Posted on 05/19/2011 7:22:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know, guys. We’ve reached the point where the “Newt implosion” narrative has crystallized so thoroughly that every new story about him ends up being refracted through that prism. I don’t trust my own judgment at this point. Is this new bit genuinely toxic, as Ace’s co-blogger Gabe seems to think, or is it much ado about nothing?
Newt Gingrich, whose campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has gotten off to a rocky start, risked fresh controversy on Thursday by suggesting that some illegal immigrants living in the United States “may have earned the right to become legal.”…
Gingrich recounted how World War Two-era U.S. draft boards chose who would serve in the military, saying a similar system might help deal with the millions of immigrants living in the United States illegally.
“Because I think we are going to want to find some way to deal with the people who are here to distinguish between those who have no ties to the United States, and therefore you can deport them at minimum human cost, and those who, in fact, may have earned the right to become legal, but not citizens,” Gingrich said.
Here’s the complete quote via Radio Iowa:
“This is, at the risk of — as I do on occasion — of getting into trouble with the news media,” Gingrich said, in answering the question, and a few people in the audience chuckled. “…I’m looking seriously at the way the Selective Service Act used to work in the 1940s and World War II where a local Selective Service board who knew the local people made the decisions…because I think we are going to want to find some way to deal with the people who are here to distinguish between those who have no ties to the United States and therefore you can deport them at minimum human cost, and those who, in fact, may have earned the right to become legal, but not citizens.”
That’s not totally alienating to the conservative base, right? You can imagine local amnesty draft boards designating illegals who’ve served in the military for special legalization privileges. (We already do it, kinda sorta.) As well as anyone else who has “ties to the United States,” which, er … could be millions of people.
Seriously, am I misreading this? Or does Newt know something about the imminent zombie apocalypse, leaving him willing to antagonize grassroots righties at every turn knowing that none of it will matter come Sunday? Exit quotation: “My reaction is if you’re the candidate of very dramatic change, it you’re the candidate of really new ideas, you have to assume there’s a certain amount of clutter and confusion and it takes a while to sort it all out, because you are doing something different.”
Update: Greenroomer Patrick Ishmael e-mails to say that Newt made these comments in Waterloo, Iowa. And he is, apparently, a big Abba fan. So I guess this is obligatory…
Maybe he's taken brain and mouth transplant from McLame, Romney, and ...what's that dippo from South Carolina... the guy JAG Senator.... Lispy Gram.
After all, the “overlords” mean those chillun’s nothing good ~ they just want them for cheap lawn boys and cheaper bed warmers.
OK..the only way any of this makes any sense is if Noot has become a Dem Operative.
Every time he opens his mouth it gets worse.
I agree with the local boards especially for rooting out RINOs.
Newt has just gone f’n nuts.
He and McCain need to share a padded cell with Pelosi and the rest of the idiots.
When are we going to hear one of these Republican cowards call for deportation?
I know, I know, there is a good reason that they are called cowards. The last Republican President who put Americans ahead of Mexican invaders was Eisenhower, and I’ll never see his like again in my lifetime.
Maybe we should have an immigration lottery...
How much do you think we should we charge for the tickets?
And BTW, I sure miss Terry Anderson.
At first I thought her strategy was to let these clowns destroy each other before stepping in. Now I realize all she has to do is wait for them to destroy themselves.
You have asked the question of the night.
For some unknown reason, exposure to Washington for an extended period makes people crazy.
Their sole allegiance is to the government itself -- not to the country and its voters.
They will never vote to diminish their God -- the government. They will only think in terms of what is doable within the confines of the behemoth. What the behemoth has done cannot have been wrong and, ipso facto, isn't subject to being "fixed".
So, we can only alter, adjust, re-organize and re-direct existing policy.
It has, indeed, become "Washington versus the rest of us."
It isn't funny. It's a very real -- and deadly --problem.
Very good depiction of the fool. Thanks.
I was just thinking Newt should change his name to NUT Gingrich because he’s giving L Ron a run for the loony toon Olympics.
Days ago, a conservative voter to Newt: “You’re an embarrassment. Get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself.”
—Too late.
Yes
Terry was one of a kind...
Good old Newt.
I will repeat my criteria. If they pay the upper income tax rate to the IRS for a minimum of three consecutive years , then being one of the taxpayers Democrats demonize, I would give them a green card. That way they will vote against socialists. Find a immigrant Hispanic being told he is ‘Not paying his fair share’ by a black president and you got a conservative.
Otherwise forget it, We got enough freeloaders already Newt, go to Hell!
Who liked Newt even before the Ryan plan comment anyway?
Excellent idea. Make the tickets RFID trackers and go pick up the purchasers for immediate deportation.
What if Newt, McLame and Grahamnesty et al started a new political party and leave what’s left of the Republican party to us?
What if we had internet chat boards that could certify Newt as bat-sh1t crazy?
Newt makes McCain look like he had it all together.
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