Romney disses Kobach (sorry, Kris)
Yael T. AbouhalkahPoor Kris Kobach. It appears presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn’t want to be associated with the Kansas secretary of state on Wednesday.
And why would Romney want to talk about Kobach - at least when the GOP presidential candidate was trying to woo Hispanic voters?
Being tied to Kobach wouldn’t help Romney with that audience, and he knew it, thanks to Kobach’s ultraconservative views on immigration issues and his influence on anti-Hispanic measures such as the new law in Arizona.
As CNN reported, Univision America Radio host Helen Aguirre-Ferre asked Romney if Kobach was an adviser on immigration policy for his campaign.
“Romney said he has not met with Kobach, whom the campaign has described as an ‘informal adviser.’
“‘As to the other individual that you mentioned, he may well be part of a policy team,” Romney said. “I have not met with him yet. And don’t know whether he is or he is not. So, sorry I can’t confirm that for you.’”
Alas, the Romney campaign later had to come out and say, yeah, actually Romney has met with Kobach.
But, the campaign claims, Kobach is just an informal adviser, not someone the candidate actually listens to in policy meetings.
Then again, the Romney campaign had “clarified” Kobach’s role earlier this year as an adviser, not just a supporter.
Gosh, whom to believe?
As a side note, CNN printed Romney’s gushing praise for Kobach after the Kansan endorsed him for president earlier in 2012:
“Kris has been a true leader on securing our borders and stopping the flow of illegal immigration into this country. We need more conservative leaders like Kris willing to stand up for the rule of law.”
Hmm, sounds like Romney does have a pretty good idea of who Kobach is and how much he’s a hardliner on U.S. immigration policy.
Mark Hastert
9 months agoMr Romney is just burning bridges everywhere he goes.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoyep yt, law-abiding Hispanics are so in favor of ILLEGAL ALIENS coming to America, sucking-off our services, breaking our laws and contributing to high unemployment. Why anyone wanting to control the problem is obviously out of step with Americans…. LOL
You open border lovers, on the other hand, like ILLEGAL ALIENS since it assuages your feelings of some guilt I guess. Tough to understand you libs sometimes….
John West
9 months agoi wouldn’t be talking george, the gop has bit thierselves on the butt too many times. gop doesn’t have a chance this year. you can’t fix stupid
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoWe shall see John… This is the clearest choice Americans have had since Reagan IMO.
What kind of country do we want? That is the choice Nov. 6.
I still think the majority of Americans want freedom to be all they can be vs. ever expanding government telling them, but we shall see….
Phil Cardarella
9 months agoPoor Kris. He doesn’t realize that partisanship and bigotry are not enough. If you want to be a partisan bigot that Mitt remembers, you have to be a RICH partisan bigot.
Also, Kris going door to door to make sure that no Hispanic even considers voting for Romney is not endearing to the campaign — which needs to win outside Kansas.
Hence “Kris who?”
David Fruits
9 months agoReagan granted amnesty to illegals. Not Clinton, Not Obama, Reagan. Mitt Rmoney signed into law an assault weapons ban. Obama has not even put ink to paper for such a thing. Mitt Rmoney took government funds to save his business. Against his own advice of going into bankruptcy first. Judge a man by his actions Georgy.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoFruitsy,
What would you call the executive order saying to stop prosecuting ILLEGAL ALIENS signed by the big 0????? I would think that is akin to amnesty, but I am not a smart you know what….