Richard Nadler wrote an important piece in the Journal a couple of days ago. First, Nadler’s conclusion is simple: Immigration policies that induce mass fear among illegal residents will induce mass anger among the legal residents who share their heritage. In other words, we are alienating Hispanics who are voters. Read more…
My friend Robert Bluey really laid into Michael Gerson’s piece in the Post today. But I think that Rob missed the point. For him, the focus of the piece was this paragraph: It is a strange spectacle. Conservatives are intent on building a more appealing, post-Bush Republican Party. But their Read more…
Romney is buying immigration ads on Drudge tonight. Here are two of the pictures: Note that he compares New York City to San Francisco.
Recall that Catholic Hispanics are more likely to be Democrats while Evangelical Hispanics, especially Pentecostals, are more likely to be Republican. Of course, if they think that the Republican Party is a bunch of racists, the ball moves, or so says the head of a national Hispanic evangelical organization: Mr. Read more…
Last week, I said that Mike Huckabee is in a position to run an isolationist, nativist, populist race for President. I pointed out that, at least on the issue of immigration, one of the things that could get in the way of his doing that was his religious beliefs, which Read more…
The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes compares the Democrat’s losing (the war and the voters) position to Iraq to immigration: Yet Republicans are doing the same thing on another issue, trading away long-term gain for the immediate joy of pleasing voters who may (or may not) decide the winner of the Read more…
I just don’t believe this. Here’s what Mitt Romney has to say about Rudy Giuliani on immigration: “Mayor Giuliani hopefully will explain why there’s such a dramatic departure from his position as mayor, where he said he welcomed illegal aliens to New York, and that they would be in a Read more…
Get an honest answer: "When we walked through the series of measures that are being proposed, we got 77 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats, and 70 percent of independents supporting it," says Goeas (pronounced GO-as). "There’s not a piece of research I’ve seen that, if you explain each Read more…
Last week, after the seeming pause in the fight over the immigration bill, a number of people wrote that the delay in the immigration bill was either good or bad for John McCain. Now it seems likely that the immigration bill will pass the Senate, as Rep. Tom Cole indicated Read more…
First, he puts out an ad. Second, someone drops oppo on him in South Carolina. Basically, he used to be sensible before he started pandering. Does anyone think he is running? Why is this happening? Ryan Sager points out how misleading the ad is: It’s worth noting just how misleading Read more…