Arizona's Law has Profiled Obama, Jan Brewer and Meg Whitman

The Arizona immigration law, and Governor Jan Brewer’s relentless, common sense defense of it, may prove to be as transformative to the saving of America as any battle in any war in America’s history. We’ve already written of “The ‘Arizona Battle’ of the Second Civil War”, but we can’t help noting again that this is the gift to America that keeps on giving.

No one in America who is actually informed of the facts of the immigration law—i.e., no one who actually reads it—can honestly call it an exercise in racial profiling. It is modeled after the federal immigration law, and simply allows Arizona state law enforcement personnel to do what the federal government isn’t doing. It wasn’t passed in a spirit of racial animosity; it was passed in a spirit of resolve to insist on the safety and security of those American citizens lawfully living in the state of Arizona. No amount of lies or spin from the Obama White House or the Pravda media will change these facts.

But what the contrived furor over the Arizona law has actually done is profile Obama for another 15%-25% of the American people who had been holding out hope that he isn’t what he appears to be. That’s what persistent lying will do in an age when facts and truth are knowable and known.

More and more people wonder: ‘What the hell is this guy doing? What nation is he leading? Who is this administration protecting and defending?”

And the amazing thing is the spreading impact this furor is having on all political and other leaders who foolishly step into it and open their mouths when they have no idea what they are talking about. Most notably, California Republican Governor candidate Meg Whitman exposed herself as a finger-in-the-wind politician when she sanctimoniously pronounced that if she were Governor and a similar piece of legislation came to her, she would oppose it. She was obviously playing to the media uproar and assuming the media uproar controls public opinion, and then staking out her moral and intellectual superiority in the hopes of staying on the right side of media-controlled public opinion. Here’s a dollar bet that says she was speaking without ever having read the Arizona legislation, and knowing nothing more than what the Pravda media reported about the legislation.

Whitman, like so many other establishment-style politicians, just doesn’t fully appreciate the status of the mainstream media in 2010: the American people know that the mainstream media has an opinion, which has all but neutered their ability to shape opinion. So when politicians like Whitman seek to curry favor of the media by being on the ‘approved’ side of media opinion, they are showing themselves to be completely out of touch with the way real Americans are thinking in the internet age.

Whitman’s 50 point polling edge in the Republican primary last February has shrunk to single digits, and if she goes on to lose in the June 8 primary, the No. 1 reason will be the politically correct pandering she did on the Arizona immigration law, and the resulting hay her opponent, Steve Poizner, has been able to make out of it.

We’re not down on Whitman personally, and respect her willingness to step up and spend her own money to help California get out of the socialist mess it is in. She’s a quality candidate, and by all rights ought to be a much more effective Governor than the spineless girlie-man who currently occupies the office. And of the thousands and even millions of things a candidate says in the course of a campaign—the overwhelming majority of which are solid and in the right direction—it’s in some ways a shame that any one statement can be so determinative to political fate. But if there is any issue that is riling Americans even more than the economy, bailouts, healthcare, international appeasement, etc., etc., it is having to put up with a relentlessly biased, irresponsible, sycophantic media that continues to take the liberty to lie to the American people about basic facts, and then insists on trying to drive public opinion to match its opinion without regard for those basic facts.

Whitman either doesn’t get this, or she does but thinks people will forgive her for trying to curry favor with an utterly discredited media. The American people are not in a forgiving mood, and they are looking for leaders who refuse to kowtow to the media establishment and instead (1) learn the facts on a given issue, (2) form their opinion, and (3) stick to it, come media hell or high water. Period.

Jan Brewer is rising in Americans’ esteem, Obama is in free-fall, and Meg Whitman is declining—all thanks to the profiling power of the Arizona immigration law.

All other candidates: beware.

Paul Gable

May 24, 2010