America has never needed a change of government more than we do right now. With the weakest yet most dictatorial President in American history -- and the most rigidly partisan Senate -- it's vital that the Republican Party carry Congress resoundingly in this year's election.

But let's never underestimate the ability of the Republican Party to shoot itself in the foot.

Republicans already start out far behind, because the news media will be uniformly against them -- touting every Democrat and disparaging every Republican.

But it's not as if the Republicans don't give them plenty of ammunition.

There is an issue on which the Republican position is anti-American, self-destructive, and inconsistent with Republican values -- and it has cost the Republican Party millions of votes: immigration reform.