"Anti-immigration rhetoric is a political siren song, and Republicans must resist its lure by lashing ourselves to our party's twin masts of freedom and growth, or our majority will crash on its shoals," former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said last week in a speech to the conservative Federalist Society.

"The Republican majority already rests too heavily on white voters," he said, arguing that Bush would not have won reelection in 2004 without the increased support of minority voters.
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