Immmigrant bashing hits the campaign trail:
He warns darkly of the "Balkanization" of the United States from mass immigration and the dire threat of the "cult of multiculturalism." But the tide is turning, he tells his audience, and they are on the winning side.
From the dim amphitheater, someone yells out, "Tancredo for president!"
I suspect he'll be a minor player if he gets in, but he'll pull the rest of the field to the right, because The Base is where one plays nonination politics, and the GOP base is deeply and profoundly anti-immigrant. I think Bush is genuinely uncomfortable with this - despite his kowtowing to the fundamentalists he's essentially a business conservative, and the business conservatives like cheap immigrant labor. But the internal politics of the Republican Party are rapidly moving into the post-43 era.
It's risky but with any luck it'll backlash on them just like it did on Pete Wilson in California.
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