Romney Backed Immigration Stance He Now Deems ‘Amnesty’ - Julie Hirschfeld Davis

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/romney-s-previous-position-on-immigration-mirrors-gingrich-he-criticizes.html


Romney, who at the time hadn’t yet declared his first presidential candidacy for 2008, told reporters and editors in Bloomberg News’s Washington bureau that the 11 million immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally “are not going to be rounded up and box-carred out.” Law-abiding people who pay taxes, learn English and don’t rely on government benefits should be allowed to “get in line” to apply for citizenship, he said.
“We need to begin a process of registering those people, some being returned, and some beginning the process of applying for citizenship and establishing legal status,” Romney said during the March 29, 2006, session.

It might just be me, but in the last ten days or so there seems to have been irreparable damage done to the Romney brand. He's still in the lead, he's still going to get the nomination, but other possibilities now seem plausible. He now seems starkly weak and fake. Perhaps it was months of drumbeat against him, or perhaps it was the debates bringing his willingness to change positions to light.

Either way, it's bad news for Republicans.