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1. #1
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:14 pm, uhangtight said:

   do you think the media will bring this news to us? i haven’t heard one thing about this booing. no, according to the media, mcpain is a darling loved by all repubs and the front runner!!

   can’t sell that if they bring the news to us, or has mcpain would say ‘just the straight forward facts’..right..

2. #2
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

   Soft on it? I thought McCain was upset that so many people were dying in his Arizona desert that something needed to be done? How could he possibly favor an open border?

   My question for the open borders crowd is this: What about all of the people who are snuck in here AGAINST their will? You’re all so concerned about the welfare of your fellow person, yet you don’t seem to get that many people are lured or kidnapped here! America may be the greatest country in the world, but not EVERYONE wants to come here.

3. #3
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, tgillian said:

   We’ve GOT to stop this McCain madness. Voters in Michigan; please vote for Thompson or Mitt.

4. #4
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, tre said:

   BOOOOOOOOOOO McCain!

   G

5. #5
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, tre said:

   GO FRED THOMPSON!!!!

6. #6
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, yt1300inHtown said:

   They were saying Boooo-urns.

7. #7
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm, walterc said:

   Voters of Michigan, do what the Daily Kos suggests and vote Mitt.

8. #8
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, Timothy S. Carlson said:

   Okay, everybody .. 1..2..3..

   BOOOOOOOOOOO JOHN MCCAIN

   And to the people who booed Mr. McShamnesty:

   YAY!!!

   John McCain – por El Presidente ’08

9. #9
   On January 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, fred5676 said:

   I am gratified they heard me all the way from the west coast.

   McCain – tell me how your policies would change THIS.

   McShamnesty and his buddy Grahamnesty call me a bigot, while they and their ilk promote policies that lead to brothels for illegal aliens in the suburbs of San Diego.

   How about a little LAW ENFORCEMENT?

10. #10
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, madchef said:

    “If you like, I will leave,” McCain told the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department, pivoting briefly from the lectern.

    Please do! And crawl back into that hole you share with Ted Kennedy!

11. #11
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:33 pm, nraendowment said:

    McCain displayed his contempt for the people of this country with his behavior during the McAmnesty debacle last summer by throwing insults and slurs at anyone who disagreed with his open-borders obsession. I have not forgotten and under no circumstances will I vote for this megalomaniac. I’m sticking with Fred Thompson all the way, win or lose.

12. #12
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Timothy S. Carlson said:

    Is McCain going to carry his own state (Arizona) in the primaries? I haven’t seen him round town lately. I know if he does show up, I will be there booing him.

    Hey John – I had a stroke and currently unemployed. I could certainly use one of those $50/hr lettuce picking jobs you talked about last year.

13. #13
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, fred5676 said:

    McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. “You can’t do it, my friends.”

    This is an AMERICAN?

    This is a presidential CANDIDATE?

    Who the he11 is voting for this sad excuse of a “patriot”?

    His good will from his military service and POW time have been used up, my friends.

14. #14
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, right_on said:

    I am concerned, and have been, about McCain’s judgement. How did his stay in the Hanoi Hilton, the torture he endured, and the isolation while captive effect his judgement, and thought processes? Is he the only POW/prisoner not negatively effected by the experience? Something is not right here…

15. #15
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm, jukin said:

    Open borders.

    Limited free speach.

    Against tax cuts.

    Ability to get ‘things’ done with democrats.

    Other than that He’s my man.

16. #16
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm, jukin said:

    oops speech.

17. #17
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    McLame got what he deserved, he of vacillating platform, weak vision and principle.

18. #18
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, Salt said:

    I cannot wrap my head around the dichotomy of being strong on defense but still refusing to secure the border.

    Isn’t this a function or our military?

    Granted, I know that we cannot simply station the army at the border with orders to shoot, but… Just because it’s a silent invasion doesn’t mean that it’s not an invasion. Subversion by population is a scary thought. It will be too late once the sleepers to this threat wake up.

19. #19
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, Salt said:

    Would McCain walk away from addressing Congress because someone boo’d him there, too?

    Or is it just potential constituents that McCain disdains?

20. #20
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, madchef said:

    McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

    First it’s Not that they do jobs Americans won’t, It’s that they work for a WAGE that most Americans can’t, thus making wages lower on all blue collar jobs.
    Secondly, do they even grow lettuce in Arizona?

    Third, if farmers need cheap labor, let’s make the people in our prisons work in the fields (non-violent ones)to play for the cost of housing them. If they put in a hard days work they would be too tired to fight with each other.
    and they would probably like the fresh air.

21. #21
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, tre said:

    #12 Timothy S. Carlson

    I’d like one of those $50/hour lettuce picking jobs he mentioned, too.
    I have a Bachelor’s Degree, work as an electronic technician, and don’t make even close to that much.
    McCain told those union men they couldn’t do it, but I was raised on a farm in rural Oklahoma. I hauled hay in the hot sun all day for my dad for nothing. I’ve driven a tractor all day in the hot sun. Picking lettuce would be simple.

22. #22
    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pm, Mark Jaquith said:

    As horrible as McCain’s immigration views are, the nativism of these AFL-CIO socialists isn’t any better. They want jobs they don’t deserve at wages the employer doesn’t want to pay.

    Murmurs from the crowd turned to booing. “Pay a decent wage!” one audience member shouted.

    The only “decent” wage is the one that the employer and the employee agree upon, without coercion. The concept that for a certain job there is an objective “decent wage” or “fair wage” or “living wage” that can be determined through any process other than the market forces of labor is socialist propaganda, and utter hogwash.

23. #23
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:01 pm, fred5676 said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, Salt said:
    I cannot wrap my head around the dichotomy of being strong on defense but still refusing to secure the border….

    Exactly. Seems we ought to worry about an immediate and on-going invasion as much as terrorists.

    And is he also racist, implying a racial superiority for (presumably) Mexican/Hispanic/Latino laborers? If not, what is the difference between ‘you, my friends’ and illegals?

    United States Constitution, Article IV Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion;

24. #24
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Maybe this is the beginning of the end for McCan’t?

    We can only hope.

25. #25
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm, walterc said:

    I heard him say during the debate the other night that he would get the governors of the border states to certify that the border is secure.

    Isn’t it the function of the Ferderal Government to secure the border? Is it not the Federal Government and not the border state Governors that control the funding for border security? Is it not the U.S. Congress (with the help of DHS and the White House) that recently cut funding for and requirements of the border fence?

    So when President Mcshamnesty asks Governor Arnold if the border is secure, Governor Arnold will say “well Mr. President, all except for the part next to Mexico. We’re still waiting on Homeland Security to build the fence and parole some of the agents that Johnny Sutton has incarcerated.”

    So do the right thing Michigan, vote “NO” to McShamnesty.

26. #26
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

    Hey…how about some real cheap labor?

    Inmate labor.

    Let them find out what “character building” is all about for a change, instead of sitting around, watching TV and lifting weights. Perhaps the work ethic for a change will do some good.

27. #27
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm, FloridaBill said:

    fred5676

    WOW, Great link!

    If local gov’t isn’t willing to work to remove that shanty town, I wonder if those residents living near it couldn’t pressure the owners of the land? Or file suit against them for diminishing their property values (or something similar).

    I wonder if that homeowne has called ICE to see if they can do anything?

28. #28
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pm, Salt said:

    BlameAmericaLast said:

    Hey…how about some real cheap labor?

    Inmate labor.

    Great suggestion. Whatever happened to the chain gangs? Do any states still do this?

29. #29
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm, Marshall Russ said:

    This was my posting on another thread this morning. It needs to be repeated.

    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am, Marshall Russ said:

    What I don’t get is this. It’s one thing to be saddled with a problem that the Feds ignored like Illegal Immigration. And to the extent Mitt, Mike, and Rudy had to deal with it, they get a little bit of a pass. McCain was working with Teddy, to the horror of not only Republicans and Independents but, many Democrats to grant amnesty to millions of illegals. Where is the outrage?
    When this was being shoved down the throat of the American people we shut down the phone system in Congress. E-mail addresses were flooded with angry letters. We were called racist and short sighted and insulted by many Senators but, they had to listen and the legislation was defeated. Why is McCain getting so much support from the people that he insulted in anger and whose lives would be immediately and negatively impacted? I believe that if elected he would sign the bill the liberal congress would send up that he helped craft. Maybe I am missing something but, I don’t get it. And yes, the primary system needs a complete over haul.

30. #30
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:16 pm, fred5676 said:

    “[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” shouted McCain at Cornyn.

    Does McCain mean THIS?

    And THIS? (left-hand news column)

    Evidently not.

31. #31
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:17 pm, Papa Louie said:

    …tougher border enforcement must be accompanied by guest-worker provisions that give illegal immigrants a legal path toward citizenship.

    McCain and Kennedy have been promising to close the borders since at least 1986. In all the years McCain has been a senior member of the senate, he has done nothing to close the borders. He even admits that his own state has the most porous border. Yet, we are supposed to believe he is going to do something about the borders now, if he becomes President?

    Suppose you came back from vacation to find that someone broke into your house and moved in while you were away. Are you going to allow them to live in the guest room while you arrange to adopt them because you’re convinced they only did it to obtain a better life? That makes just as much sense as saying we must give citizenship to those who broke into our country. If we give it to anyone, I would rather give it to those who respected our laws and remained in their own country while they applied legally to come here.

    If we need a guest-worker program, why can’t we just provide work permits to those who want to come here to work? Why must a “path to citizenship” be part of the equation? In other words, why must we reward those who broke our laws with a path to citizenship that we never promised them and that they never applied for in the first place? Can a McCain supporter or anyone else please explain that to me?

32. #32
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pm, unclemonkey said:

    Third, if farmers need cheap labor, let’s make the people in our prisons work in the fields (non-violent ones)to play for the cost of housing them. If they put in a hard days work they would be too tired to fight with each other.
    and they would probably like the fresh air.

    I was thinking the same thing just last night. The problem here is that we’re using logic and common sense, two things most politicians(on either side sadly)don’t possess.

33. #33
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, fred5676 said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm, FloridaBill said:
    fred5676

    WOW, Great link!

    Thanks. Enjoy more links.

    I cannnot understand how McCain is polling so well. An uninformed electorate is the only reason.

34. #34
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, twoninerkilo said:

    Salt #18, Why can’t we station troops on the border, with orders to shoot to kill? Better yet, build an 18 ft. wall then put a 5000 volt wire on top of it; let’s see how many 21 ft. ladders light up before they take the hint.

35. #35
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, Speakup said:

    Its time for the McCain mutiny!

    Time to up Huck the Shuckabee spew too.

36. #36
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, Boomer said:

    Good to hear the hard working folks of liberal Michigan have had it with the illegal invasion too. McCain is going to go down in flames due to his stance on trying to stuff illegal immigration down our throats. I’ll be booing him if he every shows his face anywhere close to Boise, ID. Many of us have not forgotten and will not forgive his attempted sell out of our national sovereignty.

37. #37
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm, Salt said:

    Excellent reference, fred5676. I fear that the ‘elite’ would debate the meaning of the word ‘invasion’ to mean that the illegals would have to be firing guns as they crossed.

38. #38
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm, hatelibs said:

    For McCain….simply OUCH!! Hey John, why not head to Maryland and congratulate the Gov. for offering driver’s licenses to illegals? You two should get along very well.

39. #39
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:30 pm, SheetAnchor said:

    According to the latest Rasmussen poll in South Carolina, Senator Fred Thompson is surging, now in a statistical 2nd place behind Senator McCain.

    Monday, January 14, 2008

    “Over the past several days, the only real movement in South Carolina’s Republican Presidential Primary has been a four-point gain for Fred Thompson and a five-point decline for Mike Huckabee.”

    South Carolina GOP Primary:

    McCain 28%
    Huckabee 19%
    Romney 17%
    Thompson 16%

40. #40
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm, Salt said:

    twoninerkilo said:

    Salt #18, Why can’t we station troops on the border, with orders to shoot to kill? Better yet, build an 18 ft. wall then put a 5000 volt wire on top of it; let’s see how many 21 ft. ladders light up before they take the hint.

    I hear ya, but it would be a bit tough on our military to be shooting at what would normally be considered non-combatants, no?

    I’m all for a wall. I’d even go for painful, but non-lethal measures (e.g. razor wire). I believe we can find an answer that doesn’t make us look brutal.

    Punishing businesses that employ illegal immigrants seems to be an even better way. If there is nothing for them to obtain here because no one is willing to take the risk, they won’t come. That doesn’t seem all that complicated: No reward means you don’t take the risk.

    Instead, we’re finding ways to add additional benefits to their behavior (e.g. college tuition benefits, drivers licenses, insurance, etc). Common sense is in sparse supply in D.C. I would expect better from someone looking for the Republican vote.

41. #41
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:36 pm, fred5676 said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm, Salt said:
    …
    illegals would have to be firing guns as they crossed.

    They are. At least carrying and aiming.

    More.

    If you want more examples, Google “armed incursions border”.

    My blood pressure has gone up 20 pts. I’m outta here.

42. #42
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm, gridlock said:

    But they began spreading wild rumours about falling in the polls, and then “Old Yellowstain”. I was to blame for Thompson’s incompetence.

    Thompson was the perfect candidate, but not McCain… But the Michigan Primary, that’s where I had them. I proved with geometric logic that I was going to win in Michigan.

    I could have produced that victory, but they were protecting some candidate … Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory. If I’ve left anything out, just ask me specific questions – and I’ll be glad to answer them one by one.

43. #43
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm, mngirl said:

    Third, if farmers need cheap labor, let’s make the people in our prisons work in the fields (non-violent ones)to play for the cost of housing them. If they put in a hard days work they would be too tired to fight with each other.
    and they would probably like the fresh air.

    Ooooohhhhh…..I LOVE this one. And they’d already be experienced too, isn’t 20% of our prison population illegal?

44. #44
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pm, FloridaBill said:

    fred5676

    Thanks for the other great links!

45. #45
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm, Azygos said:

    Tim,

    Well if you get two tickets to one of his $1500 dollar a plate dinners let me know I’ll go with you. Of course there is no way I will ever have that kind of money to throw in the sewer.

    And Yes, we do have male and female chain gangs here in Maricopa County. Sheriff Joe runs them. A few years ago the press interviewed some of the participants and they all liked the idea because it got them out of the jail and gave them something to do.

46. #46
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm, trinitytim said:

    Hey, what are you all complaining about. I’m stuck with the other half of the McCain/Graham shamnesty team. Anyone that teams up with Chapaquitted Kennedy to give amnesty to illegals is a traitor and a coward.

    Mr. Graham and I had this same discussion via email a few months ago and now he claims to have seen the light and opposes amnesty. Yeah right??? Next thing you know, they’ll be trying to sell us on installing loudspeakers on every corner so that we can hear the muslim call to prayer.

    Pay attention boys, and no that’s not a typo, build the stinkin fence and enforce the laws we have now. Got it??

47. #47
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pm, Salt said:

    fred5676 said:

    They are. At least carrying and aiming.

    More.

    If you want more examples, Google “armed incursions border”.

    My blood pressure has gone up 20 pts. I’m outta here.

    oops… yeah, I knew about those incidents but wasn’t thinking about them when I posted. A great point. Thanks, fred5676.

    Fair ’nuff. Revised thinking: Army mans the walls with simple RoE on warning then firing. No complexities on how, when, and why to fire that will later allow anyone to incriminate them.

48. #48
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm, mdt said:

    Folks

    We will not get the truth about McCain out to the wider community via this emphasis on ‘amnesty’. McCain simply changed the definition of amnesty (it’s not one since illegals have to pay some fine and learn english to get the reward of a green card, sure that’s really painful, ask the legal immigrants).

    http://numbersusa.com/actionalerts

    Use words like REWARD instead of amnesty.

49. #49
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm, graysonret said:

    I can’t vote for McCain. His immigration ideas stink. But the worst is the McCain-Feigold act that stripped away the 1st amendment right of free speech, so incumbents could have little competition. Because of the M/F act, “Hillarythemovie” can’t be advertised. I haven’t seen it (anyone?) but the cast looks good:
    http://www.hillarythemovie.com/

50. #50
    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm, John Ansell said:

    I thought they were screaming “HSU”.

51. #51
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm, tacodawn said:

    In addition to McCain’s flagrant, hands over ears and eyes regarding illegals I don’t like his comments on jobs never returning to Michigan in the auto industry!

    That seems un-American to me and completely defeatist.

52. #52
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm, Azygos said:

    Ooooohhhhh…..I LOVE this one. And they’d already be experienced too, isn’t 20% of our prison population illegal?

    More like 27% here in Arizona Mexifornia

53. #53
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:11 pm, amigoneus said:

    graysonret #49 -

    I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Next time please warn us that such an awful image is linked in your post.

    /sarc – well, not quite sarc, but just feeling ill now.

54. #54
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm, Stubby said:

    McCain is a desperate old man. He lies about the amnesty intent in the “Comprehensive Immigration” bill he sponsored, and he will never follow through with securing the borders. He participated willingly in the back room antics to push shamnesty down our throats. Does he have any memory left at all? Didn’t he hear the American citizenry shout out? How sad for us if he retains any influence at all after the election.

55. #55
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm, JohnnyDilznik said:

    Interesting how he uses the ” tear jerker” example of a serving military person. What about the rest of the dirt-bags? This one example is small compared to the problem.

56. #56
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm, omnipotent said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, yt1300inHtown said:
    They were saying Boooo-urns.

    That, my friend, was comedy gold…..even if I’m the only one who seems to get the reference.

57. #57
    On January 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm, fred5676 said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm, mdt said:
    Folks

    We will not get the truth about McCain out to the wider community via this emphasis on ‘amnesty’. McCain simply changed the definition of amnesty (it’s not one since illegals have to pay some fine and learn english to get the reward of a green card, sure that’s really painful, ask the legal immigrants).

    http://numbersusa.com/actionalerts

    Use words like REWARD instead of amnesty.

    EXACTLY!

    This “amnesty” argument is driving me crazy! I almost threw a brick at my TV during the debate when Thompson and Romney could not frame the debate as follows:

    Amnesty is forgiveness for past misdeeds. If you charge a fine or demand jail time, it is not amnesty. “Shamnesty” is MUCH WORSE – it is is a package of REWARDS and BRIBES. Come, let us use some logic:

    Imagine a burglar who has stolen $5000 of your favorite power tools and your wife’s jewelry. At trial the judge gives him amnesty – no jail time and no fine. BUT THE JUDGE WILL CERTAINLY NOT LET THE BURGLAR KEEP THE TOOLS AND JEWELS!

    McCain, Guliani, Huckabee, Bush, Kennedy, et al, all want to give your jewelry and your husband’s power tools to the illegal aliens. Very simple. And outrageous.

    And can you honestly say that these two scenarios are different?

    1. An (about to be) illegal alien bribes a BP agent to get into our country – cost: $3000

    2. An illegal alien is allowed to stay in country by paying a $3000 fine BRIBE.

    As Thompson (and Romney and Hunter) says, “Ya gotta go home!”

58. #58
    On January 14th, 2008 at 6:10 pm, thirteen28 said:

    “OK, then please give me the courtesy I would give you.”

    Senator McVain, I’ll give you the same courtesy you gave Senator Cornyn during the amensty debate:

    Go f— yourself.

59. #59
    On January 14th, 2008 at 6:12 pm, SheetAnchor said:

    From NRO:

    Fred Thompson: Liftoff? [Peter Robinson]

    All eyes are naturally enough on the Michigan primary tomorrow—all eyes, that is, except mine, Jonathan Adler’s, and those belonging to readers of this happy Corner who have been wondering, with Jonathan and me, when the polls would begin to move in Fred Thompson’s direction in South Carolina. Now, Rasmussen reports, they have. Fred ain’t dead. Lately, the South Carolina debate would suggest, he ain’t even drowsy.

    Which brings me to a question. Earlier today I talked with an old friend who’s close to the Thompson campaign. At every Thompson campaign stop in South Carolina, he told me, there is something new: real excitement. The crowds are big and growing by the day—for the first time, people are being turned away from Thompson events because they’re already full. The state troopers are showing that special deference and respect they reserve for candidates whom they actually suspect will soon become the commander in chief. And Thompson himself is pointed, energetic, combative. In other words, the campaign feels as though its achieving liftoff.

60. #60
    On January 14th, 2008 at 6:25 pm, fred5676 said:

    If I hear that crapola of “I won’t call that soldier in Iraq and tell him I’m going to deport his mother …” just one more time I am going to need more than Metamucil after the severe indigestion/diarrhea that I will be suffering.

    Epicac might help.

61. #61
    On January 14th, 2008 at 6:54 pm, CarpiJugulum said:

    I said this four years ago. McCan’t is a closet socialist. Now he is coming out of the closet and proving it.

    The reason he is polling so well is where the polls are being conducted. Any one can sample any area and extrapolate the answer they want.

    Liberals would love McCan’t as President. He serves their causes. One has got to look past his military record and see his voteing record and exactly where he stands or sits.

    The MSM is pushing the spin on McCain and the left. It is a big race to see how fast they can sell this country out.

62. #62
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm, omnipotent said:

    “The evangelical preacher isn’t working boss!”

    - “Then throw the ‘Old Man’ at them”

63. #63
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    I can only hope that McCain is not the Republican Presidential candidate. The liberal press is pushing him now to damage the Republicans — and then they will attack without mercy if and when he is the Republican candidate to make sure Hillary gets the votes needed to make her President.

    McCain is a loose cannon on the deck of the Republican ship. About the only reason he gets any credibility within the party is because of his heroism in withstanding the torture in Vietnam. He is far too close in philosophy to left-wing socialist politicians like Feingold and Kennedy, and even Lieberman (who he would probably pick to be his VP in a spirit on non-partisanship). Frankly, there is little to choose from between Hillary and McCain. I would probably sit this one out and let the country get a real black eye for picking one of these two power hungry monsters.

64. #64
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:36 pm, Alphonse said:

    Jose McCain and Jorge Bush are among the corrupt, unpatriotic Washington SOB’s who are bringing in illegals, so it’s really their job to call up jackpot babies and illegal aliens serving in the military in Iraq and tell them humanely that their mothers are being deported. We didn’t bring them in, Jorge and Jose did.

65. #65
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm, davenp35 said:

    Put a stop to Huckabigot and McAmnesty…Vote Romney!

66. #66
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm, zorro said:

    McCain is such a politician (that’s a slur). On the subject of immigration, I wouldn’t believe him even if he were standing on a stack of Bibles.

67. #67
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    Marshall, Post 29:

    I think we’re seeing the media coddle McCain the same way they did Huckabee the same way they did Dole; they percieve someone who Hillary will eat for lunch with their complicit assistance, so they give these kinds of guys a pass right up until the day they get the Republican nomination, they they tear them to pieces with every bit of dirt they can find – and the Republicans lose.

    “If you like, I will leave,” McCain told the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department

    One word: unpresidential.

68. #68
    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pm, Barry F. said:

    …union leaders who booed his immigration views…

    …drew cheers and jeers from an audience of over 500 conservative activists…

    I’m glad to see that McCain got the sort of welcome that he deserves, at least part of the time.

69. #69
    On January 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pm, John Ansell said:

    Hey Mcslain, Yes, I would like you to leave and please take Julia Annie with you.

70. #70
    On January 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, mnmike said:

    Viva McCain!!

    Viva Hemorrhoids!!

71. #71
    On January 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, flenser said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pm, Mark Jaquith said:

    The only “decent” wage is the one that the employer and the employee agree upon, without coercion. The concept that for a certain job there is an objective “decent wage” or “fair wage” or “living wage” that can be determined through any process other than the market forces of labor is socialist propaganda, and utter hogwash.

    You need to tell this to John McCain and his supporters, because they are quite convinced that they know what the “correct” wage is for doing all sorts of jobs, and that it is the role of government to adjust the immigration flood-gates in order to get that “correct” wage.

72. #72
    On January 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm, flenser said:

    “If you like, I will leave,” McCain told the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department

    In God’s name, go!

73. #73
    On January 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm, SheetAnchor said:

    Interesting Senator Thompson report in South Carolina:

    http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/14/fred-thompson-tied-for-second-launches-a-new-ad-in-sc/

74. #74
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Ho-hum, McCain…

    Like he matters, the MSM props him up.

    After Super Tuesday, none of this matters.

75. #75
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm, Ombre Rose said:

    How can you stop the McCain madness by voting for his big butt buddy, FRED???

    DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

    If you want to stop the madness, vote for DUNCAN HUNTER or Mitt!!!

76. #76
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm, Ombre Rose said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm, davenp35 said:
    Put a stop to Huckabigot and McAmnesty…Vote Romney!

    ABSOLUTELY!

    AND DUNCAN HUNTER!!!!

    Flush McCain and Huckleberry, and Julie

77. #77
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm, Ombre Rose said:

    I cannnot understand how McCain is polling so well. An uninformed electorate is the only reason.

    You forget – the only way he won his last SENATE RE-ELECTION was with DIM CROSSOVER VOTING.
    and for that, and other highly offensive Liberal actions on his part, the Arizona GOP caucus UNANIMOUSLY CENSURED McCain.

    That wasn’t some “Christian” chapter or coalition, it was the ARIZONA REPUBLICANS.

    They don’t have any use for him and his lying ways – why should the rest of us?

78. #78
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm, Ombre Rose said:

    On January 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, right_on said:
    I am concerned, and have been, about McCain’s judgement.

    It appears the real reason for McCain-Feingold-THOMPSON was to put the quietus on the Ted Sampley report of McCain’s Vietnam conduct.

    Ain’t it a shame it ain’t politically correct for a former POW’s genuine record to receive fresh air and daylight!

    What a great friend that McCain has in Fred Thompson, former Watergate prosecutor. Gee what would we have all done if not for Fred chairing that Senate Committee to investigate the CHINESE DONATIONS to the CLINTON CAMPAIGN FUNDS.[/sarc]

79. #79
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm, rightisright said:

    SheetAnchor tks…love to see his ads…he looks, appears and sounds honest..go my vote.

80. #80
    On January 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm, madchef said:

    Besides all the immigration lies that McCain spews, The line that “the jobs have left Michigan and will never return”,Burns me up. What a defeatist attitude that is. Leaders are elected to solve problems I always though. Heck, how about manufacturing things in the good ol’ U.S.A again. I’m tired of seeing made in China on every thing I buy.

81. #81
    On January 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm, Django said:

    The RINO’s and the media want the race declared for McCain right now. They’re lobbying hard.

82. #82
    On January 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, dukebedevilment said:

    Conservatives need Romney to win in Michigan tomorrow.

    VOTE!!!

83. #83
    On January 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm, MarcTheInfidel said:

    I have been talking about McCain’s temper and ire towards the people he disagrees with for a long time. Will someone finally listen?

    In 1992, and there is video footage of it which I will try to get, he brought the sister of a missing airmen to tears. He was yelling over her calling her and others who believed that the government wasn’t doing enough to find those men who were still missing names. Teeth clenched, fist raised, face red … Our Next President?

    He claims the utmost respect for those who were held with him, but for those families less fortunate than his, he has no respect, decency or sympathy.

    If anyone thinks that his POW status alone is enough to put him in the White House – I would highly recommend that you take your blinders off ..Soon!

    If he can’t control himself with cameras rolling during a Senate Select Committee, what will be he like when cameras aren’t rolling in the Situation Room?

84. #84
    On January 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm, Bhishma said:

    McCain has used his service to screw Republicans and Americans any which way he could. Look how blatently he turns the illegal immigrants into a ‘I’m not going to call a serviceman in Iraq to tell him his mother is being deported.’ Ofcourse, nothing about Americans being raped by his illegal-immigrants.
    Think about this smooth-talking traitor!

85. #85
    On January 15th, 2008 at 1:21 am, Andy said:

    right_on @ #14:
    

    I am concerned, and have been, about McCain’s judgement. How did his stay in the Hanoi Hilton, the torture he endured, and the isolation while captive effect his judgement, and thought processes? Is he the only POW/prisoner not negatively effected by the experience? Something is not right here…

    Manchurian Candidate? Krushev always claimed that we’d fall from the inside.

    Indeed, John has totally used up all his immunity points as war hero. Sad to see the fall from grace.

    At the root of all this, I’m not clear on how his role in the Keating 5 caused him to be the crusader of anti-corruption. Ironically, he may be be “uncorrupted” by money, but certainly corrupted by power. Anyone clue me in?

86. #86
    On January 15th, 2008 at 1:36 am, Bogtrotter said:

    I really loved that Not going to deport a soldiars mother tactic. LOL! Brillant! A savvy trick, the melding of military and shamnesty. As if he was saying “Now if you boo me it will seem as if you are against our men and women in uniform.” Out of the millions and millions of illegals in the country I am willing to bet the percentage who have a son or daughter in the service is kind of small. He better hope he becomes president, ’cause here in Arizona we are getting quite fed up with him, and his future in the Senate is looking less and less likely.

87. #87
    On January 15th, 2008 at 2:08 am, SheetAnchor said:

    Since January 4th, the Senator Fred Thompson campaign has raised over $1.036 million dollars, or approximately $100,000 per day.

88. #88
    On January 15th, 2008 at 2:22 am, Bhishma said:

    Americans can’t see it but yake away his service record and McCain is another Traitor Teddy.

89. #89
    On January 15th, 2008 at 6:33 am, AuntiEm said:

    Mary Jo Kopechne’s mother died here in the Poconos last month.No MSM coverage.

    Gwen L. Kopechne
    December 20, 2007
    January 10, 2008 6:00 AM
    Gwen L. Kopechne, 89, of East Stroudsburg, died on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Valley Crest Nursing Home in Wilkes-Barre.

    Born on June 8, 1918, in Edwardsville, she was the daughter of Marie and William Jennings.

    She was raised in the Wilkes-Barre area and was married to Joseph Kopechne for more than 60 years.

    She and Joe lived in New Jersey for many years, then in 1973 they moved back to Pennsylvania and lived in Laurel Springs in Swiftwater for 28 years until they moved to East Stroudsburg. Joe died in 2003.

    She was a homemaker throughout her life and much loved by many relatives and friends.

    Gwen and Joe’s only child, MaryJo Kopechne, predeceased her in 1969.

    She is survived by many nieces and nephews.

    A memorial mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at All Saints Church on Willow St., Plymouth.