mitt romney will tell anyone anything if he thinks its what they want to hear. i would trust ole mitt about as far as i can throw a cheesecake underwater.

We spend BILLIONS on ILLEGAL aliens. We need to deport all ILLEGALS, heavily fine those who hire ILLEGALS, and return to the original intent of the 14th amendment and do away with anchor babies.

Ummm, Mr. Roston, apparently you have poor language skills. I don't know how to help you. You see, adjectives matter. "Illegal" makes all the difference in the world. Kinda like if you came home and found a dozen Mexican men sitting in your living room, drinking your beer, munching on your potato chips, sleeping bags on your bedroom floor. Obviously they live there. Obviously they're residents. Are they legal residents? But you don't think adjectives matter.

Sounds good until you put them in office, then he would cowtow to his Corporate kings and let as many cross over the border as they wanted to work in their factories. Look the GOPERS and DEMS together have put our Country in the toilet, with all their so called 'FAIR TRADE AGREEMENTS'. The only thing fair about them is that a "fair" amount of jobs will be lost until the middle class is working at McDonalds. Mitt isn't going to close the borders, none of these candiates are. They will all give it lip service but won't actually do it. People need to stop thinking these Candiates care about anyone except their donors.

The headline is misleading. Romney is addressing illegal immigration and that is the crux of all the discussion going on in the country. It has finally sunk in, that Americans would like their laws enforced on the Federal, state and local levels. Allowing illegal immigration to grow out of control after the 1986 amnesty is dereliction of duty. Bill Clinton was equally responsible for the elitist notion that "the little people" just don't know what is best. A neo-con concept expanded under W who is a disgrace, but we already know that. I believe Hillary has the same attitude and am concerned, that she will not be able to put the interest of the American people first. Just look at the Peru deal.

As far as Flip/Flopping is concern:

I am a John Edwards supporter and I have to say if their is anybody who wishes he could have his words back from the Democrat's Univision Debate in September it is Edwards.

Edward's attempted to pander though not quite as stridently as his party opponents for the Latino vote. He simply was not in the same league as Hillary, Obama, Richardson, Dodd or Kucinich. Instead the only result was that in the following weeks Edwards lost almost 10% in Iowa polls.

Why?? It was simply insane for Edwards to take anything but a hard line against illegal immigration in a state like Iowa where the now DLC President and corrupt former governor and of course Hillary supporter Tom Vilsack looked the other way while Big Business, Big Agriculture and Meatpacking flooded the state with illegal alien labor. Mega-CAFO's wiped out family livestock operations using illegal labor. Union meatpacking jobs are history.

Edwards had only one shot at winning Iowa decisively and it was a risky one. Go all out and make a stand with his own "Sista Soulja" moment and stand up to the pro-open borders corporate and ethnocentric interests. The problem at the time was that the DLC and the Clintonistas had stacked the following Super Tuesday vote with states like California with significant Latino electorates. Back at the time it looked like Edwards could win Iowa and still get crushed on Super Tuesday.

Now as the revolt by the nonhispanic Democratic base continues it will looks like Edwards made a huge miscalulation by not taking the gamble. Since September Democrats have witnessed from the extremely close Nikki Tsongas election in MA, the Spitzer drivers license fiasco and just this Tuesday, that Illegal immigration and Open Borders are being increasing being rejected by Democrats as well as Republicans.

So why shouldn't a Republican candidate weigh the odds and say "Hell yes I go on Univision and stand up to the badgering of a Latino supremacist like the blue eyed pretty boy anchor Jorge Ramos". If a Sista Soulja moment worked for Bill Clinton why not for Republicans. Furthermore Republicans have to do something to breakaway from the Open Borders policies of Buschco inorder to get their rebelious base to the polls.

Republican strategists have to be thinking that no matter what they do, the Democrat front runner Hillary has convinced herself that by out "hispandering" all comers she is certain to capture the nomination. Likewise Hillary has already played her hand that she will attempt to play the race card and accuse any Republican that does not support "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" as racist in the General Election. Republicans figure they can easily win with just 25-30% of the Hispanic vote if white males abandon the Democrats in continuing historic numbers. Now they are willing to call Hillary and the corrupt DLC/DNC leadership's bluff.

HuffPo makes a huge mistake believing that the Hispanic vote is monolithic.

What groups in America are most effected by Illegal Immigration? Gee how about Hispanics themselves, who like African-American, face intense pressure in the low and moderately skilled labor markets. Also Hispanics who are citizens and legal residents are most effected by the curruption and criminal element that comes along with illegal immigration. Likewise they suffer from the overburdened social and health services and overcrowded school systems.

Next there are Hispanic subpopulations like the Cubans who are have been long time Republicans allies and are a critical voting block in Florida.

Second there are Puerto Ricans who are already American citizens and have nothing to really to gain from the encouraging of additional waves by of Illegal immigration from Latin America by granting amnesty. Only race hustling Puerto Rican politicians like Luis Gutierrez who someday fancy himself Mayor of Chicago or Governor of Illinois on the backs of a burgeoning united Latino voting block really believe it is in their best interest.

Last polls show that a significant minority of Hispanics who are US Citizens and legal residents from Central and Latin America simply do not buy into the leftwing Open Borders Latino supremacist agenda of the major Ethno-centric lobbies like La Raza, LULAC, MALDEF. Additionally these Latinos sure as hell do not want anything to due with MEChA and the Aztlan loonies or the various Neo-Wobbly, ANSWER sponsored anarchist and social marxists and multicultist radicals also advocate for Open Borders on a one world socialist movement basis. Many Latinos are naturally social conservatives. Their social conservativism places them at natural odds with lefties and radicals.

Cut the funding sounds good to me. Even better why send in our money in the first place? States rights only when it fits the christofascist agenda. More neo con from a different source. Eight years of neo con is enough for a lifetime. First Germany in the 30's-40's then the USA 2000-2008.

.
"As President, I'll oppose amnesty, cut funding for sanctuary cities and secure our borders."

Nice, no Conniving Calculating Cackling Clinton double-talk here. He's got my vote!
.

Take Simon Rosenberg... please.

But, seriously, both Simon Rosenberg and, by extension, the HuffPost are accusing Hispanics of automatically supporting massive illegal activity for racial reasons. That's not only false, but it's bad public policy to pander to that segment of Hispanics who support illegal activity for racial reasons.

Like ALL of his other FLIP-FLOPS.

But, at least this one makes common sense.

I am as against the Thug party as anyone on Earth, but WHY is Huffpost allowing this lie to be on the page.

He didn't put out an ANTI IMMIGRANT commercial. That is just a flat out lie. IF we are to be taken seriously in the progressive blogosphere, we need to NOT do the same thing the Fox News Whorehouse does, which is to twist facts to support an agenda.

The ad is an ANTI ILLEGAL ALIEN ad.

And I got no problem with that at all. Illegals are killing America just as much as the corporations who are working overtime to kill unions, lower wages, and bring about the way things were around the 1900 by fighting to get as many illegals here for cheap labor.

SO Huffpost, don't become what we dispise, which is lying about what someone says. THAT is what the Thug party does.

Well the herd is coming down the road and through the woods to show how much they love illegals right?