Combine that historical pattern with the dwindling popularity of President Bush in 2006, and Mitt Romney's inverse sports analogy rings true: "Voters couldn't fire the coach, so they fired some of the players!"In Arizona's Fifth District, my electoral defeat came not from my advocacy of "enforcement first," but from the voters' frustration that our immigration laws were not being enforced. My opponent successfully exploited that frustration, paying lip service to enforcement in his television ads with the poll tested phrase, "We must secure the border!"Historical Revisionism on Immigration Issue - WSJ.com