Thread: Mitt Romney flees from his Mexican roots with tough anti-immigrant stance

Mitt Romney flees from his Mexican roots with tough anti-immigrant stance

Even GOP frontrunner’s dad would face deportation

Saturday, January 14 2012, 8:00 PM.

Mitt Romney, the current frontrunner in the GOP presidential race, could become the first Hispanic president of the U.S.

Surprised? Don’t be. By now most people know it: Romney is the son of a Mexican father who crossed the border to the north when he was five — no mention of papers here — fleeing violence in his native country, as so many immigrants have done over the years.

Yet, he promises to have no mercy for immigrants if elected president of the U.S.

Trying to garner the support of conservative Republicans who don’t trust his flip-flopping ways, Romney — whose father and grandfather were born in the Mormon colonies in Mexico and crossed the border back to the U.S. when the Mexican Revolution erupted — has gone out of his way to take every extreme anti-immigration position.

If elected, Romney has said, he will deport undocumented immigrants, build a border fence and add hundreds of new guards. You know, all those Mexicans crossing the border — like his grandfather and father — are taking jobs from real Americans — and Mexican Mitt (check @mexicanmitt in Twitter: “Corporations are peoples, my amigos!”) will not allow it.

Tough-guy Romney would also cut federal funds to “sanctuary” cities, make English the official language and veto the DREAM Act, although as someone point out, his old man could have been a “poster child” for such law.

After all, the DREAM Act would benefit immigrant children brought to the U.S. through no fault of their own. These youth, like his dad George Romney, came here with their parents in search of a safer and more prosperous life. Mexican Mitt, though, would deport them.

But there is more. In his most recent genuflection to the nativist segment of the Republican party — and there have been many — the perfectly coiffed candidate welcomed with great fanfare the endorsement of no less an enemy of immigrants than Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. This is the man who was the leading architect of the “papers, please” anti-immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona.

“With his campaign trumpeting Kris Kobach’s endorsement, Mitt Romney’s descent into the dark clutches of radical nativism is complete,” said Frank Sharry, America’s Voice executive director.

“Romney’s embrace of this endorsement is nothing less than disgusting and will not be forgotten by those who have felt the consequences of the Kobach approach to immigration first-hand,” he said.

No, it will not. As Sharry points out, in Kobach’s America, “kids who want to serve in the military and attend college are criminals, states should have the right to nullify federal immigration enforcement priorities, and undocumented immigrants who are hardworking and well-established, who take care of our kids, our elders, our food and our houses, are a plague to be banished.”

Yet, Romney’s Mexican father became governor of Michigan and even tried — unsuccessfully — to become the Republican nominee for the presidency. Many questions were raised at the time about his eligibility: Was he or wasn’t he a “natural-born citizen?”

The younger Romney, tough as he is on illegal immigration, seems to be perfectly okay with his Mexican dad’s trajectory.

Something is certain: Come November, if Romney becomes the GOP choice to oppose President Obama, Latino voters will have no mercy for him at the polls. Unfortunately, without 40% of those votes Mexican Mitt has as much chance of becoming president as hell has of freezing over.

No “El Presidente Mitt” anytime soon...

aruiz@nydailynews.com

Mitt Romney flees from his Mexican roots with*tough anti-immigrant stance** - NY Daily News

Romney is the son of a Mexican father who crossed the border to the north when he was five — no mention of papers here — fleeing violence in his native country, as so many immigrants have done over the years.

You think this will help him secure the "Hispanic" vote? LOL!!!

Another LIBTARD article.

Romney opens 21-point lead in South Carolina: Reuters/Ipsos poll

By Jeff Mason | Reuters – 18 hrs ago...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party's nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, could all but quash his rivals' presidential aspirations with a victory in South Carolina on January 21 after winning the first state-by-state nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Voters in South Carolina - who have favored Republicans in nine of the last 10 presidential elections - appear to have shrugged off attacks on Romney by rivals who accuse him of killing jobs as a private equity executive for Bain Capital in the 1990s.

The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina Republican voters back Romney. Congressman Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum tied for second place with 16 percent support.

Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has fallen far back after holding a strong lead in South Carolina in December. He was in fourth place at 12 percent in the Reuters/Ipsos poll.

"In primary races things can change quickly but it does look like Romney is in position to win South Carolina, and if he wins ... that's sort of the end of the road for most of his challengers," Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson said.

MITT VS NEWT FEUD

Romney is clearly winning a feud with Gingrich that began in December before the Iowa caucuses and has become the most bitter fight in the selection of a Republican challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama in November's general election.

In a question asked of Republicans and Democrats, the poll found South Carolina voters would favor Romney over Obama by 46 percent to 40 percent.

Asked who they would choose if the nomination contest were solely between Romney and Gingrich, 62 percent of Republicans picked Romney and 30 percent went for Gingrich.

Senior Republican figures and business executives have berated Gingrich for painting multi-millionaire Romney as a ruthless corporate raider. Many Republican voters are also turned off by the attacks, highlighted in a video documentary produced by a funding group that backs Gingrich.

"I think those attacks are misguided. The process of any economy has long been one of creative destruction. Some things grow and some things disappear," said Steve Matthews, a lawyer from Columbia, South Carolina, who plans to vote for Romney.

Romney argues that many more jobs were created by Bain than were lost in his time there.

Santorum, who surged into second place in the Iowa caucuses before fading in New Hampshire, got a boost on Saturday when Christian conservative leaders meeting in Texas endorsed him.

After Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry placed next in the Reuters/Ipsos poll with 6 percent support. Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who was third in the New Hampshire primary, came in the lowest in the South Carolina poll with 3 percent support.

"Even if Romney loses South Carolina by a point or two, he's got the organization, he's got the financial backing to do the long battle of attrition that other challengers really don't," said Jackson of Ipsos.

Romney's campaign announced this week it raised $24 million in the last three months of 2011, while Paul raised $13 million and Gingrich raised $9 million. Obama is way ahead of the Republicans in fundraising.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from January 10-13 with a sample of 995 South Carolina registered voters. It included 398 Republicans and 380 Democrats.

Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online surveys but this poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans and 3.4 percentage points for all voters.

Romney opens 21-point lead in South Carolina: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Yahoo! News

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