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First, I don't understand those who say that Bush has called those who opposed the immigration bill racists, nativists, semi-retarded idiots. GWB has never said such things.

No, his remarks were slightly more subtle, "don't want what's right for the country," etc.

But Bush's surrogate, the temporary senator from SC, Lindsey Graham, told La Raza...freakin' LA RAZA....that he was going to tell the bigots to shut up! You didn't hear that either, did you?

If you have the least clue about politics, then you understand the surrogate game...kind of good cop/bad cop.

If Graham -- Bush's man -- said something that Bush was uncomfortable with, then it was Bush's responsibility to disavow it.

Graham's contemptible remark was replayed thousands and thousands of times. The White House was not unaware. Did you hear them try to walk it back? They were okay with it. It expressed the kind of contempt for the base that Bush himself feels.