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Okay, after having read your kind freepmail and clicked the links and done a bit of research, I have to conclude you're right and I stand corrected. I have never had any negative interactions with the freeper in question and then looking at the amount of time she's been around, I concluded (wrongly) that she must be the victim instead of the perpetrator. Sometimes I think like that. A character flw in myself perhaps. There is however absolutely ZERO excuse for attacking you on the Perry question! I was totally in the tank for him when he first announced. But then, I started looking at his positions in depth. I came to the conclusion that he was more of an amnesty proponent than the others and when he called me heartless that was it, I folded my tent and slipped from his camp. Add to that he can't debate his way out of a paper bag and THE ONE (damn his soul to HELL) is a silver tongued devil when he gets on that stage. Even without a teleprompter. Worse, Perry simply screwed up too many simple facts he needed to have command of in such a debate. I can't take the chance. I'd rather have Santorum or Newt and I prefer Newt for his razor sharp mind and tough experience in the trenches of DC.

If you oppose Perry because he is for amnesty how can you support Newt? Given his contradicting comments below one could say he is all over the map on the issue. But we know now that he is 100% for amnesty as he has said as much.

This I agree with:

Anything less than requiring people who are working here illegally to return home to apply for a worker visa is amnesty.
~Newt Gingrich 2006

This I don't agree with.

I am for a path to legality for those people whose ties are so deeply into America that it would truly be tragic to try and rip their family apart."
~Newt Gingrich 2011

And this I do agree with.

It should also be mentioned that advocates of amnesty should not be taken seriously if they claim to be also in favor of tougher border control. It is simply not credible that advocates of amnesty will be reliably tough on controlling the borders. ~Newt Gingrich 2006