Mark Cromer — Washington Times

An open-borders dictionary

As the freewheeling primaries promise a wide-open presidential race that may stretch even beyond Super Tuesday next month, I thought it might be helpful to offer the candidates a cheat-sheet of easy-to-use-cliches when addressing the hot-button issue of immigration…

Granted, some of the contenders are polished pros when it comes to using meaningless rhetoric on immigration. Others have turned into semantic gymnasts, like Sen. John “Straight Talk” McCain, who now insists with a straight face that he never supported amnesty. Or his esteemed colleague from New York, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose position on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants makes her husband’s infamous “it depends what your definition of is, is” sound coherent.

But even veteran political contortionists can use a little brush-up on sure-fire phrases that pander to the open-borders crowd, so this should come in handy as the campaign roles into the Southwest:

“Living in the shadows”: The gold standard of public utterances on illegal immigration that deftly defies reality while evoking Dickensian imagery to pull heart strings, use it liberally — but be ready in the unlikely event a reporter asks how public schools, hospitals and entire blue-collar industries like construction qualify as “shadows.”

This is not only right on the money, but sadly amusing. HERE.