James Fulford: Romney may have lost the election by rolling over for Obama’s illegal amnesty

by James Fulford

Pat Buchanan once said that if, when the Rodney King Riots happened in April, 1992, President Bush (Senior) had sent in the Army immediately, he would have won the election right there. Instead, Federal troops didn’t arrive until after four days of rioting. And Clinton was elected in November.

In exactly the same way, GOP Presidential nominee presumptive Mitt Romney could have won the last week. Instead, he may have lost it.

The Obama Administration has made official the Administrative Amnesty that we’ve been reporting on since last year. They have announced that they will not deport the young illegals who would have been given amnesty by the DREAM Act, if it had passed through Congress and become law, which it didn’t.

Romney could have responded to this as the act of treason and/or corruption it actually is, by condemning Obama in the strongest terms, and saying that a Romney administration would never do any such thing.

He could even have called for Obama’s impeachment—this amnesty, affecting millions of illegals, is much more serious than anything Nixon did over Watergate, or Clinton did over the Lewinsky affair.

But Romney didn’t. And it’s possible, because of that, that there won’t be a Romney administration.

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The problem of illegal immigration is bipartisan—vote-hungry Democrats and cheap-labor hungry Republicans. Romney belongs to the latter class—when he’s not trying to be President, he’s a wealthy businessman. And like many in the Republican Establishment, he’s “diversity-whipped”, to use John Derbyshire’s phrase, afraid to say anything that might be interpreted as “racist.”

Romney’s statement was particularly wimpy:

I believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered, and should be solved on a long term basis so they know what their future would be in this country.

He’s also showing signs of agreeing with Marco Rubio over a Republican DREAM Act.

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Remember, the problem isn’t that the Democrats want this amnesty—the problem is that while Republican voters don’t want amnesty, Republican businessmen do. Republican politicians only refrained from passing Amnesty in 2007 because the voters made it very clear to the Senate that if they passed it, they’d be looking for new jobs in the private sector. Consider that Obama’s illegal amnesty was condemned by John McCain, Rick Perry, and Lindsey Graham—all of whom have favored a legal amnesty in the past.

So Romney could have won the election last week by standing up to Obama over his illegal amnesty. But he didn’t, and he may have to go back to corporate life this November—with Obama in the White House, and millions of illegals living the DREAM.

James Fulford is a writer and editor for VDare.com

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