Posted on 06/17/2012 7:52:00 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
The Republican presidential candidate tells CBS” ”Face the Nation” that if he’s president, Obama’s executive order “would be overtaken by events … by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution.”
Romney was asked three times in the interview if he would overturn Obama’s order, but he didn’t directly answer the question. Instead, he said would work to pass a law to help those young people who were “brought in by their parents through no fault of their own.” Romney said he doesn’t know why Obama “feels stop-gap measures are the right way to go.”
The candidate’s comments represent a further softening of his rhetoric on immigration since the GOP primary campaign ended.
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“I’m FAR from a Romney-bot (look at my posting history this year), but I just think he’s playing it safe, given that there are MILLIONS of Hispanics that could be energized to sign-up (legally or illegally, they don’t care) and throw the election to Obama.”
EXACTLY.
This is just one more of Obama’s Circus of Distractions!
“War on Women” and the contraception debate.
Then he comes out of the closet for gay marriage.
Then he panders to college students over loans.
Now Obama wants amnesty / dream act via Presidential fiat.
Each pander for more votes from a Dem constituency.
THIS IS ALL A DISTRACTION from Obama’s horrible economic record and his utter failure on jobs and economic growth.
Romney’s campaign is all about The Economy (”and we are not stupid”). He’s not getting baited by Obama.
Anyone who thinks the GOP Congress will pass the Dream Act is nuts. Pelosi and Reid didnt do that cause the votes are not there. If Romney wins, we will at least 40 Tea Party GOP Senators, and any RINO tomfoolery will be kaput. It wont happen.
Judging by his record of judicial appointments, I'm a lot more pessimistic than you, about the sort of people he'd nominate to the Supreme Court.
I honestly do not see what there is in Romney that is giving so many Republicans confidence that he'll be even marginally different as president than Obama is. They've both pushed the exact same agenda, although Romney's done so with a smile on his face, and spouting calming reassurances all the while. At the end of the day, you get the same Socialist effects from both of them.
Of course it is, but it's still using the power of an all-powerful government to foist unwanted policies upon an unwilling people. That's not governing by consent.
Agreed, VG. Sadly, I agree.
I am not thinking too narrow. You are. I would love to see Obuggery impeached, tried and punished to the maximum limits that the law allows. The risk of getting him for a 2nd term is too great.
Oh really? You can't prove that by his record:
Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Romney's "severely conservative" accomplishments.
1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA
2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA
3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly
4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA
5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.
6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming
7. Supported the Brady Bill
8. Implemented a state level “Assault” Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.
9. Supported TARP
10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)
11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)
12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.
13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers.
I disagree that BHO2’s chance of getting a 2nd term is great.
The situation is this: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
The majority of respondees will say, “Hell NO!”
The only way BHO2 can win another four years as President will be with massive election fraud. Take heart in knowing he cannot pull it off in all the states, only a very few. That will not be enough to get the electoral votes he will need to be reelected.
Good then we will punish him after he is voted out.
“If Willard becomes president, a Republican dominated congress will roll over and beg him to scratch their bellies.”
Bush tried that amnesty nonsense and was throughly shot down by a Republican Congress so what you predict about a fawning Republican Congress is not set in stone by any means.
Your own state of Texas has a Senate race going on that may be a bellweather for what we can expect in the incoming new Congress. Will the establishment candidate (RINO???) win out against the TEA Party Conservitive favorite??????
The consensus seems to be that Ted Cruz is the type of man we need. What’s your take, and what’s the race look like on the ground Ronny? If Cruz takes the Primary, it seems to bode well for getting the kind of Congress we need to keep Romney on the Up and Up.......
“Obama issued an edict which flies into the face of the will of the vast majority of American citizens and our immigration laws, and Romney merely disagreed with the way Obama moved the ball down field - not with the fact that America lost yardage.”
We don’t know that yet. For now I’ll accept the premiss that Romney won’t be fighting any pyrric battles win The Won. He’ll keep the message simple and on point. Obama has been an economic disaster for the US. (I count Obamacare in that equation). Repeat over and over. Rinse, and flush the dirt out of the White House.....
I understand your skeptism concerning Romney and agree.
Mis-trust of Romney makes it important that we clear out the deadwood and elect a Big C Conservative Congress to prevent Romney from reverting to his RINO/talk out of both sides of his mouth past.....
Anything said by Romney prior to winning the election is a blow in the wind. The remedy for all that hot air is a Conservative Congress. I plan on having to burn up the lines and e-mail to our Congresscritters for the next few years regardless of who wins.
Short of nukeing DC from outer space, it’s the only way to be sure.
If you think that a Republican dominated Congress is going to oppose the will of a Republican president, no matter what his agenda is, you're smoking funny cigarettes.
“Yeah, we’d probably be smart to follow Mitt’s example just give up on all that patriotic, constitutional, pro-America stuff. Much easier to stop fighting with the left, and figure out how to beat them at their own agenda.
What a winning strategy!”
While I certainly understand the desire to fight on principle, fighting when you don’t have any power is generally futile and tends to make things that much worse.
The Dems learned that lesson and behaved very carefully in 2007 and 2008 when they ran Congress, but Bush was still president. Not a peep about Amnesty or Health Care back then, or anything else that would make them look extreme. Better to hold quiet until they got their dictator elected - and they did. They were not about to blow the 2008 presidential election by acting on principal. It seems Romney’s campaign understands that also.
I tend to agree. Why make a statement NW when this EO will likely be halted by the lawsuits that will be filed next week? Then Romney can then make a statement after the judiciary throws out the EO. He will get better exposure after that.
Not true.
McCain's amnesty plan was shot down by the American people, who burned up every electronic portal into Washington DC. The US Congress simply looked on, and took stock of which side their bread was buttered on. They voted accordingly.
The rest of George Bush's liberal agenda passed through the Republican Congress like worms through a goose.
The same thing will happen if we retake Congress and elect Willard as president. The Republicans are NOT going to stand against the leader of their own party unless the American people FORCE them to.
On the other hand, if the Usurper is still in office, a Republican Congress will fight him tooth and nail, and seek to thwart (and possibly even roll back) every part of his agenda.
Art of War 101.
Tell that to the barefoot, freezing farmers, who defeated the world's most powerful empire and founded America.
Today, we Americans who believe in the principles the Founding Generation fought and died for, are far better positioned to restore what they sacrificed so much to build. We are the majority in this fight, despite the current roll call in Congress.
To assume that we have "no power" is simply ignoring reality. We most definitely DO have the power, but we're foolishly entrusting a man who bears no resemblance to us, to do our bidding, once elected.
The political reality is that he will control a full third of the government, and will have major influence over another third, even if it's mostly comprised of Republicans. In effect, the political dynamics that are killing the nation now, will remain exactly as they are, and so will the political agenda.
And yet, there’s an actual conservative candidate for ‘12 POTUS named Virgil Goode who has a lot of past political experience and who would not waver in his conservatism, on any issue. But, Virgil is running as a candidate for the Constitution Party, and minor political parties don’t count for anything serious enough to get the majority of voters to, actually, vote for them. Frustrating! With two leftists remaining as the final serious picks for ‘12 POTUS, how is the U.S. not in deep trouble, for the long-term? How is U.S. conservatism not in deep trouble, for the long-term?
Correct!
Willard you traitor
18-30 are not “young people”
Theyre adults ...most of them with ANCKER BABIES of their own...
and Willard you ignoramous...
THEY CANNOT JOIN THE US MILITARY...
It shouldn’t be up to Romney to overturn this.
The GOP opposition should be threatening action. It’s all they should be talking about. 2010 happened for a reason and some in Congress have forgotten.
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