“Bush just wants Mexicans in the US. He likes them and wants them to be happy.”
I agree that’s part of it, maybe a lot of whole of it. I think there are a lot of interests at work here, and we are only being told a little bit of the truth. And like you, I think the “why” is irrelevant. But the fact of the matter is that this lack of border security is an egregious dereliction of Presidential duty. The federal government has an obligation to repel invasions and provide for the common defense. Instead we have gangbangers, drug runners, the Ft. Dix terrorists and the Mexican army wandering back and forth across the border at will.
Can you imagine FDR refusing to fight the Germans in World War II because he liked bratwurst and lederhosen and had fond memories of his Nanny Helga growing up? That’s essentially what Bush has chosen to do. He’s not going to uphold his Constitutional obligation because he personally doesn’t feel like it.
In that sense he still is the immature frat boy, the consummate self-absorbed, narcissistic Baby Boomer. It’s all about him, him, him, him, him, him, HIM and his personal preferences, and the best interests of the rest of us be damned.
The GOP is total toast if they continue down the road of liberal-globalism.
Unless the GOP selects one of the non Media-Darling candidates running, 2008 for the GOP will be like what the Conservatives in Canada suffered in 1993...or the Whigs about 150 yrs ago.
The biggest fear for the GOP is that a third-party conservative runs. The old whine of “taking votes away from the GOP” or “wasting votes” wont float as a criticsm in 2008.