Seriously: is Bill Richardson trying to wreck John McCain? Ask yourself: what would be the one thing most likely to undermine McCain with Arizona Republican Senate primary voters? Surely it would be the possibility that if re-elected, born-again immigration hawk McCain would revert to the squishiness that led him to collaborate with Ted Kennedy on a “path to citizenship” for illegals. Yet on this evening’s Ed Show, that’s exactly what the New Mexico governor—twice—imagined McCain might do. Schultz set the stage, describing McCain’s recent adoption of a hard line on immigration as “the biggest flip-flop of the year.” Then came Richardson, imagining a McCain re-reversal . . . BILL RICHARDSON: My view is that he is in a tough re-election, in a primary against J.D. Hayworth, and this is such a hot issue in Arizona. My hope Ed is a fter he gets re-elected that he will come back to his old position, which was as you said the Kennedy-McCain bill which has increased border enforcement but also has a path to legalization, a guest-worker program, cracking down on illegal hires, but most importantly a path to legalization. And later . . . RICHARDSON: If you’re going to get into immigration reform, you got to have some Republicans , and right now it doesn’t seem we have any. Maybe Lindsey Graham. Maybe John McCain after he gets re-elected. So what was Richardson up to? Offering honest analysis, or slipping the shiv into McCain by suggesting his new-found harder line on immigration is a farce?
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Immigration: Richardson Sees McCain Going Squishy If Re-Elected
