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So, when Bush and McCain wanted to grant amnesty to all of the illegal aliens, just as REAGAN did, was it OK, because it was a GOP idea?
It was a dumb idea. It failed.
If you do something stupid once, and learn that it is stupid, you do not repeat the same stupid thing over again.
Not all ideas are good. The idea of conjugal furloughs for prisoners came from a Reagan appointee while he was Governor of CA. It failed and was rescinded in CA, it was tried again in OR and failed there (and resulted in OR restoring the death penalty) and why after repeated failures by Republican administrations Dukakis thought it might be a good idea for MA I have no idea.
Sometimes you have to make a mistake. But if you put your had on the stove and learn that it hurts to do that, don't keep doing it.