Palin is about moving the nation to the right, and creating a right wing movement with plenty of candidates and office holders to represent us.
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
Posted on 04/18/2015 11:03:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Over at American Thinker, Pedro Gonzales offers an excellent overview of the GOP field's positions on Amnesty. Here's the executive summary: only one candidate has never changed his position on the topic.
Jeb Bush
"...Jeb, as we all know, supports amnesty for illegal aliens, and he's proud of it. If he were running in Honduras, I would vote for him in a minute..."
Marco Rubio
"...Rubio co-authored a bill that would have given amnesty to illegal aliens. He has since tried to walk back from that..."
Chris Christie
"...Chris has been cagey on the subject, but one thing is clear: he ordered his appointee to Frank Lautenberg's Senate seat to vote for Marco Rubio's amnesty bill..."
Rick Perry
"...Perry is tough on illegal immigrants! He sent a handful of national guard troops to the border! (With orders not to arrest any illegals.) But as for those illegals who manage to slip through this imposing gauntlet, Perry rewards them with taxpayer-subsidized college educations. If he's paying for illegals to go to college, I think it's safe to say he supports amnesty..."
Mike Huckabee
"...in February 2007, Huckabee ... stated, 'We shouldn't have amnesty where we just say, "Fine, everybody's good, we're going to let it go.' We should have a process where people can pay the penalties, step up and accept responsibility for not being here legally..."
Scott Walker
"...Walker backed the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill in 2006... [and] went as far as to tell POLITICO in 2013 that he supported a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants..."
Rand Paul
"...Paul claims he's against amnesty, but he voted for an amendment to give 2 million 'temporary' visas to illegal aliens annually...who could then apply for citizenship. It looks like amnesty to me..."
Ted Cruz
"Cruz is the only major candidate who has never supported or endorsed amnesty."
As they say on the real blogs, read the whole thing.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 2015:“We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”
“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
Seriously?
On a thread that has so much Palin and Cruz on it, you want to jump in with Walker, the amnesty man?
So Cruz is your immigration villain?
?
I read the posted material and replied.
I didn’t realize this piece was closed to factual rebuttal.
What did you rebut about the amnesty man?
He has revealed that he supports citizenship, did you show that video as fake?
Actually, there are two. Bush has always been an open border or no-border guy.
She acted and spoke like she was against it
Then strongly supported Uber Amnesty McCain over JD
She claimed she opposed amnesty but supported path to citizenship Publicly
Which to me is like earned but forgiven amnesty in reality rather than just blank check amnesty ala Dems or Jeb or Bush II
Kind of in between being no amnesty and pro amnesty
TRUTH IS ONLY CRUZ has never said he supports amnesty or path to citizenship
He alone.
Freepers don’t like things critical of Sarah Palin but on this issue so far
Ted wins in my opinion
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Sarah_Palin_Immigration.htm
Care to tell us Sarah Palin’s true position on immigration, and Ted Cruz?
Palin as Secretary of Energy in the first Cruz administration would be a win for everyone.
I don’t think she ever intended to run last time
November in today’s world is too late unless all parts already in place
I think vicious crap like the McGinnis book and a brigade of detectives bound to get every juicy detail of her and her daughter sex life for public viewing killed any chance she will ever run for president
It would be like that offensive 2000 election timed movie financed by Stephen Speilberg and Katzenberg and Geffen and the Weinsteins...
The Contender....with Gary Oldman and Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen as the victim
Tape surfaces of her as libtard senator running for Democrat VEEP....ALLEGEDLY shows her as the object of affection in a college gang bang complete with double ender action on tape
The GOP are shown as villains of course
You never know if it’s true or not.....
But it’s exactly what they’d do to her....make it up and throw it at her....
I don’t blame her really......
These folks control our movies largely and they do this at election time and will again next year
It’s disgusting
It’s harder to use the sexual slut card against a man.....even when true
How can you portray two politicians joined at the hip, as two different people.
Do you not understand that Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are unlike anything that we have ever seem, they are a true political team, joined at the hip.
They are not that to me but feel free to believe that.
Sarah Palin will never run for national office again in my opinion but maybe for senate somewhere one day
Cruz is running now
Actually if anyone is closest to Cruz it’s Mike Lee
I know your Sarah Palin support meter was always a spinal tap 11
Mine was a 10 at first but it’s dimmed a lot since
Cruz doesn’t spark emotion from me in his speeches like Sarah’s first ones did but he’s a more capable politician and unflappable
He has a shot
But I fear we are business as usual again:
Hostile media onslaught of GOP dwarfs for over a year in primaries etc while giving Dem more of a pass
Hostile media moderating GOP debates yet again making fools of all but Newt last time
A gaggle of conservative and sorta conservative GOP guys share same bloc through Super Tuesday while Jebbie with war chest and Fox News skates to nomination and we get yet another low turnout for yet another Rockefeller Bush style nominee and lose to any Dem
That’s how I see it baring something monumental and fortuitous
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
“...they are a true political team, joined at the hip...”
“Joined at the hip” doesn’t really seem to fit. Perhaps, “Cut from the same cloth”? “Birds of a feather”? “Kindred spirits”?
If either one suddenly retired and was never heard from again, I don’t see how the other would be affected, either negatively or positively.
Are you an idiot?
It seems that you don’t have any real input.
That’s true...her endorsement got what looked iffy for Cruz done
In social conservative states her endorsement is worth more than a Vegas billionaires cash
Cruz describes it.
”He told Allen that the reason why Palin’s endorsement has had such an enormous impact is because voters consider her a true barometer of conservatism.
“In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical. They are tired of these candidates that sounds great on the stump. They say they are going to cut spending, they get into the office and they become spineless jellyfish,” Cruz said. “I think conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is a real deal.”””
“...A gaggle of conservative and sorta conservative GOP guys share same bloc through Super Tuesday while Jebbie with war chest and Fox News skates to nomination and we get yet another low turnout for yet another Rockefeller Bush style nominee and lose to any Dem...”
That certainly seems to be the usual playbook that the GOP closely follows.
We (the political right) could kill that by coalescing around a candidate early. But we won’t. As usual, we can only be relied upon to form our passionate circular firing squad and do ourselves in.
You would think, when it comes to conservative creds, Cruz would be *at the very least* “reasonably acceptable” if not a slam-dunk. But even here on FR, in this very thread and others, fault must be found and pointed out.
I’m not saying that we have to be in lockstep and agree with everything a candidate says, but I am saying that if Cruz is not acceptably conservative enough to earn early support and vote pledges from the overwhelming majority of self-identified conservative voters, then there is simply no candidate we can ever hope to run that will do. If we find ourselves debating between Christie, Bush, Paul, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Jindal, Walker, Pence, Kasich, Perry, Santorum, etc and Cruz as to which candidate aligns closest to conservative values, then we DO NOT deserve a conservative candidate. I mean, in this particular line up, it should be bloody obvious with no need for navel-gazing and nit-picking.
“...Are you an idiot? It seems that you don’t have any real input...”
Pot, meet kettle.
My question about your post 34 was a sincere question. Will you please answer it?
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