Bush's poll numbers would soar to 75% approval if he were to seal the southern border and begin enforcing immigration laws.
Remarkable how this obsession keeps popping up. Do you think about ANYTHING other than the border?
I kinda doubt that.
Maybe 60% as it would shore up the right and bring most of the moderates, but 75% would be too much to ask for given the climate out there. There is definitely 40% of this country that will be opposed to President Bush no matter what he says, does or proposes.
Absurd.
The fact is that there are more than 25% of people in this country that are possessed with irrational hatred toward this President. In large part because partisanship has trumped rational thought on their parts. Better enforcement of immigration would not put him at 75%. It wouldn't even put him at 57%.
He got 51% of the vote in the November election, even with his stance on immigration and his approval was slightly above that at the time. Even under the most optimum of conditions, I do not believe he could ever get above 57% in this poisonous political atmosphere the DNC/MSM have constructed. And that, as I said, only under almost near perfect performance AND sustained coverage for months on end.
It is one thing to trumpet border enforcement. Quite another to throw out nonsensical numbers like 75% at his feet should he do so. It is not realistic under any circumstance.