Anti-illegal talk sees GOP again shooting itself in foot
Anti-illegal talk sees GOP again shooting itself in foot
California Focus
By Thomas Elias
February 18, 2008
There has never been a more self-destructive Republican political campaign than the 1994 reelection drive of former California Gov. Pete Wilson.
But this year’s campaign might even surpass those levels of GOP self immolation.
Wilson’s commercials featured grainy black-and-white film of the San Ysidro border crossing, with illegal immigrants running into California unimpeded by Border Patrol agents or anyone else, and a menacing voice intoning “They keep coming.â€