The freeperization of Charlie Baker continues in fits and starts.
This time, Charlie wants to clamp down on legal immigrants to Massachusetts, show them a hard time and by extension stir up Scott Brown's tea partei constituency. Or so that would seem to be the plan, on paper it looks good, none of the 300,000 or so legal immigrants he is targeting can defend themselves in the ballot box so its a slam dunk from a political perspective.
Still, this is Charlie Baker we are talking about, when a twerp like Scot Lehigh snarked about candidate's support for ultra-whacko Bill Hudak, Citizen Baker hemmed hawed and more or less evaded to the point of lying before scampering out the door.
Its the same deal here, he doesn't want to put these people behind barbed wire, just mess with them enough during the election season so he can win.
I strongly doubt this cocktail party xenophobia is one of Baker's cherished long held beliefs, it smacks very much of the sort of evasive opportunism that has been a hallmark of Mitt Romney's political career.
Indeed, the Former Viceroy seems to have infected many GOP maachers in Massachusetts with his trademark flip-floppery. Scott Brown has changed his mind about healthcare, financial reform and ghod knows what else in the past nine months while Baker oscillates nervously between outright Falangism and the sort of limp dishrag moderate republicanism that would endear him chiefly to the Brian McGrorys and David Broders of this world.
That to me, is the most interesting aspect of this gubernatorial race, when will Charlie Baker make up his mind as to his own values?
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