There is no little opportunism involved, but Hillary Clinton has finally done the obvious — obliquely linked Donald Trump to Republican racism.
“I’m very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, ‘Enough, stop it,’ ” the Democratic front-runner tells CNN.
“But you know they are all in the same general area on immigration,” she adds of the Republican Party. “They don’t want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile towards immigrants, and I’m going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. I’m going to talk about all of the good, law-abiding, productive members of the immigrant community that I personally know, that I’ve met over the course of my life, that I would like to see have a path to citizenship.”
Ask yourself a simple, straightforward question: If George Wallace were around today, would he be campaigning for the Presidency as a Republican or a Democrat?
We all know the answer to that; of course he would be a Republican.