Those afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome get it just as wrong as the Freedom-Haters

Daniel Horowitz at Breitbart says that the Pub establishment owes the post-American people a mea culpa:

Much like the ubiquitous belief in global warming last decade among the societal elite, the group-think on the politics of illegal immigration was built upon a number of false premises:

1. The assumption that Hispanic voters (10% of the electorate) cast their ballot primarily based upon the immigration issue.
2. The assumption that those Hispanic voters who support Obama on immigration would otherwise support Republicans on other issues.
3. The assumption that playing follow-the-leader with Obama on immigration would result in making in-roads with some of those mythical voters instead of driving up “gratitude” turnout for Obama even more than before.
4. The assumption that the other 90% of the electorate doesn’t exist and that fighting against illegal immigration is not a net positive with this share of the electorate.
5. The assumption that passing amnesty would not lead to the creation of millions of new Democrat voters, all the while disenchanting a number of Republicans, Independents, and Reagan Democrats who oppose open borders.

For those of us who are old enough to remember the 2012 presidential election, Romney never ran on a pro-enforcement platform in any significant way after the primary. While Obama was playing divide and conquer and illegally granting administrative amnesty, Romney refused to even protest or make it a campaign issue. He refused to campaign in blue-collar Ohio towns against the fiscal, social, and security problems with our porous borders and Obama’s dangerous and malfeasant policies. He took the issue off the table and refused to talk about it, much like he did with Obamacare.

When Democrats pushed comprehensive amnesty in 2013, instead of running ads in the states and district of every elected Democrat exposing their dyslexic priorities, Republicans either supported the bill, the premise of the bill, or cowered in a corner and remained silent.

One year later, as we all witness the predictable, and predicted, ill-effects of lawlessness, the sleeping giant of the silent super-majority in immigration politics is too palpable to ignore. According to Gallup, illegal immigration ranks as the top concern for most voters, supplanting the economy and health care as the most important issue.

Pubs are probably going to control both chambers of Congress after November, but there must be no letup in our vigilance.  That Potomac water has some weird stuff in it.