I don't think the week after a disappointing election loss is the best time to be making major changes in political principles.
I've never been a big Hannity fan, just because of stuff like this. He is an echo chamber for the republican establishment. He was big neo con. He pushed two pointless wars. He nevr foudn fault with anything Bush did, but Ron Paul was some sort of traitor in his eyes.
So what is going on here? I'd say the party bosses have panicked and are rushing toward the light. In this case however, it's a voting bloc that rejects them by a greater than 70:30 margin. They somehow think that by caving in on a core principle, they can reverse that. They may well be right. Maybe they can get the hispanic vote to go more like 40:60 against them, or maybe with the right candidate, 45:55. But there'll be 15 or 20 millionmore of them, so they still lose ground. And with an amnesty, there will be half of mexico lining up behind them.
All this is designed with one end. To pave the way for Jeb Bush. The one issue that is killer for him with primary voters is amnesty. He is married to a mexican and is an even bigger supporter of amnesty than his idiot brother was.
So they figure, get it off the table now and hope it fades as an issue with conservative voters. Of course, they tried the same thing with Reagan and of course, the border never was closed and hordes more poured in.