If Karl Rove said anything even remotely close to this, he simply needs to be fired by the President.

According to a congressman's wife who attended a Republican women's luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president's amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas."

Like most members of the GOP, I come from a background in which hard work was stressed as a positive thing. I was raised to believe that no work was beneath the dignity of any person so long as they did it to the best of their ability. Indeed, that is why my folks encouraged me to take my first job (age 14) stacking bundles of newspaper, bagging empty cans, and putting old jars and bottles in crates at the base recycling center. It is why I did stock work for three years at the base PX and worked the drive-thru window at Burger King while finishing graduate school. RoveÂ’s statement insults those of us in the conservative base who have done the kind of menial/manual labor that he seems to view with disdain, and too good for his own child.

And I wonÂ’t get into the fact that he clearly thinks that such work is the proper field for my many Hispanic students. There is an implicit racism there that needs no comment.

Assuming, of course, that this report is accurate.

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