This is the "day" after the death of "the" bill on immigration reform.  "Day" as in "relatively soon" instead of actual calendar days.  It has taken me quite a while to decide what I wanted to say--or if I should bother at all.

I thought of just walking away...allowing the Right to learn the hard way what they actually accomplished with their refusal to give this bill a chance...but 6 years ago, I made a promise to a Vietnam Vet, that I would do whatever it took to make sure that another generation of troops would not be forgotten.

And make no mistake...they were.  Every moment that was spent arguing to build a Berlin type wall across the Southern border or deport 12 million illegals was taken away from the debate to fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.    Every nickle of the BILLIONS that would be spent on the wall to our SECOND largest trading partner and the TRILLIONS that would be spent to deport the 12 million meant a nickle LESS for our troops trying not to make liars out of Americans to the 10 million purple fingers who showed unbelievable courage. Every time our war time president was attacked, we risked giving our troops a Commander in Chief in 2008 who has no value and little respect for their profession. 

Oh the absolutist were quick to make the link between "national security" and the illegal immigration issue but for some reason they could NOT connect the dots of illegal and legal immigrates and all their family and friends...and a voting block that will make the Black vote look like a community affair.

I've never put much stock into polls...I know how easy it is to manipulate the wording to create the results you want.  To get a good idea of what the American voter REALLY thinks about issues...you need to listen to and watch what the major candidates on both parties are saying.

In BOTH parties, NONE of  the top tier candidates is rushing forth to carry the banner of "border control".  Tancredo, the biggest advocate is somewhere at the bottom with Ron Paul.

Why?

Because the high powered political analysts have their own polls and they know what I am going to tell you now.

Most Americans are NOT White...like it or not, the combination of minorities actually makes the Whites the minority.

Most Americans grew up very conscious of race and feel uncomfortable with ANY talk of racial and class inequality.

Most Americans have nothing against immigrants illegal or legal...many are the first generation english speaking of their family and find any disparaging remarks about "uneducated" and "unclean" immigrants offensive.

Most Americans do not want a wall, to the south or the north...many remember the Berlin wall and what walls symbolizes.

Most Americans come from the "tried it but didn't inhale" to the "do it because it feels good" generation and have zero understanding of this blind adherence to the "law".

Most Americans don't equate those who clean our toliets and babysit our kids with terrorist who want to put women in burkas.

Most Americans don't equate Mexicans working 16 hour shifts with the American guy with a beer bottle in one hand and slapping his pregnant girlfriend with the other.  In fact, most Americans have come to expect immigrants to work longer, harder, and with less complaint than their bottom of the economic barrel "Americans" counter part.

So when this bill was refused by the RINO press and their absolutist followers...this is what "most" Americans saw and heard.

Racism...the "invasion" of the inferior Mexican culture to the far superior "American" culture.

Class Bigotry...the "I got mine" but you don't get yours...ever.

Separatism...the kind that will one day beg for a Regan to demand that "the wall be torn down".

Sanctimonious fanatism...the demand for perfection and unyielding and unforgiving adherence to the law.

If the GOP does nothing in the next 18 months to change this perception, the pact they made with the troops to support them "this time" and to the 10 million purple fingers to trust them "this time" will be broken, because the American voter will want to have nothing to do with the party that seems to have little value for the minority and the poor.

And if Queen Hil is smart (for her party)...she will "undo" this racial hatred of the GOP and tear down that Berlin type wall.  She will do as our forefathers did to our ancestors...open wide the arms of America and give amnesty of the illegals' dreams...and effectively put the GOP in the political wilderness for decades.

And to survive, the GOP will do what it should have done the first time Ingraham and company told them what to do...tell them that the days of Louella Parsons & Hedda Hopper was long gone...and they do NOT speak for the American people...the ballot box does.  It may happen in any event because most people who seek office have a grand sense of their self importance...they will not continue to allow some two-bit, never made it to be a lawyer, tell THEM what to do.  For once, it may be one of the those times that arrogance saves this nation.