This is wise advice. As is The Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti’s suggestion that conservatives also point out how Obama’s past executive actions already created a humanitarian crisis on the border this past summer.
If Rubio were to come out in favor of a conservative plan to use the appropriations process to limit Obama’s abuse of power, and were he to make the same effort selling that plan to conservative media that he made selling the Gang of Eight plan, he could undo much, if not all, of the previous damage that his Gang of Eight support originally caused.
God bless Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), but the conservative wing of the Republican party is in desperate need of a high-wattage officeholder that can lead the effort against Obama’s amnesty. Conservatives need a leader that can speak about the plight of undocumented workers with instinctive empathy, a leader that knows the immigration issue backwards and forwards, and a leader who has the credibility among moderates that he will not lead the party off a cliff.
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