(RINO) Senator McCain now says border soldiers should be armed ("I've never been for amnesty")

KGUN-TV ABC 9 Tucson, Ariz. ^ | 2010-05-29

[rabscuttle385]

TUCSON, AZ (KGUN - TV) - Arizona Senator John McCain now says soldiers sent to the border should be armed. This revelation comes one day after Senate democrats shot down McCain's border plan to send 6,000 soldiers to the border.

At a town hall meeting in Tucson, McCain first told 60 of his supporters in attendance that President Obama's plan to send 1,200 soldiers would not work because the soldiers would only be assigned to "desk jobs."

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Nunez asked: "What do you say to the those who accuse you of throwing out numbers, sending 6,000 troops to the border, throwing more money to the problem instead of pushing for comprehensive reform which is what you've done in the past?" McCain said, "Well over the last several years as violence has escalated I have continuously said that we have to secure the borders first."

Nunez asked: "Are you willing to compromise increasing security on the border for amnesty?" McCain responded, "I'm not, first of all, I've never been for amnesty. But second of all get the border secured then we can look at a temporary legal, temporary worker program."

Nunez asked: "So what do you do with the 13 million illegal's who are already here?" McCain said, "I say to them lets get the border secured and then I'm sure we can move forward with addressing that issue. But I don't want 13 million more here a few years from now because we didn't get our border secured."

[rabscuttle385]

"I think we can set up a program
where amnesty is extended to a certain number
of people who are eligible and at the same time
make sure that we have some control over people
who come in and out of this country."
U.S. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, 29 MAY 2003

[rabscuttle385]

The Rat bastard McCain must go!

J.D. 2010

[Undocumented_capitalist]

McCain is a chameleon. I hope Arizona voters send him
into retirement. He has served enough.

[Frantzie]

McCain is such a liar. He realizes he is PRO-Amnesty in a state that is doing an AMAZING job thanks to Jan Brewer and conservative Repubs in the AZ state House and Senate.

God bless AZ. McCain get lost - liar!

[Red Steel]

It’s a Hayworth ad in the making.

[Right Wing Agitator]

Juan McCain has used the words ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ so many times that he now believes he hasn’t ever supported amnesty. Note to Juan: comprehensive immigration rerform = blanket amnesty, and you know it and we know and you know that we know it, so stop your outright lies. As an Arizonan, I will say I hope we throw this back-stabbing rino out on August 28th. JD Hayworth needs your help if you can send a small donation.

[pogo101]

("I've never been for amnesty")

Call it a banana, McAmnesty.

[rolling_stone]

Lets ask him to make that statement under penalty of perjury just to make sure we understand what he is saying...he is against amnesty but to him his amnesty wasnt amnesty another GD Clinton type liar.

[matthew fuller]

"I hope Arizona voters send him into retirement. He has served enough."

I'm with you, but the polls aren't with us-

Rasmussen Reports 5/17 - 5/17 541 LV 52 40 McCain +12

[SoCalPol]

Ron Paul Voted For the Amnesty Bill
HR 1885 that granted amnesty to immigration that now occupy U.S. Soil March 2002

[Windflier]

I hope Arizona voters send him into retirement. He has served enough.

"Served"?

Whom has he served as a US Senator besides Democrats and Socialists? Has he ever done one worthy thing while in office?

I'd really like to know.

[Columbia]

McLame will sell us out to Mexico first chance he gets.

[Kimberly GG]

CLEARLY DEFINE amnesty.

Hold their feet to the fire.

[television is just wrong]

he is full of pooh

[AmericanInTokyo]

tempoary shift in position, JUST LIKE IN SPRING OF 2008, to get the GOP Nomination. He's up to his old crap again, folks. For Arizonans to fall for this AGAIN, it will be their own fault.

[AmericanInTokyo]

tempoary shift in position, JUST LIKE IN SPRING OF 2008, to get the GOP Nomination. He's up to his old crap again, folks. For Arizonans to fall for this AGAIN, it will be their own fault.

[TigerLikesRooster]

McPsycho, the badly aging self-styled Luke Skywalker, LOL!

[AmericanInTokyo]

That man is reprehensible. I hope Freepers have been donating on line to JD HAYWORTH, his Primary Opponent. $10 here, $25 there, $100 when the spirit so moves.

[BradyLS]

McCain is counting on Arizonans to have long-term memory loss. He thinks his constituents can’t remember since last week. He’s the Snarlin’ Arlen of the West. Don’t give him a pass!

GO J.D.!

[dila813]

ok, so he wants them armed sitting at a desk, that makes a lot of sense.

They should be on the border like they were on the border between Kuwait and Iraq prior to the Invasion.