April 01, 2008
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03/31/08 - A U.S. Coast Guard
Officer (Retd.) Says Super Delegates Mean “Another
Crooked Fiasco”
A New Jersey Reader Says Immigration Is “Not A Single Issue”
From: Pete Redner
(e-mail
him)
Re: Today’s Letter:
A Liberal Reader Explains The Downside Of Single Issue
Candidates
Many readers who commented on
Joe Guzzardi’s column about the failure of the
patriotic immigration reform movement to support Tom
Tancredo and Duncan Hunter expressed opinions similar to
Paul Verizzo’s (above)—that campaigning on the single
issue of immigration doomed them to failure.
But immigration is not a single issue.
Rather, it is a broad topic that includes
crime rates,
employment (or should I say unemployment), the
mortgage crisis, and
food prices.
I can’t think of one aspect of our lives that
immigration does not adversely impact.
What Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter and the others
failed to do was to make the connections to the related
issues before bringing immigration up as the cause of
the other problems.
That so many Republican candidates brought
immigration up is a victory in itself and shows how far
we have progressed.
Redner, recently retired,
describes himself as “an apprentice curmudgeon.”
His previous letters about “the Fairness Doctrine”
and New Jersey’s terrorists are
here and
here.
