Posted on 04/11/2014 5:57:59 AM PDT by maggief
With a single phrase of compassion for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Jeb Bush has prompted questions about his viability as a potential presidential contender and underscored how divisive the immigration issue remains for the Republican Party.
The former Florida governor sparked a conservative furor this week when he described illegal immigration in an interview as an act of love by people trying to provide for their families.
Backing Bush are some of the GOPs most powerful insiders and financiers, who are hoping the party can woo Hispanic voters and rebound from Mitt Romneys damaging self-deportation rhetoric in 2012.
The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they dont like you, said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant and former Romney adviser. Its for voters to decide you dont like them. And thats where the Republican Party is right now.
Other GOP lawmakers and conservative activists, however, are cringing over Bushs remarks, which triggered vocal opposition and concerns about amnesty.
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That’s more a role for those of us on the outside. Jeff Sessions may well agree with us but he wouldn’t say it in the stark terms we use.
Really?
OK.
Then get them out of the 'shadows', and deport those who are here illegally.
Then we need to elect more folks who will use the term...”traitor!”.
“Then we need to elect more folks who will use the term...traitor!.”
I don’t know that hearing them say that would mean anything other than that they have learned to rev up the crowd.
Politicians say a lot of things that they don’t mean in the slightest. That’s why they have focus groups and why they employ spin artists.
It is more important to watch what they do, whether they enforce the laws or try to subvert them.
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