John Boehner, eGOP leader and Speak of the House.
Posted on 08/13/2015 8:00:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
DERRY, N.H. – It was the last question at Gov. John R. Kasich’s town-hall-style meeting here on Wednesday, and it also was perhaps the bluntest.
“Governor Kasich, how do you feel about amnesty for the illegals?” asked a voter near the back of a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall here.
Mr. Kasich, an Ohio Republican, started off sounding like a border hawk, saying he wanted to “finish the wall” along the border with Mexico.
But when he answered the question at hand, he sounded a far more pragmatic note. “If they’ve been law-abiding, then I think they should stay,” he said, referring to immigrants in this country illegally.
Mr. Kasich then seemed to say that the mass deportation of immigrants was not a viable option — “it is not practical nor is it I think desirable,” he began to say when the questioner interjected.
Won’t letting illegal immigrants stay in the country, the voter asked, mean that they will “end up on the system like everybody else?”
At this, Mr. Kasich let slip a dose of his trademark bluntness.
“No, I think that a lot of these people who are here are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet,” he shot back, winning scattered applause.
At that, he brought the event to an end. “O.K., listen I think we’re done because they’re telling me I got to go,” he said.
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Haven't we tried that before to record deficits and debt ( until Obama broke the record )?
The left has defined “more caring” as “more government” for about a century now in the US. The track record of that speaks for itself.
Ñnnnnnoooooooo...only if they want to help elect Dems, you idgit
Here we go again and again and again.
Or different from Romney the 2 time loser?
Conservatives have always been “compassionate”.
It’s the left that created and wants to maintain a permanent underclass that will march to the polls like lemmings and “vote for the donkey” because they’ve been convinced that it’s the Governments job to take care of them.
Jeb Kasich deigns to instruct us on how to be more loving and not so heartless.
It’s the same crap. (Where it the Freeper with the “not this s**t again sign?)
There is nothing compassionate about giving away what doesn’t belong to you.
Kasich has a screw loose. More than once, he has lost his temper when criticized and he scares me.
FAIL
Hey Kasich, name one, just one liberal private charity that feeds, clothes and houses those in need.
A candidate who criticizes conservatives for being uncaring (implicitly or explicitly) can never win my vote.
In fact, that crap, starting with “kinder, gentler” in 1988 serves only to split the right and to divide the white vote into “good” people and “bad” conservatives, and should be called out whenever and wherever it appears.
Basically he’s conceding to the liberal democrat mantra that conservatives are “not a caring group” when in reality conservatives are more caring from the womb to the nursing home.
Jeb Bush also said something similar claiming that conservatives are too racists and need to be more open to black americans.
This type of republican fuels the liberal democrat’s fire.
How the hell did he make it to the first prime time debate? A big part of me thinks it was a FOX news favor to Ohio.
“If they’ve been law-abiding, then I think they should stay” …Who is he kidding? And he isn’t clever enough to follow that up with pointing out that being here illegally cannot be defined, or redefined, as “law-abiding”.
Another GOPe moron who has not bothered to look out the window and note that the “peasants” are at the door with torches and pitchforks
Get the hell out you pissant, nobody CARES about you and your opinion.
John Boehner, eGOP leader and Speak of the House.
He is in the race solely to deliver Ohio
For Bush. Graham, Gilmore and Pataki are
To deliver their states. We are just pawns
In the Party game he/they think.
“No, I think that a lot of these people who are here are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet” …Yeah, especially the gang members.
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