Alberto Gonzales: Romney Should Flip-Flop On Immigration

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Mitt Romney needs to abandon his hardline postions on immigration reform, even if that means he proves his critics’ point that he’ll change positions with the shifting political winds. That’s the view of former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonazales.

From an interview Gonzales gave Elise Foley:

“That’s the challenge, of course, that every candidate has, once you stake out a position and you change that position, particularly during a campaign,” he said in an interview at a southeast summit of conservative immigration reform-supporters hosted by National Immigration Forum. “You run the risk that you’re going to be viewed as a flip-flopper, but I’d rather be right on the policy and accused as a flip-flopper than continue to be wrong on the policy.”

Gonzales called on Romney to “improve his lot among Latino voters by shifting away from phrases like ‘self-deportation’ and policies that would drive out the undocumented.”

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