Posted on 06/07/2006 11:56:16 PM PDT by Maynerd
Mean It
Voters want sincerity. If they can't get it, they'll settle for simplicity.
Thursday, June 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
A thought today about complexity and politics.
The American people right now are not in a mood to trust any political plan, proposal or policy that seems complicated--highly involved, technical, full of phased-in elements and glide paths and Part C's. . .
Why?
Because they think--they assume, at this point, reflexively--that slithery, slippery professional politicians are using and inventing complications to obfuscate and confuse. . . .
This, I think, is the essential problem with Congress's immigration proposals. All the phased-in-partial-assimilation-glide-paths-to-guest-worker-status stuff seems like a big 500-page con. It's all too complicated to be understood by anyone who's not a tenured political science professor with a second degree in accounting.
What people will trust, and understand, is this: We will close the border tomorrow, and then figure it out from there. . .
The other day Rep. Tom Tancredo won a straw vote. A small vote, but, as Tom Tancredo is not exactly a longtime famous Republican party leader, it was interesting. Why would Republican voters choose Mr. Tancredo? Because they know where his heart is on immigration: Stop it, now. It's where he's been for years. He was out there alone on the issue. Now some have joined him. But you know where his heart is and his position is clear. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
We've been saying that for a long time. Sen Frist said the same thing for a while, then he slithered to the amnesty side.
Enhanced border security, then Amnesty.
She's right on the money.
This sums it up nicely.
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