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I find two things of particular interest in this story.

1. Its another one of those things that makes it really hard to like McCain. I'm not one who would refuse to vote for him, as I'd take him over Hillary (or any other potential Dem nominee), but it just seems like he sometimes goes out of his way to make himself unpalatable to the base.

2. The line from the anonymous protesters about Bush really does serve to illustrate the hole the GOP has dug for itself. Yes, its true that one shouldn't read too much into the stupid ravings of some nut in some outrageous demonstration, and one shouldn't assume that the sentiments expressed by the nut represents the broader Hispanic community. But it shouldn't be disregarded either, as the sentiment probably has more widespread acceptance than we'd like to think. Bush has reached out (or pandered) like no other Republican, and like few Democrats. His rhetoric on immigration is decidedly leftist. He has refused to enforce existing laws. He has embraced a form of amnesty. Yet despite all of this, you still have people from the group Bush has sought to placate basically calling him and his party a bunch of racists.

It should serve as a cautionary tale for Republicans.

1 posted on 04/02/2006 5:45:34 PM PDT by Aetius
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Does AZ have a way of recalling this clown?


2 posted on 04/02/2006 5:46:59 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (There isn't a more appropriate way to wave the US flag than in the face of its enemies.)
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I think I now understand why so many Freepers hate McCain.


3 posted on 04/02/2006 5:48:55 PM PDT by Free Dominoes
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This is why they call the Republicans the Stupid Party. The Republicans are about to legalize 12 million Democrat voters and alienate 75% of the rest of the electorate in doing so. Then they'll wonder why they lose the majority. Unbelievable that they can't figure out that the people in the streets waving Mexican flags will NEVER vote Republican, no matter how much they pander.


5 posted on 04/02/2006 5:53:50 PM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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He's a loose cannon. Once in a while he hits an issue right, but many's the time he's way off.


7 posted on 04/02/2006 5:54:32 PM PDT by KittyKares
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if the protesters hang tough they will succeed in forcing Congress to liberalize immigration laws

Similar to what OBL believes -- just wait long enough and the US cuts and run.

Similar to what the insurgents in Iraq believe - just wait it out and the US will capitulate.

Somalia -- same

Lebanon -- same

It is nice that McCain is advising the illegal invaders on how to win their battle.
8 posted on 04/02/2006 5:54:50 PM PDT by TomGuy
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"The people united will never be defeated!" other demonstrators chanted in Spanish. "We're not going, but Bush can leave!"

President Bush was born here.....were you?

As for that idiot from AZ:

The FR Kitty says your an......


9 posted on 04/02/2006 5:55:48 PM PDT by stm (You can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid)
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McNut's time has come and gone as a Republican, he as Specter are agitators who, at a drop of a hat would stab W or any republican in the back. One exception saddle sore buddy Lindsey.
11 posted on 04/02/2006 5:56:30 PM PDT by boomop1 (there you go again)
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17 posted on 04/02/2006 6:02:03 PM PDT by SUSSA
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"The more debate, the more demonstrations, the more likely *we* will prevail," McCain added, in quotes picked up by the New York Daily News.

Who is "we"?


18 posted on 04/02/2006 6:03:40 PM PDT by Excellence
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"I'm not one who would refuse to vote for him, as I'd take him over Hillary..."

McCain probably wants Hillary! to run almost as much as she does herself.


20 posted on 04/02/2006 6:04:22 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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Geez, I really don't understand all of this??

Two years ago Bush related that there should be some sort of an "amnesty program" for illegals.

Now that this program is gaining traction, he's the bad guy and a racist? On a fundamental level, how have the Rats co-opted this issue to try to impeach Bush???
21 posted on 04/02/2006 6:06:05 PM PDT by aShepard
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So McCain is actually calling for the illegal colonists to take to the streets to intimidate congress. Nothing but a G O P P O S.
24 posted on 04/02/2006 6:10:05 PM PDT by isrul
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If McCain is the GOP nominee, then I'm not voting GOP for the first time in my life.


26 posted on 04/02/2006 6:11:04 PM PDT by Brilliant
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I guess he hasn't checked his email.


27 posted on 04/02/2006 6:12:06 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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This is more a national security issue than some islamic nut bags flying a plane into another building.
Bush doesnt impress me as having Americas intrests at
heart.
The Republicans are more worried about their stinking fairways than their constiuents they will rot in obscurity.
Bush is the advertisment Hillary could have!


29 posted on 04/02/2006 6:12:09 PM PDT by claptrap (optional tag-line under reconsideration)
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McCain and Graham should get a room.

Bring mitts and ball.


32 posted on 04/02/2006 6:14:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (If the GOP is so great, why do I feel so crappy, betrayed and surrounded by enuchs?)
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"We're not going, but Bush can leave!"

Are these people paying attention? Bush is a bigger ally to the illegals than even McCain.

35 posted on 04/02/2006 6:16:57 PM PDT by Washi
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that Mc. Pain proves more & more every time he opens his piehole that he's f#cked in the head bigtime!

Btw, does anyone here remember the name of a certain N.Y. politician back in the 1920-1930's that was so mentally deranged due to syphilis and he pushed through and got the now infamous anti-gun laws for New York?
The reason I ask is because Mc. Pain is behaving exactly like that character.

36 posted on 04/02/2006 6:17:05 PM PDT by prophetic
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Sen. John McCain is praising the recent wave of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations, saying that if the protesters hang tough they will succeed in forcing Congress to liberalize immigration laws.

These *(& ^%$ idiots make me so *&^%$% angry! If they succeed in passing this, American citizens should march on Washington and physically throw the ignorant a&&es out! McCain makes me wanta imitate the french protestors.
Unfrigginbelievable!


39 posted on 04/02/2006 6:21:56 PM PDT by sheana
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I suppose John supports the street people in the middle east? The street people in Pakistan?

The man is unfit to lead....but then we knew that.

49 posted on 04/02/2006 6:36:30 PM PDT by OldFriend (AMERICA WOULD NOT BE THE LAND OF THE FREE IF IT WERE NOT ALSO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE)
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