The headline is a lie.
The letter does not support amnesty. It generally supports Bush's approach and that approach might in turn have supported amnesty but the letter which is held up as an indictment of Gingrich for supporting amnesty simply does not do that.
Nor do we know, at least I do not know, what the state of play of Bush's program was at the time the letter was written. It might be that there was no call for amnesty when the letter was written I am simply not that well-versed in the give and take from so many years ago. In any event, it is absolutely clear from the carefully chosen language in the letter, that it does not explicitly endorse making citizens of illegals.
The headline is false, the letter does not endorse amnesty. The letter assumes that Bush endorses amnesty, but if he did at the time, this letter does not explicitly endorse that part of Bush's plan. The headline reads:
Gingrich supported Bush's path to amnesty
Nowhere in that letter does Gingrich support Bush's path to amnesty. The letter goes out of its way to avoid the word "amnesty" and even the word "citizenship." Intellectual honesty requires that, if the allegation is that Bush's plan supports amnesty, the details should be made available in the article showing that Gingrich's endorsement of Bush's plan could have no other reasonable meaning. The article does not even attempt to do so.
My comments make good sense.
It makes very good sense to know what the hell it is we are talking about and not jump to unwarranted assumptions.
