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.
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That is actually why I posted the article - to remind us. Not that we need reminding.
Could spoil? DID SPOIL...I wouldn’t vote for him, he looking more like McCain by the day.
I suppose.
Rubio has not turned around, he's already gone back on his promise that if securing the border was not first, he'd oppose the bill. The bill is amnesty (ie legalization) first, secure the borders later maybe. Nothing new here, but Rubio has not opposed the bill, in fact, he's out there with radio ads to talk radio, with lies supporting the bill.
Rubio is toast. Too bad, appears that he was a phony from the get go. Should've known, as Florida House Speaker, he had the opportunity to impeach the SCOFLAWs of the Florida Supreme Court, who tried to give the election to Gore in 2000. All hat, no cattle.
Your point is valid.
Rand is all retard all the time, not re immigration only. He’s a demagogue, a RINO, and a CINO.
Is Rubio trying to walk away from this now? It won’t work—everytime I see or hear Rubio for the next few decades the memory of his anti-American endorsement of amnesty will flood back into my memory. And I’m sure I’m not alone.
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