[Peter Brimelow writes: I wrote this on December 11 2011 during our 2011 Christmas fundraising campaign, but it asks a good question, so I’m posting it to VDARE.com too.]
For immigration patriots, the December 10 Iowa GOP Presidential candidates debate would have been a bore—except for the fact that America’s time is running out.
It’s clear that the candidates do fear the power of the immigration issue in a negative sense. Newt Gingrich feels compelled to maintain that his amnesty is not an amnesty and all the candidates claim to be in favor of securing the border.
But it’s equally clear that they are afraid to touch it at all. Mitt Romney, flinching, did not name amnesty as one of his key differences with Gingrich and not one candidate mentioned the idea of an anti-unemployment legal immigration moratorium—let alone such basic immigration patriot concepts as eliminating the illegal alien stock with attrition through enforcement and with strategic deportation.
There’s a long, long way to go.
One thing the candidates did seem to agree on was the importance of Israel. Ironically, I found this news story while the GOP debate was in progress: