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.
Let it go.
This ain’t about Palin.
The freakin’ scum knows it will pass, and he will enjoy sticking it to conservatives and ruining the country.
Is there any way to save us?
I want to name America’s new immigration reform law after Ted Kennedy-—are they coming across chappaquiddick in cars?
The Palin hating Ron Paul crowd, tend to trolling.
To: Bob J
I love Palin’s conservatism and patriotism! She may very well support McCain out of loyalty and I have no problem with that. And I have no problem with whom she supports with her PAC. There is nothing written that says she has to do everything (or anything at all) according to JIM.
Sarah is unabashedly pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-family, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-limited government and so am I. And she’s wildly popular among the God-loving, Liberty-loving folks with whom I choose to associate. In short, she’s a refreshing breath of clean fresh air in an otherwise putrid failure of a RINO infested party.
She represents my interests better than any other viable wannabe at this point and if she decides to run, she will have my undivided support!!
Romney, the draft-dodging, Big Government, lying statist political whore can KMA!!
And your picture does say a 1,000 words, but Bob, unfortunately they’re all about YOU and political whores like you and the results and likely outcome of your slavish, cultish RINOism!!
So you can shove your picture and your RINOs where the sun don’t shine.
Sarah has more guts, talent, ability, patriotism, and sheer determination and love for America and our God-given Liberty than you and Romney and a thousand other RINOS will ever have!
It’s been more than obvious for several years that our pro-Life & Liberty Free Republic has become an embarrassment for you, so why the hell don’t you just take a fricken hike already!!
Shove it, pal.
GET THE HELL OFF FR if you don’t like it, but whatever you do quit your damn whining and pestering good conservative FReepers about your hatred for Sarah Palin!! It’s beyond sickening.
394 posted on 1/9/2010 12:05:07 PM by Jim Robinson
I tried to allow for consideration for his prior (military) actions and tried to at least be civil to this pos in an earlier post. I, hereby withdraw that support.
WHAT NEW Immigration Laws?
The ones on the books are rarely enforced!
John McCain has long outlived his usefulness in the US Senate.
KILL ALL NEW IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION.
Sheeesh.
You posted a message from Jim Robinson, where he says:
She may very well support McCain out of loyalty and I have no problem with that.
It is perfectly fine with me that he holds his own opinion and valuation — we disagree in that I do find fault with being loyal to McCain and defending him from e.g. Arizona's censure (IMO that was, and is, a matter between McCain and his constituents & Pailin's willingness to defend him therein perhaps shows that Palin has more loyalty toward McCain than the American-system… perhaps even the Constitution itself as one point of contention was the government's domestic spying and McCain's part therein).
Note that I am not saying she's a bad candidate, or that she is indeed more loyal to McCain than the Constitution, just that the possibility exists, especially when she has never stood against him on anything. [Granted I do not remember anything that, as a Constitutional issue, they were involved in together (like McCain-Feingold) where she would so be tested, as she was a governor and he was/is a senator from another state and thence they did not have a lot of overlap in their official capacity.]
It is already called Rubiocare.
Mary Jo was unavailable for comment
I didn’t say it was.
It was 2divvet who was making it about Palin... well, I did goad him a bit.... I suppose I should apologize to him.
2ndDivisionVet, I’m sorry I purposefully and willfully hit your sensitive hot-button; would you forgive my transgression?
(Though I make no apology for holding my own opinion on matters.)
McCain is completely out of his mind.
Arizona: Get rid of this guy at the earliest opportunity.
Please
First, regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitution's Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I, the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration. This is evidenced not only by the fact that the word "immigration" does not appear in the Constitution, the Constituion's silence about immigration automatically making it a 10th Amendment protected state power issue, but also by the following excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's writings which references the 10th Amendment in conjunction with immigration issues.
“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force (emphasis added).” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
So what Sen. McCain needs to do to honor Kennedy with immigration legislation is the following. McCain needs to lead both Houses of Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify McCain's proposed amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority to regulate immigration, McCain will be a hero and Kennedy will be honored.
I disagree, but fair enough. Bob
He is ALSO INSANE!!!
Why not car safety legislation
Onyx, the guy admits that he is an anti-Palin troll and this isn't the first such admission, it is amazing, but keep it in mind.
Onyx, I have not admitted to being an anti-Palin troll — I have admitted to sometimes trolling (to do otherwise would be a lie), and I have expressed that I find the Cult of Personality supporters of a politician to be off-putting (whether they be pro-Palin or pro-Obama); I have also expressed that I find supporting and defending McCain to be worthy of questioning one's conservative
credentials.
Ansel has taken it upon himself to connect the dots
and say that the above qualifies me as anti-Palin… but then Ansel is also the sort who denies that supporting the War on Drugs and Constitutialism are mutually exclusive philosophies despite much evidence to the contrary (and will gladly accuse one who opposes the War on Drugs on constitutional grounds as being pro-drug).
The Kennedy Wetback Bill?
Why can’t you just go and put together some of the comments that you have made here and post a vanity thread about Palin.
That would be a lot more tasteful than high jacking this thread and ruining it for others.
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