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Romney camp responds to McCain:

“Governor Romney has made his priorities clear.

We must secure our borders, implement a rigorous employer verification program and ensure interior enforcement without providing a special pathway towards citizenship for those who have entered the country illegally.”

"This Senate immigration bill falls short of the American public's expectations for a fair and workable solution on the problem of illegal immigration. Pressing on with a flawed approach that isn't equitable toward legal immigration is not a step in the direction towards progress.
And, being so dismissive towards the principled opposition of so many Americans is a terrible mistake.”

-Kevin Madden, spokesman for Governor Romney

Good answer by Romney, bad attack by McCain, as usual.

Man, these guys should stick to attacking Dims, OBL, and their MSM mouthpieces, hard, ruthlessly, relentlessly, till they draw blood.

That's a great statement, brief and to the point. But it needs to be fleshed out.

Mitt needs to slam this one out the park tomorrow night in a way he can't back away from later. He's being a little cagy about committing absolutely to some of his positions.

We in the base don't like ambiguity and room for hedging on certain issues. Guns/sodomy/abortion/borders/illegals/taxes/small-government, these are issues where the base demands clarity and unambiguous statements.

Mitt secretly met with Pat Buchanan over the weekend. We'll see tomorrow night if Pat gave the proper advice on taking strong enough positions to do his campaign some real good. Romney's ambivalence is his real problem. There's no good reason he should be trailing nationally to the extent he is. It's fear of commitment. But he'd better get in gear before Fred sucks all the air out the room.

MITT AND PAT (Romney meets with Buchanan on immigration)