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Newt is smart. When asked who has inspired him during the campaign, he reached out to the very conservatives giving Santorum and Perry credit. He complimented probablt a very popylar governor in owa. He helped voice a message that most of Israel and many Jews is porobaly true. He looked for some kind of limited amnesty based on a World War II selective service program to reach out to moderates. If you are a strict conservative, you may think you have all your principals in place, but the only way you can win a general election is to have everyone think like you. Whether you like it or not, there has to be some degree of moderation to attract independents and moderates. That’s just reality.

Mostly I like Newt, and Rick, if I can use the familiar. I think that when Newt speaks on immigration, he is only being realistic at best; it will not be the case that the US government will deport (nor even ever identify) all illegal aliens. Those long ensconced in a community might be discovered in some accident, but unless they are some notorious criminal or wastrel, the community would strenuously object to their deportation, I would think.

But of course, our boarders needs to be secured to keep the boat afloat.