Jeb Bush, the S.C. Primary and the Pathway to Citizenship
Last night on Fox News I heard Jeb Bush discuss his new book about Immigration, and this morning heard him on NPR with a brief analysis of the political implications.
I am disappointed in the Governor as he has changed his tune since his appearance on Charlie Rose show last June. Just a few months ago he was for a path to citizenship. Now he is against it and many think it is because he would have an inordinate amount of trouble in early presidential primaries in 2016 with the Tea Party GOP base; especially in S.C. which made his Dad in 88 and his brother in 2000.
Considerations of S.C. forced his Waffle.
Keep coming back to this blog as I will be revising and tweaking over the next few days.
But here are some immediate concerns. The Goldwater Inst STaffer Clint Bolick helped Jeb write this book. Goldwater was a key player in driving the S.C. GOP to the right and now it appears to be going off the deep end. Witness the Numbers USA assault ads targetting Senator Lindsey Graham; read Wahalla S.C. native Mark Powell's novel The Dark Corner, and frame your thoughts with a considered reading of Joe Crespino's Strom Thurmond's America.
And consider what the conversation will be at Chic Fil A headquarters as Dan Cathy studied at Furman for two years and as recently as 2006 CFA had endorsed the Dream Act. As CFA mentored new S.C. Senator Tim Scott, conversations in the S.C. GOP are gonna be interesting indeed; even moreso for Jeb as Lee Atwater was key in electing his Father President, and Karl Rove saved his brother's hiney in the 2000 Primary.
I graduated from Furman, not very high in my class, but I got the diploma. Marshall Frady finished there in 63 and consensus is he was the greatest social justice journalist last half of the 20th Century.
Furman was the last public address or near the last of the Bush 43 Presidency. There is a great chasm between the witness of FBC Greenville, S.C.; and FBC Spartanburg, home of Trey Gowdy, Billy Graham and until a few years ago, Harry Dent's Daughter of ginnybrant.com
On this blog, and various facebook walls and www.baptistlife.com/forums where in the public policy chat already ongoing is earnest conversation and further links about the Tea Party's Trey Gowdy on these matters, will continue further exploration and what it means for the character of S.C.; Upstate South Carolina in Particular, but the character of the GOP and our nation as immigration reform is upon us.
I am disappointed in the Governor as he has changed his tune since his appearance on Charlie Rose show last June. Just a few months ago he was for a path to citizenship. Now he is against it and many think it is because he would have an inordinate amount of trouble in early presidential primaries in 2016 with the Tea Party GOP base; especially in S.C. which made his Dad in 88 and his brother in 2000.
Considerations of S.C. forced his Waffle.
Keep coming back to this blog as I will be revising and tweaking over the next few days.
But here are some immediate concerns. The Goldwater Inst STaffer Clint Bolick helped Jeb write this book. Goldwater was a key player in driving the S.C. GOP to the right and now it appears to be going off the deep end. Witness the Numbers USA assault ads targetting Senator Lindsey Graham; read Wahalla S.C. native Mark Powell's novel The Dark Corner, and frame your thoughts with a considered reading of Joe Crespino's Strom Thurmond's America.
And consider what the conversation will be at Chic Fil A headquarters as Dan Cathy studied at Furman for two years and as recently as 2006 CFA had endorsed the Dream Act. As CFA mentored new S.C. Senator Tim Scott, conversations in the S.C. GOP are gonna be interesting indeed; even moreso for Jeb as Lee Atwater was key in electing his Father President, and Karl Rove saved his brother's hiney in the 2000 Primary.
I graduated from Furman, not very high in my class, but I got the diploma. Marshall Frady finished there in 63 and consensus is he was the greatest social justice journalist last half of the 20th Century.
Furman was the last public address or near the last of the Bush 43 Presidency. There is a great chasm between the witness of FBC Greenville, S.C.; and FBC Spartanburg, home of Trey Gowdy, Billy Graham and until a few years ago, Harry Dent's Daughter of ginnybrant.com
On this blog, and various facebook walls and www.baptistlife.com/forums where in the public policy chat already ongoing is earnest conversation and further links about the Tea Party's Trey Gowdy on these matters, will continue further exploration and what it means for the character of S.C.; Upstate South Carolina in Particular, but the character of the GOP and our nation as immigration reform is upon us.
posted by foxofbama | 11:39 AM
1 Comments:
Clint Bolick responds to my blog:
Dear Mr. Fox,
As we don't know each other, I will assume that your motivations are not political and that your e-mail simply reflects misunderstanding, not having read our book.
The issue regarding legal status for illegal immigrants is one small part of a very comprehensive approach to immigration reform in our book. A year ago, when we started writing the book, and when people were talking about mass deportations, our proposal would have seemed liberal. Now because the debate has changed, it appears conservative. Obviously you did not see us on Hannity last night, arguing that the "secure the border first" argument is severely flawed. Nor apparently have you seen our proposal to immediately place DREAMers on a path to citizenship. Those are not exactly arguments designed to elicit Tea Party support. We have been attacked by both left and right, which makes me think we're onto something.
The Goldwater Institute was not involved in this book at all---I wrote it completely on my own time. It is flattering to think that we have influenced SC policy; but apart from other states sometimes adopting our ideas, we do not work outside of AZ.
I truly hope you read the book. It is a sincere attempt, by two passionately pro-immigration policy advocates, to advance a solution.
Clint Bolick
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