Brimelow Bulletin From D.C.: Immigration Reform Alive, McCain Questionable
Posted By Peter Brimelow On 15 April 2008 @ 9:08 In General | Comments Disabled
About a year ago, I [1] reported after a daring visit to Empire Central the then-dramatic news that the McCain/ Bush/ Kennedy Amnesty/ Immigration surge bill was in trouble—to the surprise of Beltway Treason Lobbyists and Beltway Immigration Reform Patriots alike. (That this kind of [2] Stockholm syndrome affects even good people inside the Beltway is why it’s worth risking ambassadors from America to D.C. from time to time.
Last week, I found nothing quite so heartening, but there were a few encouraging straws in the wind:
- Intense discontent among patriotic immigration reformers and Republicans generally with McCain’s gerrymandered primary victory and his ([3] Steve Sailer-predicted) Establishment me-tooism (click [4] here for a devastating [5] Tom Sowell critique of McCain’s Martin Luther King groveling). It’s not yet reached [6] Dole-1996 proportions, but it still might.
- Surprisingly widespread resigned acceptance among Beltway Republicans that McCain’s much-touted POW record will boomerang, just like John Kerry’s [7] Swift Boat service, because of allegations, widespread on the internet, that he eventually collaborated with his captors. I don’t know what the truth is. But I do know that, nearly twenty years ago, William Stevenson, author of the huge spy best-seller [8] A Man Called Intrepid,
and his co-author and wife Monika Jensen, were privately expressing puzzlement at finding in their [9] research for their [10] Kiss the Boys Goodbye: The Shocking Story of Abandoned U.S. Prisoners of War in Vietnam
- But neither Clinton nor Obama can easily raise this—which is why the idea of [11] nominating an unimpeachable war hero, Jim Webb (D-VA) is visibly gaining ground.
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[1] reported: http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/05/28/senate-sellout-everything-hangs-on-american-backlash-this-
week/
[2] Stockholm syndrome: http://ask.yahoo.com/20030324.html
[3] Steve Sailer-predicted: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/080210_mccain.htm
[4] here: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2008/ts_04101.shtml
[5] Tom Sowell: http://www.vdare.com/pb/sowell_1987.htm
[6] Dole-1996 proportions: http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/02/17/was-romney-an-amateur-will-the-immigration-issue-rise-agai
n-in-2008/
[7] Swift Boat service: http://www.swiftvets.com/
[8] A Man Called Intrepid,: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMan-Called
-Intrepid-William-Stevenson%2Fdp%2F158574154X%2F&tag=vdare&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&cr
eative=9325
[9] research : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDB1230F937A15756C0A966958260&sec=&spon=
&pagewanted=all
[10] Kiss the Boys Goodbye: The Shocking Story of Abandoned U.S. Prisoners of War in Vietnam: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FKISS-BOYS-
GOODBYE-ABANDONED-PRISONERS%2Fdp%2F0747507678%2F&tag=vdare&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&cr
eative=9325
[11] nominating an unimpeachable war hero: http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/01/28/sc-dem-primary-tribalism-webb-more-than-ever/
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