The Supreme Court's ruling today on Arizona's controversial immigration law is the latest issue on which Mitt Romney is refusing to take a stance.
The court struck down several provisions of the law, but allowed -- for now -- the most notorious, which requires police to ask people for proof of citizenship if they have reason to believe they might be here illegally. In response, Romney, who has expressed his support for the law, released a non-committal statement that stuck to criticizing the federal government.
On Hardball Monday, New York magazine's John Heilemann called out the GOP nominee. Romney "did not get on camera today, he took no questions today," Heilemann told Chris Matthews. "His spokespeople refused to answer the question of what he thought about the ruling. That tells you about where the political vulnerability is seen by the Republican nominee. He thinks that this issue is an issue that's radioactive for him. Any time he's talking about immigration it's bad for him."
Heilemann added that Romney desperately needs to improve his image with Latino voters.
"One of the most serious political imperatives Mitt Romney has is to try to fix his problem with the Hispanic community," he said. "What he has done is, if anything, dug himself in deeper rather than try to fix his problem. And I think nothing that happened today helped him with the Hispanic community ... and the way he's handled it, as I said, has made his problem worse not better."
Romney also has refused to say whether he'd repeal President Obama's order announcing an end to deportations of most young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. age 16 or younger. And beyond immigration, he's stayed mum on whether he'd sign a law that repealed the 2009 law guaranteeing equal pay for women.
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Romney won't take a position? Wow! What a surprise. He has the spine of a jelly fish.
First you have to be able to connect two thoughts. Eventually that rolls into forming an opinion. When it comes to being a vulture, well you don't have to put two thoughts together, you just need to be as greedy as you can be. We need this guy like we need another George W. Bush.
States' Rights. Mitt Romney is a wealthy puppet of the Mormon Church, which loves states' rights. To get a better understanding of the cult that produced Mitt Romney and to get your socks scared off read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available at
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It dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex manifesting as racism, sexism, jingoism, and an anti-federal government temperament.
It shows the similarities between Islam and Mormonism and reveals the secrets of Mormon mind control.
Consider this review:
“With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.”
Tom Whalen
www.tomwhalen.com
Everyone should read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.