Articles on Romney and immigration are being falsely posted

Self | 6/14/2012 | Self

[Signalman]

This article was posted with a false headline and a false premise:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2895759/posts

The article was posted on FR with the title:

Romney on Immigration: "I happen to agree with Marco Rubio."

But the actual title of the article is:

Romney: Obama immigration move makes long term fix harder

If you read the article, it says that Romney said:

I would like to seek legislation that deals with this issue and I happen agree with Marco Rubio as he looked at, considered this issue, he said that this is an important matter that we have to find a long term solution," Romney said.

So Romney is not agreeing with Obama on this and he's only agreeing with Rubio's comment that "There has to be a long term solution". Read the article.

[doc]

Romney is for ‘comprehesive immigration reform’ code phrase for amnesty. Rubio from the beginning was for amnesty. He only tempered his remarks with his sights eventually on the White House.

[SoldierDad]

So, some anti-Romney Freeper is using a typical smear tactic of the left to slander a candidate they hate? I’m not surprised.

[unkus]

Thanks, Signalman!

[CommerceComet]

I am going to say here what I said on the other thread: “Not surprised Romney agrees with amnesty, that’s been his position all along”.

Apparently that is the "severely" conservative position. Go figure.

[Bratch]

IMO, it's the position of most Republicans.

Obama on new DREAM Act policy: This isn’t amnesty, it’s the right thing to do

An excerpt:

If O actually cared about DREAM on the merits instead of as a cynical electoral cudgel against the GOP, he would have let Rubio float his own DREAM bill to try to shake some Republican support loose. The bill might have passed with Democratic support; even if it didn’t, Obama would have been in a better position at that point to act unilaterally since there would already be multiple Republicans on record as supporting the basics of DREAM (even if they opposed unilateral executive action). But he couldn’t afford to let Rubio take the lead lest the publicity surrounding that jeopardize Obama’s huge lead over the GOP among Latinos. So, just as he did with gay marriage, he cynically decided that now was the moment for a pure, bold, crystalline pander to one of the Democrats’ core client constituencies.

But I don’t know, maybe I’m underestimating him. As I say, now that a de facto DREAM amnesty is in effect, the politics of this have changed. If there’s any tried and true principle in the entitlement age, it’s that most politicians are deathly afraid to take something away from a group once it’s been granted — especially a group whose electoral power is increasing. Will President Romney or a Republican Congress really be willing to undo this when given the chance? At best, I think they might be willing to replace it with a new DREAM Act of their own, but unless there’s a ferocious backlash among the rest of the electorate, I’m skeptical that pulling the plug is an option.

[Colonel_Flagg]

This seems to be Mutt’s MO — claiming he wouldn’t support legislation such as the DREAM Act and claiming that he’d repeal Zerocare — only to say Republicans should propose their own DREAM Act and he’d replace parts of Zerocare with health legislation he likes.

Slightly slower path to the train wreck. Mutt loves him some statism.

[svcw]

Hum?
And we care about the Republican establishment thinks - why?
Or if this is the establishment postilion, why didn’t it pass?
But ok, either way I do not agree, and my statement is not incorrect.

[SharpRightTurn]

“should be solved on a long term basis so they know what their future would be in this country”

That’s the part of Willard’s quote I have a problem with.

If what he really said was “should be solved on a long term basis so they know what their future would be in THEIR OWN COUNTY, NOT OURS, AND THEREFORE ON MY FIRST DAY IN OFFICE I WILL RESCIND THIS INSANITY OF OBUMMERS AND ORDER THAT THEY BE REPATRIOTED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN”, then I would have no problem with it.

I don’t like open-borders types whether they prefer a D after their names or an R.

[Windflier]

...many who responded to the article were reacting extremely negatively to Romney’s supposed position based on the headline. When you read the article, though, it paints a completely different picture of what Romney’s position is.

Stop trying to cover for that pandering liberal. I don't need a reporter to interpret Romney's remarks for me. I heard what he said (and what you re-posted here).

It's a mealy-mouthed way of saying that he wants the same thing as Obama and Rubio, except he'd like to see it done through congressional legislation instead of by executive fiat.

He's as much for illegal immigration as the Democrats, and if you truly believe otherwise, you're going to be sorely disappointed in the future, because he WILL come out in full support of it at some point.

[ballplayer]

This is the best Romney can Do! God Help Us all !