John McCain is one really strange dude.
Posted on 04/30/2010 12:34:38 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
One-time moderate Arizona senator keeps step with the Tea Party and gets tough on illegal immigration.
John Ladd points to the piles of empty water and Coke bottles, a yellow blanket and numerous other bits of debris abandoned on his cattle ranch in Cochise county, near Tombstone, Arizona. The sprawling estate, stretching 10 miles along the US-Mexico border, is a favoured route for those making the illegal, dangerous and often fatal, journey to what they hope is a bright new future.
Ladd recalls waking up one morning in 2004 and finding about 900 Mexicans milling about on his land. "You could not go anywhere without seeing one and the border patrol was screeching around everywhere," he says.
This is Wild West country, a land of mesquite and sagebrush, of Apache trails and re-enactments for the tourists of the OK Corral shoot-out. The ranch, and other crossing points like it, lie at the heart of the immigration debate that has gripped the US over the past week. That debate is anchored to Arizona's controversial extension of police powers in dealing with immigrants.
Already the subject of international attention, it is threatening to consume one of America's best-known politicians, John McCain, former PoW, senator for Arizona, and Republican choice for a doomed campaign against Barack Obama in 2008.
McCain is up for re-election for a fifth term in the Senate and the resurgence of the immigration issue is potentially disastrous.
(snip)
Ladd, who voted for McCain in the past, now feels betrayed and is not planning to support him in the Republican primary in August.
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John McCain is one really strange dude.
McCain is a head case. He is still furious at the GOP for 2000. McCain has a REAL enemies list. No sane person carries a grudge like he does.
For McCain it is just a detour and everyone with one eye and a grain of sense knows it.
Yeah. I know that to be true, from personal experience.
He pull his left arm in he put his right arm out.
An he shake it all about.
He doin da Hokie Pokey again.
He’s still leading in all the polls and JD Hayworth is still going on and on about the birther bill which died a slow death in our State Senate today.
“He’s still leading in all the polls and JD Hayworth is still going on and on about the birther bill which died a slow death in our State Senate today.”
Still humping McCain from behind, eh??
that is a good law and some pretty staunch republicans are in agreement like Jeff Sessions and Imhoff
I can imagine.
I’d say you might want to expend your energies on Boxer rather than McCain
You’re disgusting
Your relentless quest to disparage Hayworth is far more disgusting.
Hayworth is doing that all by himself
Hayworth has relentlessly pursued the birther crap to no end. At least our az state senators who dropped the bill have finally seen the light.
why can’t Hayworth?
“Hayworth has relentlessly pursued the birther crap to no end”
MORE crap!
Hayworths ads are all exposing McCain as a fraud. Got any more MSM “talking points “ ?
There was an article today about Hayworth and the birther crap
MSM just doesn’t write stuff they can be sued for
Many are, but he has so very much money and such an entrenched get out the vote machine that it makes it difficult to run against him.
J.D. Hayworth is hanging in there and spending his money pretty wisely on good ads that address what he’s done to improve immigration issues etc. while pointing out that McCain was proposing amnesty at the same time J.D. was proposing a bill to lock down the border first. Things like that are the way to go, but McCain went ugly as heck before Hayworth ever announced so it’s going to be brutal.
Does anyone know whether AZ has CLOSED primaries? I have an unwholesome feeling that a lot of Dems must cross over to vote for McKook.
My other bad feeling is that McCain will go the Crist/Lieberman Independent route if when he doesn’t win in Aug... I hope I’m wrong.
According to Wikipedia they have closed primaries, but I can’t confirm that anywhere else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_primary
KFYI the local Phoenix radio talk show touched on whether he’d go as independent and the feeling amongst the people I heard discussing it was yes.
“I’d say you might want to expend your energies on Boxer rather than McCain”
I’d say what I do is none of your business. And I’ll stop there.
BREAKING
Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy shot after traffic stop, alleged illegal aliens
I’ve been watching this on the net after hearing it on the radio.
The aliens were shooting at a police helicopter.
This link has a live feed with law enforcement looking for the perps in the desert.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/04/30/20100430pinal-county-officer-shooting.html
“Hayworth has relentlessly pursued the birther crap to no end.”
LIE, always a lie.
J.D. Hayworth will square off with Rep. Luis Guitierez (sp) this SUNDAY MAY 2nd on Face The Nation on CBS.
CBS actually knows there is a repub besides McStain & Graham!
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