Why Clinton’s immigration speech left many Republican rivals speechless

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-clintons-immigration-speech-left-many-republican-rivals-speechless/2015/05/06/846bc592-f423-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fighting words on immigration this week, designed in part to provoke Republicans into a reactionary counterattack, instead drew an unusual early response from several top-tier GOP presidential candidates: silence.

Two days after Clinton vowed to expand on President Obama’s executive actions to shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was one of the only leading Republican 2016 contenders to strike back, calling it a “full embrace of amnesty” that is “unfair to hard-working Americans.”

By contrast, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did not weigh in publicly on the remarks Clinton made Tuesday at a campaign stop in Las Vegas. Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), one of Obama’s most vocal critics on immigration, waited until Wednesday evening to respond on Facebook, writing that Clinton wants to “continue and expand President Obama’s illegal amnesty” and “continue the lawlessness that is dividing our country.”

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee told MSNBC on Wednesday that Clinton was wrong, saying the country needs to focus on border security first.

[leftofcool]

1. Right now, the GOP is scrambling! They don't know what the hell to do!

[sufrommich]

2. Rubio's own pollster says that no republican will get to the

White House without 40% of latino voters. Granted,Rubio's pollster might have incentive to make this claim, but if he's right, they're screwed.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/rubio-pollster-gop-must-top-40-with-latinos-to-win-white-house-in-2016-20150331

[lancer78]

4. A republican can

do it with 35%, but will need a huge boost among rural whites. If the latino vote goes 80%D 20% R, republicans would need 63% of the white vote to win.

[sufrommich]

5. I think the white vote is only 72% of the vote. The odds of a democrat only getting

10-15% of the white vote would seem to be slim to none.

[Historic NY]

3. GOP its only 5 million...

St. Reagan had to clean up his mess in 1986 and Bush the elder some more later down the pike. They both did it w/o passing a new law.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120334/obama-immigration-order-legal-bush-and-reagans-were

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Cruz responded on Facebook?

Not MSM?

I am wondering if MSM is being ignored/discounted.

right now the Tea Party is holding a convention which is being broadcast on C-Span, but apparently not on MSM.
So when the MSM does cover political news, it seems to want to wait to "analyze" it first.
Which makes it commentary, not news.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Viva Hillary

http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Hillary+Clinton+Campaigns+Texas+Ahead+Primary+7r39WYZuLudl.jpg