Posted on 05/19/2007 4:38:46 PM PDT by Reaganesque
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/16/romneys_words_grow_hard_on_immigration/
McCain-Kennedy isn't the answer," Romney said in a well-received speech to conservatives in Washington this month, describing it as an amnesty plan that would reward people for breaking the law and cost taxpayers millions to provide them benefits.
But that is markedly different from how Romney once characterized McCain's bill, elements of which are receiving new attention in Congress and from President Bush. Indeed, Romney's past comments on illegal immigration suggest his views have hardened as he has ramped up his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
In a November 2005 interview with the Globe, Romney described immigration proposals by McCain and others as "quite different" from amnesty, because they required illegal immigrants to register with the government, work for years, pay taxes, not take public benefits, and pay a fine before applying for citizenship.
"That's very different than amnesty, where you literally say, 'OK, everybody here gets to stay,' " Romney said in the interview. "It's saying you could work your way into becoming a legal resident of the country by working here without taking benefits and then applying and then paying a fine."
Romney did not specifically endorse McCain's bill, saying he had not yet formulated a full position on immigration. But he did speak approvingly of efforts by McCain and Bush to solve the nation's immigration crisis, calling them "reasonable proposals."
Romney also said in the interview that it was not "practical or economic for the country" to deport the estimated 12 million immigrants living in the US illegally. "These people contribute in many cases to our economy and to our society," he said. "In some cases, they do not. But that's a whole group we're going to have to determine how to deal with."
I’ve also hardened my views over time with respect to illegal immigration. Actually I know very few people who haven’t.
You rail against the lies Liberals tell but use their spin as your source to vilify Romney. Interesting. Your info is straight out of the DNC.
Only 18 months ago, Mitt was doing his best to join the crowd who says amnesty isn't amnesty. That aint' that long ago.
I'm glad he is slamming this bill. But I also question conservative ephiphanies, as Tancredo noted, that happen on the road to Dimascus, not on the road to Des Moines.
Uh, no, that was from an interview Mitt had with the Boston Globe. Unless you can make the case that they kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him to make those statements, I would say that his statements to the Boston Globe Editorial Board were made of his own free will.
I like Mitt. I know he had a hard time being too conservative in Mass. He accompolished quite a bit with an 85% adverse congress. I think he has the right stuff to go all the way. I don’t see that in anyone else.
Hey, check it out. The Mitt boosters now are saying that I am using liberal spin when I cite a Boston Globe interview with Mitt that he volunteered to do.
Get real and deal with the realities of the information age.
Yeah. I’ve posted dozens of Globe articles about Romney - all straight reporting, factual stuff concerning his words and record. Not once have they been able to refute a word of any of it.
The funniest part is that when most of it was reported, it was reported because it was the messaging that the Romney camp wanted to get out...they were looking for liberal votes.
I dunno. Maybe these interviews were done under duress.
Right. They had a gun to his head. No, wait! He banned all them scary guns...
;-)
Of course. Negative info on Romney is unassailable even when it comes from liberal sources (and as we all know, liberal journalists never show bias, just ask them) while anything even remotely positive about Mitt is total BS. Whatever.
So, once again, please enlighten us how it came to pass that Mitt Romney was dragged into a Boston Globe interview against his will and forced under duress to emulate John McCain in parsing amnesty.
This outta be good.
Don’t you two have some puppies to kick or something?
Read the above post. But then, it’s all lies so, what’s the difference?
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