Letter from Jon Kyle
I got a letter from the Kyle office, not sure whether it is because I am on a Republican Party list (AZGOP) or because I donated money to Kyle last election. But nonetheless, it was enlightening and had a link to a Hugh Hewitt Article:
I broke out the checkbook for two candidates in last election--JD Hayworth (R-AZ) and Jon Kyle (R-AZ). Immigration alone was reason enough to support JD. Kyle is so solidly Conservative that I never thought for a second of not ensuring that he was back in DC.
It is amazing that one bill and I start comparing Kyle to John McCain, my other Senator. I think that Kyle deserves to have his bill attacked, but one bill does not define him. Maybe in six years this vote and bill will be forgotten. That is the benefit of running for the Senate. He is safe for the next two elections. But the rest of the party isn’t.
Arizona’s Jon Kyl, perhaps the single most effective and principled conservative in the United States Senate, is the model of what every senator should be –smart, hard working, humble about his occupying the office, and aware of the obligations of that office. He is also a gentleman and a scholar –a genuine authority on Constitutional law, and a man of genuine character. Kyl’s also a fighter for conservative causes, especially the fortunes of President Bush’s judicial nominees.
Jon Kyl is also the workhorse for the GOP caucus on the immigration bill, doing his best to make the bill as workable as possible from the position as point man of the minority party.
This unenviable task has earned Senator Kyl an enormous amount of enmity from very vocal opponents of the bill, especially those for whom the issue is the single most important piece of legislation. Suddenly Jon Kyl’s impeccable record on the war, cutting taxes, the life of the unborn, spending restraint, and of course judges matters not at all, and the airwaves are full of spleen. The attacks on Kyl haven’t just been harsh, they have been full of the sort of venom usually seen in the fever swamps of the left directed at George Bush for waging the war against the Islamist jihadists.
But when the debate is over and the bill either passes or is defeated, Jon Kyl is the same guy who stood rock solid since the war began in defense of the prosecution of that war and in support of the troops, in defense of Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito and scores of other judicial nominees, and on the side of countless other conservative causes over a dozen years in the Senate and eight years in the House. He deserves much better than he is getting. When he writes that “If I were the only one writing this bill, it would be very different,” he has earned our trust in his good faith.
We don’t owe Senator Kyl our agreement or our silence, of course, but we do owe him a hearing and a respectful though vigorous and full-throated dissent, one that is coupled with a recognition of his past, present and future service. If you have trouble giving him both, then you have lost track of the central proposition that distinguishes conservatives from the far and sometimes not-so-far reaches of the left: Justice.
I broke out the checkbook for two candidates in last election--JD Hayworth (R-AZ) and Jon Kyle (R-AZ). Immigration alone was reason enough to support JD. Kyle is so solidly Conservative that I never thought for a second of not ensuring that he was back in DC.
It is amazing that one bill and I start comparing Kyle to John McCain, my other Senator. I think that Kyle deserves to have his bill attacked, but one bill does not define him. Maybe in six years this vote and bill will be forgotten. That is the benefit of running for the Senate. He is safe for the next two elections. But the rest of the party isn’t.
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