We've been told so many times that the January 7 proposal simply represents the platform Bush ran on in 2000, that I decided to see what the platform actually said. (I know---we're not really supposed to do that because it might uncover discrepancies, and whatever we do here, we don't want to "help elect Democrats," now do we?)
The bottom line is that, although the 2000 platform did call for a complete overhaul of the immigration system, and called for increases in H 1-B and agricultural visas, nothing in the 2000 GOP platform spoke of cutting the illegal immigrants in our country any breaks---whether you want to call it "amnesty," "earned legalization," whatever---, and hence there is no basis for the assertion that all of us 2000 Bush voters knew or should have known that he was going to propose this rotten amnesty deal that he has now proposed.
No, that type of foreknowledge was apparently reserved for select citizens of Mexico, all buen amigos de Jorge Doble V Bush.
Excellent post. Many won't forget.