Thread: NY Times op-ed columnist digs Rudy's love for illegals

David Brooks is a libidiot Op-Ed columnist for the NY Times:
David Brooks pines for Rudy Giuliani's illegal immigration supporting days

David Brooks offers "The Real Rudy" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/opini ... ref=slogin ), most of which consists of a series of now-infamous Rudy Giuliani pro-illegal immigration quotes. I half-expected him to try to explain them away, but I wasn't too surprised that he explicitly supports that side of Rudy, calling someone who supported illegal activity "moderate". And, he says that by currently at least making noises about opposing illegal immigration, both Rudy and Mitt Romney are "competing to drive away Hispanic votes". Brooks is too shallow and too much of a hack to admit that not all Hispanics support illegal activity, and that importing people who do support illegal activity out of racial solidarity reasons is not good public policy. On the other hand, those Republicans who support our immigration laws are refered to as "the narrowest slice of the old guard".

More in "David Brooks: What happened to the open-borders Rudy I used to know and love?":
...I bet if we adopt the entire Democratic platform we can make a real race of it before next year.

Perhaps Brooks is actually smarter than it might appear and he's highlighting these quotes as a way to hurt Rudy's chances. Although, I'd say the chances of him doing that are rather slim.
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007260.html

Yup, David Brooks, the purveyor of shallow, stale opinions, as zeezil points out in a differ thread as well. Look at this transcript from yesterday's PBS show. He actually calls Republicans hypocritical on illegal immigration, without mentioning how the Democrats supposedly represent working folk but largely support the illegal entry of millions of illegal workers who undercut American wages. But at least Brooks, in a roundabout way, points out how Giuliani would be worse on illegal immigration than Bush:
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DAVID BROOKS: And on the Republican side, I mean, I happen to think there's incredible hypocrisy on the subject of immigration. I think Rudy Giuliani is the most pro-immigration candidate probably running in the past 20 years, and now he's pretending to be something entirely different, to his discredit.

But people want to see these guys fight, and that's what we've come down to in the last 40 or so days.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics ... 11-21.html