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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: pissant

pissant you sure know how to stir up a hornets nest.

McLame, the Republicans and the Dems are both selling out for the latino vote and thus they both deserve to be abandoned by their constituents.
Round up ALL illegals and send them back to from wherever they
came from.
Let them try legally.


61 posted on 05/05/2008 11:30:28 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: AuntB

More will loose this Nov....we aren’t thru yet


62 posted on 05/05/2008 11:31:30 AM PDT by devistate one four (ruger p89, the ak47 of pistols)
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To: pissant; AuntB
When are we going to reach the point of ...

We're mad as **** and not going to take it anymore?????

McCain's 'in your face' who needs a stinking rule of law attitude....

..Hillary's outright pro-sanctuary city response on O'Reilly...

..Obama's ANYTHING....

Folks, we're in serious trouble....

...and we have nowhere to go.

63 posted on 05/05/2008 11:32:03 AM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: pissant

McCain himself has done more to hurt the GOP image than anything else ever could.

Deny, deny, deny!


64 posted on 05/05/2008 11:32:58 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: pissant

Don’t miss his new website —Bienvenido!

http://www.johnmccain.com/espanol/

­¡Mantengamos la esperanza! ­¡Mantengamos la unidad! ¡No nos dobleguemos! ­¡Nunca nos rendiremos! ­¡Estamos Unidos!

(Keeping hope! Keeping unity! We do not bend! We never surrender! We Are United!)


65 posted on 05/05/2008 11:34:07 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: AuntB

Oh, it’s the base’s out of touch ideas that hurt the party, is it?

Is that McCain’s latest reason for why he can’t raise any money?

If we are out of touch, he’d be raising money.

He’s not raising money, so the problem is not with the base.

Nobody wants him.


66 posted on 05/05/2008 11:34:50 AM PDT by fetal heart beats by 21st day (Defending human life is not a federalist issue. It is the business of all of humanity.)
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To: pissant

Nomination candidate McCain said he heard the American people on the amnesty issue.

Presidential candidate McCain is backpedalling.

As expected, he is as much of a liar as the two liars running against him.

Nonetheless, liar McCain is slightly preferable to liars Obama and Hillary as he is less likely to implement a socialist agenda and may be more amenable to pressure from the Republicans in Congress, if they can ever locate their spines, tectacles and intestines.

McCain was a BAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD mistake.

Romney would have been much better. He was the most conservative of the leading canidates, and he has the kind of presence and personality which Hillary/Obama would have had a problem dealing with. Also, he has the economic expertise.

Well, at least we have a candidate who doesn’t believe Christ and Satan were brothers (sarcasm).

We were sold a bill of goods on McManiac - or rather, SOME of us were. The more McManiac shoots his mouth off about issues like this, the FEWER Republicans will bother to come out and pull that lever for him.

And if he really thinks non-assimilated Hispanics (the only kind his pandering rhetoric will appeal to) will come out to vote for him, he’s loonier than even I thought he was.


67 posted on 05/05/2008 11:35:24 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Guenevere
desparate times for law abiding, tax paying US Citizens and the perfect time for Obama or Hillary to win...McCain and his R supporters have no use for the Conservatives or the other 40% of Americans that oppose their Illegal Patrons.
68 posted on 05/05/2008 11:36:35 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: HappyinAZ
Well...explain away! I live in a AZ and work in Phoenix, so I’m very close to the immigration problems.

I live in Michigan and I'm close to the immigration problem too. Standing in the check out at the tractor supply store in Jackson Mi. this morning and was behind a hispanic kid with a big ole "13" tattooed on the back of his neck.

Seems that living along the southern border doesn't mean a damned thing as far as your credibility is concerned. I'd be happy to tell you about how we're being overrun by Canadians but it just isn't happening.
69 posted on 05/05/2008 11:39:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: HappyinAZ; pissant; Travis McGee; AuntB
DECLARACIONES DE JOHN MCCAIN CON MOTIVO DEL CINCO DE MAYO Y ANUNCIO DEL NUEVO SITIO WEB EN ESPANOL

For Immediate Release
May 5, 2008 Contact: Oficina de Prensa 703-650-5550

ARLINGTON, VA -- El senador de Estados Unidos John McCain hizo las siguientes declaraciones hoy con motivo del Cinco de Mayo a la vez que su equipo de campaña anunció varios nuevos programas en español:

"El Cinco de Mayo conmemora un momento importante en la historia del avance de México hacia la libertad. En esta fecha en 1862, un pequeño grupo de soldados mexicanos se sobrepuso a una gran potencia y ganó la Batalla de Puebla. Hoy, nos unimos para recordar los sacrificios que hicieron estos patriotas mexicanos, como también la lucha de todos quienes buscan la libertad en el mundo. Reconocemos también la importante amistad que existe entre nuestro país y México, y celebramos los muchos aportes que los méxico-americanos han hecho a nuestra sociedad, cultura, seguridad y economía".

Las declaraciones con motivo del Cinco de Mayo ahora se pueden encontrar en la sección en español del sitio oficial de la campaña en http://espanol.johnmccain.com, el cual su equipo lanzó hoy. Esta sección del sitio de Internet ofrecerá información actualizada en español regularmente durante las elecciones.

Finalmente, como parte de su compromiso a dialogar con todos los estadounidenses durante esta campaña presidencial, el equipo de campaña de McCain a la presidencia anunció que John McCain participará en la Convención Anual de La Raza en San Diego el 14 de julio de 2008.

70 posted on 05/05/2008 11:39:42 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

71 posted on 05/05/2008 11:40:40 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pnh102
The problem is that there is a ring of truth to what McCain is saying. A lot of anti-illegals GOP Senators and Congressmen went down in flames in 2006.
Statistically, it was the more liberal members of the Republican caucus who lost. Also, note that many of the Democrats lied about their positions or where anti-illegal alien.

Anti-illegals GOP primary candidates for President also went nowhere.
And as polling has shown it is because the media was lying. Most McCain voters did not know his position because the media never called him on his lies during debates.
The media also chose which candidates to give time to.
72 posted on 05/05/2008 11:42:32 AM PDT by rmlew (Don't Blame me. I voted for Hunter.)
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To: calcowgirl

If I type in “2” could I understand that?


73 posted on 05/05/2008 11:43:21 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
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To: calcowgirl; pissant

Juan was just throwing his real base a bone on his way to wooing the ever elusive undecideds and dem crossovers.


74 posted on 05/05/2008 11:44:31 AM PDT by TADSLOS (McCain's base don't need no stinkin' work visas.)
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To: pissant

Can’t he see that there are a lot of Americans, who otherwise consider themselves Democrats, but who want their country back? If he would come down on the side of the rule of law, and sovereignty, and American culture, and making sure we don’t get inundated with third worlders faster than they can assimilate into that culture, he would get tons of votes. Didn’t he learn anything from the amnesty fiasco?


75 posted on 05/05/2008 11:49:09 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: ZULU

I was against Rudy McRomney from day one, and will be so til my dying day.


76 posted on 05/05/2008 11:49:23 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Sybeck1

I’ll give you a translation of the bold parts:

• (With regard to why “we” are celebrating Cinco de Mayo)... We also recognize the important friendship between our country and Mexico, and celebrate the many contributions that Mexican Americans have made to our society, culture, economy and security.

• Finally, as part of its commitment to dialogue with all americans during this presidential campaign, the McCain campaign team announced announced that John McCain will participate in the Annual Convention of La Raza in San Diego on July 14, 2008.


77 posted on 05/05/2008 11:50:21 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Guenevere

Keep fighting for conservatism. We are going to be taking it on the jaw for the next four years, but look at Britain and Italy. Both cleaned house of their socialists. We can do the same in 2012.


78 posted on 05/05/2008 11:52:00 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Guenevere
Folks, we're in serious trouble.... ...and we have nowhere to go.

Sure we do. It's Bob Barr who's running for the Libertarian Party nomination. Don't let the "stupid party" hacks bamboozle you.

80 posted on 05/05/2008 11:55:53 AM PDT by trane250
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