Unfortunately for all Republican candiates, Newt’s position of pandering to the Hispanic voting block has been made public and will influence the discourse from here on out.
The Hispanic voting block can’t help now but to compare and contrast other Republican candidate’s with Newt’s stated position.
This will wind up making it more difficult for any Republican to win the general election, since it will amplify an Obama talking point.
WHEN WILL THE ESTABLISHMENT LEARN that tacking towards your opponent is NEVER a winning strategy in elections.
It is foolish to claim that your opponent’s biggest strength in attracting their own voting base - is also your strength. It merely makes you look like a watered-down version of them.
Republicans need to attack that issue from a completely different angle - once people are in America and working - the more other people who come into the job market, the more competition they have against them for their own job.
From that perspective - even illegal aliens working here would not want MORE illegal aliens coming in.
America needs jobs, not workers.
Big business leaders who are stupid love cheap labor - so they love the idea of an enormous oversupply of workers - and having workers pay slashed to nothing. They have no clue about quality, to them it’s just a joke. But big business has gotten behind every candidate who wants to open the floodgates for cheap labor.
Milton Friedman said that, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both. 57% of immigrant (legal and illegal) headed households with children use at least one major welfare program. We are importing poverty and hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts every year through our kinship system of immigration.