George Bush and immigration, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney and Immigration
George Bush and immigration, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney and Immigration

Novak: George Bush 'Privately' Upset With Mitt Romney

  |   February 1, 2008 03:04 PM


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The following is excerpted from Robert D. Novak's column entitled "Bush Against Romney"


While President George W. Bush has maintained neutrality among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, he privately expresses to friends his exasperation with Mitt Romney's hard-line stance on immigration.



Bush is upset that Romney changed his position on the issue, compared to what it had been when he was governor of Massachusetts, at the expense of the president's immigration reform. Bush and Sen. John McCain are not close, but the president is grateful for McCain's support on Iraq and immigration.

Read analysis on the column from Think Progress.

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- HatingTheGame See Profile I'm a Fan of HatingTheGame permalink

This reminds me of the 1996 election when the republicans wanted to play defense against the dems. They knew Clinton was a president that had a lot of dirt on him, and they figured they'd be better off just wailing on him rather than having to govern.

So they nominated a one-armed, geriatric war hero and trotted him up there to get smashed by Clinton, and then they gave him a lot of viagra ads, retired him, and then proceeded to drag the country through hell.

They're doing the same thing this year. They know that even a sock puppet can beat up the repugs, so they agree to be defense, let the dems take the white house, and then proceed to make the next 4-8 years hell, making it impossible to govern, all the while continuing to steal from the treasury.

Of course Bush wants McCain even tho he can't stand him. Its all part of the Rovean plan to keep progressive movements off balance, and continue to destroy this country.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 AM on 02/07/2008
- kae See Profile I'm a Fan of kae permalink

I do not care if Bush is upset with his little manchurian candidate - the winners have already been determined....just not by voters.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:17 PM on 02/05/2008
- Tankan See Profile I'm a Fan of Tankan permalink

Hardly private now!

I wonder if Romney is privately upset with George W.?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:18 PM on 02/05/2008
- lungfish See Profile I'm a Fan of lungfish permalink

Illegal immigrants, including Mexicans are a subclass of worker that businesses exploit illegally.
This country is in a recession and 20million illegal immigrants are not helping the numbers. Americans need jobs. Legal immigrants need jobs.
Mexicans need to fix what is wrong with Mexico rather than come here illegally.
I welcome anyone who comes here the legal way, regardless of race. I have nothing but disdain for those that come here to exploit our system and those who run businesses that exploit the subclass.
Illegals have no protections because they are illegal. They commit crimes ranging from theft to DUI (many expensive statistics here), to drug dealing to organized crimes to gang brutality, etc. The expense of labeling everything in Spanish, accomodating children that don't speak English and were born here specifically to circumvent immigration laws is massive.
Illegals should be sent home after hard labor building roads and rebuilding New Orleans. The price for jumping the border isn't high enough. We need to secure out borders, weed out illegals, take biometric data when they are caught to ensure that we can identify them if we catch them again, and make it so difficult for illegals that actually doing a legal immigration is easier... no drivers licenses so illegals can get to their illegal jobs. And we need to punish the hell out of businesses and landlords that exploit illegals for profit.
What is it about "illegal" that is so hard to understand? And yes, I don't like driving to Home Depot through crowds of unemployed illegals... it means that my government isn't enforcing the laws that it already has on the books.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:28 PM on 02/04/2008
- mamacat See Profile I'm a Fan of mamacat permalink

It is important that the Republicans stay disorganised long enough for the Democrats to take over the government. The only way to end the occupation of Iraq, to fix the economy, to do something about health care, and to do all the other things that the POTUS is supposed to lead in, including protecting the borders, is to bring the boring Democrats back into power. So far, the Republicans have proved little beyond their inability to do anything right. Oh yeah, they're really good at smearing each other, Democrats, and anyone who gets in their way.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:49 AM on 02/04/2008
- nightslider See Profile I'm a Fan of nightslider permalink

F.Y.R.N

Nuff Said

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:29 AM on 02/04/2008
- Ladyrantsalot See Profile I'm a Fan of Ladyrantsalot permalink

Thanks for the exciting information, Bob. We're always sooo grateful when you take time from your busy schedule of stabbing CIA operatives in the back and palling around with the likes of Robert Hanssen to fill us in on all the delicious gossip emanating from the dark side of right wing politics.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:20 PM on 02/03/2008
- degjack See Profile I'm a Fan of degjack permalink


Why should anyone give a rat's a** what George Bush thinks?

When has he ever cared what we think???

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:35 PM on 02/03/2008
- cognitorex See Profile I'm a Fan of cognitorex permalink

Immigrants send Mitt Romney back across border.
Nate Newman on TPM Cafe gives us these numbers and analysis.
If 12% of the Florida population votes 54% to 14% for a candidate, this will add 5% to that candidate's vote total.
Apparently the Florida immigrant population, the Latinos, the border jumpers or swimmers as the case may be, added the entire margin of victory, McCain's 5% margin, to so cause McCain's victory in Florida.
That means that Romney's tacking to the conservative majorities' pivotal quasi-racist immigration position cost him Florida and hence, it appears, the nation.
I'm from Mass and detest Romney. That the 'immigrants' jumped up and bit him in the keester tickles me no end.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:31 PM on 02/03/2008
- genseric See Profile I'm a Fan of genseric permalink

This isn't rocket science. The corporate establishment and W wants McCain because he will guarentee them the cheap labor from illegal immigration. The traitor Republicans who vote for McCain - I don't want to hear a peep from them when Hillary waxes that bozo.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:59 PM on 02/03/2008
- VivaZapata See Profile I'm a Fan of VivaZapata permalink

why is anyone still paying attention to novak? how come he didn't get in trouble for his part in the valerie plame outing?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:53 AM on 02/03/2008
- larryfishkorn See Profile I'm a Fan of larryfishkorn permalink

So what? Really, who cares? Am I supposed to feel bad for either one of those plastic assholes?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:43 AM on 02/03/2008
- Insiteful See Profile I'm a Fan of Insiteful permalink

It would be a shame if Romney stood in the way of Georgie's New World Order plans, by not alllowing more cheap Mexican labor into our country, to really destroy the dollar.

Here comes the Amero, folks!! Thank the traitorous Repblicans.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:39 PM on 02/02/2008
- gcallaghan See Profile I'm a Fan of gcallaghan permalink

Republicans = Military Failure

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 02/02/2008
- serialcoma See Profile I'm a Fan of serialcoma permalink

Unless you are on the receiving end of a US nuke why should anyone care what george, the coward and traitor, bush thinks...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 PM on 02/02/2008
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