Mittens: Flip-Flopper or Typical Republican Hypocrite?

Below: Mittens, Mrs. Mittens (Is she wearing a mattress?) & Ann Coulter discuss "perfecting Christians" by turning them into Mormons.Cognitive dissonance is truly the Republican way. The standard right-winger is expected to hold at least two contradictory ideas in the filing cabinet of received wisdom that passes for his mind. This condition is also known as the rankest hypocrisy.

Look at the immigration issue. Those dirty foreigners are committing a crime by their very existence on this side of the imaginary line. They take our jobs. They keep babbling in their alien jibber-jabber & they refuse to assimilate. The leftist gov't. bureaucracy kow-tows to them by providing services, ballots, & other printed matter to them in their foreign languages. And those dirty Democrats want to let more of them in, just for their votes!

Yet the story changes w/ Cuban immigration. A good number of the Cubans here will say they're only killing time (&, oddly enough, stealing jobs & money from permanent Americans) until Castro is dead & they can return to "their" island, so why should they assimilate? And as long as they're a committed Republican voting bloc, no concession to the "exile community" is too much for the Republican hypocrites.

Mitt Romney in the Tampa Tribune:

TAMPA -- Like other Republican presidential contenders, Mitt Romney favors a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants. But Romney's desire for tougher immigration enforcement doesn't apply to Cubans, who he says should be welcomed with open arms.

"I can tell you my inclination would be to say as many Cubans as want to come here should come in," Romney said in an interview Tuesday with The Tampa Tribune editorial board.

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Romney replied that Cuban Americans are exemplary citizens who have brought "great vitality, skills and energy to the American experience."

"In my opinion, the more the merrier," he said.

Romney's views on Cubans stand in sharp contrast to his proposals for dealing with other immigrants. Earlier in the meeting, he called for tighter border security, identity cards for immigrants proving their legal status and forced repatriation of illegal immigrants.

Cuban Americans have been a coveted voting bloc in past presidential elections, considered crucial in winning Florida's 27 electoral votes. Candidates have been loath to buck the Miami-based Cuban community, which is strongly anti-Castro and has in the past rejected softening American policy toward the communist nation.

Romney said on matters dealing with Cuba, he depends on advice from prominent members of Florida's Cuban American community, such as U.S. Reps. Lleana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, and Al Cardenas, a former state Republican chairman and one of Romney's leading Hispanic supporters.

"At this stage none of them have suggested that we abandon that policy and develop a new one," Romney said.

Essentially, turning the nation's Cuba-related policies over to vindictive white middle class pricks (alternate version, from the Swampland comments: "crazy Batista loving middle aged Cuban demographic in Florida") like those mentioned has condemned the Cuban people to poverty for the last 20+ yrs.

Speaking of Mittens' group of advisors:

But Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen, along with a third Miami Republican, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, are staunch backers of Romney rival, Sen. John McCain.

"We haven't been advising him on Cuba," Thomas Bean, Mario Diaz-Balart's chief of staff said of Romney. "We're loyal with McCain."

As brought to our attention by TIME's Swampland.