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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

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the focus on illegal immigration during the Republican primary season harmed his party's image among Hispanics.

Speaking to reporters in Phoenix on Cinco de Mayo, McCain said that Hispanic citizens want America's borders secured and illegal immigrants to be treated humanely.

He says low-income Hispanic citizens are vulnerable to losing their jobs to the lower wages accepted by illegal immigrants.

On the subject of broader immigration policies, McCain says local governments would not have to take on immigration problems had the federal government overhauled the country's immigration policies.

McCain spoke at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport before his flight to North Carolina.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; elections; hispandering; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; mccain; rino; rmsp; twirp
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To: HappyinAZ

>Other States need to adopt the same law!

Agreed.
Thank you for your post. - bill


181 posted on 05/05/2008 7:14:02 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Czar; kabar; AuntB; nicmarlo; B4Ranch; calcowgirl; Kimberly GG; Travis McGee
Sometimes, the GOP candidate is so bad he doesn't even cut it on a "least worse" basis. That defines McCain perfectly.

Yeah----McC's shaping up as a Giuliani without the lisp, the blonde wig and the black tights.

Campaign flopping like a blowout on a beat-up jalopy with cheap tires.

182 posted on 05/05/2008 7:14:14 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: kellynla

I dunno... with all of this global warming causing all of these crazy weather patterns (according to McCain), ya never know if he might get caught in a freak hurricane or sumthin’ before the convention.

Or then there is that killer California earthquake they keep predicting ... at which point, I guess I won’t care who is president. ;-)


183 posted on 05/05/2008 7:17:35 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

San Francisco Chronicle. Aug 20, 1999. pg. A.3

Nice find.

Course he’ll deny, deny, deny.


184 posted on 05/05/2008 7:18:52 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Liz
McC's ... a Giuliani without the lisp, the blonde wig and the black tights.

Thank heaven for small favors. ;-)

185 posted on 05/05/2008 7:20:14 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Liz; AuntB; calcowgirl; Travis McGee; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; ...

186 posted on 05/05/2008 7:24:40 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Liz

Here’s a link for the full article. The excerpt I posted is from the Textbox at the end:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/20/MN75761.DTL


Here is a “kick ‘em to the curb” quote from an Esquire interview:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664782/posts

...”I urge my friends who complain about the influence of the religious Right, get out there and get busy. That’s what they do! Now, if we believe in the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, the big-tent party, then we have to get out there and show that. The fact is, some of us have sat idly by while those very active people have basically set the agenda for our party. I get attacked every day because I’m working with Ted Kennedy. How can I work with Kennedy? Because I want to get something done!” ...


187 posted on 05/05/2008 7:26:04 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: PhilDragoo

What’s the yellow thingy?


188 posted on 05/05/2008 7:27:32 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: SierraWasp

It is those who refuse to support our Republican nominee John McCain who are the real illegitimate Republicans. You little children are going to end up giving us a Rat for president.


189 posted on 05/05/2008 7:29:39 PM PDT by Antonio C (God bless John McCain, George W. Bush, and our troops)
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To: Liz

Sadamm Hussein has a job and I don’t
Tonight he will sleep in a big warm bed and I won’t

I still remember GOP suicide.

Who cares if Joe blow out in Iowa lost his job.

Deja VU


190 posted on 05/05/2008 7:29:45 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: Antonio C

You have already lost the race


191 posted on 05/05/2008 7:30:51 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: Guenevere

What are you suggesting?


192 posted on 05/05/2008 7:31:11 PM PDT by Antonio C (God bless John McCain, George W. Bush, and our troops)
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To: Antonio C

I blindly follow no man anywhere. That is what I am suggesting.


193 posted on 05/05/2008 7:38:21 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: PhilDragoo; AuntB; calcowgirl; Travis McGee; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; ...
Y-y-e-e-s-s-s-s..........beautful.

Watta genius that phildragoo is, eh, FReepers?

194 posted on 05/05/2008 7:40:26 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: calcowgirl

BTW, is it me, or do his arms keep shrinking on the campaign trail?


195 posted on 05/05/2008 7:42:52 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Liz

Mr McCain will be held responsible to his word.....


196 posted on 05/05/2008 7:43:37 PM PDT by Sterco
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To: PhilDragoo; devolve

Good graphic Phil!


197 posted on 05/05/2008 7:45:37 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Liz

Yes, he did a great job!


198 posted on 05/05/2008 7:46:19 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: calcowgirl

Thanks, Cal-—nice surfing.


199 posted on 05/05/2008 7:47:34 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: pissant

McCain: TWirP, RMSP, Reform Institute, CFR legislation co-author w/Russ Feingold, Comprehensive Immigration Reform co-author w/Ted Kennedy

The fact he served in Vietnam and spent over 5 years in a
North Vietnamese prison does not absolve him of his latest activities and legislative pursuits and the company he keeps, plus, now a Global Warming alarmist to boot.

If the GooP is worried about its image, it ought to take a good hard look at itself and open the convention to a choice that makes sense, regardless who the dem opponent ends up being.

Unfortunately, it does not seem to have either the leadership of vision to do the “Right” thing, rather it seeks to further lurch toward the middle and in so doing, reveals its true colors.

If it does not, it bodes ill for the party and the nation, not exactly an image one would want in the history books to be written in the future by the globalists amongst us.


200 posted on 05/05/2008 7:47:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!)
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