Posted on 08/23/2015 11:06:12 AM PDT by Rockitz
Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said he’s “not taking a position…one way or the other” on birthright citizenship, and all other issues pertaining to immigration can’t be addressed “until you actually secure the borders and enforce the laws” in an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood released on Friday.
Walker was asked about his support for ending birthright citizenship. He stated, “When it comes to birthright, or anything else, I said until you…actually secure the border, and start enforcing the laws, any politician who talks about anything else beyond that, the American people should be suspect, because we’ve talked for 25 years about those things. I’ve actually talked about doing it.”
Walker was asked about his position on a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, he maintained that “in both of those instances,” “I don’t think any of those issues can be addressed until you actually secure the borders and enforce the laws.”
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And this is about more than illegal immigration, it's about national security.
Yup. And there I am at post 63 once again - 12 years ago - explaining the concept of a subject and how it plays in naturalization.
Sure does take a long time to get a point across.
George Will’s Appalling Flip-Flop on Birthright Citizenship
Of the three, what don’t the majority of Americans agree with?
Agree. We need to end birthright citizenship for those who are not here on a legal, permanent basis.
I like Walker & respect what he’s done, but you have to step up here & not go into the fetal position about this issue. The public is ready to face this issue. Trump knows that.
Back to your point on his campaign benefactors...
Perhaps WaPo has the answer:
At the same time, Walker has veered to the right on abortion and other social issues, worrying some top backers. Stanley S. Hubbard, a conservative billionaire who oversees a Minnesota broadcasting company and has donated to Walker’s campaign, said the candidate has promised that he would not push a “social agenda” as president and is simply expressing his personal beliefs when asked…
Hubbard strongly opposes one immigration measure pushed by Trump this week: a call to stop giving citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States. Walker said in an interview Monday that he would support ending birthright citizenship, then said other reforms might make that unnecessary.
Hubbard said that he “might really quickly change my allegiance” if Walker pushed for such a repeal, and that he “did not get a real straight answer” from the candidate at his Tuesday lunch. But Hubbard, who came away ready write more checks to help Walker, added: “I got the feeling that he is not at all anxious to talk about taking away those rights.”
The donor class is centrist and pro-amnesty and Walker’s depending upon their cash to keep him running well into next summer. If he goes hard right to keep pace with Trump, some of his backers may abandon ship and move over to Rubio as the other electable guy in the race who’s not named “Bush.” What you’re seeing in the clip below, with Walker emphasizing border security as a solution to the problem of birthright citizenship while remaining undecided on the merits of the issue, is his way of trying to balance what donors want to hear with what Trump fans want to hear. His bankrollers will cut him some rhetorical slack in pandering to border-hawk rubes on the right like me (so long as he has no intention on keeping his promises as president, of course), but once he starts hinting about amending the Fourteenth Amendment, that’s when they start looking at Rubio as the obviously superior retail politician. Walker’s trying to make everyone happy, which usually means making no one happy.
Sure, or as Sean Connery pronounced it, “Poosie”
(from freeper headstamp 2)
Let it go to voicemail - No 3am call til the border is secure.
*This is probably the smart tact on this issue at this time.*
Bring tactical instead of honest is what conservative folks are SICK OF. He loses.
Whimp! The US Constitution give him all the information he needs. Way to pass the buck to federal employees who work for us, and he never asked us what we thought!
“His handlers (i.e., money men) did a LOUSY job of getting him ready for this campaign. He should have had all of this immigration stuff down solid before campaigning...”
Do you even NEED handlers to know that you need to know your stuff, on immigration. I mean, it’s URGENT. It’s an invasion! It is now months ago that he knew enough to high tail it to the border nose through the facts.
There is one reason a candidate drags his feet on addressing an invasion. He’s in the tank for the CoC, K Street crowd.
Bring =being
He can't hide anymore behind that empty line about securing the border first, before he will be able to begin to tell us what he will do about these related important issues. That phony line has been abused too many times in the past, and only a fool would buy that crap Walker is still spouting. He should learn quickly that that line no longer works to buy cover, and he should start right away to address the other related questions in an honest and forthright way, and not keep trying to duck them and dodge them until the election is over.
Coward
Now’s the time to take a stand.
Walker’s wimping out.
Me? Or Walker?
bfl
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