Newt Gingrich wants conservatives to hablar espanol, or at least show they care about Latinos
By David Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 1, 2010; 11:22 PM

Mid-morning on a recent Sunday, pausing between the studios of C-SPAN and Mass at the National Shrine, Newt Gingrich is in mental overdrive, as usual, merrily riffing on a not-so-usual theme: all things Latino.

He segues from what to do with 11 million illegal immigrants – “We’re not going to deport all of them,” he says – to security in Mexico, identity in Brazil, the economy in Argentina and back to the state of Hispanic America.

Almost as edgy as speaking Spanish on YouTube, at a time when Republican lawmakers have abandoned immigration reform, Gingrich’s Latino agenda includes . . . immigration reform. He favors “a path to legality” for many illegal immigrants. “People who have been here obeying every law except immigration,” and have put down roots, “you’re not going to send them home,” he says.

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