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June 07, 2006
Immigration: Career-Maker For Tancredo?
Andy McCarthy sums up my feelings exactly:
I've supported President Bush. But on this issue he might as well be named Carter or Clinton. I think he has been wrong on immigration from jump-street. He was supported by conservatives despite his inclinations on immigration because he was strong in other areas and the opposition was Gore and Kerry. In fact, if immigration were the only issue of concern, we'd tactically be better off with a Democrat in the White House. President Clinton would never have had the nerve to try something this ambitiously bad, because he was smart enough to know the people who now seem open to compromise because they worry about embarrassing a Republican president would be only too happy with a decisive rout if the very same monstrosity were identified as a "Democrat bill."In any event, I personally will never trust that the hidden details of this bill are anything but worse than the better known, big-picture items that alarm me. President Bush and the Republicans in the Senate have given me no reason to think otherwise. And I sense that a lot of people on our side of the street feel the same way I do — and will not be moved or comforted by a compromise that demonstrates the vaunted "ability to govern."
Emphases mine. I would never consider not voting for Bush, as long as the Dems keep fielding malicious buffoons like Gore and Kerry. I continue to strongly support GWB on the GWO-Islamofascism because I believe the missteps that have been made in the war--though serious--are procedural as opposed to conceptual.
But I think this doesn't hold for the President's position on immigration: I believe his obvious lack of commitment to serious border control belies a fundamental attitude that will undermine any solution that he supports.
Meanwhile, Tom Tancredo is making news. Bill Quick highlights an interesting report in Human Events:
Rep. Tom Tancredo's get-tough-first attitude on immigration reform is having a positive impact on his possible presidential run in 2008. The Colorado Republican won tonight's GOP straw poll in Macomb County, Mich., located in the Detroit metro area.Tancredo took about 18% of the vote of 325 votes cast at the Lincoln Day Dinner. Although it was only a plurality on a fractured GOP ballot, Tancredo beat out GOP heavyweights Rudy Giuliani, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
And note the update:
UPDATE -- June 6: I just computed the figures from the monthly HUMAN EVENTS straw poll and, sure enough, Tancredo slightly edged out Condi Rice with 18.7% of the vote compared to her 18.3%. This is a huge boost from the month before when he placed third (12.4%) behind Rice (21.5%) and Sen. George Allen (18.6%).
I don't know what this really says about Tancredo's chances as a presidential candidate--but I do know what it says about how well the White House and the Senate are monitoring the wishes of a whole lot of Americans.
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