Thread: Condoleezza Rice Supports Amnesty for Illegal Aliens: Romney Should not pick as VP

Originally Posted by 4thHorseman

Don't blame Romney for this mush from the rumor mill. Rice made a popular speech at a meeting of GOP elitists, and some publicist has taken it from there. The more I hear about this the more I believe the Romney team is encouraging the speculation while they concentrate on who they really want.Probably Portman.

The scary thing is that she was at a retreat full of Romney's top people and they were all applauding her bashing of those that have stood up and stopped the Bush/Rove/McCain amnesty legislation!

The elites are looking for someone to sell us amnesty and ramrod it through under a Republican President like they did under Reagan.

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Condoleezza Rice's Immigration Views Hard for Romney To Take

By Dan Moffett, About.com Guide
July 19, 2012

Immigrant advocates and champions of comprehensive immigration reform would have no complaints if Mitt Romney chose Condoleezza Rice as his running mate on the Republican ticket.

Of course, that's precisely why she's a long shot to get the vice presidential nomination.

George W. Bush's secretary of state has annoyed the conservative wing of party in recent months with comments that were blatantly sympathetic to immigrants. Imagine that.

In a speech at Duke University in April, Rice suggested that the continued flow of new immigrants was essential to maintaining America's vitality and leadership in the world.

"The immigrant culture that has renewed us...has been at the core of our strength," she said, according to the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer. "I don't know when immigrants became the enemy."

Rice has said she supported President Bush's politically moderate plans for comprehensive immigration reform in his first term. Bush had pushed for an expanded guest worker program and a path to legal residency for the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country when he took office. When it comes to immigration reform, the records of Bush and President Obama have much in common.

Those plans ran aground, however, when 9/11 changed the course of his administration and the political climate of the nation. Immigration reform didn't just move to the back burner it fell off the stove altogether.

During a speech at Stanford University in 2009, Rice lamented the Bush administration's failure to fix the broken system:
"One of my biggest regrets was that we were not able to get comprehensive immigration reform," she said. "This country needs comprehensive immigration reform."

She said that if the United States closes its doors to immigrants, "We are going to lose one of the strongest elements of not just our national wealth, but our national soul."

During a speech in Atlanta this month, Rice echoed her previous comments: "Of course it is not just those who come here, but those who are here who happen to believe also that it doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you are going."

What's clear about Condoleezza Rice and immigration is that she is 180 degrees removed from the ideological space occupied by the Tea Party. And she is well off on the progressive side of most Republicans.

As a candidate this year, Mitt Romney has moved ever farther toward the right edge of the spectrum on immigration. Though his positions remain too vague to pin down, he has managed to curry enough favor among conservatives to lock up the nomination.

Hard to imagine that Romney could have Rice and the Tea Party, too.

Condoleezza Rice's Immigration Views Hard for Romney To Take