Washington political pollster Frank Luntz, who in an earlier private memo told Congress that Americans are not only ready for an overhaul of illegal alien policy, "they are demanding it," is now warning members that the competing House and Senate solutions must contain one consensus: "No amnesty."
"Any Republican who votes for legislation on illegal immigration that walks, talks, looks or smells like amnesty will reap the wrath of a Republican electorate who see more and more reasons to stay home in November with each passing day," Mr. Luntz says in a memo we obtained. "For Republican members of the Senate and House there will be no election amnesty in November for a miscast vote now."
Reached yesterday, Mr. Luntz told Inside the Beltway that the amnesty argument is significant "because it is stepping right in the middle of the House and Senate fight, which is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. ... And since the Republicans control both houses, they are shooting themselves not in the foot, but in the head." His research paper concludes "conclusively that any association with amnesty will turn the so-called Senate heroes of this summer into the martyrs of November." Amen brother |