Posted on 04/28/2010 2:01:54 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Karl Rove, who served as chief political strategist for former President George W. Bush, is the latest Republican to speak out against Arizona's controversial new immigration law, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
"I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill," Rove reportedly said at a senior community center in The Villages, Forida, where he made a stop on his book tour. "I wished they hadn't passed it, in a way."
Arizona's new law, signed by the governor on Friday, would require immigrants to carry documents verifying their immigration status. It would also require police officers to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that person may be illegally in the country.
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Yep. It works. Look what a job Axelrod did on getting us a community organizer elected as President. And he was awarded a Nobel Prize for just two months in office as President. Now that is salesmanship.
NOTE: I would love to see that shill McCain's statements on the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know it wasn’t entirely Rove’s fault, but he was one of the principle architects of the Republican’s demise. You’d think, that at minimum, he would have learned to keep his mouth shut.
It is called a Green Card. schmuck !
I have a problem with ANY elected official or law enforcement personnel who does not know that anyone here legally IS REQUIRED ALREADY TO CARRY “THEIR PAPERS” with them at all times! Those that do, have absolutely NO problem showing them either.
We should have known Karl would say just exactly what he said. He is one of those “compassionate conservatives”.
I stand by my character assessment of Bush's being motivated by his ecstatic Christian conversion but I do not insist that those values cannot be congruent with self-interest or even the issues of American businessmen.
There is much that we have reconsidered about George Bush with the fullness and perspective of time.
Wasn’t it Rasputin Rove who said, “Where are they going to go?” in reference to angry GOP voters?
Well Karl, it would appear that we’ve found a place to go. We are the Tea Partiers AND Minutemen.
The elite repubs, will not do that, so we will need to roll right over them. Just as we are doing for Mark Rubio, and before some here say Rubio is against the bill too, he did not say what was reported he said. It was reworded and taken completely out of context.
same asshats that got us in trouble...go away fatty
took many here a long time to smell the coffee on this one didn’t it?
It reminds me of the factory owner who when told that he was losing a nickel a widget, responded, “Don’t worry, we will make it up in volume.” Much of the GOP establishment is delusional.
I admonish you for nothing as that is not my place. I was merely commenting on your assessment of Bush's spirituality.
I stand by my character assessment of Bush's being motivated by his ecstatic Christian conversion but I do not insist that those values cannot be congruent with self-interest or even the issues of American businessmen.
Fair enough. Personally, I believe Bush's Christianity was as much of an act as his being a rancher.
Recall that Bill and Hillary Clinton also attended church every Sunday, and no one would ever think they were Christian.
There is much that we have reconsidered about George Bush with the fullness and perspective of time.
Speak for yourself, brother. I knew all I needed to know when, in 1999, Bush was heard to utter, "There ought to be limits to freedom." I have been proven right in my initial assessment with each passing day and each new revelation.
I hope you’re right.
Wasn’t there a time when eligibility for social services required five years of citizenship? If not, there should be. If folks want to come here legally and not just to get on the plethora of social services, they can go thru the process and not be eligible for 5 years, except in cases of emergency.
I don’t have the authority to judge his religion but I can judge his policies. And from 06 on they were geared towards democrats.
Rove has always sucked.
He had alot of minions fooled on FR too. He is nothing but a poll happy strategist.
Current list of RINOs against an Illegal Immigration Bill:
Rubio
Jeb Bush
Tom Ridge
Karl Rove
Please feel free to add to the list...I think I’m going to have to start a PAC or something, this country is being betrayed.
It’s why many believe that the only difference between D’s and R’s is the color of the campaign stickers.
The problem with politicians is that they suck at math. Every notice that the actuarials in DC all work in supposedly ‘non-political’ offices? OMB, CBO . . .
They literally stick the mathmaticians and accountants somewhere else, like lepers on Molokai.
Hawaii is actually a pretty apt metaphor here, in that the ‘party-goers’, both blue and red, are drunk off their asses and serving pork on black sand beaches. All the while the hideous, diseased accountants and mathmaticians are all on Molokai somewhere like lepers, fiddling their abaci and spreadsheets with horribly swollen figures running with sores, dying horrible career deaths in sick buildings with 1949 architecture and poor ventilation.
“Man Im pissed today. Everyone but FR folks have lost their ever lovin mind!!!”
Amen! WTF is going on?
You are correct that there is a five year wait for legal immigrants. However, Obamacare waives that requirement.
I don’t think so. He’s a political operative, I’m sure he first thinks from the point of view of “How is this going to affect Republicans winning this year?”
The MSM has jumped on this like a starving man on a desert island. Anything to take the momentum away from the tea parties and Obamacare.
If Rove comes out and says he thinks its a bad immoral law, I’ll think different. But I’m not getting that.
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