Ever since being denied the VP nod, Rubio has been touring the country bashing both Obama and the Republican Party for not being sufficiently supportive of mass immigration. (If either were only the case!) Responding to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s assertion that “you can’t just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate,” Rubio agreed: “I think what he’s saying, quite frankly, is true for both parties.”
Needless to say, Rubio, like most Hispanic leaders, does not have a “brown face.” But if Republicans and conservatives did not have this silly illusion that trotting out a “Spanish surname” would somehow win them the Hispanic vote, Rubio would probably never gotten the nationwide support to mount a US Senate campaign. Certainly he would never have been immediately promoted to national GOP hero.
Rubio continued:
Policies matter and, look, the Republican Party does have a challenge. We can’t just be the anti-illegal immigration party, we have to be the pro-legal immigration party.In fact, of course, I don’t know of a single Republican leader who does not qualify his (alleged) opposition to illegal immigration by stressing how much he supports legal immigration. Nor has a single Republican politician proposed making any major cuts in legal immigration in nearly a decade. So where is Rubio getting this ludicrous idea that the Republican Party is not making itself out to be “pro-legal immigration”?
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