Posted on 11/23/2011 9:28:58 PM PST by South40
DES MOINES — Having just taken his place at the front of the Republican presidential pack, Newt Gingrich now faces a potential backlash from conservative activists here in Iowa over an immigration proposal that he called “humane” but that his opponents quickly decried as providing “amnesty.”
The former House speaker appears to have alienated some of the conservatives who had warmed to his candidacy by saying Tuesday in a candidates debate that he would allow millions of illegal immigrants who have settled in the United States to become legal residents.
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You would vote for the abortion flip-flopper?
Like it or not - and I do not - Romney may end up as the default candidate. He’s the only one who has an unshakeable base and who has yet to disembowel himself. Conservatives keep searching for a viable alternative and have bounced from Palin, Christie, Bachmann, Perry, Cain and Gingrich. The first two aren’t in the race and the other four haven’t grabbed the brass ring that’s been tossed in their laps. At the end of the day, the majority of GOP primary voters may be forced to choose bureaucratic competence over ideology because of the failure of a viable conservative candidate to sustain momentum. Victor Davis Hanson has a great article about this unpalatable situation on townhall.com today. It’s worth a read.
I truly wonder how much of the other candidates' self disembowelment is/was encouraged via the questions of the journalistas vs allowing Romney to skate.
Also, does anyone here think that Romney, IF he were to get the nomination, would not be disemboweled, dissected, dismembered and otherwise shat on by the same media prior to the election?
Call me when you get step one done.
Ain't that nice. It's just not going to happen that way because of the Democrats not just the Republicans. As is their way, they're intellectually dishonest. Imagine a party in the pocket of organized labor promoting policies to increase illegal labor. Sanctuary cities? Not prosecuting landlords renting to illegals? And it's the Republican's responsibility to atone for "our policies and economic needs?" Pffftttt... Call me when you get that border under control, before that whine to someone else about all the people who came here "invited" by Democrat policies.
Looking at the reality of the lat 25 years and what the republicans did not do also is tough isn’t it?
We didn’t fix illegal immigration because it was in our economic interests NOT to until now, the cheap labor worked out fine in the farmlands and factories. And Republicans owned lots of those farms and factories too and profited. Then the problems with lots of illegals gets bad and everyone forgets why they got here and who did not keep them out for 25 years.
Europe did the exact same thing. They had allowed “guest workers” from other countries in in droves when their economy was booming and they needed cheap labor and now they don’t know what to do.
And yes...its the Republicans’ responsibility not to “atone” for the past, but fix the present. You can either face what has happened and move forward, or keep complaining and blaming.
I cannot think of one GOP candidate other than Newt that has described his plan for the illegal relics.
A ‘heartless’ person is not necessarily one that is ‘inhumane’.
I don’t care about Perry’s ‘heartless’ remark, it was a silly emotional defense of his views. I do not like Newt’s remarks, however, that imply the default Conservative position is ‘inhumane’; a different matter than being ‘heartless’. That said, the issue concerning long-stay illegal aliens is not approached, but instead circumvented by every candidate except Newt.
I’m not ready to condemn Newt as a proponent of amnesty.
Cain/ Bolton
Perry or Newt. I pick Perry.I pick Bachmann but it will come down too Perry,
Works for me.
The People who waited would get citizenship and the right to vote. The illegals would not per Newt.... just legal residency.
"Jump in Sarah?Are u high?
Her views on illegals are same as Newt and she endorsed Mr Amnesty McCain
Bachmann is the only candidate espousing total deportation
Free Republic truly serious all of a sudden about all this then draft Buchanan
He really gets it"
Who's high now?
Newt??
The same Newt who resigned in 1998 and then did a commercial with Pelosi on how humans cause climate change(global warming)?
Hell, if amnesty was such a great idea we should have stuck with the 'have a heart' guy.
Republicans are headed to losing an unlosable election with leading candidates like this.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
We need to remember why Gingrich was knocked out of the Speaker’s chair in the late 1990s to begin with. Conservative House members got fed up with him constantly caving to Clinton and allowing Clinton to hike federal spending as a percentage of GNP to what was then a post World War II high. Gingrich wasn’t knocked off for being too conservative, but for being too conciliatory.
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