As Miranda noted the other day, Phyllis Schlafly “has never been very good at hiding partisan motivation for right-wing policy,” frequently coming right out and admitting the petty, partisan motivations behind the supposedly “principled” stands that conservatives inevitably take in opposing things supported by Democrats or President Obama.
And this was a trend she continued when she appeared on Newsmax yesterday to discuss her new report warning that immigration reform legislation will doom the Republican Party when she declared that conservatives ought to oppose such legislation simply because President Obama supports it.
While conservatives and Republicans are out there laughably claiming that they want to work for President Obama but are constantly having their bipartisan efforts rejected by the administration, Schlafly openly states that conservatives ought to just flatly oppose anything that Obama supports.
“If they like it,” she said, “it’s certainly not going to be good for the conservative movement or for the grassroots or for the Republican Party … Anything that Obama is for, I think the conservatives should be against”:
