JoeB131
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Bad Romney is back! - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
I'll go one further than Gerson.
The only way the GOP can win this election, is if they can peal away Hispanic votes from Obama. the only way the GOP survives as anything but a regional party is if it makes inroads with minorities overall.
And here's Romney, playing the race card.
One of the vast improvements of Mitt Romneys current presidential campaign over his previous one has been its relative freedom from obvious, cringe-inducing pandering. Until now.
This new campaign video attacking Rick Perry on education benefits for undocumented immigrants represents the return of the bad old Romney.
No one imagines Romney to be an authentic, Tom Tancredo-like, anti-immigration politician. He defended George W. Bushs 2005 comprehensive immigration reform against conservative charges of amnesty. He once said, I dont believe in rounding up 11 million people and forcing them at gunpoint from our country, which qualifies him as an immigration moderate in some Republican circles.
But perhaps most disturbing is the tone of the Romney ad itself. It is not simply an issue-oriented contrast. It uses a statement praising Perry by former Mexican President Vincente Fox as though it were an endorsement by Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The last time I checked, Mexico was an important ally a country that Romney, if elected president, would need to deal with daily. Foxs words in the commercial are innocuous simply thanking Texas and Perry for the education measure they had passed. So why is Foxs statement supposed to be disturbing or sinister? Because Fox is a foreigner? Because he has a Mexican accent?
I'll go one further than Gerson.
The only way the GOP can win this election, is if they can peal away Hispanic votes from Obama. the only way the GOP survives as anything but a regional party is if it makes inroads with minorities overall.
And here's Romney, playing the race card.