Wanna pass out a few thousand of these:
...with "Vote McCain" printed on the side?
Posted on 07/02/2008 5:27:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Where’s the "First"?
McCain appears before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, as reported in Politico:
McCain, speaking first, promised the approximately 700 attendees that resurrecting the bipartisan immigration bill he helped shape last year would be at the forefront of his agenda as president.
"It would be my top priority yesterday, today and tomorrow," McCain said in response to a question about whether he would pursue a comprehensive approach beyond his campaign promise to secure the border in his first 100 days in office.
Seeking to win some points for his initial support for a comprehensive immigration bill, McCain noted that his position "wasn’t very popular … with some in my party."
And, in remarks that could inflame those Republican border hawks, the Arizona senator made clear he would not just seek to secure the border first, as he promised in the primary.
"We have to secure our borders — that’s the message," McCain said. "But we also must proceed with a temporary worker program that is verifiable and truly temporary."
1) It looks as if the folks at The Corner are no longer in denial on whether McCain’s "I got the message" talk during the primaries was a sincere shift to to a tougher stand on immigration. It wasn’t.
2) Note that in the above remarks, and the remarks highlighted by McCain campaign bloggerr Michael Goldfarb, the candidate says "we have to secure our borders" rather than "we have to secure our borders first." [E.A.] The missing "first" matters. With it, McCain’s position sounds like Lou Dobbs’. Without it, McCain’s position threaten to shade into full immediate support of semi-amnesty, with the inconsequential notation that of course reform wouldn’t pass unless the public is convinced the borders are sufficiently "secure." Comprehensivists have always claimed their legislation would secure the borders, remember. It’s the "first" that made the difference for McCain, or seemed to.
3) Is there any convincing evidence that actual Latino voters care as much about illegal immigrant legalization as Latino elected offiicials (or the journalists who cover them)?
4) Won’t McCain’s expedient abandonment of his expedient primary position produce loud conservative protests at the GOP convention? Does McCain worry about this–on the theory that discordant conventions make for losing presidential campaigns? Or does he welcome it, on the grounds that a noisy fight with his right wing would effectively distinguish him from his unpopular party (even though McCain’s side in this fight would also be President Bush’s)? …
Update: Mark Krikorian argues Obama is goading McCain into emphasizing "in increasingly strident terms his commitment to legalizing all the illegal aliens," which further inflames anti-legalization Republicans. McCain seems to be taking the bait, which would seem to make sense only if he hopes to win over, not just swing Latinos but also swing centrists of all ethnicities who’ve become allergic to the GOP. But is immigration the issue on which Mike Murphy’s "white females and ticket-splitting independents" crave a break from Republican dogma? Aren’t they equally uneasy about rushing to a Grand Comprehensivist Solution? You’d think there would be more promising Souljah-esque, anti-base battlefields for McCain: Congressional corruption, excessive deregulation, stem cells and even abortion, no? … 2:27 A.M. link
We figure this post warrants a five martini rating.
More to come…
“Get Drunk And Vote 4 McCain”
It takes so much booze to get there that I keep passing out before I can convince myself that it’s a good idea.
The motto for Novmeber should be: Drink! Drink here! Drink now!
I thought he was going to veto every beer?
Don’t worry, be happy...he has an R behind his name, that’s all that matters! </s>
Eff you, McJerk!
Well, which is it, Juan? You tried shoving this down our throats several times and it was rebuffed. Then you said you "heard us" and backed away from your amnesty position. Now, you want to cram it down our throats again!!
When are you going to hear the majority of American voters who have not wavered from their position (don't you wish that YOU could make the same claim, Juan?) - NO amnesty and NO open borders. Until you get a clue, neither the McCain who promised to resurrect the McAmnesty Bill today, NOR the McCain who said he had "heard us" and was backing away from the comprehensive immigration bill will get elected.
"Some" being the voters.
Of course its real popular with the lickspittle politician, slumlord, chicken processing company owner wing of the party.
There’s not enough whiskey in America that will cause me to vote for Queeg.
Wanna pass out a few thousand of these:
...with "Vote McCain" printed on the side?
There’s not enough cerveza to induce me to vote for Juan McAmnesty.
He never ever backed away from his amnesty position. He fooled the gullible and uninformed. For those of us who understood how he parsed his language, we knew there was no change on amnesty, just some sequencing on when it would occur.
Poll: Voters Unaware of Candidates’ Immigration Positions; McCain Supporters Farthest Off the Mark
My state’s liquor dispensary will have all state liquor stores open on election day for the first time ever. I knew there was a good reason for doing so...
LOL!
"The best Democrat for America, McCain!"
That sounds so much more positive.
Was this a Latino open meeting or the Latino secret meeting? If this was the open meeting, imagine what McCain must have told them at the secret meeting.
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