The Wall Street Journal has a story today (subscribers only, I think) on the discontent among Arizona conservatives over Kyl’s role in the amnesty deal. He hasn’t been booed yet, but that’s probably only because he hasn’t appeared at any party events back home yet. The reactions he has gotten are not likely to dampen any of the outrage; the Journal says Kyl received a standing ovation at a meeting of the Agri-Business Council of Arizona and a “very warm” reception from the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. And the Tucson paper reports that state Democratic Party Chairman David Waid said that Kyl has “come around to a position that is in the best interest of the people of Arizona.” The source of that praise is especially problematic when you compare Waid’s comments to those of his counterpart, state GOP Chairman Randy Pullen: “We have people coming in every day, tearing up their registration cards and throwing them on the floor, or coming in and changing their registration from Republican to independent.”

This sign from a protest Monday at Kyl’s Phoenix office suggests the kind of reaction he may get during his visit home over the Memorial Day recess. His actually being subject to a recall election seems very unlikely, though, since that would require collecting enough signatures from registered voters to equal one-quarter of the turnout in his race last November, which would be nearly 400,000.