John McCain’s “Double Talk Express” Rolls Through New Hampshire
But at a campaign stop in Merrimack yesterday, a woman echoed the Romney attack, saying that she had heard McCain wanted to grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants already in the country.
“I’m not,” McCain told the woman.
“I was informed you were,” the woman said.
“You were misinformed,” McCain replied.
The mostly sympathetic crowd of several hundred people broke into applause.
There’s one little problem, John. You’ve embraced the amnesty term yourself a number of times:
The Politico reported that “McCain himself embraced the term [”amnesty”] during a news conference a few years ago in his office in Tucson, Arizona. “McCain Pushes Amnesty, Guest-Worker Program,” reported the Tucson Citizen of May 29, 2003. The senator is quoted as saying: ‘Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens. That has to be a component of it.’ The newspaper also quoted McCain as saying: ‘I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible and at the same time make sure that we have some control over people who come in and out of this country.’”
They don’t come much more pro-amnesty than John McCain. It’s only recently that the amnesty crew started playing semantic games to market this white elephant better. Now they prefer to call it “comprehensive immigration reform”. And if you still correctly refer to it as amnesty, they’ll call you a racist.
Hopefully, NH conservatives won’t setup another bruising immigration battle like we just had in the Senate by voting for McCain. Remember who the co-authors of that bill were? Now ask yourself, if John McCain and Ted Kennedy are on the same side of the immigration debate, how is McCain not pro-amnesty again?
Archived in: 2008 Election, Conservatives, Democrats, Immigration, John McCain, New Hampshire, Presidential Politics, Republicans, TaxesDecember 30, 2007 at 11:24 am | Trackback
3 comments
McCain has no problem with limiting political speech to suit his whims, and no problem with re-defining his own political speech, particularly on the subject of amnesty for illegals.
I didn’t know he was so forthright in his acceptance of “amnesty” (good link, Pat), but the comprehensive reform package contained an easily-avoided and waive-able penalty, which diverted the charge that it was amnesty.
McCain and others, like Lindsey Graham, relied upon the wording to avoid the suspicions of amnesty, but it was amnesty nevertheless. McCain simply isn’t truthful.
McCain is a boil in America’s armpit. Excising him is the best thing we can do at this time. He runs under the Pachy flag, “Gore”ing others with that RINO horn. He sided with Kennedy, he sided with Graham and worse of all he joined Feingold to silence speech of all but the Lefty Media.
There are still rumors that he rolled over in Hanoi. His record isn’t out for public view. There is that bit of the Article 32 that was quashed to “bring the country together.”
Forced to select a word to describe him, I’d select “popinjay.”
I don’t know much about McCain’s stay at the Hanoi Hilton, but shortly after he was shot down, he was filmed quoting the propaganda of his captors. At that point, with broken limbs and all the rest, maybe he was too weakened to resist.
But it’s true that he’s gotten too much mileage out his captivity. He’s humble about it because media types like Chris Matthews regularly slobbered all over him about it. Matthews, for one, was the most shameless, claiming even once that McCain “went to war for guys like me” (words to that effect), conferring a kind of Christ-like standing on him.
It’s a strange world. McCain’s service is character-specific, where other measurements of character, like religious belief are questionable.