Gingrich May Have Inside Track on Palin's Endorsement

Real Clear Politics ^ | 2011-11-23 | Scott Conroy

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Almost immediately upon Sarah Palin's announcement that she would not seek the Republican nomination for president, the phone calls from almost all of the GOP candidates began pouring in. They wanted her endorsement.

While Palin has characteristically kept her cards close to her chest, advisers suggest that the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is likely to endorse before someone emerges as the inevitable nominee -- and that Newt Gingrich appears to be best-positioned to secure her support.

"They speak very favorably of Newt and what they see as his credentials as compared to Perry and Romney," one member of Palin's inner circle said of the former Alaska governor and her husband, Todd, who has long served as her unofficial chief adviser.

Gingrich has been particularly effusive in expressing his admiration for Palin over the last few months, and she has returned the favor by heaping praise on the former House speaker.

"Newt Gingrich again, I think, did the best because he seems to be above a lot of the bickering that goes on," Palin said on Fox News after a Republican debate in Las Vegas last month, adding that Gingrich would “clobber” President Obama in a general election debate.

[xzins]

Sarah Palin is a real conservative, and she recognizes that America is a humane nation with humane people. We have had big hearts...and that sometimes despite our tendency to shoot with the mouth sometimes before we really think out way through something.

Here’s the real truth. Anchor baby citizenship.

Those immigrants who’ve been here for a while, and who have had children and grandchildren here are not going to be separated from those families. It just isn’t going to happen. They could stay here on contantly renewed visitor visas ‘til the cows come home.

And the children can’t have their citizenship revoked. Whether or not you agree with the anchor baby laws, even IF they were some day changed, they could not BY THE CONSTITUTION apply to those who already were citizens by the anchor rules. The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws.

So, reality is that most illegals now have blood ties to this country. They are not going anyplace.

What makes sense is giving them some kind of guest worker visa.

[P-Marlowe]

I would suggest some very stringent application rules to give legitimacy to those who are presently here illegally. I would require an application fee of $1000. I would give a 6 month window to apply and when you apply you give your real name, your real birth certficate, your addresses for the last 20 years, all aliases used, information about where you worked and what taxes you may owe, a sample of your DNA, your fingerprints and palm prints and then you must surrender any identifications you used while in the US.

You would then be given temporary guest worker status pending a criminal background check that you would pay for. You must sign a statement indicating that you will not apply for or receive any government assistance and that any felony or crime which can be charged as a felony will be immediate grounds for deportation. After you clear everything then you would be given a more permanent immigration status, something less than "permanent resident" and you would never be eligible for Citizenship.

If it is found that you have committed a felony while in the US, you will be deported using the application fee as your plane or bus fare to the border.

There are those who would call this "Amnesty".

[OddLane]

Sarah Palin was the first Republican of any national significance to come out in support of SB 1070.

I'm still waiting for one of the front-runners in this presidential race to follow her lead.

[xzins]

I see no reason for the original illegal family members not to pay a stiff price. However, there is no way to make an anchor baby pay. Also, those minor children brought by their parents are not nearly as culpable as the parents.

[OddLane]

It's not a question of culpability.

They do not belong here, and the reason they're birthed here is in order to anchor their parents-and their extended family-to the United States in perpetuity.

Hence, the term "anchor baby." This is why the open borders crowd tried to make Elvira Arellano into their poster-child, despite the fact that she had children AFTER being deported once from this country.

It's also why the DREAM Act is being used as the stalking horse for wholesale amnesty.

[P-Marlowe]

Sarah Palin was the first Republican of any national significance to come out in support of SB 1070.

I was for SB1070 too. That doesn't mean that I or Sarah Palin are in favor of deporting 12 million people. All SB1070 does is to allow the State to identify illegal aliens and turn them over to the Feds. The Feds are just going to release them anyway. The problem is that we have not enforced our immigration laws for the last 50 years. We have created an untenable problem by refusing to enforce the laws. A law that is not enforced is not a law at all.

Now show me where Sarah Palin has backtracked on her statement that undocumented immigrants (that's what she called them) should be given a path to citizenship (something Newt has specifically suggested should not be done).

On this issue Newt is to the right of Palin.

[xzins]

Since anchor babies are already a reality and part of our law....Governor Bobby Jindal is an anchor baby...there is no deporting of the parents of a US citizen baby that is going to take place.

That baby is considered a full-fledged, 100% American citizen by the law.

That is never going to change for that child.

[Josh Painter]

Newt Strongly Opposes Abortion as a woman’s right
Sarah Opposes Abortion as a woman’s right

Newt Strongly Opposes Requiring hiring more women & minorities
Sarah Favors Requiring hiring more women & minorities

Newt Opposes Same-sex domestic partnership benefits
Sarah Opposes Same-sex domestic partnership benefits

Newt Strongly Favors Teacher-led prayer in public schools
Sarah Strongly Favors Teacher-led prayer in public schools

Newt Strongly Favors Death Penalty
Sarah Strongly Favors Death Penalty

Newt Favors Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws
Sarah Favors Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws

Newt Favors Absolute right to gun ownership
Sarah Strongly Favors Absolute right to gun ownership

Newt Strongly Opposes More federal funding for health coverage
Sarah Opposes More federal funding for health coverage

Newt Strongly Favors Privatizing Social Security
Sarah Opposes Privatizing Social Security

Newt Strongly Favors Parents choosing schools via vouchers
Sarah Strongly Favors Parents choosing schools via vouchers

Newt Strongly Opposes Replacing coal & oil with alternatives
Sarah Opposes Replacing coal & oil with alternatives

Newt Strongly Favors enforcing laws against drug use
Sarah Favors enforcing laws against drug use

Newt Favors Allowing churches to provide welfare services
Sarah Favors Allowing churches to provide welfare services

Newt Opposes Making taxes more progressive
Sarah Opposes Making taxes more progressive

Newt Opposes letting Illegal immigrants earn citizenship
Sarah Favors letting Illegal immigrants earn citizenship

Newt Favors Supporting & expanding free trade
Sarah Favors Supporting & expanding free trade

Newt Strongly Favors Expanding the armed forces
Sarah Strongly Favors Expanding the armed forces

Newt Strongly Opposes Stricter limits on political campaign funds
Sarah Strongly Favors Stricter limits on political campaign funds

Newt Strongly Opposes idea that The Patriot Act harms civil liberties
Sarah Opposes idea that The Patriot Act harms civil liberties

Newt Favors getting the US out of Iraq & Afghanistan
Sarah Opposes getting the US out of Iraq & Afghanistan

Newt Gingrich is a Hard-Core Conservative.
Sarah Palin is a Populist-Leaning Conservative.

http://www.issues2000.org/Newt_Gingrich.htm
http://www.issues2000.org/Sarah_Palin.htm

[iowamark]

Bobby Jindal is an anchor baby

His parents were here legally when he was born. The term "anchor baby" refers to a child of illegals.

[cableguymn]

She’s not dumb enough to play second fiddle with a rino again.

[cableguymn]

Yes. REALLY!

I don’t need 100% I need 80% Newt is not even close. Love his new amnesty plan. Straight out of the rino handbook.

[OddLane]

Don't use terms you don't understand.

You make yourself sound like writers at the Daily Beast.

[OddLane]

No he's not.

With the exception of a brief chapter in To Renew America, which was written over a decade and a half ago, there's nothing to indicate that Newt Gingrich would do anything but continue the open borders policy we've had since the Carter administration.

Even in the supposedly damning interview with Bill O'Reilly, which people use to imply she's as bad as Gingrich, Perry, Huntsmann, et al., her stance supercedes anything being offered now, with the possible exceptions of Cain and Bachmann.

-She completely rules out amnesty.

-She unreservedly comdemns the 1986 ICRA, i.e. Simpson-Mazzoli.

-She calls for the registration of all aliens, not to fast track them to citizenship but to identify security risks.

She calls for the militarization of the border.

And she does not even entertain the specious open borders assumption that we should focus on regularizing the "11-12 million" IAs.

[xzins]

Sorry, but Jindal is an anchor baby. He was born while his parents were on student visas intending to return to their home country and still full-fledged citizens of that country.

That makes him an anchor baby.

[presently no screen name]

I agree.

[presently no screen name]

Sarcasm doesn’t warrant an answer.

[presently no screen name]

Before the election.

[Hildy]

Thank you. I had never seen that. Newt, with all his faults, is the only guy who can stand up to our enemies, both here and abroad.

[Hildy]

Only a man would say something so stupid and stereotypical. I think Pailin is gorgeous and I think Michelle Bachman is beautiful. It has nothing to do with the fact I do not believe either of them belong in the White House right now, although Michelle Bachmann has really held her own and has shown herself quite knowledgable, much more that Palin has.

[jpsb]

As a vice-presidential candidate, Palin told Spanish-language television network Univision during an interview Oct. 26, 2008, "There is no way that in the U.S. we would roundup every illegal immigrant ... there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants. ... Not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue."

Something tells me Sarah will not have a problem with Newt on immigration.