She got stuck with McCain’s position in 2008. Palin will have to clarify her position for 2012 if she runs, but all her recent statements indicate a serious intent to control the border and not reward illegal behavior. It’s tone as well as words. Words have meaning, so does tone and it’s worth listening to the O’Reilly interview as well as reading it. After the 2010 elections I trust that Palin is with “us” (being Americans that believe in our founding principles and regular middle class people). No way she secretly desires to swamp us with Mexican immigrants . . . and she straight out says that Reagan made a mistake with amnesty.
The interview with O'Reilly you linked in your #125 is from July of 2010 and she is anything but clear:
Palin: Then let's keep it, then, then we won't complicate it any more. Let's keep it simple. And let's say no that if you are here illegally, if you don't follow the steps that at some point in immigration reform that we are going to be able to provide that will allow you somehow to be able to work - if you are not going to do that, then you will be deported. You will be gone.
She was clearly talking about some sort of amnesty scheme back in July, a year and a-half after the 2008 campaign ended. I hope she will clarify her position, but she definitely has not so far, unless you accept her clear reference to future "steps" for illegals to become able to work in the US as her position. And that is an amnesty plan.
I can read and hear. Palin still supports amnesty. The O'Reilly interview confirms that her position has not changed from her Univision interview. She just wants people to register and "play by the rules" so they can continue to stay and work here. She has been consistent on this position whether it is an interview with Lars Larson or O'Reilly. Playing word games may fool many people, but eventually she will be pinned down as she was in the Univision interview. And that will destroy her political ambitions. I warned her advisors at CPAC two years ago that she needed to distance herself from McCain. Instead she endorsed him against JD.