Gowdy is mistaken, and this lapse in political judgment merely affirms that conservatives still have their work cut out for them to purge the undue influence of Big Business from the Republican Party
I don't know if it's something in the water, or Congressmen lose touch too quickly with their constituents. But I have noticed that so many conservatives in Washington start to lose it on immigration.
Trey Gowdy is the latest to falter.
One conservative activist in California told me that Gowdy was a fraud. When she wanted to talk to him about immigration issues, he literally jumped over a small fence to avoid talking to her.