Posted on 06/26/2010 6:52:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina launched a new effort Saturday to reach out to Latino voters, unveiling a Spanish-language website with supporters at a Hispanic-owned catering company.
But her chief endorsement at Saturday's event, former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, has sharply different views from Fiorina on controversial immigration issues, including Arizona's new law and offering a path to legalization for those already in the United States illegally.
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"50% of registered voters surveyed said they support the law, which compels police to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally, while 43% oppose it… Strong majorities of white voters and those over 50 support the Arizona law, while Latinos and those under 30 are heavily opposed." --Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2010
California is more than Rats, RINOs and illegal aliens. Fiorina has chosen her side.
No kidding! Of course we would rather have someone way more conservative than Fiorina. Is that our choice?
We have Boxer vs Fiorina.....Yes, our choices suck, to be blunt. All we can do is try to get as close to what we want as possible.
This may be the last election we even field an R candidate now that we have passed the open primary law. Look at our stupid Gov. race. Retread Moonbeam vs Whitman. This is what all our future races will look like.
Dang, I love CA but it's getting harder and harder to do so. (don't even get me started on the porno gay pride parade in SF yesterday!!)
Not one in 10 of the pols on our side denounce amnesty as far as Fiorina has, and the reality is that she has to reach out to the Hispanic vote if she’s got a chance to defeat Boxer.
If in doing so she were to flip flop on the stand she’s taken in English I’d see the reason for concern. But I haven’t seen that and every CA Freeper should be energetically backing her at this point.
Why is it that the same people who see Palin as the conservative icon also jump on these threads to pump up RINOs?
Go figure
How well will a conservative president fair with a stash of RINOs in the Congress?
I see compromise of the worst sort.
She has already said she is against the Arizona immigration law and claims there is a racist tone from the backers of the law.
And it is not just about amnesty that she won’t answer.What about Roe V Wade???? Ban on Assault weapons??? The list goes on and on.
She is going to be the worst of the RINOs..and a Muslim lover as well.
She is for cap and trade, against the immigration law, for internet tax, dont know if she will overturn Roe V Wade because she won’t answer the question, doesn’t own a gun, won’t answer the question about path to citzenship ( as in amnesty because we already have a path to citizenship in the law)..oh and she ran HP into the ground and let it sell product to Iran through a ..ahem...third party.
But Hey, Sarah Palin liked her...so people listened.
And they are going to be sorry.
She didn't "denounce" amnesty.
Asked about what she would do with those already here illegally if the border were secured, she was evasive.“I don’t think voters are going to tolerate a discussion of what we’re going to do next until we do what actually has to be done, period,” she said. “So I’m not prepared to even discuss what we do next.”
She did, however, say that she could not vote for a comprehensive bill along the lines of McCain-Kennedy.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/05/03/fiorina-on-immigration
Tepid and evasive.
“Fiorina, Armey, McCain and Palin seem to have found a tight-rope to walk between amnesty and deportation. All state opposition to outright “amnesty” - but all also appear to support some new “pathway to citizenship” or “comprehensive immigration reform” which would allow illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. They also oppose any effort to arrest and deport illegal aliens, or in any way hold illegal migrants accountable to the rule of law.”
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-202561.html
Chuck DeVore was not going to be the next Senator from CA—and he’s no longer a candidate for it either. Some Freepers are sorry about Scott Brown now that he’s in for MA, but that’s just not how politics works.
From a broader perspective, Fiorina and, to be fair, Palin, whom I generally back, among too many others in the GOP have taken to that “it’s irresponsible to talk about a path to citizenship until the border is secured” line. Wink, wink.
That’s not good enough for me and I would like to see a forceful but measured effort to demand a higher standard from our pols. It’s mostly too late for that in 2010, since we’re pretty much down to the general election now, but it has got to be a baseline requirement for 2012. The Dems will try to force the issue, perhaps in their upcoming lame duck session, but there should be an orderly, tea party-like response that demands the GOP stand for current immigration law enforcement. Oh, and anchor babies have to go too. I think this could be the major fight we need to gear up for—starting by the second week in November.
For the same reason some of those people were Arnoldbots or anti-Toomey Spectercles?
Just guessing. ;-)
LOLOLOLOL @ Jim Robinson!!!
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