Posted on 07/10/2010 4:37:26 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Republican 'maverick' bends in the wind of Tea Party-style politics
When does being a maverick turn into a shameless flip-flopper? Pretty much about now, according to many observers of the long and storied political career of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Senator McCain, pictured, is now caught in one of the toughest political fights of his life, facing off in a primary fight against the Tea Party-style challenger JD Hayworth. And he is doing it in Arizona, which has just passed a strict anti-illegal immigrant law so controversial the White House is taking it to court.
All this means that McCain's traditionally liberal attitudes to immigration reform were always likely to take a bit of a hit. But few people can have predicted just how far McCain would go in rowing away from the previous positions that won him praise as recently as 2007 when he co-sponsored reform legislation with famed liberal Senator Ted Kennedy.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I’m trying to imagine a seventy-three year old bipolar pole dancer.
Yuk!
Oof. Good hit. Well played!
He makes me sick. Two faced weasel. But there are Republicans here in AZ who love their McCain. It’s like Kennedy in Massachusetts. It makes no sense. We are working so hard for JD, but it’s an uphill battle. The debate next week will be the telltale sign. If JD can put McCain on the Defensive, it might be a turning point.
“BTW, how is Jim Deakin doing, with his run for the same seat?”
Deakin is dishonest. Plays dirty, probably a McCain disciple.
Why replace McCain..one liar, with another?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440173/posts
Rarely will you see a candidate, in writing, say something this stupid.
“I did not look to see if JD actually voted for any of these Laws. However, he did not stop them either.”
I suppose he thought no one would read the last line of his charade.
Jim Deakin: A VOTE FOR JOHN HAYWORTH IS A VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN (JOHN Hayworth??? )
I scoured the Library of Congress and could find no significant differences in the voting record of John McCain and John Hayworth.
As a politician, it appears from the Library of Congress that Hayworth is politics as usual.
Hayworth served for 12 YEARS. I cannot list every vote (you are welcome to do your own research at http://thomas.loc.gov/ )
Amnesty laws and extensions passed during the Hayworth years in Congress. http://www.legion.org/documents/legion/pdf/illegalimmigration.pdf Page 14 and 15
1. Section 245(i) The Amnesty of 1994 a temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens.
2. Section 245(i) The Extension Amnesty of 1997 an extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994.
3. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NASCARA) Amnesty of 1997 An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America.
4. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA) of 1998 An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.
5. Late Amnesty of 2000 An amnesty for illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens.
6. Life Amnesty of 2000 A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty that legalized an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens.
I did not look to see if JD actually voted for any of these Laws. However, he did not stop them either.
Jim Deakin
http://sonoranweeklyreview.com/?p=2441
FLUSH THE JOHN! McCain HAS to go!
(To the tune of Frankie & Johnny!)
Johnny and Teddy were Senators
On opposite sides of the aisle
They got together and drafted a bill
Guaranteed to make illegals smile
Amnesty was their game and they had no shame
Johnny and Senator Feingold
Gave campaign finance a try
But then the highest court in the land
Said the 1st amendment must apply
Gotta play by the rules now Johnny looks like a fool
Johnny and Mr. Obama
They both agree Gitmo should close
But bringing terrorists into the USA
Is a plan that we oppose
No, they dont belong and Johnnys got it all wrong
Now Johnny and Senator Lieberman
Got together on cap and trade
Anemic hands across the aisle
Gonna send the country to its grave
Its time to let him know old Johnnys gotta go
Johnny believes Global Warming
Limousine Liberals and all
Congressional junkets to Copenhagen
Everybodys havin a ball
Just ask Al Gore - Johnny knows the score
S & L Man Charlie Keating
He came to Johnny one day
Said the government boys are sniffing around
How much to make em go away?
Did Johnny take a bribe to join the Keating 5?
Now fast-forward 20 years later
Banks are in trouble again
Johnny says, Lets bail em out
Its just a trillion or maybe ten.
Lets put some wind in their sails cause theyre too big to fail.
We know theres oil in Alaska
Drilling wont cause any harm
But Johnny agrees with the tree-hugging geeks
Gas is gonna cost a leg and an arm
Johnny why cant you see whats good for you and me?
Now everyone knows about ACORN
They get lots of taxpayers dough
Prostitution rings and voter fraud
And home loans to any old schmoe
No matter ACORNs crimes Johnny thinks theyre just fine
Were tired of hearin your flip-flops
Were tired of hearin your lies
You may think were all dummies but you cant
Pull the wool over our eyes
Youre careers hit a snag - so start packin your bags
Cause Johnny, youve worn out your welcome
Its time to bid DC goodbye
Go write a book or learn to cook
And eat a little humble pie
Just ask Sheriff Joe he says you gotta go
Yeah, go Johnny, go its time to hit the road.
Good-bye
MUST SEE!! The Flush the John Song has gone viral and is on YOU TUBE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJobkdeho88
also
http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/
Doesn't really matter to me,
to meeeee......
He’s a lying pile of crap liberal!
Didn’t McCain lose a lot of fighter planes with that maneuver?
The Founders purposely left it up to the states to weed out the imbeciles from voting, and 4 Constitutional amendments and Motor Voter later we have a San Francisco marxist idiot 2 heartbeats from POTUS and a Kenyan/Indonesian/muslim marxist as POTUS.
Until they do something about who gets to vote, all is lost.
The leftists understand this and are pushing for amnesty as the final coup de grace.
The right suffers from a retardation of leadership.
A little too late for McCain. He had his chance all these years. Time for him to retire !
...just long enough to get elected.
Sorry John, you may ditch your leftism, but people have the pesky thing called a memory. We will not forget.
Its time to take SB 1070 and twist it around his crooked neck until he stops breathing once and for all.
Damn that is tough but true. Come on everyone in Arizona lets get our act together. Do not be fooled by Sarah Palin's endorsement (I like her, she made a mistake)
Vote for JD Hayworth and put McCain out to pasture.
What ..?? “... finally paid attention...”
Good grief! Where the hell has he been in the last decades of years he’s been in the congress ..??
If McCain had WANTED TO DO SOMETHING he had plenty of chances .. but all I ever heard him say was, “... let ‘em have their Goddamn fence ...”.
That did it for me!
That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but more or less what he said. “Many” was a reference to a fraction of the illegal population.
The real story here is the MSM spin, all these DNC flaks taking his words totally out of context to make it sound as though he said something he most certainly did not. Hell will freeze over before he says anything like what is implied in this and all the other articles.
As Bobby Bowden said, "After you retire, there's only one big event left."
No, Attila and I would get along well.
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