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February 07, 2008

Immigration a Factor in GOP Nominating Campaign as Conservative Voters Doubt McCain

"With John McCain racking up delegates on a steady march toward the Republican presidential nomination, deeply conservative voters are at a loss. They don't like McCain. They've tried, and failed, to stop him. So it was with growing frustration, and an unaccustomed sense of impotence, that many conservatives surveyed the electoral map Wednesday . . . Other radio hosts have taken to calling the Republican front-runner McLame, McVain or McAmnesty, a barb about his support for a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants in the country," the LA Times reports. "Conservative disdain for McCain runs deep, mostly because of his stand on illegal immigration. Other black marks: He voted against President Bush's major tax cuts, though now he supports making them permanent. He opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. And he's not only willing, but expresses an eagerness, to work with Democrats in Congress."

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Open Borders McTraitor! enough said!

Posted by: Critter on February 7, 2008 12:10 PM

We need to ensure he doesn't win in November. What difference does it make about the Iraq war if the floodgates are open at our southern borders and our troops will not have a country to come home to. Amnesty will bring another 10 million across the border over night to claim their path to citizenship. McCain Has no idea of the severity of the problem on the border and doesn’t give a dam.
Unbelievable as it may seem, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving insurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health care to Mexico (Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE).
Even more unbelievable, the senator who sponsored the bill is not on the verge of being thrown out of office for this odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona, is on the verge of locking up the Republican nomination to be our next president.

Posted by: mike on February 7, 2008 12:43 PM

MITT HAS BOWED OUT

Have any of you bloggers wondered what's happenning in America right now?

I imagine it might be called simple fear.

I sometimes totally believe we fear some kind of "Nazi Germany" type retalliation by the slave master open border nuts; so if we agree to their outsorcing and overpopulation destruction of America, perhaps they'll throw us a bone by behaving ourselves and keeping our mouths shut.

Don't believe in this phony fear; its 100% phony and has absolutely no substance.

Stand up and fight like FAIR, Lou Dobbs and NumbersUSA!!!

We are the American majority. We are the voters!!!

McCain is smirking now with Mitt out of the race, but who in America is smirking looking at their wealth rapidly decreasing today; watching overpopulation destroy everyones' dreams [i.e., the value of your stock retirements, dinky CD interest and plummetting real estate].

Perhaps God sent those 50 twisters on America last Super Tuseday as a sign, because of our sin of not preserving planet Earth for future generations?

I'm a scientist and yet have faith in Christ; but even my atheist friends agree with me on this blog.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on February 7, 2008 01:52 PM

Hey softwarengineer, you write powerful words. Like you, I'm a Christian. This is our country and our representative democracy unless and until we roll over and hand it to "managers," which we won't.

I'm sorry to see Mitt Romney bow out. He would have been a true statesman, and we're fortunate that a man of his competence would devote his time to public service. Something that hasn't received much press: the GOP doesn't have proportional voting. Mitt actually did extremely well vs. McCain in the popular vote but due to party rules didn't come up with the delegates.

The situation is different with the Democrat Party, which is more democratic by structure. As you say, softwarengineer, the GOP has a command-and-control, top-down structure that will try to squash people who don't fall in line. McCain's been rewarded for his past service while the interloper Romney, who had wide popular appeal, did not win support from the party bosses.

But we're Democrats. Howard Dean has a more let-them-run attitude by comparison. He's done a great job rebuilding the party, in my opinion, and I do think the Dems are responding to voters and public opinion on immigration. Obama even dropped all mention of it on Super Tuesday.

The American people are fed up and want change, not the GOP's hand-chosen favorite. Already, I'm hearing Democrats talk about McCain's carefully-crafted media image and MSM support. The Democrats know what they're up against. I continue to think Hillary is the right person to put all these MSM and GOP elites in their places and lead from the center, where she'll need to be to be effective with Congress. McCain would try to bully us into God knows what, and he may lose in a crushing landslide.

It's interesting that Obama's also getting the media-celebrity treatment. The MSM and open borders crowd sees Obama-McCain as the way to box the American people into a radical agenda on immigration. I don't agree that would work, but if there's one person who can best put the whole machine in its place, I think it's Hillary Clinton, who pulls off victories no matter what elites, who don't really like her very much, throw at her. She'll remember them, too.

Posted by: Concerned Citizen on February 7, 2008 02:35 PM

I don't think McCain is really winning. The ballot boxes are being fixed. How could McAmnesty, pro-war, who doesn't know how to fix the economy, win?

They have fixed it so we will have to vote for a pro-amnesty candidate.

Our constitutional republic is gone. We need to find a way to secure the voting system.

Posted by: Peggy Robichaud on February 7, 2008 02:42 PM

So at the republican convention this year we will see a smirking Bush congratulate a smirking McCain. Bush will tell him he has layed the groundwork for the North American Union and now it is up to McCain to implement it. The war on terror will now include opponents of the McCain dictatorship- the displaced American middle class. Maybe that third party everybody has talked about will see the light of day and make the move forward.

Posted by: Future Day Laborer on February 7, 2008 03:12 PM

Immigration Misfire

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120217267552142823.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Posted by: Human Being on February 7, 2008 03:24 PM

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR JOHN "AMNESTY" McCAIN...

The establishment republicans believe his b.s., but I don`t... He`s a liberal Rino, a war monger, and an amnesty nut... He says we may very well be in Iraq for 50 to 100 years, and there will be more wars, and the illegals aren`t going home, and your jobs aren`t coming back... Who in their rite mind would vote for this nut... Not me, I`ll stay home come election time... I don`t want my vote going towards the destruction of America!

Posted by: American Me on February 7, 2008 04:02 PM

McAMNESTY WOULD BE BUSH ALL OVER AGAIN, AND MAYBE EVEN WORSE!

Posted by: Independent on February 7, 2008 04:09 PM

I'm inclined to agree with Peggy. Politics has become so dirty in this nation, that I wouldn't put anything past these cretons. How come McCain was literally in the dumps to the point of almost dropping out? How come when you visit blog sites, one after another shows the disgust most Republicans have for McCain. It doesn't make sense. I will vote for Hillary not because I believe she doesn't want amnesty, most all Demorcrats do, but because at least the Democrats are honest about their treachery," unlike the law and order party" the Republicans. Another reason I will vote for her is McCain has embarrased and denigratied Americans one too many times for me. "Americans wouldn't pick lettuce for fifty! dollars an hour". How can Americans stand this guy? Do they like people abusing their work ethic? You'd think he'd be booed out of every place he campaigns.

Posted by: Bobby on February 7, 2008 04:12 PM

CHECK THIS OUT ABOUT AMNESTY JOHN!


http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

Posted by: American Me on February 7, 2008 04:17 PM

I don't think we have to worry about Mcain winning the president election. That will go to the Democrats.

Now we gotta figure out who we need in the house and senate to secure the borders and deport illegal aliens.

Posted by: HAD IT on February 7, 2008 04:43 PM

I have been listening to and watching T.V. all night about Romney quitting the race. I have yet to hear from any broadcaster the mention that Ron Paul is still in the race. To hear the talking heads tell it, conservatives have only one choice left, Huckabee, and he isn't a real conservative either. What is the matter that nobody will mention Ron Paul? His name is NOT a dirty word. Could it be that they do not want to draw attention to Paul because people might start thinking that he IS an alternative to Romney or all of the rest that have been forced out of the race.

Even Lou Dobbs would not mention Ron Paul as still being in the race. Anderson Cooper and Glen Beck either. Is it any wonder that Conservatives are being shoved aside?

Posted by: marg on February 7, 2008 10:44 PM

we continue to pester the patriotic president of Russia Vladimir Putin who battles anti-Russian sentiment and fights ISLAMIC terror at home not thousands of miles away, we tell Putin he has no democracy but PUTIN IS popular and MCCAIN isn't and Mccain is leading don't you think that is strange? the fact is that Obama and Hillary are BETTER than Juan McAmnesty express on imigration and I oppose the suicide mission in Iraq so at least HUSSEIN will stop his fellow Muslims from getting killed, and by default Americans

Posted by: impeahbush on February 7, 2008 11:29 PM