Credit Where Credit is Due

Clayton Cramer thinks that Republicans may have turned things around. He has a lengthy quote that discusses some Gallop poll saying that Republicans have swung back to the Republican party, having strayed during the summer.

Clayton ascribes this to the R base being angry over the immigration issue. Now that the candidates are spending time talking to voter, the voter understand that House Rs are all about protecting the border. Then he takes a shot a Dems, saying

the Democratic Party, by and large, is the party of open borders, and the Republican Party, by and large, is the party of enforcing existing immigration laws.

Seems to me that the Rs have had complete control over the issue for five years now; the Presidency and both houses of Congress. They haven't been the party of enforcing immigration laws the last five years; they've been the party of ignoring them. If there's an immigration mess, Republicans get credit for it.