If you can read this without laughing you’re probably not yet as jaded and cynical as I am.
Rand Paul (R-LibertyLand) says Jeb Bush should have been more “artful” when he said immigrants come to America out of love.
“You know, I think he might have been more artful, maybe, in the way he presented this. But I don’t want to say, oh, he’s terrible for saying this. If it were me, what I would have said is, people who seek the American dream are not bad people,” Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.” “However, we can’t invite the whole world. When you say they’re doing an act of love and you don’t follow it up with, but we have to control the border, people think well because they’re doing this for kind reasons that the whole world can come to our country.”
If you were to only sample Rand’s comments from this, you would probably have no idea what he really believes about immigration.
Between half-assedly disagreeing with Jeb for not being “artful” enough, to finding a back-door way to agree with him in spirit, and then implying that we can’t allow people to feel good about themselves for coming here illegally; it’s gobbledygook.
It’s very libertarian, but I repeat myself.
The reflexive, knee-jerk reaction of conservatives to Jeb Bush saying something that does not demonize immigrants as sub-human leeches was predictable. And what Rand Paul had to say was not the worst of the bunch because, as has become apparent, he’s running for president, for pete’s sake.
Jeb Bush doesn’t have a chance in hell in the GOP primary if he insists on portraying immigrants as humans capable of feeling complex emotions.