Posted on 11/22/2011 3:37:12 PM PST by kristinn
Hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, the theme of tonight's Republican presidential debate is foreign policy and national security.
The debate is being held at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
CNN is carrying the debate live at 8 p.m. EST.
Participating candidates are: businessman Herman Cain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Reps. Ron Paul (TX) and Michele Bachmann (MN), former Gov. Jon Huntsman, and former Sen. Rick Santorum.
If the trend continues, only blue states will have an illegal alien problem.
That's OK by me.
Are you really a member of the appeasement crowd? Are you willing to throw in the towel like that? Isn't our country worth more than being "invaded" (your words)?
How do we "deport" 20+M Illegals? Like Arizona and Alabama have done. It's simple. Take away the magnets (jobs, free education, free healthcare, welfare).
Don't knock it until we've tried it.
Once we take away the magnets and truly secure the border we can then look at guest worker programs for those who truly appreciate and want to be here...temporarily, or until they become legal.
A work visa is not amnesty.
It is a visa.
>> “Well Newt won this debate” <<
>> “Amnesty isn’t amnesty?” <<
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The liberals here always think “Noot won the debate,” but to the American people noot is the big loser. When he was disgraced out of office, the people got to see who and what he is. He is toast as far as the general election goes, but the GOP’s standard deathwish could get that turd nominated, if for no other reason than to preserve the elite establishment’s power.
“Yep...me too...and they haven’t a clue of the reality of the illegal numbers, nor the reality it’s never going to be a matter of sending them all home...they refuse to face the reality their “Dream” of our nation being without Hispanics is just never going to happen. You cannot send 30 million people back ...can you imagine the rising up they would do against this? “
Well, I’m not sure their “dream” is a Hispanic-free America. There are good people that IMHO just take a more simplistic view of this issue and say “send them all home” without really thinking through how that would ever be accomplished. What I think is more shameful is the obvious pandering to this group by Romney and Bachmann. Speaking of which, I find it strange that those two never seem to end up on opposite sides of an issue, but I digress.
As for Newt, I thought it was courageous for him to bring this up and be willing to take the heat for it-knowing what the reaction would be in threads like this and across the conservative spectrum. He is right though-the reality is you’re not gonna be able to send 30 million people home, and AFTER we get the border secured, we’re gonna have to decide what to do with all these people, and there may need to be some lines drawn. Good people can disagree on this, but I really don’t think this is an unreasonable position. And as an undecided, it didn’t make my view of Newt any less favorable.
Newt is the clear winner tonight.
Romney has a tough road ahead as he and Newt
will be last 2 contenders at the end of the day.
” OK, Rita...you’ve surveyed the ENTIRE country about this? That’s funny, because actual poll after poll seems to disagree with....you. “ <<<<
So, that must be why those at the top of our polls are where they are—because they are all FOR mass deportation, according to your “poll after poll”. Oh. I forgot. Those leading in our polls are, actually, NOT for mass deportation. Go figure.
Now about your poll and all those details you included about your “poll after poll”, I can surmise that the results were indeed showing majorities are in agreement with Rick and Newt that the border needs to be secured. But mass deportation? Not. Hardly.
Here’s insult added to injury: that brunette on CNN just said if Newt had vocalized Perry’s ideas that they’d be taken with much more gravitas.
So it’s not about practical and implemented ideas, it’s about who can theoretically yak about them most efficiently.
Now that's crazy talk. /s
I agree.
Yep!
It’s not our job to control who enters Mexico but it sure as hell IS our job to control who enters the USA!
Anyone know if CNN is running the debate again online ???
Newt comes out for amnesty ... and you think he won?
ROFL
Just go to youtube and watch the uprisings at over just one deportation of a student who grew up here.....you’re dreaming clouds and fluffy stuff if you think they wouldn’t rise up....
Further view the the protest marches when amnesty was front and center....if you start deportations in mass these will be nothing by comparison.
Stupid?...the evidence proves otherwise.
Actually, only Newt and Bachmann actually went on record tonight talking about deporting illegals.
Don’t be shocked when Ron (The eyebrow) Paul, or John (Pretty Girls) Huntsman wins NH.
LOL!
But it doesn’t secure the border!
Unfortunately, the German specialists on resettlements are like General Franco no longer available, and even their record on this amounts to perhaps only 10 million in 5 years in fully militarized zones.
I’m sure some of the Newt/Perry haters here have some practical ideas on how to accomplish this deportation thingy, for the 12, 20, or 30 millions of the inferior races that have invaded us and the haters’ precious paradisic reality.
Playing the race card? Are you sure you’re not a lib?
>> “...do you honestly believe this government is going to deport 30 million people?” <<
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Bet on it! - They’ll deport themselves when enforcement dries up the jobs.
You ‘Noot’ surrender monkies are disgusting.
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