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McCain's Amnesty: Once Worth the Fighting For; Now Worth the Lying For

JD HAYWORTH PRESS RELEASE

"In his book Worth The Fighting For, John said that he was faced with a tough choice during his 2000 bid for the Presidency," said U.S. Senate Candidate J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ). "John, in his own words, decided lying was the best way out of a difficult situation. He made the same decision when faced with his continuing support for amnesty last night."

In McCain's book, he wrote: "I didn't want to do this. But I could tell from the desperate looks of my staff that we had an enormous problem. And that it could come down to lying or losing. I chose lying."

On December 15, 2000, McCain entered a statement into the Congressional record that said: "In particular, this bill makes meaningful but insufficient progress on amnesty for those wrongly denied it, and does not address legitimate concerns about Central American refugee parity."

On May 29, 2003, the Tucson Citizen quoted McCain saying: "Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens."

He sponsored not once, but twice the McCain-Kennedy amnesty legislation that would cost American taxpayers $2.6 trillion in retirement benefits alone for illegal aliens who are granted amnesty.

And as late as April 10 of this year, his office was sending out letters that stated: "Considering our national interest in identifying these individuals (illegal aliens) and our inability to round up and deport all of them, we must provide these individuals with incentives to come forward, complete security background checks, pay any owed taxes and stiff penalties for breaking the law, learn to speak English, and regularize their status."

Hayworth said "regularize" is just McCain's latest code word for amnesty.

"First it was amnesty, and then it was comprehensive immigration reform, now a new one - regularize," he said. "But it is all the same amnesty pure and simple.

"John lied last night. Arizona deserves a Senator the people can trust," Hayworth said.


1 posted on 07/17/2010 5:40:43 PM PDT by onyx
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There’s another debate tonight?! I just finished watching the first one.

You know.

The one where McCain got crotch-stomped, and that other guy was ignored as the nobody he is.

Crap. I’m already on my fifth beer. Too late for the, “There you go again,” drinking game.

I’ll be here.


125 posted on 07/17/2010 7:14:46 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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12 million illegals here now?

Check again, John. They are flooding across, because they are expecting an amnesty via Obama.

The real number is probably closer to 30 million, now.


144 posted on 07/17/2010 7:20:04 PM PDT by TomGuy
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McCain lying shamelessly again. Amnesty does not mean “no penalty” in law. Amnesty means a pardon of a large group of people, and a pardon means, in a legal situation, the release of the prescribed penalties for an offense.

If these illegals aren’t deported, which is the prescribed penalty for illegal entry, then they have been given amnesty if that legally prescribed penalty is waived, and all this nonsense about a $1,000 fine and learning English and doing fifty push-ups is all lies.


153 posted on 07/17/2010 7:21:29 PM PDT by Will88
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Secure the border is a canard. It is meaningless.

Try seal the border. Then you have a target to work toward.
157 posted on 07/17/2010 7:22:04 PM PDT by TomGuy
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McCain skipping the current issues and reverting to a war hero appeal to try and hoodwink the voters once again.


306 posted on 07/17/2010 7:58:05 PM PDT by Will88
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I like Deakin.


314 posted on 07/17/2010 7:59:42 PM PDT by TomGuy
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Senator McCain’s performance was cringe worthy.

“Lie after lie after lie.”


338 posted on 07/17/2010 8:06:14 PM PDT by TheOldLady (I am not humblegunner, Pablo is very wily, and Salamander is humblegunner!)
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