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Mitt Romney’s campaign has been trying very hard to criticizing the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision without taking a firm position on the substantive results. Romney spokesman Rick Gorka had a painful exchange with reporters on the subject.
GORKA: “The governor supports the states’ rights to craft immigration laws when the federal government has failed to do so. This president promised as a candidate to address immigration in his first year and hasn’t, and waited actually ‘til four and a half months before the election to put in place a stopgap measure.”
QUESTION: So does he think it’s wrongly decided?
GORKA: “The governor supports the states’ rights to do this. It’s a 10th amendment issue.”
QUESTION: So he thinks it’s constitutional?
GORKA: “The governor believes the states have the rights to craft their own immigration laws, especially when the federal government has failed to do so.”
QUESTION: And what does he think about parts invalidated?
GORKA: “What Arizona has done and other states have done is a direct result of the failure of this president to address illegal immigration. It’s within their rights to craft those laws and this debate, and the Supreme Court ruling is a direct response of the president failing to address this issue.”
QUESTION: Does (Romney) support the law as it was drafted in Arizona?
GORKA: “The governor supports the right of states, that’s all we’re going to say on this issue.”
The dancing continues:
QUESTION: Does he have a position on the law, or no position?
GORKA: “The governor has his own immigration policy that he laid out in Orlando and in the primary, which he would implement as president which would address this issue. Whereas Obama has had four years in the office and has yet to address it in a meaningful way.”
QUESTION: But does the Governor have a position on the Arizona law besides supporting the right of states?
GORKA: “This debate is sprung from the president failing to address this issue, so each state is left and has the power to draft and enact their own immigration policy.”
QUESTION: But the Arizona law does very specific things, does the governor support those things that the Arizona law does?
GORKA: “We’ve addressed this.”
I noted Romney’s immigration caution on the main site this morning.
UPDATE: Romney himself says: “I would have preferred to see the Supreme Court give more latitude to the states, not less. And there are states now under this decision have less authority, less latitude to enforce immigration laws.”
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StevenYano| 6.25.12 @ 11:27PM
States' Rights. Mitt Romney is a wealthy puppet of the Mormon Church, which loves states' rights. To get a better understanding of the cult that produced Mitt Romney and to get your socks scared off read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available at
www.amazon.com/Assassination-S.....B0083EGJXC
It dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex manifesting as racism, sexism, jingoism, and an anti-federal government temperament.
It shows the similarities between Islam and Mormonism and reveals the secrets of Mormon mind control.
Consider this review:
“With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.”
Tom Whalen
www.tomwhalen.com
Everyone should read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.
Dai Alanye | 6.26.12 @ 9:20AM
Just what we need -- more conspiracy theories.
Dai Alanye | 6.26.12 @ 9:25AM
As for Romney, why should anyone be surprised by his waffling, especially on immigration.
He plays the politician as much as any of them, ever willing to attempt to tell the public and those he sees as opinion makers what he presumes they wish to hear. Only difference? Mitt is less skilled that most politicos.
He can't win the election on his own, so let's hope Obama continues to lose it.
Ryan| 6.26.12 @ 10:02AM
Romney's spokesdude should have stated something more like "we are currently formulating a clear statement on the Arizona decision and will release it later today" or something.
Don't waffle. Be clear and concise. Answer a question directly, and don't just point to a policy in general, state what the policy is. If you can't, say that you will address it clearly within a day or two.
Derek Leaberry| 6.26.12 @ 10:59AM
Romney is harder to pin down than a catfish wigglin' on an ocean pier.
Jake| 6.26.12 @ 1:40PM
The Democrats and the media and some on the right want Romney to stop talking about the economy and get mired in immigration.
This will take the focus off Obama and put it on Romney .
Romney has enough message discipline to stick to the winning strategy . There are enough Republican surrogates to discuss immigration .
Kris Kobach , the KS Secretary of State
and co author of the Arizona law is an advisor to Romney. And has been since 2008 .
Romney doesn't have to spell it out with words .