Please Tom Friedman, Just Go Away

Poor Tom Friedman, the so-called foreign policy guru who writes a column for the New York Times and an occasionally tedious book that purports his vast knowledge of the world today.
In Mr. Friedman's latest tome for the New York Times, also in the Pasadena Star-News(www.pasadenastarnews.com), among his rantings is this:
What has eaten away most at support for this admisitration, I believe, has been the fact that time and time again, it has put politics and ideology ahead of the interests of the United States, and I think a lot of people are jus sick of it.
Wow! I did not realize that Mr. Friedman has his pulse on the modern Republican party.
What we Republicans in particular are upset with is the fact that President Bush has NOT been ideological enough on the matters that count and particularly on the immigration issue.
On the War Against Terror, there he is right to stay the course and bring Iraq into the civilized group of nations. But even there, because of a lack of communicating straight with the American people, we are losing our nerve, I am afraid. Mr. Bush needs to keep talking to us about why we are in Iraq and it importance as the central front, not the only one, in the War Against Terror.
But where Mr. Bush is losing ground is on illegal immigration. It is not all his fault. Mr. Bush is a genuinely decent man and believes that his middle of the road approach, which DOES lead to a pathway of amnesty will work. It may, but without intense border security first, everything else is off the table.
It would behoove Mr. Friedman to get out of the New York Times ivory tower and come to California for a month and see the impact of illegal immigration that threatens to bankrupt the state.
That is why Mr. Bush is losing support among many Republicans. But, I argue that this party is beyond this election and Mr. Bush and should look at a long term strategy.
We should be doing all we can to register and elect MORE Republicans to office and increase our majorities in the House and Senate. Instead, many of my fellow Republicans refuse to see the forest through the trees and feel that somehow we can "punish" Mr. Bush for straying off the reservation. It is about the future of our country and it WILL be worse if the Democrats are running the show.
Mr. Friedman, why don't you actually talk to some Republicans for a change and then see why President Bush has lost some support?