Okay, here's the deal, and it's pretty simple.

Conservatives are going to vote Republican, and politicians running as Republicans know this. We can bitch all we want, but get real now. Who among us is going to vote for RodHam come 2008?

They also know that if they DON'T cave on the immigration issues, they'll lose even more of the Spanish vote, and when cultivating such an ethic group it isn't all that cool to bring up things like the law, and what the majority of the people really want. And I say "such" a group because their predecessors lived, died and fought as Americans, and while they did not forget their ethnicity, did not favor it over being an American.

But not the Spanish. The Spanish want to remain Spanish. The Germans, Italians, Irish, Poles, and many others were proud to be known as Americans, but not the Spanish. The Germans, Italians, Irish, Poles, and many others learned English, went to English speaking schools, and demanded their children do the same, but not the Spanish.

And their attitude isn't changing anytime soon. We can remain united and fights these invaders, but you know we really wouldn't, and so do the politicians. The hardcore among us will continue to fight the good fight, but the weak-sisters will cave.

It's like that stupid mandatory health insurance deal up in Massachusetts. Some Republicans are saying, well why not? We're forced to buy car insurance, right, and when we tell them that car insurance is for those among us so negligent as to harm others, and health insurance is a horse of a different color, their eyes glaze over because, We're Forced To Buy Car Insurance, Right?

And these same weak minded individuals will bend to the sophistry of a McCain or a Dickum & Dunkem, so what's a politician to do?

After all, we're going to vote for them over the RodHam's anyway.