You would think that a guy that battled unions and leftist agitators can make a coherent, clear case for stopping illegal aliens and overhauling the legal immigration process.
If Walker is nominated and starts spewing this "pathway to citizenship" crap I'm staying home.
Walker staked out his official position.
Let’s see him stay consistent on that while the others try to move further right, making them flip-floppers, by some opinions.
WWRD?
You would think that a guy that battled unions and leftist agitators can make a coherent, clear case
*************
Careful, Extreme, you’ll become part of the “clueless circular firing squad”. Just accept what Gov. Walker says as fact.
In passing, however, I’ve always admired Gov. Walker’s record. And you raise an excellent point, that troubled me. Why doesn’t he just run on his conservative record of accomplishment? It’s admirable! Instead, he’s shifting positions to accommodate his presidential run— and others are going to call him on it.
Nobody's gonna call you a racist, a white supremacist or a nativist for battling unions and leftist agitators. Walker's gripping the third rail, of restricting legal immigration, with both hands. People who say he's flip-flopping may be overstating the their case.
It's hard to say if Walker's actually undergoing a conversion. Not everyone has a position on everything. As governor, he had no direct influence on immigration policy, a federal function. More likely, at the time, he offered up the usual pablum that sounded like the consensus within the GOP, voters, pols and donors alike.
Now that he's doing a White House run, he's clearly up for a spot that will play a major part in immigration policy. And that's led to a much more careful examination of what that policy should be. In talking to people, my guess is that he's discovering that that there is a great divide separating voters, who are aghast at the deluge, and both GOP pols and donors, who seem to think we need to open up the floodgates.
There's nothing convenient about Walker's current position. By suggesting that legal immigration levels be rethought, he is opening himself up to accusations of nativism and racism, and that's just from fellow GOP pols. Then there's the adverse reaction from wealthy donors whose principal concern is keeping labor costs low by importing unending streams of foreign immigrants. These donors may start treating him as the party leper.