One of Bush’s betes noire returns to haunt the GOP field. Ace has a copy of the questionnaire. Why so detailed? Because, as he explains, it’s too easy to get a squish to swear he won’t permit amnesty when “amnesty” is defined a different million ways. Bush assured us that comprehensive immigration reform didn’t qualify as amnesty because illegals might have to pay a few thousand dollars in penalties and learn English before they were fast-tracked to citizenship. Sessions wants nuts and bolts this time, doubtless knowing that McCain will politely ignore him (although Huckabee, desperate for more conservative cred, might not) and that Romney can and should use that snub as a bludgeon to hammer Maverick on the issue. Watch for this to come up at tonight’s debate, especially with one new Florida poll showing immigration as key to Mitt’s surge. Tonight’s his last chance to put Mac through the amnesty wringer. The rest if the field hates him anyway; he’s got nothing left to lose by attacking.
Video: Sessions dares candidates to answer his immigration questionnaire
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