“Cain has the same position as Newt on the issue of what to do with the millions already here - selective deportation, but not blanket deportation.”
The difference is, unlike Newt and Perry, Cain isn’t claiming that conservative resistance to “selective deportation” instead of “blanket deportation” is some deep moral character flaw.
Selective deportation might be a necessary construct, but the goal should be ever more pressure for that selection to be self-selection.
If millions stay here after the border is closed, it’s not because we are being humane, or because we have a heart. It’s because it’s simply impractical to deport 12 million people in one fell swoop. That doesn’t mean that shouldn’t be the eventual goal.
And I could care less if Perry thinks I’m heartless, or Newt thinks I’m inhumane. They, however, should care very much how their moral superiority on illegal occupation will affect their votes. Or rather, they should have cared before they pissed those votes away.