I agree. Go to any US Embassy overseas (in the Third world at least) and you see lines and lines of people waiting outside, day and night, for the chance to acquire a visa. Why should illegals be viewed in a different light? America welcomes all who come in, the right way.
They tried to sell cutting Medicare to a mostly ageing populace in that county, everyone saw it coming. Even Boehner went there to try and save the issue
Palin would be a God send..but I will settle for Bachmann
It doesn't though, I know of a few people who have got permanent residence in the US via overstaying visas and not having a legitimate right to remain. When I was at university in the US there was a Nigerian who grew up in England, as it turns out she was in Britain illegally despite going through the education system and using the NHS. When it became clear she was on the verge of being sent to a detention centre she somehow got a 90 day tourist visa to the US, enrolled at a university knowing that Americans don't deport you if enrolled at university, she has now married and has been granted permanent residence.
'Freedom is a God given right.'
The Americans believe rights are God-given on the basis that somehow makes them incontrovertible and above man messing around with them.
its not that easy to get the green card this way. I know a friend who came to the US to study, married an American and still had to go to court to get his green card.
Mitt Romney?
Rick Perry would probably kick Romney down to second. He would have broad conservative support.
Yeah Romney's conservative credentials aren't all there. He's strong on the business side, but oddly liberal (as Republicans go) on social issues. That plus health care would be problems for him. Conversely, Perry is the type of candidate who could step into the vacuum and do well, particularly as there really are no other viable candidates. The big downside to Perry are his social conservative positions, which may be tolerated in Texas, but would probably cost him in a national election, especially against a fantastic campaigner like Obama.
So you see it to be similar to Howard Dean in 2004? Overwhelmingly favoured democrat who has the institutional support, the money and the polling numbers but falters early on and falls away to Kerry?
There's a bit of logic though in that when a heavily-favored candidate loses IA and/or NH, it's a failure of retail politics, i.e. the candidate failing to connect with voters on a personal level.
Though that is on top of ideological positions, one is a socially conservative, agrarian republican state and the other is an anti-taxation, small government, I'll protect my rights with a shotgun, leaning republican state. It doesn't matter how good you are at connecting with voters in these states if your agenda contradicts their views. If these two states were not first, and the likes of New Jersey, Maine, Maryland or Conneticut were first then Rudy Giuliani would have taken the nomination three years ago.
Except that Iowa isn't really a Republican state. Its gone blue five out of the last six general elections.
Could? Yes. Unlikely I'd say though. Wait until the Republicans and Tea Party start kicking lumps out of each other in the nomination process.
If the economy were to go backwards and fuel prices stay as high as they are (or go even higher), I'd say that someone like Rick Perry could win. In such a scenario, he would probably sweep all of the former Bush red states in the south, midwest, and west, and reclaim Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, and one or two others to pip Obama in a very tight race. The odds are stacked against it, but its not impossible.
Not the 1st time he has done this either...he and that feckwit King from NY consistently do this.
Is this a new fad diet thing, no prunes etc?
