Dear Mel Martinez: Just which party are you working for?

Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't the chairman of the Republican Party be encouraging GOP candidates to get behind the issues that matter to the voters? You know, the legal voters in this country? So why is Mel Martinez lambasting Romney and Rudy over their stances on illegal immigration? (from the Washington Times):

The Republican Party's national chairman scolded his party's two top presidential candidates this week for their tough stance on illegal immigration, even as both men moved to try to one-up each other in calling for stricter enforcement.

Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, President Bush's handpicked choice for party chairman, chided former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for opposing and mischaracterizing the Senate immigration bill Mr. Martinez helped craft.

"It's about leading on the tough issues," Mr. Martinez told the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce in comments first reported in yesterday's St. Petersburg Times. "It was easy to say, 'This wasn't good enough, this isn't right, I don't agree with Martinez.' ... But at the end of the day, what is your answer? How would you solve this?"

(BTW, anybody who uses the phrase "at the end of the day" loses credibility immediately.)

Why are the leading candidates so tough on illegal immigration? Because that's what the American voters want!! We want our borders protected. We want the people who are in this country illegally sent home. We want stricter enforcement of laws against hiring poeple who are not in this country legally!

Maybe Mr. Martinez didn't get the memo about the latest attempt at giving these people amnesty got shot down. Not by beltway politics, not by "big business", but by the American people standing up and saying "NO!!!" Trent Lott went so far as to say that talk radio helped kill the Amnesty Bill. That's why every liberal in the land started crying about bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine." Because talk radio is the one news medium that isn't controlled by liberals (except for that eeeeevil FOX News).

Mr. Martinez, wake up!! The people want secure borders. We want law and order restored to the immigration process. We want the government to have some idea about the people who are coming into this country. Three young people in Newark are dead. Two men lost their lives this week in a hit-and-run by an illegal immigrant. Anthony Senisi was murdered by an illegal immigrant on his wedding anniversary. It's time to put an end to this nonsense, Mr. Martinez.