There is a difference between luck and smartness...
Plain and simple, the Republican party establishment is clearly using the Immigration issue to stoke racial concerns and fears in a cynical attempt to win mid-term congressional and senatorial elections.
If they deeply cared about this issue, the Bush Administration would have done something substantive about it when they ruled the White House for eight years, with a largely cooperative Congress and Senate. They only speak out divisively now, when they are out of power.
It is a desperate ploy by a desperate political party, that is out of equilibrium with the nation, as well as with itself.
Try and reconcile the differences between Willard "Mitt" Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul.
The Republicans are a party in disarray, currently with no clear leader, to put it mildly/nicely.
The voice of the party is instead found in Fox News political hacks such as Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly, and other talk show nutjobs such as Limbaugh and Savage, whose modus operandi is fallacy and smear tactics.
Then there is the lunatic activist fringe of the right, the so-called Tea Party, made up mostly of LaRouche-ites, John Birchers, and various other neocons, plus the standard right wing religious kooks, and miscellaneous other tin foil hatters.
The funniest/saddest part of it all, is that it is the wealthy corporate industrialists, military profiteers, and Wall Street financial companies, that are financing most of this so-called movement, and are controlling most of the puppet strings, although they represent the smallest portion of the party in terms of numbers.
The more that the right-wing attempts to wrap themselves in the flag, or in the dogma of the bible (as if they have exclusive ownership of either), and act in typical knee-jerk reactionary fashion, the more that they alienate the rest of America, the majority of people, whom embrace true freedom, equality, and justice, regardless of race, religion or creed - the principals upon which this country was founded, and has grown stronger because of.
ADG