Don't ask/don't tell will be a thing of the past after the next election cycle. Mitt's plan is to incrementalize the movement towards turning back the impact of the criminal alien element. Americans are sick of the inaction by GWB and congress up to now.
I'm curious how you know this. And if he plans to do it incrementally (i.e., unnoticeably), then how is he going to get any political mileage out of it?
I do know that, from the article, Ted Kennedy, co-sponsor of the latest amnesty proposal in Congress, considers Romney's proposal a "healthy step forward". How likely is it going to be, then, that it'll impinge on Kennedy's values?