Posted on 06/25/2012 7:51:24 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
In Arizona v. United States, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the federal government has no basis to nullify the "show me your papers" provision of Arizona's immigration law. Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, moderate Anthony Kennedy, liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- even Obama appointee Sonia Sotomayor -- all shot down the administration's effort to stop that part of the law. (Obama appointee Elena Kagan stayed out of it because she had taken part in the action as a member of the administration.)
Yet even with that unanimity -- a position supported, if the polls are correct, by a solid majority of the public and an overwhelming majority of Republicans -- GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney would not specifically say he agreed with the court's view on "show me your papers."
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Romney's words again suggested he agrees with the court's opinion on "show me your papers." But again, he offered nothing to make clear his position on the central issue of the Arizona immigration fight.
Perhaps Romney was just exercising his legendary caution. But if Scalia and Sotomayor can agree on something, what would be the risk in Romney agreeing with it, too?
Though it touched on many questions, the political fight over the Arizona immigration law focused on a very specific issue: Should police who have stopped a person for some legitimate reason then check that person's status if they have reason to believe he or she might be in the country illegally? On Monday, Mitt Romney had the perfect opportunity to align himself with the conservative -- and popular -- side of the question, and declined to take it.
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Oh brother.
Sorry, I have to live on the planet Earth.
Dah? Obama.
That's why Rush, Levin, Palin, and Reagan, in his grave, support Romney. The grownups will get Romney Elected! It's Romney vs Obama. Who's better for America?
Conservatives who are not 100% behind Romney are abandoning their conservatism.
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Kid youre wasting your time...
Romneybot talking points are straight out of the Alinsky playbook..
take your square ball and go home...
our Conservative goals have a different shape...
America wasnt built on the foundation of liberal ambitions...
She was built on that strange, antiquated idea of FREEDOM...
What Willie Mitty is selling is not FREE...
and its definantly not CONSERVATIVE..
” Romney’s lame campaign trying to avoid any specifics and sneak in under the radar screen is not working “
Not so far it isn’t. Hoping for Obama to implode, maybe?
Helluva strategy “ Vote for me, because I’m not an incompetent communist”
He's not even saying that. He is just saying : 'vote for me because Obama’s economic policies haven't worked. And don't ask me questions about me, just vote for me with your eyes closed, I dont matter. And obama's a nice well meaning guy'
Shades of McCain
I can't wait to grow up so I can have the power of clairvoyance, too. ;-)
Do what you want to do but I'm not persuaded by fear or a false dichotomy to vote for Romney. As a conservative, I've been fighting against the progressive politics of the Romney-types my whole political life. I'm not going to surrender the fight to a modern-day Nelson Rockefeller in order to replace Obama. The improvement is far too small to justify selling out my principles. Ford, Dole, and McCain forced conservatives to compromise their principles (and I did) but Mitt Romney forces conservatives to totally sell out their principles (and I won't).
He's not even saying that. He is just saying : 'vote for me because Obama’s economic policies haven't worked. And don't ask me questions about me, just vote for me with your eyes closed, I dont matter. And obama's a nice well meaning guy'
Romney and 60 GOP senators will repeal it.
And grow if you thonk the gop would do the same thing again.
Romney and 60 GOP senators will repeal it.
And grow if you think the GOP would do the same thing again.
Given Romney's history of saying whatever he thinks you want to hear, how can you be confident that he'll follow through? This is Romney's current flip. Who's to say that he won't have a different flop tomorrow?
If Obamacare is repealed by Romney, he'll try to replace it with some form of RomneyCare which was the blueprint for ObamaCare. One way or another, it is socialized medicine. RomneyCare had the individual mandate long before ObamaCare. A rose by any other name....
I've got some swampland in Florida, I'd like to sell you.
Wow, that clairvoyance again.
The worst Presidential candidate Reagan was forced to support was Ford. Romney is decidedly to the left of where Ford was. Given the Romney family active opposition to the Goldwater and Reagan Revolutions, Mitt Romney might be a bridge too far for even the party loyalist, Ronald Reagan. I don't know but you don't either. I'm really confident the Gipper would have told me to "smell" the coffee.
If the Gipper would have told me that, I'm really confident that he would have told me to "smell" the coffee.
Being a trained actor, he didn't often botch his lines.
Romney is better than Ford
If that is true, and it's not, it's still incredibly faint praise.
Reagan backed Ford and every Republican Nominee and he would be supporting Romney, The jerks that don’t supporting with all they got will get Obama Reelected and will make ObamaCare the Permanent Law Of The LAND.
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