McCain and La Raza/The Race: A “serious lapse of judgment”
The open-borders media has been AWOL on John McCain’s decision to speak to the radical racialist group, La Raza/The Race in July. He has been allowed to skate on the issue in several recent sit-down interviews. Many of the same pundits who blasted Barack Obama for his ties to the radical racialist Jeremiah Wright have nothing to say about McCain’s longtime association with the shamnesty-pushing, sovereignty-undermining, publicly-subsidized shakedown artists of La Raza/The Race.
Not everyone’s looking the other way. Editorial page editor Colin McNickle at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review warned today:
“McCain had made significant progress in reaching out to conservatives over the last month or so. But his La Raza embrace is a serious lapse of judgment, one of a number of lapses that, if the primaries are a valid indicator, could lead to a full quarter of the Republican electorate staying home on Nov. 4.”
Guess McCain’s counting on all his left-wing global warming fear-mongering friends to make up the difference.
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Tell ya’ what, Barry ol’ buddy.
We’ll give you a 30-30, and YOU can go shoot ‘em.
Make us proud
Team, let’s try to remain as positive as possible. Here’s a “positive idea”. What if Bush got the fence built by the time the election happens, since he is unpopular anyway, and remove that as an issue for McCain, since it is one of the biggest drags on the GOP, in McCain’s mind? Bush takes the hit, we get our fence, and McCain has less ways to alienate us base voters.
BTW, I plan to vote and campaign as hard as possible for congress, local positions, etc. if not for the top of the ticket.
Frank, as snide you may have hoped to be with that remark, I could/would carry it out, if it were my assigned job.
Our Southern border poses a substantial risk to our sovereignty and our security. It is not just illegal Hispanics coming across our Southern border. Intelligence reports, for some time now, have indicated the use of the Southern border for people of Middle Eastern descent crossing into our country illegally, possibly or, perhaps, a high probability to carry out terrorist attacks.
But, what the hey. Give them amnesty, so they can be legal citizens, when they do kill some of our citizenry. We can complain about it after the fact.
Is everyone else as dazzled by this bit of brilliance, as I am?
franksalterego, you do seem to be easily dazzled, especially by your own “brilliance”…
Make no mistake, Frank. Mine was sarcasm. Sorry if you needed the “/sarcasm off” at the end to pick up on that part.
But, it seems to me you were the one taking the reactionary position earlier…
Why, yes. I did remember that correctly, didn’t I?
What “dazzled” you, was the absurdity of your own position earlier, when put into a realistic context.
Indeed, longbow. Indeed.
Well, now’s your chance to answer my #168 comment.
with some coherence
Your sarcasm notwithstanding, that gate isnt all the way open. If he gets in there, its going to be knocked off its hinges. You can put whatever you want in italics, but your comprehension of the scope involved in this issue seems to me, at best, to be faulty.
Try again, Mr Bedazzled
I refer you to #168
Has it occurred to any of you knotheads, why Teddy, and Bill Richardson endorse Obama?
2+2=4…So, this issue is, for all practical purposes, moot.
That said,
What politician, in his right mind, is gonna’ step into the Hornet’s nest?
Michelle Malkin’s fear mongering, and John McCain’s lip service notwithstanding.
Post #168 be damned. I seem to recall the McCain-Kennedy shamnesty bill, apparently you don’t. It’s a given that the Dims are for it, and more – it would have been just the camel’s nose in the tent, do you really think otherwise?
The fact that McCain crafted and sponsored the damn thing with the Hero of Chappaquiddick of all people, should tell you something if you have two brain cells to rub together. And that McCain has as his advisor Juan Hernandez who advocates nothing less than “La Reconquista” should send a subtle message even you should understand…
If McCain is President that bill will look like small potatos. Floodgates open or closed will not be able to withstand the flood.
Because Bush was incapable of pushing it through, you think the same holds true for everyone else?
It’s good to hold out hope in some cases, but don’t bet the farm on it or, in our case, the nation, on it.
That’s sort of like saying, because Bush had an “R” after his name and couldn’t reign in runaway spending with his administration, no other “R” can either.
Oh. So, now, it is a “moot” point.
Well, gosh. Had I realized shamnesty was going to be a foregone conclusion, I wouldn’t have been so upset about it for so long. Geez!
your #168 post was as obvious as it was short.
THAT would be why i said try again.
McCain is just like the rest. His “comprehensive immigration reform” will have us all speaking spanish as our national language.
So try again, with something worth posting back about, other than that pile you left up there at #168.
franksalterego says:
‘I can repeat myself over and over and talk to other people like they’s idjuts.. and I think they’s gonna change ther minds cuz oh my troll-like ways.
Ain’t I brilliant?’
No Frank, you’re not.
I refer you to the voting record
Study it closely,
You will find, an overwhelming majority of Republicans voted against it…An overwhelming majority of Democrats voted for it.
Now, looking forward, what is the possibility of the bill being passed with a Democrat president, AND a Democrat congress?
You can stay home, or vote democrat, but you’ll rue the day…Unless, you WANT a bill like this.
franksalterego please stop with the SPAM.
Yes we have heard you – enough already!
Trolling with one-sided threats and ad-hominem attacks will actually achieve the exact opposite of what you are trying to shove down everyone’s throats.
If you want to guarantee we never have a Republican POTUS for decades to come beyond this next term, then vote McCain.
If you want to guarantee we never have a Democrat POTUS for decades to come beyond this next term, then don’t vote McCain.
You seem to discount the likelihood of the sway McCain could carry with other Washington politicos, if he becomes the Republican Party’s standardbearer as POTUS.
If he pushes for it as the newly-elected president that they helped shove down our throats, there will be at least some sense of obligation from his fellow Washington insiders with the “R” after their names to go along with him.
Couple that with the Democrats that voted for it the last time. Presto! You get shamnesty that McCain might pull off that Bush couldn’t.
Sadly, Frank’s not the only one that has been doing this to folks.
Anyone not willing to just “shut up”, “fall in line”, etc. has been subjected to a lot of the same behaviors.
I can think of at least one other person that posts on MM’s blog that has a tendency to do the same thing, pretty regularly.
OK…Now, make the argument, to stay home…Exactly “WHAT” will you accomplish?
Can we just start this year over again. please? I know we’re almost halfway through with it… but if we could just go back to Jan 3 and the Iowa Primary, I swear we can fix this!!!
Any time any one “reaches across the aisle” to deal with Democrats they come back with a stump. Any one even watching what Pelosi and Reid do on a daily basis?… sheesh. Still not voting for McCain. I’m concentrating on my local and state battles, and here in MN there are a ton to keep me busy. Oh, and I’m an election judge supervisor. I’m checking ID’s.
Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll. May 1-8, 2008
“What issue or problem do you consider the top priority for candidates running for president to address this election? Is it the war in Iraq, or protecting the country from terrorist attacks, or the economy, or education, or the environment, or health care issues, or illegal immigration, or other social issues, such as abortion and gay rights, or is there another issue?”
The economy 56%
War in Iraq 34%
Health care issues 11%
Illegal immigration 11%
Education 8%
Terrorist attacks 7%
The environment 4%
Other social issues 2%
Another issue 6%
None/All (vol.) 9%
Unsure 1%
So, because of my uncanny brillianceness, I’m staying home on election day, over a 11% issue.
heh,heh,heh
Huh? Did you listen to anything that’s been said or just wait for someone else to post, so you can just arbitrarily throw something out again?
Clinton, Obama and McCain all want amnesty. Why should/would I help McCain do it by voting him into office? McCain will have at least some, if not most of the Washington Republicans, aligning with him as their standardbearer for the Republican Party. If he wants it, there is a strong likelihood that enough of them would change to support shamnesty with the Democrats that have already shown their support for it.
And, just to reiterate what I have said on this thread and a host of others, I don’t plan to “stay home”. I may not vote the top slot or I may vote for a third party or I may do a write-in.
But, as it stands right now, I am all for McCain seeing that we don’t owe him the presidency.
If we could back up to 1/3/08, like Bob would like to do,
we might…might…be able to rectify our situation. But, as it stands now, the least socialistic of the three top contenders is McCain. But, I’m tired of voting for the lesser of evils. I’d rather be able to point the finger at the Socialist Democrats and try again in 4-8 years to recoup what was pi$$ed away this election year. *sigh*
You are far too easily impressed and amused with yourself.
Polls like you reference provide no correlation between issues, like how negatively illegal immigration impacts the U.S. economy. You know, like all of the unpaid healthcare at hospitals for illegals and how some hosptials are actually being forced to close their dooes or all of the government benefits (i.e. Medicaid, foodstamps, etc.) being given to illegal aliens?
Oh. I can’t believe I forgot to include this as another way illegal immigration is contributing to the U.S. economy for you, Frank.
franksalterego please stop spamming this site. Almost everyone here you are directing your monologue at has said at least once that they are going to vote, just not at POTUS level. WHAT PART OF THAT DO NOT UNDERSTAND??? Your self-involved repetition of the same statement has been addressed over and over and over, so STOP ASKING.
uh-huh
Like, higher taxes and bigger gov’t DOESN’T impact the economy…Even MORE than illegal immigration…dude
Do you have to work at it or does it just come naturally for you?
Not only, am I a “spammer” I’m one of two Republican delegates from my precinct.
So, I guess I’m invested
And, you’re proud of that?
Franksalterego, from Spokane, WA, who drives a 1996 Camaro Convertible, is NOT a Republican at all, and is most definitely a democrap troll.
go back under your rock.
Little funny Party Hat, and all.
Lord!!! what fools
these mortalsfranksalterego be!!!sound familiar?
You really don’t “get” snark, do ya’.
I’m bettin’ “nyc123me” doesn’t “get” Ann Coulter, either.
Wow, everywhere you go, you’re a complete jerk.. for years!
I pity you frank. I really do.
Lemme’ draw your attention to the third comment in that thread.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
Why should I pay any attention to what you have to say after the way you’ve acted on this current thread?
I’ve made it my life’s work, Tinkerbell.
I ‘get’ Ann Coulter… and you Frank are NO Ann Coulter. Only in your trollish dreams.
Maybe you should ‘get’ that you’re behavior isn’t going to win any converts.
You and ole Buck just keep posting and by election time you’ll be the only two voting for Juan McCain.
Just because the general populace doesn’t ‘get’ what illegal immigration amnesty will do, doesn’t make it any less real.
Figures you’re opinion poll oriented and that’s as far as your thinking is capable of going.
You overachiever, you.
LOL #240
‘your’ behavior, not ‘you’re’ in my post 239… man I hate that. lol
You’re equating me to Buck?
I guess, I can live wit’ dat”.
good. please ‘live wit dat’ somewhere else.
frank’s alter ego is also a democrat.
Did’ja’ “get” this:
“Well, it looks like it’s the end of the road for Hillary. Time for her to pack up her pantsuits and go back to — wherever it is she’s pretending to be living these days. Now we just have to get rid of the other two. Perhaps if I endorse Obama …”
Okay. This thread’s died off with Frank’s perpetual string of propaganda for McCain.
I think I will log off for a while.
Joy and nyc, don’t have too much fun without me.
Is propaganda against Obama, the same as propaganda for McCain?
I hope, no one misunderstands my intentions.
Why is it, for some reason, I feel that the 25 million gallons of turds…errr, sewer trout…have somehow found there way into this particular thread?
frank, I’m sorry. You’re not as funny or as clever as you pretend to be. We could all be legends in our own minds too, if we tried hard enough. I just shake my head at your constant (and failed) attempts at humor.
McCain is a RINO. Your continual, mindnumbing posts about his virtues has shown more people here that will not vote for him as a result.
Congratulations! You’ve saved a bunch of people the trouble of pointing out his fleecing of our country, his “roll over” attitude in regards to immigration, and other such facts. Now, we don’t have to do it again for at least a day!
And with that, heading over to other threads
It takes total brilliance for Frank to prefer to see himself as clever rather than sway others to do what he thinks is so vital.
Yeah, this threads done. ugh.
DITTO.
Come November, the kind of fanatics that read these blogs (right and left, including me) won’t matter. The majority of solid Americans who split on Gore/Bush and Kerry/Bush will not vote for a radical Marxist who’s only getting the Dem nomination because racist liberals are trying to absolve their own guilt. This election is going to be a LANDSLIDE for McCain—thank God!
And I was for Duncan Hunter, then Fred, then Rudy, and finally Romney. I’m no McCain lover, but any port in a storm, and Obama would re-Carterize our country—make no mistake!