LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Mitt Romney sought to broaden his appeal among Hispanic voters Thursday afternoon, recasting some of the hard-line positions he took during the heated Republican primary race on the divisive topic of immigration.
The former Massachusetts governor, calling immigration reform “a moral imperative,” said he would help immigrants reunite with their families and would allow more temporary work visas. Immigrants who earn advanced degrees at an American university would also earn a green card. And he reiterated support for providing legal status to immigrants in the military.
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Why does the Globe call this "recasting" when "flip-flopping" would certainly be more accurate? This guy would sell his grandmother to become the next President.
Looks like Mitt's got the Etch a Sketch out to redraw his opinion on this one!
Romney cannot be trusted to stay the course and remain consistent from day to day. Send this man back to Michigan.. or Nh... or wherever he says he lives when he's there to curry votes.
Romney will do or say anything to get what he wants: power. Given his mercurial, secretive nature, we have no way of knowing how extreme an agenda he will impose on our society. This capricious politician in dry cleaned jeans is very dangerous for our country. He has all the trappings of a TV evangelist.
@HardWorkingCop.... You've got it almost right. Romney would PAY anything, not sell anything, to be president. The Mittster has never yet found something he couldn't buy, and the GOP loves sucking off the Romney teat.
How do you spell flip-flop? Again. The man has no scruples.
No scruples, nothing at all. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. I'm not flip-flopping. I'm developing my stance. Romney never stood for anything while he was governor of Massachusetts until Eric Lapdog ran at least 3 polls to tell Mittster what to say.
Selling and paying is an irrelevant distinction when one is using other people's money. This is how PE works. This is not to demonize PE - and most certainly not to demonize Gov Romney - for it has its place. However, this is the heart of the model. One can tell the things to come with that vision. America is the takeover target; or, to be precise, she has become the takeunder target. Thanks to SCOTUS Citizens United decision, several billionaires have already lined up to bankroll the PE fund. It is up to the people in America to see if they want to sell themselves p.s. speaking of Citizen United, there is no doubt where Gov Romney stands when he said corporations are people too
Mitt has a "secret plan" to solve the immigration problem (see Nixon/Kissinger 1968 re: the Vietnam War). Senor Etch-A-Sketch es muy bueno, eh?
America, its government, over the years has been hypocritcal about the immigration issue. On the one hand, for years we left our borders open and still do (two thousand miles without a border fence)and for good business reasons, cheap labor. The strawberries you ate, were picked by illegal immigrants, paid slave wages and housed in unsanitary shacks. If we were serious about illegal aliens we would have as a government taken serious steps from the get-go about effectively guarding and fencing off our borders. But it is obvious we weren't. "Good" business practices won the day. But now that the illegals are here, we fret and fume over the fact they are.