Posted on 11/23/2011 10:06:40 AM PST by TBBT
The basics of this were covered by Drew, below, but this is Newt Gingrich himself saying it, from his own Twitter account.
Romney is pretty brazen about forgetting his myriad past positions. It's just odd to me that he attacks aggressively on an issue like this, when he himself has pro-amnesty statements in his very recent past. (So recent they are pop culturally relevant.)
It might be some kind of strategic decision that the best defense is a shameless offense, or a calculation that people can only remember the attack and not the counter-attack.
Or it could be that he is thinking -- with some justification -- that the base is going with various unknown quantities and, because they are unknown, they are blank screens upon which the base can project its own hopes (as Barack Obama observed about himself in 2008 ). Ergo, each candidate flies to the top of the heap because the base projects on to each newest blank slate a perfect (or near-perfect) conservative record. So Mitt's calculation may be "You all know I've flipped and flopped and am really not terribly conservative, but you don't know that each of your new Flavors of the Week have done similar things, so my mission is to bring each candidate's Romneyesque deviations from conservative orthodoxy to your attention. Then you'll see each is nearly as flawed on ideology as I am, and you'll pick me not on ideology, but on general competency, because if everyone's kind of a RINO in one or more important ways, you might as well pick the guy who's polling the best."
Maybe. But there's a real shamelessness here that gets off-putting. It's just not very honest for Romney to be so hard-charging as a Tough on Immigrants Sheriff Joe type.
Rush played a clip of Romney on Meet the Press in 2007 advocating giving illegals citizenship.
Romney expects the MSM to cover for him.
Isn’t 2007 when Gingrich was conducting his “apology for conservatism” tour. After the 2006 election, when he concluded conservatism had no future and he had to get out, while the getting was good.
Rush also pointed out that Newt, unlike Romney, at did not suggest illegals should be given full fledged voting rights citizenship.
Hmmm...I thought Newt was focused on Obama, not other (R) candidates...amazing how that changes...
Makes sense..Mitt COULD be knocked out of the race right after S. Carolina..Newt’s pushing hard..
Of course he is...taking out Romney just is one of the two peas in that pod...and he’ll go after others as well once in Washington...the Czars are wondering now if they’ll be on the unemployment rolls or not..I Love it!
Romney remains a phony and a fraud.
Newt’s running a close second.
Newt’n’Mitt the two biggest phonies in the race for sure.
I think Newt should challenge Romney to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate on the issue.
The next day Romney would be at about 3% in the polls.
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty.
The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Make up your own mind
http://www.jbs.org/birchtube/viewvideo/923/conspiracy/the-real-newt-gingrich—libertynewsnetwork
I just KNEW the guy was a pervert!!!!! I mean, now he’s into SPANKING? Did Romney squeal?
Bachmann’s getting a job in a GOP WH if we get one.
I like her for HHS. She can preside over shutting it down.
Rush played a clip of Romney on Meet the Press in 2007 advocating giving illegals citizenship.
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But But But
In 2008 I was called a liar by our resident RomneyBots..
that RINO Romney never said anything like that...
and heres Rush finding it on the way-back machine...
wonders never cease...
Ace of Spades is dead to me since he jumped on the “Cain didn’t know China had nukes!” TPM nonsense, when Cain was a Chinese ballistic missile expert in the Navy.
Newt Ping!
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