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McCain: Focus on illegal immigration hurt GOP's image
KSWT/AP ^ | 5/5/08 | staff

Posted on 05/05/2008 10:42:34 AM PDT by pissant

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To: kbennkc

Try it! Arugala is great. Reseeds itself. I’ve had some for about a month now. I wish John would offer me $50.00 an hour for the work in my yard/garden!


101 posted on 05/05/2008 12:37:04 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: bill1952; Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer); pissant
Screw that noise! I have a home in Pa, deep in the burbs and there are illegals walking down the freaking streets at night! You can’t swing a dead cat at a construction site without hitting some mexican who does not know that you don’t sh*t in the paint cans.

I can tell ya endless stories about illegals working for these greedy employers. All they give a damn about is cheap labor.

One that stands out is this illegal was working at a machine shop, he came to work drunk, got drunk while at work, and one day he was so drunk he decided to urinate right at his machine while standing up. He pee'd all over the rubber mats while other illegals gawked on, laughing. They had to throw away the rubber mats it reeked so bad. They didn't fire him!! Not even a suspension! lol...

Ya know what this one illegal eventually did? He claimed injury and filed a workers comp claim.

Out of control doesn't begin to describe this vile, country killing situation.

102 posted on 05/05/2008 12:38:37 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: donna; All

Exactly.

Another McCAin amnesty lie....as we found out, none of this was going to happen in his bill.

“Anything short of rounding up 12 million people and deporting them is called amnesty by the opponents of this legislation,” he said. “I’ll point out that (illegal immigrants) will have to pay back taxes, they’ll have to pay a fine, they’ll have to go back to their country of origin, and it’s at least 15 years before they are in anyway eligible for citizenship.”

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/05/30/news/top_stories/1_01_505_29_07.txt


103 posted on 05/05/2008 12:44:28 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Man50D

Out of touch with reality.


104 posted on 05/05/2008 12:50:00 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: pissant; All

Here he insists his amnesty will pass:

BASH: Tragedy, these senators say, because they all still agree on a compromise they thought they would never find on a highly controversial issue, putting millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: That agreement would get 65 or 70 votes. And it’s not going away.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/07/ldt.01.html

His comments about his bad amnesty bill.

BASH: Key supporters like Senator John McCain admit it’s not perfect.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Sure, there’s some complexities associated with it, but as compared with the status quo it’s nirvana.

MCCAIN: Every immigration expert that I know of say this is a workable solution.

DAN STEIN, FED. FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: This is a workable solution if your goal is to destroy U.S. immigration enforcement for the next 30 years. Nothing about this compromise is workable.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/06/ldt.01.html


105 posted on 05/05/2008 12:56:01 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: SierraWasp

The GOP is toast.


106 posted on 05/05/2008 1:01:18 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: SierraWasp; All

McCain is sliding in on a notion of his war heroism. People have no clue what they’re voting on. Remember, the media has had nothing but good things to say about McCain.

McCain Supporters Farthest Off the Mark
WASHINGTON (March 31, 2007) – A new poll using neutral language finds that primary and caucus voters have little knowledge of candidates’ immigration positions. The results also show that voters often do not share their candidate’s position.

For results and tables, go to http://www.cis.org/articles/2008/voter_release_08.html

Among the findings:

# Only 34 percent of McCain voters, 42 percent of Clinton voters, and 52 percent of Obama voters correctly identified their candidate as favoring eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements.

# Of McCain voters, 35 percent mistakenly thought he favored enforcement that would cause illegals to return home, another 10 percent thought he wanted mass deportations, and 21 percent didn’t know his position.

# Voters often held different positions from the candidate they supported. Only 31 percent of McCain voters had the same immigration position as he does. For Clinton voters, 45 percent shared her position; 61 percent of Obama voters shared his position.

# This lack of knowledge, coupled with disagreements with their candidates’ positions, makes it very difficult to draw any conclusions about the fact that all three remaining candidates favor legalization for illegal immigrants.

# Whoever wins the presidency will face significant opposition to giving eventual citizenship to illegal immigrants. Just 25 percent of Republican and 50 percent of Democratic primary/caucus voters said they would support such an effort.

Methodology: The survey of 1,276 persons who voted in a primary or caucus was conducted March 12-13. The survey was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.

center@cis.org


107 posted on 05/05/2008 1:01:35 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: pissant

Didn’t know you smoked Juan McCain but since you do don’t blow it up my ass.


108 posted on 05/05/2008 1:02:22 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: Guenevere; kabar; AuntB; Kimberly GG; Travis McGee; bcsco; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Czar; ...
McCain has only done and continues to do Bush's bidding re illegal immigration/amnesty. The Republican 'base' is in such a funk/depression over this outright betrayal, we're just rolling over and waiting for the final blow........

Well, I hate to be the ones that bursts McC's little dream bubble (/sarc)......but he will not be rolling over us.

McC only thinks he can roll over conservatives and still win.

Now McG's handlers (who are rank conservative-haters) are adhering to the Guiliani strategy---which has achieved cult status as the stupidest strategy in American political history. I guess that's one way McC can make history (snicker).

MEMO TO MCCAIN: Now hear this. Conservatives have not yet begun to fight. McQueeg better understand---before it's too late----that conservatives have not yet deployed the heavy guns. And its not gonna be pretty. We shall see who, in fact, delivers the "final blow."

109 posted on 05/05/2008 1:03:32 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: dragnet2

“I can tell ya endless stories about illegals working for these greedy employers. All they give a damn about is cheap labor.”

dragnet2, I’ll take it a step further. I believe these ‘employers’ prefer an alien...compliant, won’t run to the cops if you’re breaking laws, can’t speak English....won’t tell your secrets!


110 posted on 05/05/2008 1:03:58 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Liz

Where the heck is that pretty yellow ‘Don’t tread on me’ flag when we need it??!


111 posted on 05/05/2008 1:05:27 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: HappyinAZ

Do you understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration?

Do you understand that McCain tried his best to distance himself from his amnesty plan during the primary?

Do you understand that he just today put forward the notion that states/cities wouldn’t have to crack down on illegals if his amnesty plan had passed?

Do you not know McCain’s history on illegal aliens?


112 posted on 05/05/2008 1:05:36 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: HappyinAZ
Other States need to adopt the same law!

If McCain has his way with amnesty, all of those laws will go out the window as the illegals become legal. Moreover, even if you accept the low number of 12 million illegals, a legalization of their status will allow them to sponsor an estimated 66 million more LEGAL immigrants thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification per Robert Rector's [Heritage Foundation] analysis. That is a total of 78 million more people plus the annual 1.2 million that come in legally annually thru the existing system.

113 posted on 05/05/2008 1:07:15 PM PDT by kabar
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To: pissant

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114 posted on 05/05/2008 1:09:03 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: dragnet2

I don’t remember the exact figures, but I believe there were about 300+ who graduated in my high school class in the Canal Zone. If one adds 200+ to that figure, one has 535 crooks (not Canal Zonians…McNut did not go to school here) and a pinheaded president running our country into the ground.

What is wrong with this picture?


115 posted on 05/05/2008 1:10:33 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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117 posted on 05/05/2008 1:14:45 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: pissant
The GOP as a conservative organization is over. And what could be more fitting to mark its end then a dead party running a cadaver, John Sidney MaCain III, as its candidate for president?

I don't care if the Dem's nominate Beelzebub himself, John MacWhackJob will NEVER get my vote.

118 posted on 05/05/2008 1:16:44 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Ronald Reagan's single biggest mistake: Picking Poppy Bush to be his veep.)
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To: Man50D

According to Rudy, being an illegal alien is not a ‘crime’. Juan must buy into that line of BS.

Entering the country illegally IS a crime.

Working here illegally IS a crime.

Document Fraud IS a crime.

Lying to collect welfare IS a crime.

Driving without a license IS a crime.

Not paying taxes IS a crime.

Lying about your status IS a crime.

Fleeing the Border Patrol IS a crime.

Conspiring to bring more aliens across the border IS a crime.

Not reporting crimes IS a crime.

WTF are these IDIOTS thinking?


119 posted on 05/05/2008 1:17:05 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Liz

Too bad this lemon was not the frontrunner early on, we could have torpedoed his candidacy right then and there.


120 posted on 05/05/2008 1:22:44 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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