AS THE DEMOCRATS brought their weary road show to Vegas tonight, most analysts suspected that Hillary Clinton would get a mulligan on the illegal immigration question that she botched so badly at their last tussle. It played out as expected. Right out of the box, Campbell Brown asked the candidates about illegal immigration. Rather than focus on their own purported solutions to the crisis, they collectively decided to focus their ire on George W. Bush for not solving the problem first.
This has become the default refrain for Democrats when they have nothing to say or no real means of moving the ball forward–blame Bush. Among the more fevered elements of their base, it usually works. They blame Bush for everything, so of course they were willing to blame him for a liberal governor’s dreadful plan to grant licenses to illegal immigrants, and a presidential aspirant’s clumsy refusal to distance herself from such foolishness.
