MARK SHIELDS:...this is the worst day of Mitt Romney's life,

[Born_A_Truman]

PBS Newshour: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson discuss the week's top political news with Judy Woodruff, including "the worst day of Mitt Romney's life," President Obama's new immigration policy, Super PACs and the 40th anniversary of Watergate.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Gerson. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, filling in tonight for David Brooks.

Gentlemen, it's good to see you both.

MARK SHIELDS: It's great to be here.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So let's start with our lead story, and that is President Obama's announcement today that he's going to give a break to young illegal immigrants, give them a chance to work in the country for at least two years.

Mark, we just heard the White House -- Cecilia Munoz at the White House tell Jeff no politics involved here.

MARK SHIELDS: There's politics, Judy. It's an election year.

But, very bluntly, this is the worst day of Mitt Romney's life, as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Being president means that you are at a negative end when there's bad job numbers. But being president when you can take an affirmative action that makes your opponent squirm, even though it is an action that is totally consistent with where you have been in a policy sense -- and this for Mitt Romney is a character issue, because in 2008, 2012, he ran to the hard right of John McCain, of Rudy Giuliani, of Mike Huckabee there 2008, and of Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry in 2012 on the immigration.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Michael, Romney on the defensive, worst day of the campaign for him so far?

MICHAEL GERSON: Well, I largely agree with that. I'm a strong supporter of the DREAM Act.

I think that there is an intuitive and moral case to be made that you don't punish children for the sins of their parents. And this is -- Romney's promise to veto the DREAM Act I think is a serious vulnerability from this campaign.

The president drove a truck through that vulnerability today. He preempted Marco Rubio's legislation that he is proposing on this topic. The president has a prospect. The problem with the Hispanic vote is often turnout. It doesn't turn out in the
same way, even though the numbers for -- the percentages for Democrats are high.

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And in other news, prankster Willard & his merry band of confabulators circled the POTUS event today in their bus.

[KonaKane]

Of course, this is nowhere to be found in the MSM.

[Dimwitted Fool]

(06-15-2012 09:29 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  Of course, this is nowhere to be found in the MSM.

PBS is not mainstream media?

[OptimistesMaddie]

are all pissed because they were upstaged by the President. It's ironic that they are bitching about it being a politically motivated event for the election and yet they were going to do the exact same thing next week..except they were only going to give it lip service.

Well done Mr. President...Well done!!

[PoliticalTiger]

To top it off, the GOP launched its Hispanic outreach page on its website this week, which didn't go well.

First, they used a stock picture of Asian children to announce the new site, because, you know, to Republicans, Asian and Hispanic children look the same.

Then they posted some blogs that were obviously translated from English to Spanish with an online translator because they were nonsensical .. anyone who has used an online translator knows what I mean.

And then they posted a poll asking if Obama has been good for the Hispanic community and a MAJORITY of respondents said YES, he has!

¡Ay, caramba!

[There Is No Spoon]

(06-15-2012 10:39 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  To top it off, the GOP launched its Hispanic outreach page on its website this week, which didn't go well.

First, they used a stock picture of Asian children to announce the new site, because, you know, to Republicans, Asian and Hispanic children look the same.

Then they posted some blogs that were obviously translated from English to Spanish with an online translator because they were nonsensical .. anyone who has used an online translator knows what I mean.

And then they posted a poll asking if Obama has been good for the Hispanic community and a MAJORITY of respondents said YES, he has!

¡Ay, caramba!

good summary - when Republicans try to fake it they fail miserably

...and if they try too hard, their bigot white bread base deserts them.

[Born_A_Truman]

(06-15-2012 10:39 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  To top it off, the GOP launched its Hispanic outreach page on its website this week, which didn't go well.

First, they used a stock picture of Asian children to announce the new site, because, you know, to Republicans, Asian and Hispanic children look the same.

Then they posted some blogs that were obviously translated from English to Spanish with an online translator because they were nonsensical .. anyone who has used an online translator knows what I mean.

And then they posted a poll asking if Obama has been good for the Hispanic community and a MAJORITY of respondents said YES, he has!

¡Ay, caramba!

We need a RMoney FAIL smilie.

[Treestar]

(06-15-2012 10:39 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  To top it off, the GOP launched its Hispanic outreach page on its website this week, which didn't go well.

First, they used a stock picture of Asian children to announce the new site, because, you know, to Republicans, Asian and Hispanic children look the same.

Then they posted some blogs that were obviously translated from English to Spanish with an online translator because they were nonsensical .. anyone who has used an online translator knows what I mean.

And then they posted a poll asking if Obama has been good for the Hispanic community and a MAJORITY of respondents said YES, he has!

¡Ay, caramba!

Such clowns. Reminds me of a hilarious spoof WH page during Shrub's tenure with a page in bad Spanish meant to appeal to the Hispanic community but being a satire of that. Shrub allegedly spoke "broken Spanish" or some such thing and it was a take-off on that.

[jaxx]

Here's to many more "worst days" in Willard's life for the next 5 months!

[Treestar]

Yes, I think Willard's days are going to be getting progressively worse in the next few months!

[Brewman_Jax]

...until the next bad day, which will be very soon.