Posted on 11/23/2011 5:49:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Q. How does someone seeking the Republican presidential nomination know he might have stepped in it with the people who will actually vote in the primaries? A. When a position he's taken has the likes of Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown suddenly saying she likes him, and calling him a "shining star."
Newt Gingrich might thus be having a "ruh-roh" moment this morning. On today's Morning Joe, Brown repeatedly said "I like Newt" and saddled him with her "shining star". It was Newt's position on immigration, in which he called for a "humane" solution that would find a path to "legality" for illegal immigrants, that won Tina's heart--and may have turned off GOP voters from Iowa to South Carolina.
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Bad sign for Newt? His “humane” path to “legality” position for illegal immigrants has Tina Brown praising him. Ping to Today show list.
Wonder how the folks in Arizona, Alabama and a half-dozen other States that have immigration laws before their legislation right now, ready for passage?
Newt is more than a RINO, he's an academic liberal.
I think Gingrich is our best option.
Crossover appeal isn’t always bad. Remember, we need more votes that Obama. That means around 50%. That means more than Republicans have to vote for the GOP candidate.
However, Newt concerns me because you just never know what he will do next.
A RINO (whatever that is)maybe, an academic, certainly. A liberal? Not even close...
IMO he did mess up. Generally he is able to clearly articulate his positions. This time I’m not sure. THe “amnesty” word was thrown at him several times and I’m not sure that’s what he wants.
Does he want any illegal to become a citizen and vote?
Awww... Newt Gringo is the new “good” republican of the MSM. Shine ya shoes fo ya boss? If the media could amalgamate Romney, Gringo and Huntsman into a candidate they’d have the perfect little house republican shoeshine boy.
Newt has a bad habit of saying what he is thinking.
Newt Gringo said if you break the law for long enough and have some anchor babies, you’re g2g as an American citizen in his eyes.
Maybe he wants a 4th wife who is Mexican?
It sounds strangely like the “you don’t have a heart “ comment that sank Perry; now you’re “inhumane” for standing firmly for legal only immigration.
Think carefully about what Newt said. He said,
“Is it inhumane to deport an illegal immigrant who came to the United States 25 years ago,”
Why did he choose 25 years ago and not 20 or 30.
People assume that 25 years was just a number that Newt pulled out of his ass.
It is not.
Think back about about what happened 25 years ago.
That would be 1986.
That was the year Ronald Reagan’s bill gave amnesty to the then current residents in exchange for sealing the border.
The border wasn’t sealed and millions more Mexicans and other poured over the border.
The people who came after 1986 were illegal. But the people who came before 1986 were legalized if they bothered to come forward.
So Newt is talking about a law that is already on the books.
I guess I'm not seeing your point on this and on several other threads on the topic. Is it that illegals here for 25 or more years are already eligible for amnesty?
I wish some of you people would get it through your head you need at least a percentage of moderates dems and independents to win the presidency.
Newt stance of last night on immigration is very reasonable.I want no part of throwing someone out of the country who has been a productive citizen over the 25 years.
I’m not into detroying people live over because goverments ineptitude over the last 25 years on this issue.
IMO the problem isn’t with him saying it - its with him thinking it.
Newt is sunk now.
I don’t think he’s sunk. Look, we give amnesty to all sorts of people: draft dodgers, people who fail to pay taxes and people who keep library books. We do it because we simply decide that enforcement is impractical. Newt didn’t say to grant amnesty to all, only those who came here under an immigration law that we failed to enforce. Besides, if anyone really thinks we can deport all these people, especially those who have been here for 25 years, needs to have their head examined.
Sure it is, if you're a millionaire who lives in a gated community, and whose day to day life isn't negatively impacted by the presence of foreigners who are depressing the wages in formerly well-paying industries.
My family's income has dropped by 40% in the last seven years because of the explosion of illegal labor in our industry. We're now at the point where we either employ illegals like the rest of our unscrupulous competitors, or we get out of the business. We're going to go bankrupt if we continue to play by the rules.
Newt wants to ignore the LAW, which says that entering the country without a visa or a green card is ILLEGAL, no matter how long ago you committed that crime.
Easy for him to take that view, when he can afford a $500,000 tab at Tiffany's. Not so, with working class people like me. These people have destroyed my life.
He should follow it up with a “They will never vote” statement.
very well said
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