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Report: Romney Hired Illegals. His Response? "Aw, Geez."
It turns out Mitt Romney may have done something that is even more offensive to the conservative base than his past expressions of tolerance for gays: He hired illegal immigrants. The Boston Globe, which broke the story, asked Romney for comment. His response? "Aw, geez." TPMmuckraker's Paul Kiel has the details.
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If you read the entire article, it makes it sound a bit like there's a secret Underground Railroad bringing converts to Mormonism from other countries to the U.S. illegally.
December 1, 2006 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if that will really de-rail Romney.
He's an easterner, so he's a bit much for the true red-meat types in the South. But, if it's McCain v. Romney, who do they pick?
If you're a wing-nutter from Oklahoma, can you really stomach McCain? Especially now that they are all fired up and convinced that the Republicans lost because they weren't conservative enough and "compromised with Democrats."
I know it sounds even more insane than usual, but that's the tenor of the comments on redstate.org. They think that Bush "lost his way" and compromised with Democrats in passing budget busting pork and proposing "amnesty" for illegals and they want the next President to be a true fire-breathing whack-job like them.
Basically, can they really trust that McCain would appoint another Scalia clone to the S.Ct. and provoke an all out fight with Democrats if they controlled the senate after 2008? Because otherwise it's "treason!"
It's hard to see them really believing in McCain's conversion to right-wing partisan.
But, I've been wrong before whenever I ascribe any real principles to wing-nuttia. They love power and might all just decide to follow their leaders who insist it's McCain or Hillary!
December 2, 2006 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink