Please note, though -- and old conservatives with long memories will and do remember this -- that Bush's statement is entirely in character with the sandbag job that business-wing "economic conservative" Republicans have done repeatedly on Main Streeters who have been more conservative than they.
Nelson Rockefeller called Goldwater delegates "fascists" and compared them directly to "Nazis" on live national television, with premeditation, during the Republican convention that extended him the courtesy of five minutes to deliver a platform minority report in prime time. That was a major backstab that has never been commented on again by the commentariat (who are just about all 'Rats anyway).
At a later convention, Rocky actually shot conservative delegates the bird -- I didn't know he'd done it since I didn't see a photo for a long time afterward (again, press self-censorship and "all the news that fits").
So remember, boys and girls, the business wing of the GOP is in business for themselves, and their loyalty only goes one way.
It's a bit of a mystery to me why, at this late date, Bush feels moved to articulate a very unpopular position in a way that subserves the interests only of the business/employer lobby who want to drown the country in cheap immigrant labor, and of the Democratic Party.
Good comment on this amnesty fiasco as abetted by GWB & the bulk of the Congress. IMO, may be the primary basis for the coming civil war. The whole GWB/Mexican alliance is a mystery to me and everytime Bush reveals what his reasoning on Immigration, WOT, Iran/Korea, I just wish he would GTH out but then I remember that his failures have given us BO and I start to wish him nothing good.
I can’t listen to him anymore, my blood pressure won’t allow it!
“So remember, boys and girls, the business wing of the GOP is in business for themselves, and their loyalty only goes one way.”
Worth repeating.
Unfortunately, this is not new for Bush. Back in 2000, he used the term "compassionate conservatism", which implies that conservativism is not compassionate. That is still uses this tactic, proves to me, that Bush has learned nothing. See the good that trying to separate himself from conservatives has done him? He's the most viciously vilified man in the world.