March 06, 2008
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03/05/08 -
A Hispanic Reader Tells Allan Wall To “Pick His
Own Crops”; He Replies
A Mississippi Reader Wonders What Republican Would Dare Run On Immigration After The Hunter/Tancredo Disaster; Peter Brimelow Replies
From:
John Preston (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
“He Can’t Win”—How Immigration Reform Patriots Turned
Their Backs on Duncan Hunter (And Tom Tancredo)
In his analysis of the downside implications
of Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo’s disappointing
showings in the 2008 Republican primaries, Guzzardi
overlooked an important consideration.
What future Republican candidate, upon reviewing
Hunter and Tancredo’s results, would make immigration
the focal point of his campaign?
Imagine if you were running for office---governor,
Congress or the White House---could you, despite what
your personal commitment might be, afford the risk of
advocating immigration reform?
Would your advisors encourage you to press ahead with
an immigration enforcement platform?
Or would they tell you bluntly that immigration
doesn’t, as the
Washington Post claims, “play well at the
polls?”
Preston moved to Mississippi after living in
Manhattan for thirty years. He is retired and determined
to master Creole cooking.
Peter Brimelow writes:
This strikes me as
reductionist to a
fault. The 2008 Republican primaries were impressive
precisely because all
candidates, including John McCain, scrambled to get on
board at least against illegal immigration. And there
was reason for that, given the exit polls of Republican
voters. And the game
may not be over. And
does anyone say that the early demise of
Giuliani and Thompson
(and for that matter Tancredo and Hunter) discredited
the pro-Iraq War case?
