So Newt has begged the illegal immigration question and muddied the truth. No, he has done way more than that. he just disqualified himself for the nomination. He just undid all the slow progress he has made since he was written off as a factor last summer.
I’m going to quote what dirtboy said about it in another thread, and leave it there.
“This one sentence shows all that is wrong with the Beltway types.
OK, Ginrich is willing to ‘take the heat’ - but what does that mean?
Wow, he might not get the nomination. Big whup. He goes back to raking in the bucks from his Beltway influence peddling - which also gives him the money to be insulated from the consequences of this country pandering to illegals.
He makes enough money to live in a gated community.
He can go to a high-end hospital not overwhelmed by treating illegals, as mandated by the fedgov (all in the name of humanity, mind you).
And he makes enough to where taxes needed to pay for welfare and bennies for illegals don’t take a big proportional bite out of his paycheck.
So in other words, he is oblivious to the impact that his perceived ‘humanity’ has on working stiffs.
And that is EXACTLY what is wrong with him as GOP nominee.”
I agree with some of what you said.
My only point is this: under no congress, under no President, will we ever mass deport folks who have been here for a long time. You may think it’s important to say we’re in favor of that even knowing it will not and can not ever happen. I don’t. No one will do mass deports. Ain’t gonna happen for a ton of reasons, some good reasons and some bad reasons...but ain’t gonna happen. Period.
He is an incessant government tinkerer - does have too much of a beltway mentality sometimes - and likes to prove his superior intellect in every answer on every question. Those are flaws that are well known. Got him in trouble on this issue. How much trouble? Time will tell.
My only point is that it should not be too much trouble because under any of the candidates, we’re going to end up with more or less the same result. A border that is secured.