When it comes to most Latinos, à la the Fresh Prince, Governor Romney just don’t understand.
From Fox News Latino:
“Immigration is once again fueling a clash between the presidential candidates, as the Barack Obama campaign takes GOP candidate Mitt Romney to task for his endorsement of a Midwestern immigration hardliner.
Romney endorsed Rep. Steve King (R-IA) at a campaign event on Friday.”
You don’t recognize the name? Well, besides calling for an electrified fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, King’s the guy who compared immigrants to dogs, saying America should choose “the pick of the litter.” But, hey, maybe he’s a dog person.
And in case this guy doesn’t give you the chills already, he also wants to make English the official language of the United States. And, oh yeah! He also sits on the House Subcommittee on Immigration. “…with liberty and justice for all.”
The Obama campaign was keen to jump all over the Romney camp’s decision to back, as the Obama peeps put it, one of “the most strident voices in his party.”
While Romney’s busy throwing his support behind an immigration hardliner in Iowa, Republicans in the hate state of Arizona are busy tacking away from the state’s infamously hardline position.
From The Arizona Republic:
“A growing number of influential Republicans in Arizona are speaking out in favor of an alternative approach to immigration — one that includes a guest-worker program and letting undocumented immigrants gain legal status.
Along with those elements, the approach calls for securing the border and remaining tough on immigration enforcement. …
The move to embrace what Republican supporters consider a more practical, market-driven approach contrasts starkly with enforcement-only laws such as SB 1070 that conservative Republicans in Arizona have pushed for years. Other states have copied such laws. The harder-line approach has earned Arizona a reputation as one of the toughest enforcement states in the nation and a pioneer at cracking down on illegal immigrants.”
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, a supporter of the controversial SB 1070 law, is even calling for a three-year moratorium on the prosecution of undocumented immigrants and the businesses that hire them, during which time the undocumented can apply for legal permanent residency.
Such efforts fly in the face of the Republican establishment whose platform describes SB 1070 as a model for the country and makes no room for anything other than the immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants.
So, Romney drifts further right, while some in his party develop a heartbeat.
If anyone still clings to the hope that Romney is a secret moderate, Exhibit C:
About Hector Luis Alamo, Jr.
hmm…
I’m so proud to say I’m voting for Obama
I don’t care what Romney saids, I don’t trust him! He will never get my vote!
… they know *it* ain’t right? /fixed
Have some class. It’s 9/11, politics can wait for a day.
Have some perspective, it’s been ten years.
^Maybe you are 9 years old, but the fact is that many of us lost loved ones.
Haha! On another note this man is 65!! 0_o crazy
The world doesn’t stop for larger events that happened in the past. America is going to move on past 9/11 the same way it moved past Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma City, and the embassy bombings… We can’t remain in the past. That said, does Romney even have any chance of getting the Latino vote at this point?
The fact is that America is being destroyed in a way that terrorists could only dream of. Iran has stated that America is destroying it’self, and Iran is correct. Barrack Obama is turning America into a socialist, jobless, and debt plagued country. Median wage has dropped by $4,000 under Obama, for the not even under Bush did the median wage drop. Obama is making the rich richer and the middle class poorer.
If you think borrowing money from China to give people hand outs is the future, then vote for Obama.
Why are Obama infatuated Latinos so hard on for illegal people who break United States law, engage in fraudulent activity, and breech our national borders? I have never seen such a narsasistic group of entitlement minded Latinos as some of the people on this page. It’s not all about you Latinos in the national scheme of things and I think the rest of America is waking up to your me, me, me-ism BS!
No destroying America is neo liberalism, anti worker, anti proletariat ,thats ALEC, (*corporations and politicans writing policy together the founders would roll in thier graves) the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove etc…are destryoing America, and people are starting to wake up…..even the right, about time.
Now you genius Latinos, why do you all think the enemies of the US around the globe are all rooting for Ovama to be elected again? The country is being destroyed and all you can think about is me, me, me!
Weve had tax breaks for ten years like the Republicans implemented them, no jobs, money fleeing from the USA, corporations too, congress passes laws, read a book , you guys need to stop trolling while watching Faux for talking points, you know the Kochs, Rove, Alec, etc payfor ads and the “comentators ” on faux right, Im outside of the country sadly thewhole world knows…..Latin Americans, Europeans, Canadians, they all know, sigh…except you clowns
genious latnos is an insult,sigh…….sad
Hey Jessy you forgot to mention Rush Limbaugh, and neocons. You haven’t been consulting your Granma International style book lately have you?
Ok what about “uppity” Latinos?
Ok, what about “know it all Latinos”?
Exactly Mario! These selfish rats are interested in nothing more than free hand outs. Romney presents “opportunity” that you must work for. They hate him. Obama offers free hand outs, and they love him. Me, me, me! It doesn’t matter how he is destroying our economy and freedom, so long as he gives you money right now, you are happy.
In the nearly three years since Barack Obama took office, his administration has fired up the engines and deported a record number of illegal immigrants — more than 1.2 million. The president reached this milestone not to please Republican lawmakers in Congress, as suggested by the conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C. He did it to calm those elements of his own Democratic base — unions, African-Americans, blue collar workers, etc — that have come to feel threatened by illegal immigrants and the cheap and dependable labor they provide. You wouldn’t know it from listening to the liberal media, but illegal immigration is no more popular among Democrats in the Rust Belt states than it is with Republicans in the Deep South…
So Jessy, you admit that there are no jobs and money is fleeing from the USA? Obama doesn’t believe that. You must also see that Obama’s policies have been doing absolutely no good for our country. Obama has hemorrhaged US economy, it is our vast national debt, with rising interest. That is what is destroying us. It is our generous social system, that is what is destroying us.
Hispanic unemployment under Obama is at 10.2%, Black unemployment is now at 14.1% under Obama. Obama is NOT helping us. Obama is destroying our future. You think free college is going to get you a job these days? College is the new High School, everyone goes there, even people without the intelligence to actually apply advanced knowledge. All Obama is doing is spending money that you and I will have to pay back, borrowing us into the next great depression. We will be paying back the US national debt for the rest of our lives.
Rob-mey no sirve !
Y Maobama tan poco…!
Look at your heritage people. You all came from immigrants that came to this country at some point and gave you life. It isn’t just about politics it is about respect! You can be White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc. We all came from somewhere. If someone who is supposed to be educated and a leader calls anyone a dog, or compares them to livestock or says that he doesn’t know that rapes can cause pregnancy, then he obviously shouldn’t be a leader of this country in any way, shape or form. And just like some of the ignorant comments here, you also need a good check up and to learn how to write and spell in the process. This is what is wrong with this country; hate, disrespect, ignorance and lack of compassion for another human being that just wants to succeed, be better and do just about any job to be able to earn a decent living to put food on the table and a roof over their head and support their families, jobs that probably some of you wouldn’t even dream of doing (and I’m talking jobs that are not against the law) because you have no guts and therefore no glory. So shut it, keep those angry feelings to yourselves and stop being weak, ignorant, disrespectful and have some guts to admit that no one is perfect, and yes your dream candidate doesn’t exist. Don’t vote because you are associated to a party, vote smart, vote for someone who at least isn’t insulting your intelligence. I’m not associated with any party, but I sure have a heart and smarts to know that we should respect humanity and money isn’t everything because guess what, you can’t take it with you when you die. Be a better person that is how perhaps we will have a better chance of being a good, decent country and might have a chance at succeeding together.
President Obama, Pelosi and Reid had a super majority in Congress for 2 years. During his first two years in office, President Obama used big Democratic majorities in Congress to muscle through major legislation, like Obamacare. Democrats had both houses of Congress. A filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Obama enjoyed a worshipful media. Sky-high public opinion polls. Why didn’t the president propose Immigration Reform or the Dream Act then, when they would probably have passed. Back in 2009, was Team Obama guilty of political ineptitude? Obsessive focus on healthcare? Whichever the case may be, President Obama was in a great position to pass Immigration Reform and the Dream Act and keep his promise, but chose to do nothing.
Come on… Even Mrs. Obama said in her DNC Speech that President Obama is the same man from 4 years ago. Being President didn’t change who Barack Obama is. So what makes people think that 4 more years of President Obama will be any different from the past 4 years? President Obama won’t be happy until we’re all driving around in rusted out cars, where we could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door or until we all furnish our homes with furniture we find in dumpsters. Four more years of President Obama and we’ll all be moving to Mexico for a better life.