#2 - I keep getting stuck on "illegal" in illegal alien.

This should not be a conservative/liberal or Repub/Dem issue.  It's a legal issue.  If it's the law then enforce it.  Even if that means creating laws that make it less desirable for illegals to function in the US.   Everyone acts like it's a human rights violation to enforce the law and/or create laws that identify or exempt illegals from benefits that come with being a US citizen.  Again, if the people of the US think the law is wrong then change it, if not, enforce it

I think we're framing the discussion all wrong.  There are legal ways to come to the US.  I know several people that have done it legally.  It's not convenient, it's not necessarily easy, but it is the law.  If the law is wrong then change it.  If not, then enforce it.

I completely understand the human impact of immigration and  I'm not saying this is easy.  But I can't get past the "illegal" in "illegal alien".

Someone help me out here.

P.S.  if you think I'm a conservative whack-job then see post #1 where I tick off conservative whack-jobs by asking why the Republican party was hijacked by the conservative.

#1 - Why'd the Republican Party push out everyone not conservative?

This is the first blog in a series of questions I need to throw out to the world because I'm not finding the answers through more normal channels.  


Rules of the game:  

1. Read for content.  Don't focus on my spelling/grammar/punctuation/etc.  I'm a math good, formal writing bad kind of guy.  
2. I want your opinion, not the regurgitated crap for liberal or conservative assholes.  There are enough of those out there already.
3. REALLY, focus hard on #2.  I've lost confidence that America can have their own opinion and discuss things without being lead around by the nose by the hate filled idiots that drive today's politics.

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I turned 18 on November 2, 1986.  The only thing I remember about my birthday was that I was able to vote in the presidential election (go Reagan).  I voted republican in every election until the 2004 election.  At that point I felt like Bush/Cheney were not taking the country in the direction I agreed with.  Not so much a vote for Kerry, but a vote against Bush.  For me that is when things changed.  The Republican party started becoming a party of intolerance, fear and hate.  If you didn't agree with the social doctrine of the religious far right then you were not welcome.  So I left.  But where's a fiscally conservative, socially liberal guy to go?  Sure as hell not to the Democrats.  There's just a different flavor of idiot.  In 2008 I changed my political denomination to independent.

Enough tirade, the open ended question is...Why did the Republican party push out everyone that's not conservative?  Everyone talks so much about "securing the base" that they forget about everyone else that's out there.  Weren't the last few elections 51%/49% or something like it?  Doesn't that mean there are almost as many people supporting both sides?  Doesn't that leave a whole lot of people not conservative nut-jobs or liberal flakes?

We're an awesome country and we deserve better than the crap we're getting.  When are the people in the middle without a special interest dog in the fight going to stand up?  Just in case anyone thinks this is a partisan blog...the liberals get their question next.

Hope I hear from people interested in a dialogue, not repeating what they heard on Fox.

Steve