Mitt Romney appeared on UniVision to clarify any misunderstanding that may have emerged over his comments that his job was not to care about the 47% who received payments from the government, by saying his campaign was about 100% of Americans and he does care about all of them, as we learn in Mitt Romney: 'My Campaign Is About The 100 Percent.'
"My campaign is about the 100 percent of America, and I'm concerned about them," he told Univision anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas at Univision's "Meet the Candidate" forum, co-hosted by Facebook at the University of Miami. ... "This is a campaign about helping people that need help."
Isn't it a curious sort of linguistic structure to say he care about 100% of Americans and refers to "them," instead of us?"
Salinas and Ramos pressed Romney aggressively about his primary debate comments on immigration as Romney tried to paint a rosy picture of his self-deportation comments suggesting that we create such harsh conditions and employment bans that illegal immigrants would choose self-deportation.
in another apparently major flip-flop, and display of Romney's belief in the magic power of his etch-a-sketch, he also "clarified" any confusion that viewers might have about his self-deportation policy, which he is not now apparently for.
"I'm not in favor of a mass-deportation effort, rounding up 12 million people and taking them out of the country," he said. "I believe people make their own choices as to whether they want to go home and that's what I mean by 'self-deportation.'" ...
Romney was repeatedly pressed to say whether he would end the policy, but only said he doesn't need to answer because he would fix the issue through legislation. That was no comfort to many immigration advocates, who know the difficulties of passing immigration legislation in Congress.
"Are you going to deport them or not? Yes or no?" Salinas asked Romney, as translated to English by Univision.
"We're not going to round up people around the country and deport them, that's not -- I said during my primary campaign, time and again, we're not going to round up 12 million people ... and have them deported. Our system isn't to deport people."
So Salinas pressed and again, asked, if this meant he would allow hims to stay and repeated that he will not round "them" up but put in a permanent legislative solution, after he is elected, but wouldn't provide specifics now.
So, there now, do you feel better now that your confusions have been cleared up? Romney cares deeply about all Americans, and he opposes his self-deportation policies, but will not tell you how he's going to solve it with the magic of "legislation" until after he's elected.
Sheessh! I feel obligated to clarify to readers that this article is not a snark, but in fact a documented report on 100% authentic Romney reality.