Surprise: Newsweek can’t get Juan Hernandez on the phone [McCain alert]

Hot Air ^ | 2008-07-22 | Allahpundit

[rabscuttle385]

Darned curious. The last time McCain was confronted about this, he professed not to know of any controversial statements made by Hernandez while cheerily pledging to “look into it.” Does this mean he’s looked into it and decided to keep him on, albeit gagged? Or is he still getting around to “looking into it”?

Sure sounds like someone knows they have a Hernandez problem.

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[calcowgirl]

Juan Hernandez worked for Vicente Fox gathering up voters in the U.S.

Now he’s working for McCain, gathering up voters in Mexico.

They need to try him at his Mexico number. ;-)

[martin_fierro]

Juan's hiding in plain sight.

[dforest]

I was kind of hoping Juan...uh...Hernandez that is, was sent packing back to Mexico after La Raza dumped on McCain....or maybe he is over at Camp “La O’Bamba”.

If McCain still had a brain, doubtful though, he would sting these folks by doing a total turnaround on the illegal issue. After all, he ain’t getting a thing for dumping conservatives.

[calcowgirl]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/147770

The job of Juan Hernandez is to win support for John McCain, particularly Latino votes. So it may seem odd that the campaign doesn’t want its national director of Hispanic outreach to get any press. Repeated NEWSWEEK requests to interview Hernandez have been rebuffed or ignored. When a reporter suggested talking to Hernandez at a convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, where Hernandez was slated to appear June 28, his name was suddenly removed from the list of scheduled speakers. A NALEO spokesman, Eric Wagner, says someone from the McCain campaign called and asked to replace him, but didn’t offer an explanation. (A McCain aide, who refused to be quoted discussing internal campaign strategy, later told NEWSWEEK that the campaign had never signed off on Hernandez as a speaker.)

Here’s one possible reason: Hernandez is toxic to many conservatives. “He represents the opposite of everything conservative Republicans stand for,” says a GOP strategist who didn’t want to be quoted by name on a sensitive topic. The blond Mexican-American (with dual citizenship) was a senior official in the government of Mexican President Vicente Fox ...

[AuntB]

I still want to know if Hernandez is registered as a foreign agent. He is simply a Mexico lobbyist.

[NormsRevenge]

“He represents the opposite of everything conservative Republicans stand for,” says a GOP strategist who didn’t want to be quoted by name on a sensitive topic.

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The GoP still has time to lance this one before the ‘infection’ spreads.

Not sure who they are trying to kid here.

[TADSLOS]

Here's the templated McCain response:

"Juan Hernandez doesn't speak for me..."

Considering that hispanics are lining up 3 to 1 for the Obamessiah, I'd say that Hernandez is dragging anchor on Juan the Magnifico.

[Jacquerie]

For whom do the McCain Deranged like yourself intend to vote for?

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, if that isn’t the truth...

[wolfcreek]

Maybe we should worry abut this foreign agent.

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/cindy-mccain-foreign-agent/

[calcowgirl]

The GoP still has time to lance this one before the ‘infection’ spreads.

Nah. Even those good CA GOP folks are throwing a $100K per person fundraiser for McCain--in San Francisco, no less.

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like you’re still sticking your head up... well in the sand Jacquerie.

Here. Hope this helps.

http://www.hotr.us/mccain/mccainagain.html

[Jacquerie]

I merely ask the question. There is no need to insult.

[wolfcreek]

Everything seems to point to CFR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOUX4wVdym4

[NormsRevenge]

The GoP could have cut their losses a long time ago.. 2006 and recent elections tell them so.

When a maverick and a gang of 14 and a Messiah seek to lead the way ... well, just put your blindfold back on.. or else ya might get a pragmatic view of things.

[DoughtyOne]

To: rabscuttle385

For whom do the McCain Deranged like yourself intend to vote for?

10 posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:22:14 PM by Jacquerie (McCain will kick, not kiss the a$$ of Islam.)


You're right Jacquerie.  I don't know what could have prompted me to respond to you with a catty reply.  Do you have any idea?

I'll keep trying to figure out what promted my reply.  If you can figure it out, be sure to let me know.  Maybe if we work on it together, we can figure it out.

[DoughtyOne]

Did the DNC set that up, or did their sister organization the RNC handle it?

[DoughtyOne]

No doubt about it NormsRevenge. We haven’t seen anything yet. It’s going to get really ugly by November 4th.