A) Donations to the Republican Party aren’t down. 2) John Cornyn will not have lots of primary challengers. C) Birthright citizenship is here to stay. D) The reference to “snake churches” suggests the e-mailer is either one angry libertrarian or one angry evangelical who doesn’t like Pentacostals.

Message to people who oppose Bush’s approach on immigration: If he hadn’t just won 62 million votes arguing what he argued — remember, that’s far and away the most votes ever cast in the history of this country — your insistence that the Republican party is headed for doom unless it does what you want might be a tad more credible.

You have a case. It may even deserve a serious candidate in the Republican primary to bring your case closer to center stage. But the more you work yourself into a lather, the farther you take yourself from the mainstream of any discussion. Insulting people with whom you don’t agree by calling them snake-handlers is a mark, as I said yesterday, of a movement on its way to going into psycho-gone-bonkers-land. (Oh, and to e-mailers, yesterday’s rules still apply: No capital letters, no “this isn’t the country my father fought for” and no uses of the word “Spanish” in the pejorative.)