A Stitch in Haste

... Infra-Red State!

U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon, one of the nation's most conservative congressmen, lost his bid for a seventh term Tuesday in a Republican primary that focused on whether he was conservative enough for Utah's 3rd District.
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The lobbying group American Conservative Union said Cannon was nearly perfect on its issues in 2007, scoring 96 percent. But [Jason] Chaffetz repeatedly pounded the incumbent, especially on immigration, and pledged to be even more conservative.

His opponent ran -- and won -- on a platform of promising to violate the Constitution:

Chaffetz said he wants the U.S. to deport all illegal immigrants and stop granting automatic citizenship to children born here if their parents aren't legal residents.

As I noted here and here, the notion that Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment has somehow been "misread" for over one hundred years, and that the children of illegal immigrants born on United States soil are in fact not automatically citizens, is so facially absurd that one is entitled to simply presume disingenuousness by its proponents.

But when scapegoating some subset of The Others Who Are Destroying America™, disingenuousness is good. Disingenuousness works.

And it seems to work best of all in Utah (cf., here).

More thoughts at Crossed Pond.