. It only stops being conservative when you have the govt telling people what is covered.
Lose/Lose for the republicans
Block immigration reform and lose the Hispanic vote forever
Allow 12 million new Democratic voters