The Pendragon's Hall

Hillary Clinton may just have doomed herself. By announcing that a bill limiting immigration "would keep out the Good Samaritan and probably Jesus Himself" last week, she placed herself firmly to the left of the mainstream of America on an issue that will probably factor big in the 2008 election. One wonders if Clinton has ever even read the Good Samaritan parable. I don't think it was about illegal immigration--it was about ethnicity being a bad way to judge people since it's their actions that counts. But the problem is, more and more Americans especially in key southwestern swing states like Arizona and New Mexico, plus Florida and California, are fed up with the influx of immigrants. Bush has left himself vulnerable by not taking a more proactive stance on this and many conservatives feared that a third party candidate running on a get-tough-with-Mexico platform in 2008 would split the vote enough that Hillary would steal in on a plurality much like her husband did in 1992. Now she has given us the greatest gift: her opponent in 2008 need only favor tougher immigration laws and he or she will be handed a bunch of key states. In a close race, as this one is predicted to be, it is likely to make all the difference.