Posted on 04/21/2009 11:51:46 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain will face a challenge from the right in next year's Republican primary, as one of the country's most prominent border hawks will announce his candidacy for Arizona's Senate seat on April 22.
Chris Simcox, who founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, will file campaign paperwork today to formalize his challenge of McCain, who has angered conservative Republicans for his stances on a variety of issues - most prominently, illegal immigration and border security.
Simcox will represent a stark contrast in Republican ideology compared to that of McCain, said Eric Johnson, a senior advisor to Simcox and former staffer for Don Goldwater's gubernatorial campaign in 2006.
"He is a true, conservative Republican. His platform is what it should be," Johnson said.
Some of McCain's clashes with conservatives in the Republican Party include his sponsoring 2006 effort in Congress to reform American immigration policies and allow a "pathway to citizenship" for millions of immigrants in the country illegally. He also spearheaded campaign finance reform in 2002 and has supported efforts to limit sales of firearms at gun shows.
Johnson said Simcox's proven ability to organize a grassroots campaign will give him an advantage over McCain. And Robert Kiley, a California political consultant who will manage the campaign, said Simcox's national profile will allow him to raise the $10 million to $15 million needed to take on the entrenched senator.
"We don't think there's going to be an issue raising money," Kiley said. "There's a lot of anger out there."
Although Kiley and Johnson touted Simcox's stances on other GOP issues, such as abortion and gun control, they said immigration will play a larger role in the campaign. Simcox will push to secure the border immediately by using the National Guard. But unlike in President Bush's 2006 Operation Jump Start, in which thousands of guardsmen were sent to the border to support the Border Patrol, Simcox wants the soldiers to take an active role in stopping illegal activity and detaining people who are trying to enter the country illegally.
Johnson said the campaign also will target voters who have left the Republican Party in recent years because of dissatisfaction with elected officials whom they believe abandoned the party's principles.
"There are a lot of people who left Republicans and became independent because of McCain," Johnson said.
Sarah Palin: No, I do not.
So, she favors following current immigration law. NOT AMNESTY!!!!
You can't smear her. You will have to just call her a pretty airhead like the libs. She embodies everything in which conservatives believe.
OK, thanks. I'll dig a little deeper. Surely the opposition will trot this out if he gets far.
You mean like someone that just won the presidency! This guy should run on change you can believe in!
If he does online contributions, it’s over.
Hey, this Simcox guy doesn’t have a braindead daughter who can’t decide whether she craves potato chips or her father’s affection and feels compelled to work out her affection substitution issues by lashing out against heterosexuals in a blog, right?
Except he won’t get away with it. The press will excoriate his lack of experience because he is a conservative.
Univision: To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
Sarah Palin: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.”
I don't know what you call it, but I call a "path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants" Amnesty. In fact, I can't think of another word for it. Can you?
Yes, Texans, call each of John Cornyn’s offices and tell them you will NOT support Cornyn with your $$ or your vote, if he continues to support Snarlin’ Arlen in PA. His senate offices will tell you to call the NRSC office. Don’t; they transfer you immediately to a recorded message. Just get your $$/vote message across quickly to the regional Senate offices.
contact info: www.cornyn.senate.gov
Then, send what ever amount you can to:
www.simcoxforsenate.com
www.JoinRobSimmons.com
www.toomeyforsenate.com
Help conservatives get into/stay in office!
YEP.
How the H else did he win the Repub primary?
I still cannot believe we were stuck with him!
It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.
This means that she believes that everyone that wants to come here should have the same chance as anyone else, so we have to follow the law. Nowhere does she say a "shorter" path to citizenship.
If you don't like Sarah, fine. I don't understand why any true conservative wouldn't, but you are entitled to your opinion. But, please, don't say she is for amnesty when she has stated plainly that she is not.
Thank you for the URL’s. I think Spector is the easiest to beat, but McCain is just as, or more, important. They are both cancers on the Conservative Cause! I have repeatedly praised Cornyn, but I think that he has lost his way with his support of spector.
Shyster? I was under the impression that "shyster" referred to lawyers, not kindergarden teachers.....
So what do you think the over/under is on the percentage that Simcos gets. I think it is 4%.
Univision: To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
Sarah Palin: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America.
That is amnesty. It gives people who break the law a leg up. It does not mean, as you say, that "everyone that wants to come here should have the same chance as anyone else, so we have to follow the law".
Here's why: The questioner specifically asked about "undocumented immigrants". The other term for "undocumented immigrants" is illegal aliens. So when she says she supports a "path to citizenship" for undocumented workers, she is supporting amnesty for illegals.
Amnesty means that we ignore the fact that they are illegal and allow them to become citizens. It is not in any way "have (ing) the same chance as anyone else" to use your words. No amnesty means we send them home, and refuse re-entry based on the undisputed fact that they've broken the law.
People all over the world wait their turn in line to legally immigrate to the United States. Illegals do not. I don't know how much clearer it can be made. Supporting "a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants", is not leveling the playing field. It is giving people who break the law a boost to the front of the line. Treating people who break the law the same as people who follow the law to the letter is not a level playing field.
If you don't like Sarah, fine. I don't understand why any true conservative wouldn't, but you are entitled to your opinion. But, please, don't say she is for amnesty when she has stated plainly that she is not.
She said she wasn't, then turned around and explained that she was in favor of just that. Her own words, and the words of her running mate John McCain who said the same thing (and more), affirm this.
I believe I'll take their words at face value.
No need to bring McPain into this. I cannot STAND him - check the tagline. I KNOW he wants amnesty.
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