re: #42 moderatelyradicalliberal

He opposes the permanent solution as does his party. It’s called the Dream Act and Republicans blocked it during the ‘09 lame duck session. You would think that a journalist would point that out. If only we had a real liberal media.

Romney ripped Perry’s heartless comment during the debates.

“I think if you’re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have a heart. It means you have a heart and a brain. Legal immigration is good for America. Illegal immigration is something I will stop if I’m president.”

Stopping illegal immigration means confronting and stopping America’s hypocrisy. My Mom and Stepdad are “pretty sure” that their lawn and landscape guy is here illegally, but they don’t care, and they’re staunch anti illegal immigration Republicans. It’s DADT for assholes.

What the President is doing is signaling that simplistic answers don’t fit a complex problem, and that the Republicans will no longer be allowed to lazily lump in people who were brought here as children and have been productive members of American society ever since. Romney is in such a bind now and can’t / won’t say whether he’ll support or repeal the policy because either way he loses politically. We’ll see if he can keep this act up through the debates, and how much damage the constant weaseling does in the meantime.