It Looks Like John McCain Has Learned His Lesson All Right.
John McCain, on Meet the Press, January 27, 2008:
TIM RUSSERT: If the Senate passed your bill, S-1433, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, would you as president sign it?
JOHN MCCAIN: Yeah, but the lesson is that it isn’t going to come, it isn’t going to come. The lesson is they want the borders secured first.
John McCain, from the stump in North Carolina, Monday.
“Unless we enact comprehensive immigration reform I don’t think you can take it piecemeal,” he explained Monday, answering a question about providing visas for skilled workers.
“In other words,” he said, “because as soon you and I start to talk about the highly skilled workers, our agricultural interest people are going to say, ‘Look we need ag workers, too.’ And then somebody’s going say, ‘We need the DREAM Act,’ and then somebody’s going to say, ‘We’ve got to enforce our border.’”
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“We get in this kind of a circular firing squad on immigration reform in the Congress of the United States,” McCain said, “and the lesson I learned from it is we’ve got to have comprehensive immigration reform.”
Yesterday, Michelle Malkin asked us if we could trust John McCain to keep his word on judges.
Read the quotes, then consider that question again. He’s already going back on the alleged lesson he learned just four months ago. Are you willing to bet that he’s not going to find another lesson sometime in the next four years that will let him nominate a new Supreme Court Justice who just happens to agree with his long-held and very public belief that free speech isn’t for you common rabble?
When push comes to shove, do you truly believe that John McCain will stick to conservative principles that he’s only recently discovered or will he revert to his old Maverick ways that made him the darling of the MSM and Democrats in Congress?
Good luck with that one, folks.
I’d say the real lesson that John McCain has learned is that the Republican party is full of saps who will accept a crap sandwich so long as it’s served to them by another Republican.
(via Drew M at Ace’s place, who took the opportunity to endorse Hillary Clinton. Welcome aboard, man!)
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Category: Featured, Johnny Mac, Our Melting Pot
God, what the hell has happened? How did we end up with this schmuck?
Well, if you are talking about how did we end up with him through this primary season, I'd have to attribute that to the enormous numbers of people who consider themselves conservatives and/or Republicans but they don't follow politics at all. I know plenty of people – several in my own family – who just do not follow the day-to-day details that you need to in order to make an informed decision. (Which was evidenced by the poll that came out right after McCain became the nominee where something like 65% of self-identified conservatives said they believed McCain was strong on illegal immigration enforcement.) McCain has plenty of name recognition & always got plenty of face time on the news. And the MSM is always referring to him as the Maverick & goes on about how he is independent & doesn't play Washington politics and blah, blah, blah. The reality is, most people are too busy to catch anything more in-depth than a headline here & there.
Now if you are talking about how we ended up with him in the whole grand scheme of things; my personal opinion is that the Republican party has not done enough to enforce party discipline. You know if McCain was over on the Dem side (where he belongs) the first time he didn't vote the party line on a major issue, he would have had a boot up his a**. Also, the Republicans have been playing a little game of us (the base) vs. them for years now. You may not have noticed but even when Repubs had the majority, whenever a core conservative bill was defeated, the Republicans that opposed it were never the ones that were up for re-election. But the ones who were up for re-election soon always voted how the people wanted. Then after their re-election, they would be the ones to defeat critical bills & and others who were next up for re-election would suddenly lurch right. Of course, that is not scientific….just seemed that way to me whenever I would scan through the lists of who voted yea/nay.
From where I sit, conservatives were just plain stupid during the early primary season. Look at the reasons they counted out some other solidly conservative candidates:
Duncan Hunter: Nah. Can't win.
Fred Thompson: Not enough "fire in the belly"
Mitt Romney: Too pretty. Too Mormon.
None of the objections to any of these three had a thing to do with policies or principle. IN fact, conservatives had graet things to say about each of these guys, based on their ideas on government and taxes and health care and foreign policy. Every single one of them was stronger on each issue than John McCain.
But we conservatives decided to act like Democrats and vote style and election games over substance and the ability to clearly spell out why those policies are better for our country and for us as individuals.
Now we're left with the dregs and Republicans are smiling all the way to irrelevance.
All right, that's not fair! The reality is McCain was almost wiped out at one point. So while conservatives were not too excited about the others, I think those of us actively following the campaigns were ready to accept any one of the 3 early front runners. If McCain had gained ground sooner & looked like he was going to be a contender, I think you would have seen the base get motivated real quick to block that. But unfortunately, it came to late.
What kind of makes me mad is that as soon as he became the nominee, so many staunch conservatives just jumped on & started demanding that the rest of grow up, suck it up and get behind the candidate. I don't see why we needed to get behind him 2 months ago when the election is still nearly 7 months away. You would think they could hold out a little & try to scare McCain onto the right path. But no, they laid down faster than Paris Hilton.
Spineless R's laid down faster than Paris Hilton….great line. John McCain knows the RINO Party better than we think, he has sized them up as a bunch of Crybaby Sissies.
That really was a good line, Lori.
You're right. Johnny Mac was almost out at one point. He would have remained out had conversatives gotten behind *any* conservative candidate instead of tearing them all down for what amounted to trivial, and often untrue, reasons.
McCain was pretty much all that was left to keep going. Good on him for sticking around and watching conversative knuckleheadedness create the opening he needed to win the nomination. Shame on conservatives for being so silly.
This is off-subject. But it's amazing. And my opinion of Mitt Romney just went way up.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGJlNWNmNzA5…
Amen, brother
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