Open borders + campaign finance hypocrisy + eco-radicalism = McCain’s billionaire national finance co-chair Jerry Perenchio
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Meet Jerry Perenchio. He’s a National Finance Co-Chair of the McCain 2008 campaign and the billionaire founder of Spanish-language media conglomerate, Univision. He also heads up a charitable foundation that has showered gobs of money on extremist green lobbying groups. Take open-borders zeal, add campaign finance hypocrisy, mix with eco-radicalism, and presto:
The perfect, multiculti-profiteering McCain money buddy.
Here’s his official bio on the McCain website:
Since 1992, A. Jerrold Perenchio has been the chairman and chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of Univision Communications Inc., the largest Spanish-language communications company in the United States. From 1973 until the partners sold the company to Coca-Cola in 1985, Mr. Perenchio was a partner and chief executive officer of Tandem Productions and T.A.T. Communications and a partner of Norman Lear and Alan D. Yorkin. Following his graduation from UCLA, Mr. Perenchio served three years in the United States Air Force as an officer and pilot. After his Air Force service, Mr. Perenchio started his business career as a talent agent, first with Music Corporation of America then formed his own company, Chartwell Artists, which was the fifth largest talent agency in the world representing such stars as Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Andy Williams, Elton John, Johnny Mathis, as well as many others. Mr. Perenchio is currently a trustee of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and chaired the $200 million fundraising effort for the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in west Los Angeles. Mr. Perenchio has been a lifelong Republican and was a major contributor and fundraiser for George W. Bush, as well as other candidates of the Republican Party.
Now, let’s review what the McCain campaign bio didn’t mention.
Jerry Perenchio is the man who poured millions of dollars into fighting the California movement to teach schoolchildren English. Does John McCain share Perenchio’s zealous opposition to pro-English immersion initiatives? If he doesn’t, why does he have the nation’s leading opponent of pro-English immersion initiatives serving in the prestigious position of national campaign finance co-chair?
Perenchio aggressively bankrolled opposition to Prop. 227, which dismantled “bilingual education”–the oxymoronic program that holds foreign-language-speaking students hostage and forces them to maintain their native tongues instead of transitioning to English as quickly as possible–in 1998. He donated millions directly to the opponents and also donated millions of dollars in anti-227 “public service announcements” on Univision railing that “The dreams of millions of Hispanic families are being destroyed.” Despite Perenchio’s massive campaign to prop up language segregationism, the pro-English Prop. 227 won in a landslide:
Overcoming huge opposition, Proposition 227, the “English for the Children” initiative, won a landslide 61% victory at the polls. The measure dismantling California’s 30-year-old system of bilingual education for limited English children had consistently demonstrated widespread public appeal during its yearlong campaign, and was able to sustain that support against powerful political opposition by election day..
“We overcame enormous odds to win this victory,” declared Ron Unz, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who chaired the 227 campaign. “Our initiative was opposed by the President of the United States. It was opposed by the Chairman of the state Republican Party and the Chairman of the state Democratic Party. It was opposed by all four candidates for Governor, Democrat and Republican alike. It was opposed by nearly all the state’s major newspapers and virtually every educational organization, large union, and establishment group. Our only strong support came from the people of California, but that was enough for victory.”
In the final weeks of the campaign, Republican billionaire A. Jerrold Perenchio, owner of the Univision Spanish-language television network, provided millions of dollars in cash and free air-time to the No on 227 campaign, which overall outspent the Yes campaign by a ratio of 20 to 1 in advertising. Despite this financial mismatch Proposition 227 passed by one of the widest margins in recent history, winning a larger percentage of the vote than any contested initiative since Proposition 13 in 1978.
Election results show that the measure carried 56 of California’s 58 counties. Campaign finance reports indicate that the Yes campaign spent about $550,000 (excluding signature-gathering costs), of which some $200,000 was spent on advertising, while the No campaign raised and spent $4.5 million, including nearly $4 million on advertising and voter contact. In addition, Mr. Perenchio’s television network provided an estimated $1 to 2 million in free air time for anti-227 editorials.
Perenchio also donated to opponents of Prop. 187, the California measure banning social services to illegal aliens. And he has given money to many soft-on-illegal immigration Democrats. In fact, before jumping ship to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign, he was the largest individual campaign donor to Gray Davis–contributing at least $500,000 to the liberal Democrat. When voters demanded Davis’s recall after he pushed driver’s licenses for illegal aliens (among other failed policies), Perenchio chipped in another $50,000 to help Davis supporters fend off the measure. He also gave generously to Bill Richardson’s campaigns–$100,000 from him another $50,000 from his wife for the New Mexico Democrat governor’s failed presidential bid last year, plus about $167,000 from Perenchio and one of his companies to Richardson’s 2002 campaign.
Perenchio plays both sides.
And so does McCain. As the Washington Post reported last February, Perenchio is one of the elite donors McCain signed up to his presidential campaign finance committee–after crusading against Perenchio’s soft-money contributions:
Just about a year and a half ago, Sen. John McCain went to court to try to curtail the influence of a group to which A. Jerrold Perenchio gave $9 million, saying it was trying to “evade and violate” new campaign laws with voter ads ahead of the midterm elections.
As McCain launches his own presidential campaign, however, he is counting on Perenchio, the founder of the Univision Spanish-language media empire, to raise millions of dollars as co-chairman of the Arizona Republican’s national finance committee.
…Many of the top fundraisers that have signed up for John McCain’s presidential campaign have deep ties to the “soft-money” donations to political parties and 527 nonprofit political groups that McCain has fought to end.
SOFT-MONEY DONATIONS SINCE THE 1998 ELECTION
A. Jerrold Perenchio, chairman of the Spanish-language media giant Univision and a McCain national finance co-chairman: $11.3 million
Perenchio is also the president of the Chartwell Foundation. The Chartwell Foundation gave $100,000 to the McCain-founded Reform Institute (where McCain’s open borders Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez happens to serve as a Senior Fellow) under shady circumstances. As the WaPo noted, McCain co-chaired the Reform Institute in his drive to end big-money donations–while at the same time chairing the Senate Commerce Committee, which regulates broadcasters including Perenchio’s Univision, which had many issues pending before the government. Many other donors to the Reform Institute similarly sought legislative favors from McCain.
Yep. I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with schmypocrite.
With a green tint, to boot.
The Chartwell Foundation, turns out, is a major funder of fear-mongering environmental groups:
Funding To Activist Groups Total Donated Time Frame
Natural Resources Defense Council $90,000.00 1995 – 1999
Environmental Media Association $30,000.00 1997 – 2000
American Oceans Campaign $25,000.00 1996 – 1996
Not to mention a generous donor to Planned Parenthood and open-borders L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Remind me again which party’s presidential nomination John McCain is running for?
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Update: Karl at Protein Wisdom compiles a long list of Jerry Perenchio’s Democrat beneficiaries.
Update: The New York Times roots for McCain and his “moderate” views on immigration. Three GOP polls in Florida show it too close to call in Florida. John Fund spotlights McCain’s criticism of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito for wearing his conservatism on his sleeve. John McCain, on the other hand, prefers to wear his conservatism where the sun don’t shine. Juan Hernandez and Jerry Perenchio? Si! Sam Alito? No!
Update: Mark Krikorian puts heat on Juan Hernandez.
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While I respect Mr. McCain for his service to our country, there is no way on God’s green earth I would vote for him if he wins the nomination!
Very Interesting Michelle. The more I find about McCain, the more I dislike him.
See, I am not a North American Union conspiracy guy, but a McCain presidency would make it look more plausible.
I have changed my position on voting for McCain over a democrat. I will vote for a democrat for the first time in my life if McCain or Rudy get the nod. At least with a Democrat President, the Republicans might fight liberalism instead of just giving in.
Well ain’t that special. No wonder the MSM wants McCan’t as the nominee. He’s just like one of them!
More proof that McCain is a clear and present danger to the future of the United States.
He is staunchly anti-conservative on all fronts. (Sorry McCainheads, a 100 year occupation of Iraq is not a conservative foreign policy position.)
He is an unstable hothead which is not a presidential attribute.
McCain has proven himself unworthy of our trust. You can say what you want about Romney and Bain brouhaha. However, McCain’s “dirt” is right there before our very eyes and quite frankly, I don’t like what I see. McCain doesn’t think he needs the support of the Republican base in order to win the nomination… Let’s prove him wrong.
He failed in 2000. Let’s ensure defeat for him, once more. Down with McCain. Down with McCain.
Perenchio owns a Spanish language cable network, and he opposes immigration reform.
Can we say Perenchio doesn’t care about anything but ratings?
Can’t wait for Super Tuesday to vote against McCain! Thanks again Michelle for you’re a well researched and supported information allowing us to make up our minds armed with the facts. Wish the MSM could do their jobs and report essential information like this to the general public, but it doesn’t meet their agenda of turning this country into a socialist 3rd world open borders hell hole.
Proud to say I voted for both props when I lived in Los Angeles in the 90s.
McCain needs to be outed and quickly. We need to shout this from the rooftops.
#4: On January 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am, On-my-soap-box said:
“I have changed my position on voting for McCain over a democrat. I will vote for a democrat for the first time in my life if McCain or Rudy get the nod. At least with a Democrat President, the Republicans might fight liberalism instead of just giving in.”
I just might do that, too.
Don’t reward the Democrat-”lites”.
Let the Democrats take ALL the CLEAR blame (since they will have the White House and both Congressional houses) for the disastrous screw-ups they will bring down upon us.
A RINO would most likely screw us up just as badly; but, it would be very difficult and complicated to punish the RINO - look at how we have had to put up with President Bush.
As I said on another thread, perhaps it is time for the Republican party, which is clearly no longer conservative nor traditionalist…nor moral, it appears…to wither away as a meaningful factor in politics, similar to the way the Britain’s Liberal Party did ~ 75-80 years ago (the party Churchill left the Tories for; and which he left to go back to and rejoin the Tories).
Exactly what I was thinking, no more Spanish speakers……his cable company goes down the toilet. No wonder he opposed prop 227, makes perfect business sense. I just don’t know why a Republican candidate would want him “advising” them….
Excellent post Michelle. I think your work exposing McCain as a fraudulent republican/conservative is beginning to show results. Mitt is leading nationally now among conservatives.
I will not vote for Sentor Rino — he is not telling the truth about his positions or his staff. It does not add up to an honest candidate and he is not a serious republican. The MSM is silent because he is going to be a democrat if elected. I will not vote for him — I may sit out or vote for a democrat instead….
No Country for Old Men…No Country for Old American Men.
#14 On January 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am, jimwesty said:
“I will not vote for Sentor Rino — he is not telling the truth about his positions or his staff. It does not add up to an honest candidate and he is not a serious republican. The MSM is silent because he is going to be a democrat if elected. I will not vote for him — I may sit out or vote for a democrat instead….”
Ann Coulter woke me up siginificantly more to McCain with one of the main messages of her article a few weeks’ back: Pay attention to which Republican the MSM loves, and which one (McCain) the leftists/socialists say nice things about…then ask yourself: Gee, I wonder why they like him?
I’m steadily more and more leaning toward voting for Romney.
I hope Super Tuesday turns the “Maverick” into a gelding and sends him back to Washington liking his wound. *blech*
Where is he getting support from? Is this a matter of middle-left voters who just can’t stand Hitlary? It certainly can’t be from Republicans and definitely not conservatives?Are the people voting in these primaries that clueless?
Good lord! He is soooo far off the reservation on too many important issues to count.
Many thanks Michelle for your excellent research and continued expose of this Republican FRAUD…Juan McCain.
Like I posted yesterday; I’d sooner vote for Obama than McCain. At least Obama gives a good speech.
Wouldn’t it be nice if - en masse - all conservatives would ’sit-out’ a general election between a Dem and a RINO and send a clear message that we won’t tolerate being spoon-fed a candidate who doesn’t represent the basis of the Republican party?
I don’t think it would be too long before we saw a true conservative step ( or pushed ) forward for the following election cycle.
( There’s always the write-in alternative too )
Either way gives the win to the Dems - but if McCain is the nominee - is there that much of a difference anyway?
Besides - if McCain is in - the left mobilizes even more for 2012.
If a Dem is in - the right gets it’s mobilization orders and a kick in the behind.
Worst case scenarios - sure - but at this point…….
I still believe the bigger fight is winning majorities in the senate, house or both - an uphill task - or at least, keeping where it is now.
The battle against amnesty will be fought at the local, state levels and in congress - with the president being a cheerleader.
This singular focus on presidency is not to the benefit for those here who are against amnesty and enforcing the laws.
McCain is the classic RINO. He talks conservatism when it suits him, but legislates to the left and often to the far left. Frankly, he would do tremendous damage to the Republican Party if elected.
Again, you are going to have to decide what you are going to do when the race has McCain as the R nomination.
None of this stuff will matter in the general election because the D will want open borders too. You aren’t going to win the battle for the border from the executive branch. Everybody knows that McCain is bad on immigration - but Romney HIRED illegal aliens (so he doesn’t really care).
You need to start attacking the legislative branch. If McCain is president, he’ll be out of the senate (that’s a good thing, right?) If Romney wins, guess who is still in the senate with seniority to pass another amnesty bill.
At least he says he’ll secure the border first. Let’s get him to do that and have the governors certify that they have been secured. . . then go from there with the legislative branch.
Guess what MM. . . we KNOW that McCain is for amnesty because his name is on the bill. Your pointing out all his connections to open borders people isn’t a new revelation.
That guy that I’ve seen on fox that you’ve been talking about for a while is a slimey individual. I’d say he’s less working for McCain and more working for the person he thinks will win because he wants influence and power. He is worse than any CAIR activist but fox continues to give him air time. He should be ignored as well as McCain on the borders issue. . . Lets let him build the fence first and secure the border.
Can’t we at least let him do that? That will solve a majority of the problem of the border - and it ain’t gettin done now.
respect the man for his military service, but i do not respect the man for his public service. not one bit.
i will not vote in November if it is a hillary/mccain battle. if it is an obama battle, i may just send a message and vote for a dem. this will be my first time to not vote republican.
the msm is pushing mccain. even the ‘fair and balanced’ fox. it is sickening and pathetic. i can’t even watch the news anymore. i just don’t know why this stuff is just now coming out about mccain. did he keep it that far under wraps, or was no body looking?
thanks michelle!
McCain being a RINO has been known for a long time. What hasn’t been known to me is his hypocrisy and his contempt for our intelligence. What a huge disappointment McCain has become. I used to respect him despite the differences of opinion I had with him. Now that’s gone too.
John McCain, thank you for your service to our country. We’re glad you came home and sorry you went thru so much.
So far it’s been a decent and mostly honorable story.
BUT now…?
If you’ve become delusional or power hungry or if you have some deep, although fancied, amends to make to the ‘less fortunate’, for whatever reason, do it from outside of the government.
You’re quite literally only HALF the man you were a couple of decades ago and your actions of deceit have us concerned more than a little.
You’re not in the service any longer, hell, you’re not a republican any longer either. Take some time off, RETIRE!
Please stop ruining your life, and trying to ruin our country!!!
This is the last nice request you will receive from me.
I join the chorus of condemnation against open borders douchebag McCain and his choice of dance partners, but politics is the painful practice of compromise.
I will support Romney in the Illinois primary — the only vote that means anything in Illinois is a primary vote — but if McVain is our nominee I’ll support him with little reservation.
He is a poor choice for President, but infinitely better than either Clinton or — gasp! — Obambi.
Those who are angrily declaring that they will keep their electoral souls clean by sitting on their general election vote rather than vote for this douchebag are apparently unfamiliar with the concept of voting. Hopefully they will do a little reading on Democracy and the concept of a representative Republic between now and November.
Hint: every head to head election is a simple choice between two or more people, their records, their parties, and the major issues of governance during their next term of office.
Slate- McCain’s Mexico First Aide.
http://www.slate.com/id/2182933/fr/rss/
No Changes are Permanent “Tom Sawyer” Rush. That should be a Politician’s slogan.
thacker, even if he is in the senate, we will have the veto of the president. if he is in the executive branch we don’t have anything and it rides.
no i will never vote for mccain. he is aligned with kennedy in all his voting patterns. will not ever. i am not that tied to the republican party that i will go against my principles and vote for a man i have seen through and despised since the early 90’s. back then vowed if i was ever forced into the position of having to vote for mccain i would not.
you have been pushing mccain vehemently on the comments here.
regarding romney:
hiring a company that hires sub-contractors and expecting that company to obey the law is not guilty of turning the other cheek when it comes to illegals. the whole argument with romney is weak. very weak. he hired a legitimate legal company. expecting that they would follow the law. it is the responsibility of the owner of the company to ensure they follow sound hiring practices. once romney found out he requested it stop. the company actually thought that while he was away from home they could get away with it again. now they no longer have his business.
thacker you need to take a better look at mccain. or take a better look at your principals.
Hey Thackeragency…
Mitt Romney didn’t hire illegal aliens to do his landscaping…He hired a landscape company run by an American to do his landscaping. The landscape company hired the illegals….Do you really thing Mitt was home during the day when these guys were cutting his grass?
Is it a homeowners responsibility to interrogate every contractor he hires as to his employees legal status?
That’s President open borders douchebag McCain to you.
it is likely that he becomes our next president. Support a third party. . . Come on MM, this is a BLOG - be RADICAL, be PATRIOTIC, be REVOLUTIONARY (not necesarily meaning Ron Paul here).
But don’t WASTE this forum on support for a weak candidate like Romney because he isn’t McCain. BE RADICAL, support a third party CONSERVATIVE.
NOW IS THE TIME. If Hillary wins, the blacks will vote for a third party who cares about them. If Obama wins, the Hispanics will vote for a third party as well.
Come on MM. You have to do this within the next month for it to have enough staying power to last through the elections. Get on the horn with your blogging buddies. Call up Laura and Rush and find a conservative you can all support and try to get them to run for third party.
I figured out what Ron Paul did for his ‘google bomb’ and I can do it for a campaign as well now. Support Newt or Ollie North, or just be radical and do something other than be upset that the R party is putting up another RINO for the general election.
McCain has spent his “hero status” and squandered it on selling us out to the illegals. Would he be as accepting of “God’s children” if they were North Vietnamese?
Even in true blue, Kennedy land, Massachusetts, a referendum question on bilingual education in this state showed unequivocally that even die hard liberals don’t want the laughably ineffective bilingual “education” taught here.
McCain should just give his campaign speeches in Spanish, since this is his core support group.
I am NOT pushing McCain. I am actually doing what HOMERs and ‘News’ today doesn’t do. I am REPORTING what is happening.
I’m not talking about groups of people like ‘evangelicals’, or ’super Tuesday’, or ‘wait until Florida’. I am trying to teach how this process works.
I have disliked McCain much longer than most here because I thought his tobacco settlement issue of the 90’s was too much government intervention for too little good. I have been against McCain since then (though I don’t smoke). I am still against McCain.
BUT McCAIN is WINNING. Is it a mistake that he’s getting endorsements? NO IT ISN’T. He TRIES TO GET THEM. He’s running a brilliant campaign and he’s probably going to win because of it.
I am a realist. I am not supporting McCain. But the R party doesn’t seem to understand why conservatism is important.
OK, so you don’t blame Romney for hiring illegals to work on his yard (I’m sure there aren’t High School kids willing to do it like there are in my area). How about his ‘first in the nation’ socialized medical plan?
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE is HIS BABY in Mass. If you don’t comply, YOU PAY A FINE.
I don’t support McCain, but he’ll probably get the nomination because of his campaign, not because of his issues. I hope that you people learned something about this process this year. Figure out who you will support.
But lamenting on McCain is not going to make the issue different. The FACT is that McCain is 90% likely going to be the R nomination. That isn’t SUPPORT. That is REPORTING what is happening in this race.
Juan McCain is such a fraud that I am beginning to wonder if his Vietnam service record is all it is made out to be.
We already had one guy run for President who phonied up his Vietnam record. Any “Swiftboaters” out there?
Whangtight is right, Romney did not hire illegal aliens, he hired a landscaping company. McCain lives in a $3M+ estate in Arizona, anyone checked his landscapers?
Oh that’s right, the media like McCain so don’t give a pile of crap if McCain’s landscaper hires illegals.
Supporting a thrid-party candidate is the kiss of death for everything we hold dear in this nation.
Don’t be fooled by liberal shills trying the divide up the Republican vote into a losing mess of small, unconnected numbers.
Conservatives are practical, can-do people. Continue to be one.
Ronald Reagan raised taxes in California as Governor, held some moderate social beliefs and was divorced and re-married and was on poor terms with a couple of his liberal kids. Where would the world be, however, including the fight against cold-war communism, if there had been blogs back then with people saying not to vote for the “RINO” in 1980?!
STOP MCCAIN!
Today is the eve of the Florida Primary.
Call every talk show, e-mail the heavies at Fox News. Link Michelle’s posts to other blogs.You have less than 24 hours to get the word out to every voter in Florida.
Work on it all day!
Today is McCain/Hernandez day and only McCain/Hernandez day!
STOP MCACAIN TODAY!
Enough with the genuflecting at McCain’s military service. I just buried my father in the Veterans Memorial Cemetery a couple of months ago as he was a veteran of the pacific WWII. If I stood toe to toe with him and his misguided support for Democrats and liberal ideas I will stand toe to toe against McCain and his supporters. This ain’t over yet!
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1437 It is the moderates , up to date .
Have to hand it to you for doing your homework, Michelle. This is great stuff. The Illinois primary is coming up, and while I am still uncertain which candidate I will be voting for, you provide further evidence that McCain is truly a RINO and should not be representing conservatives.
Oh, boy…I can’t wait to hear Michael Medved yelping on his show, “McCain has a lifetime 83% rating from the American Conservative Union! He is NOT a liberal! We can’t deport 12 million illegals and the GOP is stupid to think that can happen!”
Oh, wait….I can.
The most recent polls i see today show McCain pulling ahead. This is a disaster and if anyone has an email campaign planned to help Mitt let us know.
Republicans lost the 1996 election to Bill Clinton even though Bob Dole was a certified American War hero with the wounds to prove it. He was also a conservative. War hero status shouldn’t automatically make anyone the Republican candidate. What should make for a Republican candidate is their record - and McCain has a truly lousy record for Republican voters.
NOT SO FAST…just saw this on Drudge now:
Let’s see how the MSM will try to crush this and try to keep McCan’t on top.
If conservatives needed one more reason to vote for Mitt Romney, this is it.
McRINO Riding the OODA Loop —
McRINO’s cam[aign has the salient features of the operational art used to defeat Saddam Hussein in Gulf I, i.e. disrupt the OODA Loop. But McRINO is betting on disruption of his own party’s OODA Loop.
OODA Loop = The sequence a group/person uses to take rational and effective action. O = Observing, O = Orienting, D = Deciding, A = Acting.
McRINO, added by MSM, is betting on most Americans not finding out (Observing) his real views so they can develop a fact based view (Orientation). Thus, voters will Decide and Act incorrectly, i.e. vote for him.
Monte Hall – Also Leavenworth Grad (not from the part that makes small rocks out of big ones).
All Rudy supporters need to throw their support behind Romney in Florida.
This pains me greatly as I’ve defended Rudy here on countless occasions in the past, but Romney and McCain are in a dead heat in Florida, Rudy is at a dismal and unwinnable 13% and whoever wins Florida this time around becomes the likely Republican candidate.
The battle lines are drawn and McCain must under no circumstances become the frontrunner.
ALL SUPPORT MUST GO TO ROMNEY TODAY. LET EVERYONE KNOW.
Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
All Rudy supporters need to throw their support behind Romney in Florida.
Agree.
No. Strongly Agree!!!
I will vote Romney in the primary and if McCain end’s up getting nominated I will vote for the democrat. Let it all go to h*ll so we can start the revolution.
Thacker, I don’t know where you get your statistics from. To say that McCain has a 90% chance of winning the nomination ignores the national polls which puts Romney up by 15%.
Another reason not to eat at McDonalds.
Agreed. Come to your senses and support Mitt!
“Following his graduation from UCLA”
Did he support the 1993 hunger strike regarding Chicano studies at his alma mater?
islandman78
University of Southern California
Class of 1999
I’m not sure any of these polls have much validity. The analysis as to who is ahead or who will win is complicated by all the rules as to how the delegates are split up by state or congressional district. I think it’s way too close and volatile to really know at this point. What I do know is that Romney is very smart and I’m sure he has a well thought out strategy.
For God’s sake, after all this, why is ANYONE ni Fla (or anywhere else) voting for the dissembling two-faced John McCain?
McCain reads like a New World Order flag bearer. Now, I know why the MSM loves the nut.
Yep, McCan’t is just like them…
#45 On January 28th, 2008 at 11:48 am, dukebedevilment said:
“If conservatives needed one more reason to vote for Mitt Romney, this is it.”
Yep.
#55 On January 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm, Leatherneck said:
“McCain reads like a New World Order flag bearer. Now, I know why the MSM loves the nut.”
Like Ann Coulter said: Ask yourselves why the MSM loves McCain!
I have read in several places a few folks saying they’d hold their nose and vote McCain or McCain has the only chance of winning in November.Well count me and several others I know as not in that group.We will NEVER vote for McCain.Immigration is a important issue to me and with team McCain you will get the same as if Clinton or Obama wins in respect to immigration.Romney has just as much chance winning in November as McCain as soon as his positions are compared in a year long campaign against the Dems.
Keep it up Michelle…you are doing the work the MSM does not want to do…we hear you out here and we forward the information on….the silent majority is not silent…..McCain is a grade a a$$hole…period.
Thank you Michelle for connecting the dots. It is not just the Main Stream Media. Fox News has been on the McCain bandwagon for some time now. We need the internet and the Bloggers to get the straight scoop. McCain is a stooge who obviously follows orders. I want none of it.
Un-freaking-believable!
In a sane world, you would get a Pulitzer for your investigative journalism, Michelle.
Dread Pirate Roberts VIII @ # 27 said:
Exactly why we should consider NOT voting for McVain if he is the nominee! To do so, even if you hold your nose while pulling the lever sends him and fellow RINOs the wrong message. Go ahead and vote straight ticket, if it pleases you, but leave the top entry blank or do a write-in. This tells the GOP that there is some support for them, but not for a blatant RINO like McVain. This also helps stiffen the backbone of GOP legislators to face down McVain when he runs counter to conservative principles.
That is the painful compromise we need to do. To vote McVain is to tell the GOP that he is the type of leader we want and more please. It will take 4 times as long to effect a course correction, than it would be if cHillary, or Obama, or any donk for that matter, wins the WH. The plausible scenario is that a donk will only get 1 term, before the nation is ready to tack right. McVain in the WH, however, is bound to give us 8 years of his center-left policies, i.e. 2017 before he steps down. The GOP would be so emasculated, there would be another 1/2 hearted struggle for tacking right.
After 8 years of McVain, forget about the Reagan legacy. Who do you think would be waiting in the wing to take on the McVain mantle for another term or two? Grahmnesty? Mel Martinez? Gov. Crist?
For the Donks, Obama would be potent and could take 4 or 8 years - simply because there won’t be much of a difference between the GOP & them and it’s about time for a change of parties.
This puts us in 2024 before the conservatives find their voice. Is this the compromise we conservatives want? A couple of decades in the wilderness thanks to a McVain admin?
I say let the donks take it now so we can take it back within 4 years.
I will not cast a vote for McCain, if he does end up with the nomination. I vote on principle, not partisanship.
I believe strongly in securing the borders, not in just voting for a Republican.
Like has been mentioned above. I will leave the top slot empty, if I have to and vote in the other races on the ballot in November.
I’ve been noticing alot of good intentioned people stating a refusal to vote if certain Republican candidates get the nomination. I understand the thought of giving the country to the Dems for them to show what they will do, but it’s MY country….. I’ve had enough of Liberal thought. My thought is to vote but not for liberals on non conservatives but I will vote! I’ll do a write in, whatever. But I cannot in good conscience NOT vote; too many people have died in this world for that privilege to vote.
If you haven’t already done so, please consider googling florida news and then register to comment on all florida news sites. Also email newsmakers and other influential people to encourage they come out for Mitt. There’s not much time left.
Here is a slogan I wish would catch on:
“GOP: We want a fighter, not a uniter.”
The Dems are SOOOO wrong on SOOOO many things; Why would we want to join them in dismantling our nation?
(shakes head in frustration)
I just want a common sense conservative fighter. I don’t want a uniter or someone that is looking to build a utopian society, etc.
I don’t think there is any doubt that the dem party is the party of lying criminals just do the research. Does that mean every one of them are, of course not. But that is why they want you to believe Bush is a liar, misery loves company. If McCain was considering becoming a dem what does that tell you about his post Vietnam critical thinking skills and judgement? If we allow him and his group to lead the party we become no different. No. I’m not saying that McCain is a lying criminal but he is in bed with a few. He is even campaigning like a dem lying and smearing his opponent, very dem I would say.
Just look at the picture of McKennedy, one guy shot down over Vietnam imprisoned and tortured, the other guy runs off the road into a ditch, abandons his date and runs away and he barely had a scratch on him. That picture of them together speaks volumes to what McCain and some repubs have become you are who your friends are. It is one thing to work together in the same building, nod at each other in passing, it is quite another to become joined at the hip. McCain seems to be easily manipulated and that is not a presidential asset in my opinion. If it quacks like a duck…
I agree, Fair & Balanced, not.
Its amazing Romney has any support in the polls at all, with the media being against him on all fronts.
Just heard Obama is coming to MN on Saturday. Perhaps our McCain supporting (RINO) governor will introduce him.
MNgirl
Just great! Edwards is coming here to MN too…. aren’t we the lucky ones?
I agree 100%! However, in order for it to have the desired effect, a majority of write-in votes need to be for the same candidate. Otherwise it has the Nadar effect. Mine will be for Romney and I hope enough Repubs do the same.
I have sooo had it with McCain - how in the world is he getting away with saying stuff like how he has learned from last year’s immigration debate when he blatantly states:
WTH? Either you have learned your lesson or you haven’t - and obviously you haven’t. He needs to get hammered on this very issue in all of his interviews, the debates, etc. With his temparement, I guarantee McCain will have a Howard Dean moment if he is just challenged for some time - instead of sucked up to by the likes of the media and Huckabee.
Folks, I’m begging ya — as a Thompson fan since Red October –
Please Don’t Stay Home in Nov!!
Hold your nose and vote Rommey! You DON’T want deep-steeped libs in the Big House! It’s near suicide for our wallets and culture and free-thinking children!
I’m begging you! All of you! Please!!!! I got over my man bailing out! You can too! Do so — for all of us who basically think alike!! Please!!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
When the MSM supports you, you are suspect. When you pal around with Ted Kennedy and Juan Hernandez, you are convicted.
Time to retire and go fishing John.
It looks like Florida is going to decide our nominee. If McCain wins as polls seem to suggest then we can only hope Mitt will go all the way with a third party. McCain will split the democratic votes with billary or barack hussein obama and Mitt wins.
Agreed - we must get the word out today and in very large numbers before the voters go out tomorrow. Michelle is an inspiration for not giving up. Let’s follow her lead.
Romney must win tomorrow. Get going!
SpeakEasy
Oh I am supporting Romney after this weekend’s exposure of McCain….. never fear. My point was, as you surmise correctly, is to vote! Don’t sit at home.
Romney is the only one that doesn’t agree with Mcpain on the illegal issue, why isn’t he using this? He needs to point out that being overrun by illegals is not good for the economy.
With the economy being in the forefront he should mention that being flooded by cheap illegal labor is not going to help.
You folks are correct.
I will indeed vote, even if it means having to write in Romney.
McCain to Michigan: “I’m giving it to you straight. Your jobs are not coming back. I’m giving them to Mexicans.”
It’s downright silly to equate Romney’s hiring of a landscape company that employed illegals with McCains love of amnesty and everything that goes with it.
Also, I see absolutely nothing that says McCain has a 90% chance of winning the Republican nomination…….if he does though, I’d give the Dems a 100% chance of winning the presidency….and unless I vote third-party they’ll have my vote. A vote for mcCain from me ain’t ever gonna happen.
A Prime Example of Political Opportunism and playing both sides of the field for all they are worth.
Pray for our country folks.
This is not good when those sworn to protect and preserve instead loot and lie..
The only thing that would equate to that is if McCain’s campaign chair was caught cutting Romney’s lawn. But even still having you lawn cut is no where near having them chair your campaign. What country is he running for President in anyway?
John McCain also chairs the Telecommunication Committee and had alot to do with allowing Spanish Language TV and Radio back in the late 1980’s.
When you are being invaded by a foreign country why would you allow over the air TV and Radio to broadcast the invasion editorials to the troops?
Would we have allowed over the air Russian Language only TV and Radio during the cold war?
I am sorry, John McCain is a Traitor and his Treasonous connections to foreign agents of Mexico proves it! He is actively supporting the reconquista of the USA.
Who do you think organized all the illegal aliens rallies last year. It was the Spanish only over the air TV and Radio stations that rallied the troops. I live in the Los Angeles area and it is becoming harder and harder to find English radio on the AM dial.
Univision constantly encourages Illegal Aliens to vote and they have programs telling them how to get free government services. In addition, they teach their listeners how to get medical care at the hospital emergency room and tell them they do not have to pay for it.
We have a Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, that does Spanish only interviews on Univision and he has been encorouging Illegal Immigration during Interviews on Univision since he was elected. He rarely does English Interviews on one of the three broadcast MSM stations.
Do you think it is a coincidence that over 50 Hospitals have gone bankrupt here in California?
IMHO-Over the air Spanish Language TV and Radio is illegal and should be banned. They are using the public air waves to broadcast their battle cries.
Cable or Satellite is another matter.
Radio trouble in paradise? You got that right. Try getting KRLA in the morning you end up with Spanish radio over the top of it. So it makes the channel unintelligible, I wonder if Ms. Ingraham is aware of that, it is illegal. No offense ScottyDog but I watched the debacle of your Mayoral election from south of you and I knew then exactly what was going to happen. I couldn’t believe it, voter fraud, naw.
Folks for those of you considering sitting out this election cycle-DON’T!
The dhimicrats are counting on it, and they will be the ones laughing-not us.
For people considering in not voting; consider this for a moment: My friends and I didn’t bleed, get injured or lose lives for you to take your freedom for granted. Find a candiate that best mirrors your reganconservative beliefs, and back him up.
Personally; I am leaning towards Huckabee or Rommney. Both look pretty good on policy issues.
So in the terms of one of my former “Chiefs”-Suck it up and sail straight! Unless of course, you think wearing a burka does your figure good….
GSP
As if we needed more confirmation of his allegiance to Mexico……
So Senator McCain is more of a socialist like Ms. Senator Clinton. Hmmm. Who was it said a while ago something to the effect that the biggest asset the Democrat party has had over the generations has been an ignorant electorate? Seems like that is still so tragically true. What’s really tragic, the fact that it occurs on both sides of the political “isle”. Jeez. Wake the…[bleep] up, America! I guess the problem stems from people “thinking” with their emotions instead of their reasoning side of their brains. Read Thomas Sowell’s column on Demagoguery. Good stuff.
At this point…if anyone doesn’t know yet that McCain is Running for President of Amero-Mexico…they probably shouldn’t vote, because they are too politically blind, deaf and dumb.
tgusa
The Radio spillover is so bad that I have to listen to Laura on the Internet.
After the Sun goes down, I cannot even hear the 50,000 watt John and Ken show anymore without La Bamba drowning them out from south of the border.
I blaim John McCain for allowing Univision and the others to get FCC licenses with his influence on the Senate Telecommunications Committee.
If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times this election is about the 60’s vs the 21st century just listen, Kennedy! King! Equality! Emote! Hmmm is this a do over I feel as if I have been here before? Not exactly, curiously they have changed the message of the 60’s, tune in turn on drop out (acid trip) and the accompanying, we need to get free of the man to we need to get free of the man by having the man give us more stuff, they call it… change (spare change perhaps?). I wish they would stick to their original message and tune in turn on and drop out. And never forget, Chuck Manson and his family were a product of that era as well. Yes they are counting on stuck on stupid, lets show em we’re no dummies. The emergence of various radical groups looking to tear America apart is the only thing that now and then have in common.
Wow ScottyDog, I didn’t know it was that bad, circle the wagons before it is too late.
Ok, I get it…the brickbats are out for McCain. Being against McCain is not enough. People have to be for someone.
So I am going to plead with the entire Western World that is eligible to vote to support Rudy Giuliani.
I offered a full throttled endorsement of him today, and I am going to dial the phones tonight until my voice is hoarse.
Respectfully,
eric aka http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
I think we’ve already lost. Romney and Giuliani are not battling McCain - they’re actually battling the media, who have already pretty much declared McCain as the Republican nominee, even before the convention. While I respect and honor his military service, I think he’s completely unfit to be president. It doesn’t matter who wins the general election - the next president of the US will be the one to surrender us to the North American Union.
MNUSMCDAVID; have you signed up at mittromney.com? (they are way more reasonable than the Fred team was about not inundating you with email) A pretty cool request just came through from Team Mitt, on a video they are making to air in Minnesota. They need “supporter” participation.
Half of the story is the same as a lie.
Reagan’s predecessor, Pat Brown, had the benefit of a slick accounting trick. In Brown’s last year, Calif. went from a cash basis to an accrual basis, thus Brown had 15 months income to balance his last 12 months of spending, just to balance the budget.
Reagan’s first year he was forced to raise taxes after Brown’s slick move. But 2 or 3 years later, Reagan RETURNED the surplus to the taxpayers instead of spending it. I know. I was there, and I got a refund check.
I got to vote for Reagan 4 times - twice as governor, and twice for president. Glad I did.
There’s a big difference between not knowing a gardener is an illegal and McCain’s relentless drive (Americans stopped him last year, remember?) to eliminate America’s borders and hand the country the country over to illegals .
Shamnesty ‘09 will be signed by Hillary, Obama, Edwards, McCain, Rudy, or Huck. Every one of them sympathizes with illegal aliens - and are poised to grant them ‘amnesty’ and a pathway to citizenship. They do NOT believe in law enforcement and attrition - a policy favored by both Rep. and Dem. electorate, and which is already working.
Just listen to their statements on in-state tuition, “we can’t penalize the children’, sanctuary cities and states, etc. Romney is the only hope (not a guarantee, but Tancredo believes him) to veto the bill.
If a Dem. is president, it will be easier to defeat it in Congress compared to McCain, Rudy, or Huck.
McCain, et al, are STEALING MY VOTE when the want to dilute it with the votes of 12 to 30 million law breakers.
I take offense at that. BIG offense.
McCain - get your hands off our ballot box!
If Romney grabs the mantle of anti illegal invader licenses/open borders in Ca he wins the state in a landslide. The Ca. republican assembly endorses Mitt and the statewide presidential endorsing convention agrees.
tgusa, I agree, and as fred5676 said above, Tancredo believes Mitt on immigration issues (Tancredo is a fellow Coloradan). I do also, and I’ve been leaning towards Mitt for some time now especially for his fiscal acuity and fiscal track record. Hopefully, he has the testicles to back it up before a normally beligerent Congress “when” he’s elected, beating the pants off of Barry. As I said back on my #89 post, the electorate needs to THINK, and RESEARCH, not react and think with emotions. Ignorance in these times can be fatal. That kind of ignorance gave us Billy Jeff. Twice. Barf.
Floyd,
Yes Tancredo is popular here too he is just an honest and decent guy anyone can tell that by listening to him speak. In my opinion the media have outfoxed themselves. They kept pushing Iraq as the humongous issue of the day. Iraq is an issue to be sure but to me, and I have seen a few wars Iraq is winding down we might as well throw a rock in to osama’s cave telling him to find another place (probably Africa) and try again if you dare. Well the big issue is immigration it was big the last time they tried to outfox us, more people not less people are aware of the issue because of that. I don’t know where the media is getting their analysis but it is screwy that’s for sure. The illegal issue is a loser with all of the dem sub groups even latinos themselves. They are putting the pedal to the metal the enemies of America that lurk in the shadows. So in spite of what agor sez, keep your lights on and don’t panic and we will win out in the end.
Are the Republicans in Florida retarded? Why in God’s name are any of you conservative voters even thinking about McCain? If you vote McCain over the top in Florida on Tuesday know this; you all have went against El-Rushbo, Michelle, Reagan, and America.
I don’t think I can take ten more months of politics. I wish I could go someplace without TV, radio or print media until November.
Since that is impractical, is there any way to get Fred Thompson back into this fracas?
McCain calls Mitt liberal? ROFL - I just wet myself. Of course, McCain knows liberal. He sees it in the mirror every morning.