A reader suggests an interesting wrinkle to the immigration debate:
This may or may not be an obvious point, but don’t you find the right-wing hyperventilation about such a dated issue as immigration a bit too contrived and convenient? Put another way, many of us have suspected a day would come I which
even the most adamant Bush loyalists/apologists would have to acknowledge that his entire presidency, aside from being a manifest case study in incompetence, was also a repudiation of nearly all things that Republicans once held dear.
That said, for several years running, I’ve often wondered how exactly this would happen. Riddle me this, riddle me that: as polls have revealed that their audiences had become hip to this President’s considerable shortcomings, under what pretense could Hugh Hewitt, the boys at Powerline, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and company (to say nothing of Republican congressmen running for reelection) possibly turn their back on this President without completely invalidating nearly every word they’d spoken or written in the previous 6 years blindly defending him?
The answer, it turns out, has been to use the age-old debate about immigration to set the President up and then, as he rejects the ridiculous proposal of erecting walls around the nation and conducting mass deportations, use the occasion to throw him under the bus. In fact, were I more cynical, I would think it a near ideally orchestrated political strategy which would provide cover for the Republican machine to distance itself from a President who must know his fortunes are irreversibly sunk at this point anyway.
Well, it won’t work for Glenn Reynolds.
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