Amnesty? Look up the dicitonary definition. The NO AMNESTY obsession is akin to the liberals who want to redefine the term "marriage." Conservatives believe in people as individuals, not as members of a group, such as "all blacks" or "all illegal Mexicans.'' Try to listen to reasonable, step-by-step positions like those advocated by Gingrich and Rubio. They don't advocate amnesty for anyone who has been here for many, many years, including non-Mexican visa overstayers.

So you know more than Grover Norquist and other wise conservatives who voted for the far-from -perfect bill? I, for one, breathed a sign of relief at making the "Bush tax cuts" permanent. If we would have gone off the cliff, taxes wouild have gone up on everybody..Now, at least Congress can get taxes off the table and concentrate on cutting spending. Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good, to coin a phrase. If the Republican leadership and Congressional majority fall down now, I'll join your tirade.

As another question -- I wonder how many of these mass murderers went to church? I don't know, but I'm surely curious.

The glaring truth that is being overlooked in these mass murders is the obvious mental instability of those who commit these crime, the warning signs and complicity of the mental health professions in protecting them. In the Movie Theatre Massacre in Colorado, the perpetrator was seeing a counselor, but we aren't allowed to delve into that because of patient protection rights. Counselors these days don't accept good and evil, right and wrong. Their patients are victims, doncha know. Moral relativism is a dangerous concept. And in the Columbine massacre the perps were producing scary videos and giving all sorts of warning signs. Why did no one follow up? We're too afraid of offending them, it seems.

Thanks for this thoughtful article. As an editor, I bristle at the misuse of the term "amnesty" by those who use it as a synonym for "immigration reform." A path to citizenship if not amnesty. If people arbitrarily change the dictionary definition (just as liberals do in brazenly redefining marriage), there is no language authority. Tower of Babel here we come!

Well, you're ruling out Marco Rubio as a future presidential candiate, as he supported the Dream Act and now favors a path to citizenship (not amnesty). EVERY CONSERVATIVE I know is for sealing the border first, requiring English, etc. etc. Please stop trying to change the dictionary definition of "amnesty." It's no different from liberals' wanting to change the definition of marriage. Tower of Babel here we come....

Finally someone is thanking Romney for his hard work and sacrificie instead of childishly pointing fingers and blaming and playing armchair quarterback. Thanks!

Romney not authentic? If his naysayers would have attended any of his rallies in person, they would have seen the genuine, sincere, honest side of him and his family -- and the enthusiastic support he got from those who actually saw him in person. But the major media never showed that, and you chose to believe what the MSM portrayed him as. The relentless negative, dishonest ads are really what sunk him.

So true. We are losing the war to our educational system and the major media. We must infiltrate the schools.. We also have to reach the minorities -- and that includes Asians.

Amen, Ann. The Purists drive me nuts -- and never win anything. And falling for the Democrats' nonrelevant abortion issue is sheer stupidity. The President doesn't control abortion. The Purist blame game agaisnt Romney is childish. Our biggest enemy is the mainstream media -- so keep facing them head-on and setting them back on their heels. Right on!

Chris Christie (on a Sunday morning TV shnow) is right. And ditto USNBubblehead. Romney has been seen through the biased media filter so far. All he has to be is to be himself -- iwhich worked fine before he ran for President. Let the SuperPacs and others do the hard-hitting stuff. Please don't ask Romney not to be himself or he will come across as phony.