Sure, it's all the rage. Here come the new Americans now...
Posted on 05/22/2008 11:46:28 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
First, my friends, a reminder of what was printed right here on January 23, 2008:
After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, “straight-talking” GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans’ trust in their government’s ability to defend the homeland.
“I got the message,” he told voters in South Carolina. “We will secure the borders first.”
But how can McCain cure citizens’ distrust when his own credibility on the issue remains fatally damaged? He doesn’t believe his own election-year spin. And he knows we know it. This is cynicism on steroids with a speedball chaser.
Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party (“F**k you!” and “Chickensh*t” were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions). Not all of us have forgotten that he voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under his plan. Not all of us have forgotten the underhanded, debate-sabotaging manner in which McCain/Kennedy/Graham/Harry Reid conspired to ram their package down voters’ throats.
His admission of the shamnesty failure is grudging and bitter. While he now tells conservative voters what they want to hear about the need to build the southern border fence, he takes a contemptuous tone toward physical barriers when talking to businessmen. “By the way, I think the fence is least effective,” he told executives in Milwaukee, according to a recent Vanity Fair profile. “But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” Straight talk? Try hate talk.
For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want—protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking–The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.
And, now, straight from the campaign trail with Arnold “Move Left” Schwarzenegger, McCain has shed every last pretense that he “got the message” from grass-roots immigration enforcement proponents and is back to his full, open-borders shamnesty push. No surprise to any of you. But his complete regression back to the “comprehensive immigration reform” euphemism is a notable milestone.
Also, you don’t need to guess anymore how he would have voted on the Feinstein/Craig illegal alien farmworker amnesty:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in calling today for comprehensive immigration reform, including guest worker visas to bring employees to California’s Silicon Valley and the state’s vast agricultural fields.
The two men brought up the issue at McCain’s prompting during a global competitiveness roundtable featuring California technology executives and entrepreneurs.
Asked by Silicon Valley panelists on what he would do to grant more visa for skilled technology workers, McCain broadly advocated the comprehensive immigration reform plan he had backed with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in Congress.
The same issue brought McCain intense criticism during the Republican presidential primary from conservatives who assailed him as soft on illegal immigration and an advocate of amnesty.
But today McCain, the now presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said an immigration program is needed that protects America’s borders and national security. While he called for punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, he also advocated a humane approach that treats illegal workers as “God’s children.”
McCain said they should be allowed to seek legal status in a “humane and comprehensive fashion” through a program “they can count on and trust.”
Responding to a question about so-called H1-B visas for Silicon Valley workers, McCain said: “We have to attract the best and brightest minds. It isn’t just H1-B visas. In our agricultural sector, they can’t find workers as well. We need a temporary agriculture (worker) program.”
Schwarzenegger echoed McCain’s remarks after the Arizona senator asked his opinion on the topic.
“We need to change the system. All this is part of a comprehensive immigration reform. You can’t piecemeal this thing,” Schwarzenegger said.
While the governor said, “securing the border is extremely important” to California he added: “You have to have the courage to do this kind of immigration reform so we can bring people into this country legally.”
Schwarzenegger said he supported a pathway to legal status so that more people can have “legal drivers licenses” and “everyone would have bank accounts…and there would be background checks so that there would be no criminal element in this country.”
Same old, same old about sham background checks.
They’ve learned nothing. Nada. Zippo. How about you?
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More from the NYT:
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”
He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”
OOps, I misunderstood your Idol reference. I thought you meant Marx.
No.....
We’ll work real hard to push RINOs like you and McScum out of this party first, before we ever will allow your “New Amerika” to ruin this once great nation.
I think he means; “bitter conservative”
But I think he has no clue what it means to be Conservative in the first place.
I can only imagine what will happen in the near future now that Jim is back. These people had better be careful who they insult.
Just another one of the recent McCain La Reconquista trolls that Juan Hernandez picked out of a backyard McCain Fiesta Party. They'll be long gone and singin' Obambi's praises as their great liberator on DU once McCain gets his butt handed to him in November.
I fervently believe that McNutless will have his but handed to him well before November.
You cannot have that many historical negative issues against you and make the claim you have suddenly reversed your belief system in the few short months before a Presidential election and expect to gain support from a base you have ridiculed and humiliated for the last 25 years.
NO way, NO how!
With any luck, it will happen on the convention floor. It's the GOP's last chance to self correct before implosion occurs.
Strange thing is, I’m not bitter. Absolutely disgusted with what we have wanting to represent us, but in no wise bitter.
Sounds like just a bit of projection by the mcloonatics to me.
I think it’s time to reread Richard Lamm’s speech on how to destroy America. This must be McCain’s and the liberal’s roadmap. And it looks like it’s right on schedule. A MUST READ here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp
“work to bring the New America into the Republican Party.”
I don’t give a flying fk at a rolling donut about your party. New America? I thought you libs were calling it the NAU? Did the heat get to be too much and you had to change the prospective name?
Equal parts hateful La Raza boilerplate and Jefferson Starship "We Built This City" claptrap. ;)
Sure, it's all the rage. Here come the new Americans now...
Outstanding (albeit terrifying) article. Many thanks!
“For someone whose screen-name proclaims loud and clear that he is a Christian, you sure are willing to easily throw your principles overboard and compromise by supporting John McCain.”
Which Christian principles are being compromised? Certainly McCain opposes abortion more than Obama—that’s the major one I see.
“You do realize that he will destroy the GOP and our country by granting Amnesty right?”
That’s a possibility I think I captured in my worst case McCain scenario. You and others on this thread think this worst case is the most likely scenario.
“You do realize by this single action 20-40 million+ Hispanic Illegal Aliens will be dumped into the American electorate? Right?”
That is the eventual outcome of a broad based amnesty law.
“These Hispanic voters are the same voters who have reliably voted 65%+ for the Democrats EVEN AFTER a REPUBLICAN President, Reagan, Granted Amnesty for millions of Mexicans.”
“The resultant imbalance of Democrat voters will destroy the razor thin majorities that Republicans have used to win elections during the last several election cycles.”
“This single action by a GOP President will guarantee GOP minority status for decades to come, if not the total demise of the GOP much like the WHIGs.”
Yes. This is covered in my worst case McCain scenario.
“On top of the imbalance provided by the Amnesty, having suffered the last knife in the back from the GOP, millions of conservatives will either walk away from the GOP or simply check out of the process.”
I expect the negative consequences (including economic) of such an amnesty law to lead to general hostility to all supporting it and the creation of an anti-amnesty party.
“Is this really what you want?”
No. I put this as a worst case scenario because I expect the anti-amnesty pressure to vastly increase the closer the bill gets to reality. I expect politicians (McCain and Congress) to cave and nothing to happen.
Just because McCain says he will do something, doesn’t mean it will happen.
And despite all the evil of this outcome (worst case McCain) I prefer it to any Obama scenario.
Maybe this needs to be in it’s own thread and copied and sent to every member of congress. Maybe even a few talkshow hosts, newspapers and newsreaders just as a reminder that this is where we’re headed unless they stop this amnesty.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp
And contained in this link is Mexico’s immigration policy:
http://www.mexperience.com/liveandwork/immigration.htm#NonImm
LOL!
John McCain has mental health problems. He might also have serious physical health problems. It is the only conclusion from the way he handled the alleged release of his medical records. Only select reporters were invited (none with a medical degree). They were given too short a time to go through the records. Yeah, no copying. Loony tunes McCain has something serious to hide.
"Come on in, Juan, the water's fine."
Pool Boyz....& gardnerz?
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