A rose by any other name

...still has thorns that will prick you if you're not careful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Dennis Kook-cinich, one of five Dummycrats at the Heartland Presidential Forum, offered this gem when discussing illegal immigration...

"There's no illegal human beings."

He, as well as other fiberals, prefer "undocumented".

I love how the New Hampshire Union Leader handled the rationality behind that argument...

...No one is claiming the people exist illegally. But they did get here illegally, and that's what people like Kucinich want us to forget.

Kucinich's insistence that illegal immigrants be called "undocumented" is a deliberate attempt to make people think that their status is merely the result of some paperwork snafu. But it would be like calling a repeat drunk driver who'd lost his license an "undocumented" driver.

Illegal immigrants aren't breaking the law because they're undocumented. They're undocumented because they broke the law. Changing what we call them won't change that fact...

By the way when Googling the title phrase, this was the first hit...

Meaning

What matters is what something is, not what it is called.