You knew it was coming. That specific moment when another Bush fraud would play the phony compassion card. And you knew Jeb would do it over "immigration.'
That moment arrived today, which, if Jeb does run, might should be considered the first official day of his still unofficial 2016 campaign.
Bush politicians have a nasty history of Orwell-level obfuscation, and world class detachment from the worst types of political dirty trickery conducted by surrogates while they practice the most odiously dishonest moralizing. Poppy did it in 1988 with Atwater running the bludgeon show while he whined about "a thousand points of light" and a "kinder gentler nation." W. boasted of "compassionate conservatism" while nebulous donor allies trashed John McCain about imaginary "illegitimate" black children, and W. later told America Jesus was his favorite philosopher, and that he wanted a "humble foreign policy" as a lead up to a long planned war of choice with Iraq.
Now comes Jeb, the champion of the immigrant. Jeb of course is, in no way, a champion of the actual immigrant, but very much a champion of the historic method and system of exploiting those whom he today claims sneak into the US as an "act of love" to help their families, and should not be considered criminals for doing so.
Jeb is right about one thing. Those people who come to the US illegally under a system that lures them here should not be considered criminals. Who are the real criminals? Jeb and his enablers of course are the real criminals.
For this Bush, whose party and political family has spent a generation working in the service of American businesses to provide a method and mechanism for people to enter the US at will and work without legal protection now wants to claim he is a decent person for doing this. Decent because he cares about the worker.
Only a fool would believe it. Jeb, like his father and his brother before him, pursued an open borders policy solely because their commercial benefactors wanted one in order to exploit cheap labor, and now Jeb thinks he can buy respectability and political salvation (and some hispanic votes) by calling for "immigration reform" which for him and other Republicans would amount, when it is said and done, to nothing more than limited amnesty for those who have already been exploited (fair enough if done correctly and for the right reasons, which Bush is not doing), and a future "guest worker" peonage system to "legalize" exploitation.
In the end, most Hispanics won't be as gullible as the Bible Thumpers who bought W's false moralizing. Jeb will not be successful playing the immigration card. Not as part of a White House winning hand.
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