Richard [Nadler]: In your last post you say:

Janice Kephart describes Arizona as the state in which E-Verify is most prevalent, due to a law mandating its use by public and private employers. If you want to see what this “triumph” for E-Verify did to the conservative movement in Arizona, read David Freddoso’s piece here.

I obediently went and read David’s piece. It mentions E-Verify only indirectly, in this paragraph:

The state party has also suffered from the prominence of the immigration issue. Far from energizing Arizona’s Republican Party, it has served as a wedge between business owners and immigration hawks. Business owners, who could normally be expected to help Republicans, are putting their money and efforts this year into Proposition 202. The measure would weaken a 2007 state law that punishes those found hiring illegal immigrants by revoking their business licenses. The GOP hierarchy, including state chairman Randy Pullens, sided with the immigration hawks earlier this month against Prop 202, but it is expected to pass by a wide margin.

In fact Proposition 202 was rejected by a wide margin, in spite of some brilliant marketing by proponents. (Brilliant, and dishonest: the Proposition, which would have made it easier for businesses to hire illegal aliens, was named “The Stop Illegal Hiring Act”!)

So apparently the state GOP was on the right side of this, so far as public opinion is concerned. It is not very surprising that businesses wishing to hire cheap illegal labor are on the other side; but why would a party with any principle wish to line up with them?

Are you saying that the GOP should always line up with business owners, even when public opinion is strongly the other way, and even when business owners are bent on violating federal law?