If the Republicans are this stupid they deserve to die

I swiped the title from this article by Ann Coulter.  Ann can get a bit hard core, but here she makes a certain amount of sense.  Ann is saying that the Hispanic vote isn't all that large, and Republican efforts to pass an immigration bill to woo the Hispanic vote are counterproductive.  At least she has her numbers right.  The Hispanic vote is perhaps 5%.  The women's vote is 50%, and the Republicans lost women voters to Obama by a margin of 10%.   If Romney had carried the women's vote he would be president right now. 
   If Republicans are looking for an ethic group to woo, women outnumber Hispanics by 10:1.  And half of the Hispanics are women.  We need some intelligent polling to figure out why women went for Obama and what would bring them back to voting Republican.  I've heard a lot of talk about abortion and contraception and gun control and other wedge issues, but I'm not convinced that this talk means anything. Much of it comes from advocates who will say anything to advance their pet cause. 
   As for immigration, there are some things that ought to be done.  Right now Congresscritters are trying to sell us a pig in a poke.  I have no idea what is hidden inside that immigration bill.  They plan to vote it thru and then we are stuck with it. 
   Things that ought to be done.
1.  Honorable service in the US armed forces should grant citizenship.
2.  We should favor immigrants who will contribute to the economy and pay their way over elderly parents of  citizens. 
3.  The United States has plenty of room for more citizens, and a declining birthrate.  We need immigration to keep our population up.  Population decline, like much of the rest of the first world is undergoing, makes everyone poorer. 
4.  We don't want to fingerprint foreigners on the way in and the way out.  It's degrading.  That is hidden inside the pig-in-a-poke immigration bill.  Checking their passports is enough.
5.  Illegals currently inside the country are outlaws.  They don't dare call fire or police at need lest they get deported.  Employers pay them like dirt, when they hire them, which a lot of them don't.  This situation is dreadful and we should be ashamed of it.  I have nothing against legalizing the bulk of them who are just raising their families, holding down jobs, obeying the law and staying out of trouble.