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Romney Screws the Pooch on Immigration
National Review ^ | 6-15-2012 | Mark Krikorian

Posted on 06/15/2012 8:14:40 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

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To: berdie
If he wants to kill of the gop as a party then he picks rubio... millions of us arethisclose to quitting forever on the gop. They do not own me or my vote and I grow to hate the gop more with every passing election... and I am not alone. This is their LAST election to get it right... if they blow this... they might as well get ready to follow the Whigs.

LLS

61 posted on 06/15/2012 10:45:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Windflier

As much as I don’t like it..Bambi made a good statregic move.

Was it illegal? You darn skippy it was.

On the news tonight they showed lots of Latinos sobbing in relief and praising The Won. These people could give less than a huge flying duck if it was against OUR Constitution. I saw that after I posted my original comment.

I hope that Myth figures a way out of this. Isn’t some CongressCritter suing the admin?


62 posted on 06/15/2012 10:49:57 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie

HER response was the response of a PATRIOT CONSERVATIVE and she had the response that mitt romney should have responded with... 10 minutes after barrack kardashian’s speech.

LLS


63 posted on 06/15/2012 10:49:57 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Better yet, what would Reagan do!


64 posted on 06/15/2012 10:51:32 PM PDT by doc1019 (Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: doc1019

according to YouTube clip, Reagan says he believes in the idea of amnesty.
How about Romney state that he believes in a comprehensive review of our immigration policy towards the Mexicans, because that’s what we are talking about, and then come up with some suggestions. Because, the sooner we get this resolved, the sooner the brown catholic bretheren to the south will help shore up or Judeo Christian believes and national security versus accommodating non traditional influences out of fear of appearing religiously intolerate.


65 posted on 06/15/2012 10:52:41 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: doc1019

Being the former governor of California, I think he would be more comfortable visiting a catholic Hispanic household versus a socialist atheist household. No doubt a work and living visa needs to be clarified and scrutinized. But what do we do with the 14 million illegally here? That is the question.


66 posted on 06/15/2012 10:57:39 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Reagan believed in amnesty with a hell of a lot of controls, if you listen to his ytube and all his follow-up legislation attempts you can see this.


67 posted on 06/15/2012 10:57:39 PM PDT by doc1019 (Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: doc1019

I agree.


68 posted on 06/15/2012 10:58:42 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: LibLieSlayer

No doubt her response was excellent.

Just as yours and mine are. But you and I and Sarah are not running for president.

I don’t know about you, but I am no politician.:)


69 posted on 06/15/2012 10:58:47 PM PDT by berdie
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To: LibLieSlayer; All

Yep, Sarah Palin was stopped by of all people Politico and asked off the stage about Obama’s unconstitutional grab and she responded clearly and concise that does not needed to be handled by staffers and advisors unlike people around here making excuses for Mitt not being prepared for a response:

“Our president still doesn’t understand the three branches of government,” she said. “He thinks he can usurp the Congressional branch of our government and dictate and mandate a policy like this.”

She took umbrage about an explanation she read in the press that said the law would only affect “law-abiding illegal immigrants.”

“That is a contradiction right there,” she said in the interview. “I think we need to characterize it and describe it more accurately. It’s called illegal for a reason.”


70 posted on 06/15/2012 10:58:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: sickoflibs

I don’t know enough about immigration law to make an informed decision, but I suspect most legislators never contemplated a president who would use emergency and/or discretion clauses to such an extent. So maybe immigration law does give the president the authority to amnesty hard immigration cases. The people who wrote that probably did not imagine a president like Obama would come along and use every conceivable loophole for political purposes.

That said, I know the difference between following the spirit of a law and the law itself. Legalists love to do the same thing with scripture. If Christ didn’t specifically state, “For the record, I oppose abortion,” then legalists can (and DO!) say Christ is OK with abortion. But we know immigration law was never intended to permit this, and even if it’s legally OK, we aren’t dummies. We know Congress has been try to reach a democratic compromise on this. They would have certainly passed something had there been a true mandate from We the People to do so.

I guess the emperor grew impatient when he wasn’t playing golf.


71 posted on 06/15/2012 11:00:47 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: untwist
You cannot paint a rosy picture of this... romney looked like a deer caught in headlights today... he allowed his weakness to be seen... the weakness of a lack of true Conservative core philosophy... and a true leader NEVER allows any weakness to be seen... not during an election. The time for romney to respond has come and gone. Anything that he says from this point on will be nothing but damage control. Many who despise romney but were warming to his attacks on obama during the past two weeks, have just had all of their fears and reservations concerning romney reinforced... and romney cannot reverse that... he hurt himself badly with the base today and the following weeks will prove it. Do not be surprised to see obamao go above 50% in the polls next week and romney to fall into the low 40’s or high 30’s. This was all so predictable... and it will get much worse as the election nears.

LLS

72 posted on 06/15/2012 11:05:44 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: berdie
Thank GOD we are not. Politicians have destroyed this republic... we need STATESMEN... and romney is not one... it is not in him. You may think mitt is smart but he probably just blew any chance of winning with this weak progressive response. THE MAJORITY of Americans do not want ANY AMNESTY... in any form! It has ALWAYS been defeated when on the ballot... just like gay marriage... but the left in the republican party and the leftist dim party keep pushing and subverting to install their tools of destruction.

LLS

73 posted on 06/15/2012 11:11:55 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Bigtigermike

GOD bless Sarah... I will battle throught the gates of hell and back with her... she has but to ask! GOD bless her and people like you who recognize the truth!

LLS


74 posted on 06/15/2012 11:14:14 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Bigtigermike

GOD bless Sarah... I will battle through the gates of hell and back with her... she has but to ask! GOD bless her and people like you who recognize the truth!

LLS


75 posted on 06/15/2012 11:14:14 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Bigtigermike

GOD bless Sarah... I will battle through the gates of hell and back with her... she has but to ask! GOD bless her and people like you who recognize the truth!

LLS


76 posted on 06/15/2012 11:14:14 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I don’t think Mitt is smart ...or a statesman. But today, he is what we have. :(

Maybe his “people” can fix this particular situation, at the right time.

And...Thank goodness we aren’t politicians!!


77 posted on 06/15/2012 11:18:59 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie
I hope that Myth figures a way out of this. Isn’t some CongressCritter suing the admin?

As the title says, Mitt screwed the pooch with his clueless, pandering comment today. All eyes on the right have suddenly turned to him, and lots of them now have raised eyebrows.

He'd better get in front of the citizen outrage in a hurry, and demand that Obama cancel the E.O., or demand that Congress begin impeachment hearings.

At the very least, he's got to immediately begin echoing the right on this. Obama just shredded the law and the Constitution with this illegal act, and he's got to say that. Repeatedly, and with passion (well, at least as much as he can muster without mussing his hair).

My personal expectations run quite low about him doing what he needs to do.

78 posted on 06/15/2012 11:18:59 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: untwist
Why would he allow Obama to take him off message now?

Off message? His 'message' is supposed to reflect his accord with a majority of the American people, our traditions, laws, and Constitution.

It's also supposed to be responsive to unfolding events. People need to see leadership, and there's no better way to do that when challenging an incumbent president, than a crack-fire, correct response to his missteps and blunders.

Romney was crack-fire, alright, but with precisely the WRONG response.

79 posted on 06/15/2012 11:26:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: CitizenUSA
RE :” I guess the emperor grew impatient when he wasn’t

It's an election year and Obama detected this Republican fault line and decided to use it against them. Like Birth Control mandate I expect Republicans will stop talking about this very soon, Just the customary ‘woof woof’

80 posted on 06/15/2012 11:26:48 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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