Posted on 03/28/2014 12:49:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A bon mot from his speech last night to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, preserved for posterity on Twitter by Benny Johnson of BuzzFeed. It’s a testament to Maverick’s eagerness to pander to his audience that he’d say something like this, knowing that House Republicans are already nervous about how amnesty will be received by conservative voters. In fact, a right-wing friend mine of who works in politics saw Johnson’s tweet and assumed McCain must have been joking. Surely, with immigration reform already imperiled by righty opposition, a GOPer already loathed by tea partiers wouldn’t offer up the effort as a prayer to Teddy’s memory. Would he?
The “Ted Kennedy Immigration Reform Act of 2014″ has a nice, turnout-producing ring to it, don’t you think?
BuzzFeed Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson Follow McCain accepting his award on behalf of Ted Kennedy.
7:29 PM - 27 Mar 2014
BuzzFeed Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson Follow McCain "I will never ever ever ever as long as I am breathing stop before immigration reform is passed."
7:31 PM - 27 Mar 2014
BuzzFeed Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson Follow McCain "when immigration reform passes I will make sure it is forever called the Edward M. Kennedy immigration bill"
7:33 PM - 27 Mar 2014
He was most definitely serious, says Johnson, although I could have told you that even without having been there. After all, for whatever strange reason, McCain has felt compelled to praise Kennedy before when trying to sell the Gang of Eight bill. January 28, 2013:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hailed the late Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy on Monday as a bipartisan group of senators laid out new principles for comprehensive immigration reform — perhaps handing opponents a weapon.
Kennedy and McCain led the effort for broad-based immigration reform that failed nearly six years ago, and McCain said this new push was nearly the same.
“If we do succeed, and I think we will, it will be a testimonial to Ted Kennedy’s effort years ago that laid the groundwork for this agreement,” McCain said. “You will find that this agreement has very little difference from that of the legislation that was led by Sen. Kennedy some years go.”
He was right about that last part, at least. I guess McCain thought at the time it was his job to reassure the left that the dastardly Republicans who were part of the Gang of Eight wouldn’t try to gut the bill’s legalization provisions, but Chuck Schumer’s membership in the group would have been reassurance enough for them. Besides, from the very beginning it’s been clear that Democrats, not Republicans, would provide most of the support in Congress for the bill. Either McCain totally misjudged which voting bloc needed pandering to or he’s so contemptuous of conservatives that he found it more important to taunt them with a Kennedy reference than to try to win them over by deep-sixing rhetoric like that. Imagine: This is the guy whose political acumen we were trusting to stop the Hopenchange juggernaut in its tracks in 2008.
Well, no harm done. Obama’s going to solve Congress’s problem for them sooner or later. Probably sooner.
Call it the sandwich, with Kennedy’s rotting zombie on one side, and McCain’s rotting zombie on the other, screwing America.
I approve, may I suggest The Comprehensive Chappaquiddick Immigration Reform Plan —
And might I also suggest that it involve an Oldsmobile?
Why not? Ted Kennedy was and illegal aliens are very good at killing people while driving drunk.
A terrible, horrible monster.
(One that Palin defends, though.)
Always have to get that Sarah Palin dig in there, don’t you, schlub?
I want to stuff his new immigration law up McKeating’s exit orifice.
I didn't say a GD thing about Palin. What are you on about?
how fitting.
Yes — it bugs those members of her cult of personality.
(Mere supporters would acknowledge it as a human failing and not worth excusing/defending.)
I was referring to OneWingedShark and CCing you since he said it to you.
I don’t usually call people here idiots, but today you’re the exception.
I did my best. McShamnesty does not care for his American Citizen constituents. He has been giving us the finger for years.
McCain, a real jerk. Needs to be committed.
It’s naming one turd after another.
Oh, howso?
Is it idiotic to acknowledge the failings and flaws in people?
Is it idiotic to find fault with those who support and defend McCain?
I suppose it could be idiotic to rile up a Cult of Personality by saying something they would perceive as an insult to their object of affection, but if that's the case then aren't you admitting to being a part of that cult, given your offense at a true statement?
I agree with McCain. The Predator Invasion Protection Law (PIP) should be passed immediately. Bob
There are no fans of Sarah here who fit that “cultist” bill. You have proved yourself to be a drone. Not a shabby promotion from “pimple”, though, I must concede. Bob
Might as well name it after him. He’ll probably vote on it, if the dhimmicraps have their way...
Sure there are; they're the ones who cannot conceive of any flaw in her and think that someone who can [and does] see them as attacking her.
In short, I find her cult of personality people to be far more off-putting than she herself is.
I have no use at all for people who are unwilling and unable to even attempt to hold to what they claim are their principals… this is, at its root, why I have begun to loathe the Republican party (they make no stand for government accountability, fiscal responsibility, abolishing current gun control laws, abolishing abortion, repealing the ACA, and so on) and why the pro-Romney argument that we could/would hold his feet to the fire
if he was elected was so laughable.
Now, I will gladly and quickly admit that she's far better a candidate than a lot of candidates.
Conversely, I do have severe misgivings of one who defends John McCain's indefensible behavior; and as she has done so [repeatedly] I am not convinced that she would, on the national level, be a good candidate.
Please AZ, dump McDemocRat.
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