McCain reverses course on immigration reform (again), drawing far-right
rebuke
By: Steve Benen @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
10:00 AM - PDT
When John McCain's presidential campaign faltered badly last summer, there
were a variety of problems, but near the top of the list was McCain's work
on a comprehensive immigration reform measure, which most Republican
activists hated with a vengeance. McCain ultimately decided to abandon his
own legislation, and announced earlier this year that he wouldn't even
vote
for his own bill.
Now that he's locked down the Republican nomination, McCain has decided to
reverse course again, re-embracing the position he abandoned in order to
gain GOP sup****t.
In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator
John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that
comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next
president. [.]
Mr. McCain largely stopped talking about the issue and repeatedly
invoked
a mantra that he had gotten the message from voters that the borders
needed
to be secured first, before any solution for the illegal immigrants
already
here is addressed.
Sure, but that was when he was pandering to far-right activists, who he
needed to get the GOP nomination. Now that he's vanquished his Republican
rivals, McCain feels comfortable pulling the hard-to-execute
flip-flop-flip,
gambling that conservatives will hate Obama enough to give McCain a pass.
Indeed, yesterday, speaking at a business roundtable in Silicon Valley
alongside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, McCain boasted of working with Ted
Kennedy and said, "[W]e must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We
must
make it a top agenda item." McCain went on to take an anti-de****tation
position on immigrants already in the U.S. who entered the country
illegally, saying "they are also God's children, and we have to do it in a
human and compassionate fa****on."
McCain does so many reversals on this issue, I'm surprised he's not dizzy.
The far-right, meanwhile, is not amused.
(Read the rest of this story.)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/25/mccain-reverses-course-on-immigration-reform-again-drawing-far-right-rebuke/#more-29509
Nothing new for Johnny McNapalm. When he said four more years of Bush he
meant it;
The lies.
The waste.
The destruction of the Constitution.
The trainwreck called the McGoof Express.
McCain flip flops.
McCain lies.
McCain is senile.
McCain is a war monger.
McCain is owned by Joe Lieberman and AIPAC.
McCain has no honor and didn't defend his family and his name when he was
attacked by Karl Rove.
McCain made 32 Pro Propaganda videos for the VietCong.
McCain confuses AlQuada with Terrorist and Iraqi fighters.
McCain wants to attack Syria, Iran, N.Korea, Russia and China.
McCain is ignorant regarding the economy.
McCain is a songbird and Traitor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvXEsW4Fgg
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