Interview with Mitt Romney
Gov. Mitt Romney had a few minutes to chat with me about immigration and national security. Check out the interview at Hot Air. I’ll put up a full transcript with more commentary here in a bit, so check back later.
Here’s part one of the interview. Click over to HA for part two. (Each segment runs a little under 10 minutes):
If you didn’t catch the Washington Post article spotlighting the Giuliani-Romney rumble over sanctuary cities, here it is.
And here’s NR responding to RNC open-borders activist Mel Martinez’s criticism of Republican candidates focusing on immigration enforcement.
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I shook hands with Gov. Romney at CPAC this year, and my arthritis went away.
Mitt:
“defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”
Where have I heard that before? Ah, yes! The wordings of the current oath of enlistment.
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
Now, what do we do about Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp?
I met Mitt Romney at a California Republican Party Convention a few months ago. I knew very little about him, and I was very impressed.
When asked why he can’t get along with the democrats in the legislature as well as the Governator, he replied, “Of course Arnold gets along with the democrats. He is sleeping with one.”
He was also diplomatic when I asked him if any Massachussetts politicians were fighting his efforts for tougher drunk driving laws.
Double-M, I always knew you wrote well, but had never heard one of your radio interviews. I thought you were tough, but fair.
As for Romney, he is a good man, and he clearly understands the defining issues of our time.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/more-than-just-dilberts-mormon-manager/
Respectfully,
eric
We are going to have to start calling Mitt the “Stormin’ Mormon”…
Jim M got it right, Mitt is it.
I don’t know Jim. I heard alot of tip toeing and dancing. “I think we can take a look at…”, “Maybe we should…” and similar verbiage. His positions and ideas were not forceful at all in my view.
It’s just the trust factor that is missing in all the Republican candidates…even if we elected Hunter or Tancredo, I’m still not confident that the words will be transformed into action. That’s why I’m so excited about grassroots efforts like DTN.com. That’s what’s going to effect change, not campaign promises.
It was a hard nosed, focused interview on immigration. I find it amazing to what degree Michelle has been shaping the immigration debate in the last few days and weeks…LOVING IT!
OT, but too good to pass up:
Tony Snow, who makes $186,000 per year is quitting because of “financial pressures”.
I wonder what my situation would be called …
I don’t know what his medical insurance is like, but I know If I had the health problems he’s been under for the past year, I’d be suffering “financial pressures” too.
On the subject of Mel Martinez you might also want to check out Bitter Martinez on the Washington Times site.
Rudy Giuliani, not only converted NY city into a sanctuary city, but sued federal govt. to protect alien criminals. Mitt Romney, although against criminal aliens, is speaking out too little, too late. For example, Mitt would not repeal the Matricula Consular cards.
Tom Tancredo, on the other hand, has a pro-ative, strong and a consistent record against criminal aliens: http://www.teamtancredo.com/
Remembering, we won’t get a second chance, I would bet on Tom. And you?
Tom Tancredo would be awesome if he didn’t have the stage presense of an enraged porcupine.
We’ve admired Tony Snow for years and pray he beats this cancer. Re: Mitt Romney He created his own wealth by being a business man – the Clintons did it with politics. I was impressed to hear that he deputized his state law enforcers to deal w/illegal immigrants. Since the federal government did nothing, the states and counties should be able to act.
This is the issue of the election. As long as idiots like Mel Martinez are steering the party the party has a severe problem.
The fence needs to be built. It can have huge gates to let in as many LEGAL mexicans that want to come, as long as they come through the Gates.
If the issue of ILLEGAL imigration is not made the center issue of whoever wins the Republican primaries than Hillary will be the next President.
Bhishma said:
Not defending Giuliani but you are mistaken as to the origins of the sanctuary city policy in NYC …
The sanctuary policy was proposed and went into effect in 1989 under Ed Koch (D) and continued under David Dinkins (D) after that …when Giuliani became the mayor of NYC he continued to enforce the sanctuary policy that was already in place … this has continued with Bloomberg as mayor …
Just pointing out that Giuliani did not start the NYC sanctuary city policy … but he also did not do anything to end it …
BDFaith, Thanks for the link to the editorial in the Washington Times:
He is also damaging Republicans’ chances for 2008 because no one is giving the RNC any money. As long as he is there, they are going to get no contributions. He needs to be fired NOW. I can see him and President Bush so bitter about immigration that they try to undermine Republicans’ chances in 2008. If the average person starts to think that Republicans are the amnesty party (thanks to Bush and the RNC), we will have no chance.
Is it just me? Or, has Michelle Malkin already drunk the Mitt Romney Kool-Aid?
Barring Newt getting in the race I will DEFINITELY be voting for Mitt!
Hey, “Mitt Happens”!
Seriously, based on the fact that Rudy has some serious skeletons in a large Ivana Trump-type closet – including his many pictures in drag, which will be plastered all over the place if he is the nominee (want a leader of the free world to be seen as the new J. Edgar Hoover?) – anyone of a conservative mind needs to keep an open mind at this point.
Fred? The man can’t even get a campaign together to announce his candidacy – how’s he going to fare in the real time real world?
And the rest of the crowd has so little appeal that the Democrats would consider it to be divine intervention if any of them received the nomination.
For me personally, the jury is still out on all of them. Let the vetting process run its course.
I do strongly agree with the comments on Martinez. The man is grinding a personal agenda at the expense of losing the entire base of the Republican party. He needs to go, NOW, if the Republicans want to a serious chance in 2008. No money these days is no votes.
Fred Barnes echoes Martinezes idiotic stance and attacks the base. I have fisked the story here. Enjoy
http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/08/fred-barnes-is-wrong.html
I don’t know where someone would get the idea that MM had “already drunk the Mitt Romney Kool-aid” when we’ve all been wanting a candidate to come to us with an interview. Pretty stupid statement if you ask me.
Michelle, it was a good interview… thanks.
Governor Romney, thanks for your time and your answers.
didn’t there used to be QUOTAS for Immigration that allowed a certain number of persons-per-country-per-year to apply for US citizenship!?!?!?!
What were those quotas, & when did they disappear?
I think — if you research it — you will find Teddy Kennedy’s political fingerprints all over the removal of those old quotas — and it happened awhile back — in the 1960 or 1970s, I believe.
I noticed this article, as well. I can tell you that there are PLENTY of Hispanics who not only are NOT alienated by a strong stance on ILLEGAL immigration, but who wholeheartedly SUPPORT cracking down on illegal immigration.
I wonder if Fred Barnes knows any Hispanics besides his cleaning lady and lawnkeeper?
Hey, great line!
However, like Joseph Farah, I have deep reservations about Romney — if nominated, he will be labelled a flip-flopper on a number of issues, but especially on abortion.
He also was arguably an enabler for gay marriage in Massachusetts via some of his administrative moves (though he never campaigned for it).
Strike one. When Mitt ran for Governor, his promise was to keep current laws the same. Which he did. He Vetoed any bills that would expand abortion or other anti-life messages.
Strike two. Governors can’t veto court rulings, and Democrats run the legislature. Mitt did everything in his power to damage control the ruling, restricting it’s influence to Massachusetts alone and making sure gays couldn’t just elope here, get a certificate, and fly away. Not bad for a guy “checked and balanced” by two other Democrat-run branches.
Your criticisms are unfounded, in other words.
I see that YOU have drunk the Mitt Romney Kool-Aid, in any case.
My condolences.
Funny, I didn’t see a counterargument there.
Two words: “OH YEAH!”
And I’m drinking Kool-Aid?
“The choice to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not the government’s.”
-Romney 2002
“Romney’s campaign distributed pro-gay rights campaign literature during Boston’s ‘Gay Pride’ events,” issuing pink fliers stating, “Mitt and Kerry [running mate Kerry Healey] wish you a great Pride weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.”
- Romney advocated governmental recognition of homosexual adoption rights, domestic partnerships and homosexual civil unions.
- Romney opposed the Boy Scouts’ policy prohibiting homosexuals from serving as scoutmasters and prevented the organization from participating publicly in the 2002 Olympics.
– The Boston Globe wrote in 2005, “Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents – including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights.”
- Romney promoted homosexual propaganda in Massachusetts schools through the “Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth,” funding this bureaucracy of social engineering instead of eliminating it.
Do I even have to bring up his universal health care scheme? SHUDDER.
If people don’t want Republicans to stay home or vote third party in record numbers on election day, pick someone beside Rudy McRomney. It’s that simple.