Reply #9: See this post...very interesting

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=992019

grendelsuncle (206 posts) Wed Jan-07-04 02:10 PM
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Many of you know I have access to blast-faxes, well listen up.

This immigration reform may blow up in Rove's face. His thought was simple; go after N.M, Arizona (this is based on the thought that Dean has the nomination and that Arizona will never, ever vote for Dean), and make dems. spend time and money in Cali.

But it has pissed off the right. They could forgive the deficit, but the illegal immigration stuff is just too much to handle. Word is, unless Bush does the usual say one thing/do the opposite, there WILL BE a candidate of the paleo-conservative variety. The new budget about to be revealed will not be enough. They don't trust Rove. Say one thing for the paleos: they have firm ideological/philosophical beliefs. Opening the borders VIOLATES those beliefs. Tancredo in Colorado is going ape-shit.

Rove is scrambling right now. Here's the spin you are going to hear: allowing illegals the right to work will allow us to keep tabs on them and will, in fact, make us safer. Yes, the logic is laughable. But didn't you hear: it will make us SAFER. Remember, the terrorist infiltration in Iraq was good because the terrorists were fighting us there and not here at home. Keeping track of illegals is simply an extension of this bizzarro logic. But Rove knows the American public ate it up the last time.

Keep your eyes open to these developments. If Bush/Rove blinks on the immigration reform, you know there was a palpable threat.