Any one with a pro blanket Amnesty agenda similar to what happened during Ronald Reagan will never get my support either.
From my vantage point, Jeb Bush is closest to that position. Rubio has modified his position. Walker has now had time to study this issue and will be interesting to watch what he will say about illegals. I have not heard in the past that he is for blanket Amnesty. What I recall he said is that he wants to address this issue. Note that illegals was not a burning issue in Wisconsin unlike AZ, CA, TX & FL. Walker was tangled in fights with gov’t unions and 3 elections in 4 years. Any off the cuff remark by him in the past should not be construed as policy directive.
Personally what I believe is that illegal immigrants issue must be addressed seriously and promptly. Any solution must include seriously curbing future illegals invasion. And those who are here and productive tax payers, must go at the end of line of those who are patiently waiting for legal immigration status from abroad. The others must be deported ASAP.
I find your position reasonable. I do take certain issue with your view that since this was removed from border states, this wasn’t a big issue for him.
For obvious reasons, I understand your view of that, locality related. And I want you to know this isn’t meant as a slam of you or Walker. It is something I think about these days.
Look, if you had a serious problem in your state, I would be concerned about it. If the implications for the nation were dire, I would certainly want to back you.
Let’s use Walker as an example. Unions were trying to force him to back down. I was as interested about that situation as I would have been if it were in my home town. I don’t agree with that sort of thing, and I can tell you my support was with Walker 100%.
That others didn’t really care about illegal immigration, really bothered me. I’ve been here 17 years, and what I warned about during that 17 years, has now impacted the whole nation negatively. I have taken a real beating here at times with folks who belittled me, ridiculed me, and tried to cast me as a racist or xenophobe.
NOW, folks think it’s an issue. Why wasn’t it an issue when the implications were crystal clear, and I and others were trying to warn where this would lead us?
Entropy12, I am merely running this by you. I in no way am trying to give you a hard time. At this point, it’s just academic for me. This has been a very important issue for me. Now people around the nation are finding out why. That’s just sad.
Even if Walker didn’t have higher aspirations, he should have seen this for what it was decades ago.
If he didn’t have a pathway policy, I can still back him. If he did..., it will be quite difficult.
If this nation’s borders aren’t considered important to a man like him, I can’t consider him an important player.
Let me mention something about Bush, that has a bit of a bearing here. There were times in Bush’s presidency when he would be confronted with an issue, and instead of coming up with the Conservative answer, he would prattle off something way off base.
He did this because he wasn’t a true conservative in his belly. If people came to you on unions, you’d know the answer off the top of your head. Conservatives generally have a rule of thumb to know what the right direction is on a variety of issues.
Bush didn’t have that, because it wasn’t in his soul.
If a guy does a turn-around on immigration now, is that because he has it in his soul, and has for a long time, or is it just expedient now?
I have no way of knowing that. It certainly doesn’t look good.
I have seen so many people good on one issue, then be totally lost on many others.
The Clinton years were like that. Many talking heads got their start during his “Whitewater” investigative years. They pretty much got it right. I thought these folks were solid people.
Then the Clinton’s moved on, these talking heads got their own shows, and low and behold they turned vitriolically Leftist.
Is Walker a great fantastic guy on that one issue, or is he that guy across the board. I don’t know yet.
The issue we discuss at this time, is one way of knowing IMO.