There is a consideration behind Graham’s comments that is regretable for an American born into freedom.  It comes from a wing of the Republican elite that sees the illegal immigrant population as future voters.  They pander at every opportunity to the different social organizations like La Raza.  This pandering attitude is a recipe for disaster.  With the exception of Canada, our hemisphere is dominated by soft Socialist countries, all still Third World, that enable these organizations.  Our ideas are better and stronger than those of Socialist regimes in our world, because they are not bound to a social or ethinic class.  By pandering to the political and emotional sensibilities of people who do not know nor care about the American heritage, these RINOs are dooming our country to cease to exist as a beacon of liberty for the world.  Not all Latin Americans believe in Socialism, not all Latin Americans want to be taken care of by the government, and not all Latin Americans want to give the American franchise to illegal immigrants.   The great secret of our American Experiment is that it is the inner yearning of all people.  It is an idea that ignores experience or richness of history.  All people can enjoy it in their own country if they are exposed to its granduer and if their leaders give to them the engine of freedom.  Our young experiment cannot be allowed to be influenced by someone’s physical makeup or past history.  When we give the power to dispense justice, we must give it to people that will interpret the law, not empathize with either party.  If we allow such influence on our court, our experiment will fail.

Immigration:

This is an ad that ran in response to Sen. Graham’s support of President Bush’s very unpopular Immigration Reform Bill.

This is the bill that effectively provided amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the country.  Sen. Graham throughly enjoyed the spot light this gave him with Senate big wigs John McCain and Ted Kennedy, fresh from his latest vacation at Chappaquiddick.  Sen. Graham did not feel bashful in his praise of Immigration Reform on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes program when he thought he was Statesman-like. Time in the spot light allowed him to nurture those political bonds with such groups as La Raza.  Let South Carolinans NEVER FORGET his thoughts on who was standing between the poor little illegals and their rightful place at the American Tit of freedom: those Bigots!

To be fair, lets hear the warm up to the big climax!

And the climax!

But hugs with Teddy did not last long as the poll numbers started to roll in.  The Southern Avenger does a great job in detailing the abrupt turn around in Sen. Graham’s statemanship.