First, a word about national security and foreign policy issues. They don’t drive many votes. Campaign professionals consider any day spent on foreign policy a lost day. Which is too bad given that whoever is elected will spend some part of every day as president on national security issues and often al
most his entire day on dealing with America’s interests and problems abroad.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich had the most to lose in last night’s debate, given his current positions atop most polls. But he continued to display the talents that got him where he is now: clear thinking, experience and a matter-of-fact certainty about what he would do if he were president. If he keeps this up, there will be talk about an anybody-but-Newt movement instead of an anybody-but-Romney campaign.
Yet the GOP universe is buzzing about the fact that Gingrich said America would not deport the 11 million illegal aliens already living here. Gasp! Is he pro-amnesty? Is he pro-illegal immigration? Of course not; Gingrich was simply telling the truth. We will not deport a population as large as the state of Ohio’s, and any candidate who says otherwise is either ignorant or a hypocrite, and should be penalized, not rewarded. Those candidates would need to tell us how their deportation plan would pass Congress and then how it would be implemented. We would need to know about the holding pens, the roundup procedures developed for law enforcement and how we would deal with families that have both legal and illegal members.
Gingrich may not win the Republican nomination, but surely it won’t be because of this issue. I hope the other candidates resist the urge to be dishonest or delusional enough to try to capitalize on what he said.
.He's done as far as I'm concerned! Even considering allowing illegals to become legals is plain old foolish! Dishonest and delusional? I thought they were trying to keep the WH for four more years, Mr Dishonest Obama and Delusional Biden, that is.
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the illegals waiting to be deported can do my yard work...
OT, and OH HELL!!
...watching the pre-Macy's Parade coverage on CBS...the goons doing the thing, sitting, inane stuff dropping from their lips...
"...and now, REAL NYC royalty, Mayor Bloomberg, GOOD MORNING MR Mayor!...blah, blah, grovel, grovel..."
KMA, I'd give $500 to someone to verify that His staff put them up to that!!
I can't say that i was all that surprised to hear Newt make that statement. He's been known for saying things that make conservatives scratch their heads at times. Of course, the same can be said for Ron Paul. Did Newt say that because he truly means it, or is he trying to grab some of those middle-of-the-road voters. I have the feeling that he meant it, and sees his stance as a "do'able" way of dealing with the illegal problem. Only time will tell if it hurts him.
Aside from Santorum and Bachman, neither of whom (IMO) has any real chance, Newt is the closest thing to a real conservative in the bunch. And, with the possible exception of Paul, Newt has more experience than the rest put together. Good thing? Bad thing? We'll see.
Not deport.... shoot!
And...... Hey Blew! wipe yer chin.
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