Gingrich to Republicans: Don’t sound like Romney on immigration
“It is difficult to understand how someone running for President of the United States, a country with more than 50 million Hispanic citizens, could fail to acknowledge that the American people should not take grandmothers who have been here 25 years, have deep family and community ties — and forcibly expel them,” he writes before attacking Romney for his comments on “self-deportation,” warning that “rhetoric can kill the Republican Party among Latinos.”…
“I write this because as the current immigration debate heats up it is critical for us to recognize that words and attitudes really matter,” he writes. “Understanding what people hear matters. We may not mean to say what people hear we say. After decades in politics this is a lesson I have learned the hard way. As a party, we simply cannot continue with immigration rhetoric that in 2012 became catastrophic — in large part because it was not grounded in reality.”
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I like the sign Reagan had in his office when he was governer of California: “Obey the rules or get out.”
ThePrez on February 10, 2013 at 12:40 PM
I could care less what they think. They should be shot as they cross the border. If they are captured on American soil, they should have their biological information taken and stored, and deported, if they are caught here again, then imprisoned for life in a desert tent camp where they either work to earn their way, if they try to escape, they are not chased down, just simply shot, if they do not work, then they are executed.
Is that a nice enough way of talking about them? About as nice as I can get for a bunch of invaders who are destroying our culture.
astonerii on February 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM
FIFY.
Stoic Patriot on February 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Please…
1. Reagan’s amnesty would make it impossible for Reagan to be elected in California…
2. there’s Plyler v Doe which Reagan’s Attorney General royally screwed up by a) making it clear to congress they didn’t care much about immigration laws and wanted an amnesty b) emphasizing federal pre-emption on immigration in the government’s brief.
ninjapirate on February 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Grandmothers who have been here for 25 years? Let’s see, that would mean they came over in 1987, right after the last Immigration Reform.
HitNRun on February 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM
Ahh yes, the old grandma card. I guess if Grandma is a Latino who is running a drug ring out of her kitchen and a prostitution ring out of the spare bedroom, we can’t send her to prison, right Newt?
Go away, Newt. You are part of the problem.
xblade on February 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM
You can oppose amnesty and agree with the headline. I agree. Don’t be aholes. Romney came off as a total ahole.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:07 PM
I mean, Romney decided to hit Perry on kids going to college. Of all the things he could have hit, he decided to be the ahole who goes after kids who grew up in poverty and made it to college. Stupid.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM
This from the guy who urged Republicans to embrace Todd Akin.
Noot would have lost by 7-10 points and taken the House down with him.
Jon0815 on February 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM
If you think Romney came across as an ahole, then no, you don’t believe you can oppose amnesty and not be an ahole, because he didn’t say anything that sounded like an ahole.
xblade on February 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM
And then to top it off, in the fall Romney was going to Univision implying that he would sign a Dream Act. Lesson, don’t be Romney.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM
And grandmas…don’t forget the poor grandmas, lol.
xblade on February 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM
It was Meg Whitman all over again.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Gingrich is right on this. Sounding like Romney is disastrous for republicans.
tommy71 on February 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM
I am fine with loading Gramma onto a bus and expelling her along with her grandchildren… and her little dog too.
sharrukin on February 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM
xblade on February 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM
There is a lot of territory between granting citizenship and kicking kids out of college/country.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM
People care about jobs, hispanics care about jobs.
Make the message about deporting illegals so you can have their jobs, and the hispanics will love you for it.
Rebar on February 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM
Sorry, as long as affirmative action is practiced for “immigrations” then assholery is warranted. Maybe not smart, but warranted.
ninjapirate on February 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM
Sorry, as long as affirmative action is practiced for “immigrations” then a–holery is warranted. Maybe not smart, but warranted.
ninjapirate on February 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Make the message about deporting illegals so you can have their jobs, and the hispanics will love you for it.
Rebar on February 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM
No they won’t. Just kill amnesty and insist on enforcement and border security. Obama will come off as liar again.
El_Terrible on February 10, 2013 at 1:16 PM
For ole times sake, Hang in there, Newt!
tommy71 on February 10, 2013 at 1:17 PM
And why was Romney forced to take some untenable positions? Because of the oh-so-precious “base,” who are still whining that no one cares about them, still dumping on Romney, and are now ready to string up Karl Rove merely for wanting to purge unelectable rightwing idiots from the primaries.
I’ll give Gingrich this, he can hold a grudge with the best of them. No doubt he and his enormous ego still believe he could have done better against Obama than Romney. Laughable.
I just read a blog post by Bob Owens setting out the case that Obama is a tyrant. Thanks, TruCons, for all your “principled” Romney hate.
Because things are going soooo well.
Meredith on February 10, 2013 at 1:26 PM
Buy a hacienda and change your name to Bush?
Most conservatives couldn’t imitate a patrón if their gun permits depended on it.
Seth Halpern on February 10, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I heard those filthy conservatives are to blame for causing asteroids too.
sharrukin on February 10, 2013 at 1:30 PM
You’re welcome. And go jump in a lake.
SagebrushPuppet on February 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM
RINOs gave us 2008 and 0bama with his ultraleft supermajorities in the House and Senate.
It was the conservative who got the House back in 2010.
You’re welcome.
Rebar on February 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Instead, they should sound like an egotistical douche a la Newt? Nothing wrong with what Romney said…if they don’t like it, tough. Why must we kowtow to people here illegally?
changer1701 on February 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM
@changer Yeah, nothing wrong with what Romney said. Thats why hes now the President. Lol
tommy71 on February 10, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Because Newt would have won what Romney couldn’t….or something.
thebrokenrattle on February 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM
yeah, guess what Obama did his admin let houndreds of guns into Mexico that killed hounreds of Mexicans and you know what happend
a majority of Latinos voted for Obama.
Romney’s the asshole for going after illegals in college, but Obama’s admin caused the Murder of their countrymen in Mexico.
HA! HA! HA! what a joke. I guess Republicans should sponser the Murder of Mexicans maybe then Reps would get a greater percentage of the Latino vote.
ChunkyLover on February 10, 2013 at 2:48 PM
what happend to my earlier post
ChunkyLover on February 10, 2013 at 2:50 PM
you know what Obama did his admin. funneled guns into Mexico that killed houndreds of Mexicans, and you know how Latinos reacted they
voted him back into office.
Romneys the as!hole, What a sick Joke.I guess Republicans should do the sames so they can get the Mexican vote.
ChunkyLover on February 10, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Let’s stop condemning known criminals who ignored our laws and give them citizenship and a host of welfare programs. It’s these dang American gun owners who obey the laws that pose a real threat to this nation. /s
trs on February 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM
The Democratic Party knows who its base is. Its goal in office is to expand that base while shrinking its opposition. That’s why it wants amnesty. If the average illegal alien was likely to turn into a Republican voter, the entire Mexican border would have been irradiated and celebrities would be recording videos urging their fans to turn in any illegal aliens on their block. And that’s because the Democrats may be evil, but they aren’t stupid.
The GOP elite are just as evil, but stupid doesn’t even begin to describe them.
TxAnn56 on February 10, 2013 at 3:19 PM