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Newt Gingrich may face backlash in Iowa over immigration comments
WaPo ^ | 11/23/2011 | Philip Rucker

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; amnewtsty; gingrich; ia2012; illegals; immigration; itsnotamnesty; itstheamnestystupid; newt2012; witchhunt
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To: olrtex
even Romney would be just fine.

You would vote for the abortion flip-flopper?

181 posted on 11/24/2011 12:17:12 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

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.


182 posted on 11/24/2011 1:15:22 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: littleharbour
He’s the only one who has an unshakeable base and who has yet to disembowel himself.

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?

183 posted on 11/24/2011 1:23:14 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: topfile

Call me when you get step one done.


184 posted on 11/24/2011 2:12:39 PM PST by rhombus
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
We can be serious about our border, serious about legal immigration and be empathetic at the same time. Besides, its not about being “empathetic”..its being honest about how this country has ‘invited” these people in by our policies and economic needs and addressing the past and the future in the most reasonable way in OUR interests.

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.

185 posted on 11/24/2011 2:23:09 PM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus

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.


186 posted on 11/24/2011 3:10:31 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Rick Perry 2012)
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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.


187 posted on 11/24/2011 5:07:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: South40

Cain/ Bolton


188 posted on 11/24/2011 5:21:50 PM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: goldstategop

Perry or Newt. I pick Perry.I pick Bachmann but it will come down too Perry,


190 posted on 11/24/2011 5:41:16 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: keats5
Cain/Bolton

Works for me.

191 posted on 11/24/2011 6:33:10 PM PST by South40
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To: goldstategop; Ron H.; Theodore R.
Why should people have to wait for years to immigrate to this country and become citizens after waiting five years for the privilege and people who crawled under our fence illegally to take up residence here get instant forgiveness?

The People who waited would get citizenship and the right to vote. The illegals would not per Newt.... just legal residency.

192 posted on 11/24/2011 6:33:32 PM PST by topfile
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To: wardaddy
"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?

193 posted on 11/24/2011 6:38:32 PM PST by Chong
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; no dems; La Lydia; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; Liz
RE :”Pawlenty, (dropped out already) Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and now it looks like Newt has fallen from grace in the eyes of us Conservatives.....
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I would say Newt did it to himself. Before that “take the heat” announcement, he had already proposed allowing local committees to decide which illegals get to stay and which get deported. I wonder how many Newt's committees in Los Angeles would deport.

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.

194 posted on 11/24/2011 6:41:26 PM PST by sickoflibs (Cain :"My parents didn't raise me to beg the government for other peoples money")
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To: South40

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.


195 posted on 11/24/2011 6:41:37 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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To: South40

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.


196 posted on 11/24/2011 6:41:52 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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To: Chong

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.


197 posted on 11/24/2011 6:42:12 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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To: South40

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.


198 posted on 11/24/2011 6:42:19 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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To: South40

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.


199 posted on 11/24/2011 6:44:24 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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To: South40

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.


200 posted on 11/24/2011 6:44:46 PM PST by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema e x)
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