Romney Camp Concedes Kobach Is Adviser; Kobach Concedes Romney Wants SB-1070 Nationwide

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Etch A Sketch: Romney Camp Concedes Kobach Is Adviser; Kobach Concedes Romney Wants SB-1070 Nationwide

First, the campaign tried to distance itself from controversial immigration activist Kris Kobach, the author of Arizona and Alabama’s harsh anti-immigration laws. Romney had touted Kobach as an informal adviser, but this week said he was merely a “supporter” not an “adviser.” ThinkProgress and others spoke with Kobach, who disputed the claim and said he was still advising the campaign, but nonetheless Romney’s staff again stood by their initial statement.

But today, a spokesperson agreed in an email to CNN that Kobach is indeed an “informal adviser.”
Secondly, the Romney campaign asserted that when the presumed presidential nominee said during a Republican primary debate that Arizona is “a model,” he was referring to the state’s E-Verify law, not its anti-immigration law, the Kobach-backed SB-1070.

But newly-confirmed immigration adviser Kobach disputed this as well. “He stated very publicly that Arizona’s law should be a model for how the federal government enforces its immigration laws. And he’s correct there too,” Kobach told CNN of SB-1070. Indeed, Romney’s “self-deportation” policy shares the same basic approach as Arizona’s law.

Kobach went on to say that he doesn’t expect Romney — who had the harshest immigration policy of any Republican presidential candidate — to moderate his stances at all when facing President Obama. “I think it would be unusual for a national presidential candidate to back away from statements he’s made in debates and he hasn’t shown any sign of doing so,” Kobach said.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/20/468833/romney-reclaims-kobach-1070/

[gratuitous]

1. Note to Mitt:

Get your lies in order before someone blabs to the press. You look not only evil, but stupid.

[SemperEadem]

2. 3 words for you, Kobach: Etch-a-sketch

Kobach went on to say that he doesn’t expect Romney — who had the harshest immigration policy of any Republican presidential candidate — to moderate his stances at all when facing President Obama.

remember what Key Romney Advisor Eric Fehrnstrom said:

"You hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again."

awkward!!!!

His position change is going to leave your wig on the other side of your head.

[mojitojoe]

3. It's Bus Tossing Time for the Romney Campaign

So when he's fighting for the nomination then Kobach and his anti-immigrant jihad is a central part of Romney's plans for the border. Now that he's got the nomination, and someone pointed out that he's like 80 points down in the Hispanic approval polls, then suddenly it's "Kris who?" It's truly pathetic if they honestly think that this is going to make people forget what he's been saying all along.

[Iliyah]

4. Mittens and his cronies are

pathology liars. This is what the gopper base, including the evangelicals want because they HATE Pres O so much? Mittens will be like W, only a tool, he won't be the calling the shots, probably evil ass Cheney and Rove and the Koch Brothers, Alec and all the crazy assholes who will eventually bring America downhill to an actual third world country.

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. But who would mow Mitten's lawn?

[alp227]

9. Prisoners, perhaps?

I've heard stories about some municipal governments in Wisconsin and Georgia using prisoners for yard work.

The Wisconsin story as told in local media, and on TYT:

[pampango]

12. Great article in the Nation last week: Importing illegal immigrants - into Georgia's prisons

"Even as Georgia and Alabama passed harsh new immigration laws last year designed to keep out undocumented immigrants, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that politicians from both states were lobbying hard to bring immigrant detainees in."

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/04/11/importing-illegal-immigrants-%E2%80%93-into-private-georgia-prisons/

The hypocrisy of republicans - use ALEC-written state immigration laws to scare away many Hispanics and arrest some others, then import these same people back to the state as prisoners to do the work they were doing before. Quite a racket.

[Iliyah]

6. LOL

CHILDREN

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Something Else For Progressives To Pound Mittens With

Having the likes of Kobach as an immigration adviser is something that progressives need to pass on to prospective Hispanic voters. Arizona's SB 1070 has helped to turn Arizona into a place where walking or driving while brown is considered reasonable grounds for arrest or detention.

Keeping Kobach within arm's length shows that Mitt-sie hasn't changed his immigration policy one iota from what it was when he was sucking up to the right wing's furthest racialist/nativist reaches during the main part of the primary season.

[MrScorpio]

8. Mitt needs to fully tout his support for SB-1070

Latinos who want to vote for Romney would then realize that their support for him would be exactly the same as chickens that would vote for Colonel Sanders.

[Dawson Leery]

10. No wonder "Confederate Son" Trace Adkins endorsed Rmoney.

[provis99]

11. so can we deport the Romneys back to Mexico?

they sound like the typical "anchor babies" that the conservatives are constantly complaining about.