Posted on 05/27/2013 6:38:35 PM PDT by don-o
In November 2007 I traveled around western Iowa with Sen. John McCain as he tried to claw his way back into the 2008 Republican presidential primary race. McCain's campaign had famously melted down a few months earlier, sending him plunging in the polls. Things didn't look good.
As we rode in a battered minivan, I asked McCain about his troubles, mainly campaign money problems and then the fallout from his stand in favor of immigration reform. Which was worse? I asked. McCain answered quickly: Immigration.
"I can show you polling numbers that it really didn't have anything to do with the financial situation," McCain told me. "As the immigration issue became hotter and hotter among Republicans, I started down."
To recover, McCain talked tough on immigration. His mantra became "secure the border first." It was enough for him to get back on his feet and eventually win the GOP nomination, despite a fourth-place showing in Iowa.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“”What I underestimated was the lack of trust and confidence in government,” he told me. “I mean, I said time after time, ‘We’ll enforce the borders. We’ll enforce the borders. Here’s X billion dollars to do it. We’ll enforce the borders.’ They just didn’t believe us.”
It appears that the general public read you like a book, Senator McCain. You are not to be trusted. You said one thing, and now support something else entirely.
You cannot be trusted.
And the shameless liar McCain used the same ruse again in 2010 when running for re-election to the Senate. Didn't hear about him pushing any legislation to secure the border since January 2011.
The new eligibility standard is not being eligible. Obama, Rubio, Cruz... Crazy
Rubio is dead in the water. Birth business aside a lot of people, myself included, will see the GOP burn before they vote to put another two faced RINO on the ticket.
McCain is lying through his teeth with that crap about “we were going to secure the borders”. If they were, they would have done it already, not *after* they get their amnesty bill. Sounds like a 10 year old, “I was gonna do it”.
And, what I would pay for the opportunity to say to McCain’s and Rubio’s faces, close up: It’s NOT immigration. It’s illegal aliens coming over the border. Illegal immigration is an oxymoron. They can’t be immigrants unless they come in legally. You’ve never enforced our border laws and you have no intention of doing so in the future.
McCain is essentially admitting he lied about his intentions regarding “immigration” simply to get the nomination. I’d love 10 uninterrupted minutes to chew his ass out one on one.
Jeez, these b@stards can shovel the dung at us.
I have concluded that Rubio isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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I’ve come to the same conclusion. He’s, at best, a well-spoken “rube” who has been easily rolled by the Democrats and GOPe. As worse he’s a cynical creature lacking in any integrity who was NEVER a conservative.
I wish Hannity (and, to a much lesser extent, Limbaugh) would stop catering to him.
I define natural born as someone who has two parents who are both American citizens at the time of that person’s birth. The founders wanted a president who would not have dual loyalty. If one parent were foreign, by human nature, there would be a sense of commonality with that foreign country. Neither Rubio or Obama can make that claim. If Cruz’s father was an American citizen at the time of his birth, then he is a natural born citizen. The fourteenth amendment is very specific that only a person ‘subject to the jurisdiction of the United States’ is a citizen if born in the US. A foreign diplomat’s child born here would not be a US citizen. Neither is the child of illegal aliens born in an American hospital.
McCain is a natural born citizen even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Both of his parents were American citizens at the time of his birth and he was born on US soil (PCZ at that time was US territory.) The democrats made it a point to issue a declaration about McCain being a natural born citizen before he ran in 2008 (when there was no doubt) to take the issue off of Obama. And the American public being as stupid as it is, and the GOP being as cowardly as they are, never pursued the issue. Hence, we have an ineligible dictator destroying our country.
As for Rand Paul and his pandering to the illegals for amnesty, another example of an elected official selling his soul. Follow the money. Anyone who supports amnesty, abortion, same sex marriage, relinquishing American sovereignty to the UN, destroying the Constitution, etc. will never get my support.
F rubio. F mccain.
Gee, he didn’t know that the people deeply mistrust the government? HellOOOOO?
And today mccain became the anti-Christian voice of al qaeda. The man has no soul left to sell.
True. Plus, it’s obvious to me that Rubio wants to use shamesty as a poison pill for the 2016 race. After legalizing, or semi-legalizing millions of hispanics, what choice would the Republicans have but to nominate a hispanic?
Yep. I think the GOPe dream ticket is Jeb Bush / Pork Porkie.
And I will stay home.
..Again.
GAG.
Just image if the establishment republicans; that Rubio is aligning himself with now, if they could pick up a new group to support them, they would gladly write the conservative base off to follow along with the democrats even more so. Rubio was in political trouble in the last few weeks of his campaign. He pleaded for the Tea Party to help. They did. This is why some feel betrayed. I think he’s damaged now, there’s not much chance of him winning a primary. It’s not unfair to say that he is in bed now with some of the most corrupt democrats and untrustworthy republicans there are in D.C.
Could? Rubio is toast now as far as I’m concerned.
Not to mention he’s pounding the airwaves with that misleading commercial by Americans for a Conservative Direction, which, according to Mark Levin, is the love child of some the left’s biggest backers, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates. It’s a complete sham, and that he is letting himself be used by these creeps to actively deceive conservatives is not only disgusting and disturbing, but absolutely fatal to his presidential aspirations:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/07/Republican-group-Facebook-immigration-bill
It’s hard to beat zero, when you are zero.
As soon as Rubio took up his immigration cross and decided to spearhead AMNESTY he became dead meat as far as I am concerned.
Rubio went full retard on immigration. It will be difficult for him to gain conservative support in the future.
Rand Paul went half retard. He may be able to redeem himself and his chances of gaining conservative support are better than Rubio’s IMHO.
Rubio is eligible because he was born here, but he’s blown his opportunity due to this immigration bill. I called his office early on and tried to warn him, but apparently, my call along with my emails went unheeded. He blew it.
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