Republican Party Platform to Oppose Amensty for Illegals

 Only if this were true, but we know that it isn’t. The official Republican party platform is going to include a plank that opposes granting illegal aliens amnesty. This has just turned into a semantics game.

 The Republican party is officially going to oppose amnesty for illegals but John McCain supports a so-called pathway to citizenship. What’s the difference? There is none. Amnesty is amnesty by any other name. The Republicans are trying to save face on this issue, but the current president and the party’s nominee to be the next president, both agree with the idea of granting amnesty to illegals. However the party understands how unpopular this idea is to the American people, we showed them last year when this issue came up, and there has been a gradual change in the  phraseology from amnesty to “a pathway to citizenship.” It’s the same thing. Who the hell cares what it is called, the end result will be the same.

 Republicans have decided that their best chance to win is to move to the left and that was proven by the party’s nomination of a man who pissed on conservatives for the last eight years. They have decided to become more like Democrats, that is the only reason a man like John McCain could ever win the Republican nomination.

 With last year’s outcry over the “immigration reform” bill, this should be an issue that Republicans could make gains on. But instead they have nominated the man who authored the doomed legislation. If only Republicans had learned from that debacle perhaps conservatives would not be in such an apathetic mood.

 It might sound good, it might look good on paper, but it is only words. What good does it do for Republicans to state that they are officially opposed to amnesty for illegals when everyone knows that the party’s nominee is for granting amnesty to illegals? Everyone knows that John McCain authored this legislation with Ted Kennedy of all people.

 Words are one thing, actions are another. We all know the old cliche that actions speak louder than words and we have all seen John McCain’s actions. He is for amnesty and it matter a god damned bit that the Republican party has officially decided to oppose it.