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2012 Presidential Hopefuls' Immigration Stances (highlights: Perry D-, Bachman B-)
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Posted on 08/14/2011 9:25:36 AM PDT by teg_76

See chart at link...

(Excerpt) Read more at numbersusa.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bachmann; laraza4perry; larazarepublican; palin; perry; perry4amnesty; romney
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Overall pretty unimpressive......
1 posted on 08/14/2011 9:25:44 AM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

Oh, but Saint Sarah pretty got much the same grade. People don’t agree with Gov. Perry on one issue and they are determined to smear and beat him into the ground. Sick.


2 posted on 08/14/2011 9:30:17 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 ("FREEDOM, PROSPERITY, RESPONSIBILITY: RICK PERRY 2012!")
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To: wk4bush2004

CORRECTION: ***got pretty much***


3 posted on 08/14/2011 9:31:06 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 ("FREEDOM, PROSPERITY, RESPONSIBILITY: RICK PERRY 2012!")
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To: teg_76

All I can say is Obama is stuck at -22 in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll 4 days in a row!


4 posted on 08/14/2011 9:31:27 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: teg_76

Some of them are more about candidates not yet having a record, and not having made a lot of comments about it, especially how they will handle it at a national level.

For example, Sarah Palin has a “D”. Let’s face it, you don’t deal with a lot of immigration issues as Governor of Alaska, so there’s not much to go on with her record. She’s made some statements, but she hasn’t put together a campaign platform yet.

I presume that if she enters, she’ll have a page on her web site where she details her intentions, and then it will be easier to rank her.

On the other hand, I have to wonder exactly how much this particular group is pushing for, when the BEST score for any possible presidential candidate is Bachman’s B-. They have set a pretty high bar, I think.


5 posted on 08/14/2011 9:31:57 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: wk4bush2004

Figures someone who idolizes big spending amnesty loving GWB enough to put him in his handle would also support Perry.


6 posted on 08/14/2011 9:31:59 AM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

Oh I love how they lump illegal immigration with legal immigration. That’s grand.


7 posted on 08/14/2011 9:33:35 AM PDT by GOPyouth ("We're buying shrimp, guys. Come on." - Dear Leader)
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To: wk4bush2004

The problem is that issue will determine the fate of this country more than any other, because of its impact on elections.


8 posted on 08/14/2011 9:34:32 AM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76
highlight: Palin D

I almost forgot that not only is Ron Paul fine with Iran getting a nuke, but he is open borders.

9 posted on 08/14/2011 9:34:38 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: teg_76

D- for Perry

D for Palin

C+ for Pawlenty (who’s gone now)

B- for Bachmann

(Bachmann WINS!!!)


10 posted on 08/14/2011 9:38:05 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: teg_76

Looks to me like they’re lumping ALL immigration into their grading system? Also looks like a candidate not saying anything about a particular issue (such as tackling refugee fraud) is counted against them.

Palin has said that immigrants should stand in line and follow the law. If someone could come up with a stance like that by Perry......


11 posted on 08/14/2011 9:39:11 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
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To: KansasGirl

Did grade did Reagan, the greatest President of the 20th century get?


12 posted on 08/14/2011 9:39:11 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin 2012 - Nothing but Net)
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To: GOPyouth

Legal immigration is actually a bigger problem than illegal immigration in terms of its long term impact on this country.


13 posted on 08/14/2011 9:39:18 AM PDT by kabar
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To: wk4bush2004

Time for a separate forum section called

“Rick Perry wants to give back the Alamo and build mosques”


14 posted on 08/14/2011 9:41:03 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: teg_76
One more reason for me to support Bachmann. The fact that Perry used the Obama/ACORN/SEIU slogan at the Dream Act signing is rather disturbing in itself.

"We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "We don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there." And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders[;] the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede [education is the future, and yes, we can]."
15 posted on 08/14/2011 9:43:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Spirit of Liberty
Palin has said that immigrants should stand in line and follow the law.

The issue is where that line begins. Palin has supported an amnesty in the past.

Palin Interview with Univision

16 posted on 08/14/2011 9:43:49 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Pelham; TexasFreeper2009; WriterInTX

what we were talking about....borders and Texas

but on Texas...it’s a weird place politically...yes extremely Mexercan

but a few do not go Left...I don’t think TexMexercans vote like blacks ...but at least 2/3rds do...maybe more..GOP there tend to hype the numbers

But what impressed me is aside from Austin, Texans seem a lot like me ideologically...much more so than here in Nashville which is just like Austin.

I spent 3 days in June in Dallas...lotsa eating and shopping in Highland Park, lower McKinney , NorthPark etc and seeing kinfolks...we were astounding that most of the white folks we were talking to were at least culturally like we were...God, hunting, pissed at Obama and not keen on multiculturalism...even on hyper rich Turtle Creek

now in Nashville...no way...the tony areas are eat up with libs...a high roller GOP family here and there like the Ingrams or Frists but many are rich lib Californians and other outsiders and a lot of young and old formerly yellow and now blue dogs locally reared

I can say that Dallas is the most culturally conservative big city I have been in around whites...maybe even more so than Salt Lake

problem is the minorities dilute that but here in 28% black Nashville, the whites are majority libs...and not very Southern anymore....I heard my accent more often than not in Dallas amongst whites...in Nashville I notice when folks speak like me

I found that interesting...some big D folks here might explain I’m wrong..and I will listen...I lived in Dallas in late 50s as a child in an apt off Preston...and went there several times a year growing up (from Jackson MS)...it was my big city...and was extremely conservative then...the good ol days


17 posted on 08/14/2011 9:48:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (I support Bachmann...or Palin should she enter...but I am not a Palin Harpy...know the difference)
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To: wk4bush2004

Allowing amnesty for illegal immigrants to happen will succeed in turning the entire U.S. into a third world country, possibly forever. Amnesty for illegal immigrants, just by itself and with all of its problems, will ruin the U.S., as a country.


18 posted on 08/14/2011 9:49:00 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: teg_76

No wonder the grades are low. This outfit has an agenda.

NumbersUSA is an immigration reduction organization whose intent is to reduce the United States’ annual immigration to pre-1965 levels, without country of origin quotas as established in the Immigration Act of 1924.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumbersUSA


19 posted on 08/14/2011 9:54:50 AM PDT by radioone (Capitalism does More with Less, Government does Less with MORE...)
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To: Pelham; TexasFreeper2009; WriterInTX

what we were talking about....borders and Texas

but on Texas...it’s a weird place politically...yes extremely Mexercan

but a few do not go Left...I don’t think TexMexercans vote like blacks ...but at least 2/3rds do...maybe more..GOP there tend to hype the numbers

But what impressed me is aside from Austin, Texans seem a lot like me ideologically...much more so than here in Nashville which is just like Austin.

I spent 3 days in June in Dallas...lotsa eating and shopping in Highland Park, lower McKinney , NorthPark etc and seeing kinfolks...we were astounding that most of the white folks we were talking to were at least culturally like we were...God, hunting, pissed at Obama and not keen on multiculturalism...even on hyper rich Turtle Creek

now in Nashville...no way...the tony areas are eat up with libs...a high roller GOP family here and there like the Ingrams or Frists but many are rich lib Californians and other outsiders and a lot of young and old formerly yellow and now blue dogs locally reared

I can say that Dallas is the most culturally conservative big city I have been in around whites...maybe even more so than Salt Lake

problem is the minorities dilute that but here in 28% black Nashville, the whites are majority libs...and not very Southern anymore....I heard my accent more often than not in Dallas amongst whites...in Nashville I notice when folks speak like me

I found that interesting...some big D folks here might explain I’m wrong..and I will listen...I lived in Dallas in late 50s as a child in an apt off Preston...and went there several times a year growing up (from Jackson MS)...it was my big city...and was extremely conservative then...the good ol days


20 posted on 08/14/2011 9:56:41 AM PDT by wardaddy (I support Bachmann...or Palin should she enter...but I am not a Palin Harpy...know the difference)
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