Your friendly neighborhood Hillary Spot correspondent, back on May 18:

The base doesn’t care if somebody whose previous stance was “hooray for illegals” suddenly changes his opinion; they want somebody to stop the bill! If Ted Kennedy suddenly was hit on the head, had a total personality inversion, and started leading the fight against this bill and killed it, the conservative base would say, “You know, there was always something I liked about that hard-drinking sonofagun.”

Rasmussen, via the Corner:

The immigration reform debate may be shaking up the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has inched past Arizona Senator John McCain for second place in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll. Just two weeks ago, Romney was in fourth place among GOP hopefuls.

Oh, and this line from E.J. Dionne jumped out at me today:

The best way to guarantee the rights and wages of all Americans is to give every immigrant the opportunity to become a citizen, with all the rights and duties that entails.

E.J., some might think the best way to “guarantee the rights and wages of all Americans” is to enforce the law. Beyond that, think about what he’s saying here – “every immigrant” – meaning anybody who can walk across the border, get on a plane, get on a boat, or find some way to get to American shores – can become a citizen.

I’m not a Malthusian, but come on, man. The United States can’t take in everybody who wants to come here, not all at once.