Romney told donors at a private event over the weekend that his campaign needs a “Republican DREAM Act ”:
Predicting that immigration would become a much larger issue in the fall campaign, Romney told his audience, “We have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party,” warning that recent polling showing Hispanics breaking in huge percentages for President Obama “spells doom for us.”
Romney said the GOP must offer its own policies to woo Hispanics, including a “Republican DREAM Act,” referring to the legislative proposal favored by Democrats that would offer illegal immigrants a limited path to citizenship, to give Hispanic voters a real choice between parties.
Romney nonetheless predicted that, by November, the economy would trump immigration as a driving issue for Hispanic voters, and he vowed also to remind the Hispanic community that, despite promises of comprehensive immigration reform by Obama, Democrats ultimately fell short in passing legislation in their two years in control of Congress and the White House at the start of the president’s term.
El Hecho del Sketcho, as they say.
The last part of Romney’s comments seems kind of improbable: Why remind people who (you’re assuming) want a general amnesty that Obama failed to push amnesty when you yourself are against it? But I think it actually might resonate with some elites, at least; there’s a lot of analysis like this suggesting that professional Hispanics are catching on to the president’s Lucy-with-the-football act, and it can’t hurt to remind them what chumps the White House thinks they are.
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