Johnny-come-lately McCain: The sickly smell of desperation
John McCain is everywhere now preaching the gospel of secure borders. He’s inescapable. And shameless. And desperate.
Yesterday, readers forwarded his latest spam e-mail:
Where do you stand on border security?
My Friend,
One of the fundamental responsibilities of our government is to secure our borders so that our citizens, no matter where they live in our country, can be safe and secure.
Unfortunately, the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress have not lived up to the federal government’s constitutional responsibility to secure our borders. So my Arizona colleague, Senator Jon Kyl and I introduced a 10-Point Border Security Plan to secure our border with Mexico against illegal immigration, human smuggling, drug trafficking and the brutal violence associated with the drug cartels.
I’d like to know what you think about our nation’s border security and that is why I have put together the 2010 Border Security Survey. I ask that you take a few moments to fill out this survey by following this link.
I believe we must take action because the fact is clear that our border is not secure and nearly half of all illegal immigrants enter through the Arizona/Mexico corridor. As I told Sean Hannity on his show, our southern border is broken in Arizona and action is needed. Our federal government has not devoted the resources necessary to secure the border and the result has been escalating violence and increased numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The President says he wants to address the issue, but so far he has not taken action. He has not devoted the resources necessary to secure our border, so we are calling for real action and resources as outlined in our 10-Point Plan.
As a long-time supporter, I ask that you share your opinion about this crucial security issue through our 2010 Border Security Survey. Your urgent response will enable me to gather the information necessary to show support for secure borders is widespread across America.
Please take the 2010 Border Security Survey today.
Border security is key to keeping our homeland safe. We have seen the violence from drug cartels and drug smugglers skyrocket. It is only a matter of time before even more violence pours over our border into the United States. I believe the key to securing our borders is providing the necessary federal resources to do so effectively and efficiently.
And this is exactly what the 10-Point Plan will do. Please take the time to learn more about the plan and take our short, 9-question survey by following this link. Your time and opinions are truly appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
John McCain
P.S. As a result of the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats’ failure to take action to secure the US/Mexico border, Senator Jon Kyl and I have introduced a 10-Point Border Security Plan. I want to know what you think about border security, so I have put together the 2010 Border Security Survey. I ask that you take a few minutes today to fill it out by following this link. Thank you.
John McCain is not our “friend.”
Reader Dan’s reaction to the spam e-mail:
Dear MM,
I just received an email from John McCain. The subject line reads: “Where do you stand on border security?”
HE’S asking ME where I stand???
Snort.
And reader R’s response:
Michelle:
As a proud naturalized American, words to express my nausea, anger and disgust at Republicans like McCain and Graham who for years have helped the Democrats stymie effective border security and internal enforcement provisions are hard to come by. Legal Immigrants such as my family and I are the ones most profoundly harmed by amnesty provisions and special considerations advocated for illegal aliens by these feckless politicians.
Now McCain finds himself in the primary fight of his life he is desperately tacking Right. The attached email merits a 12+ on the Christ/Specter political opportunism scale. McCain was a weak and ineffectual presidential candidate entirely because he made a career of offending the conservative base of the GOP-in particular his squishiness on illegal immigration. I remember making GOTV calls in the days leading up to the 2008 election and having wobbliness on this and other conservative “non-negotiables” thrown in my face to justify that voter’s absence from the polls as I desperately tried to warn them of what was about to happen with the election of Obama.
I came from Canada, I’ve seen another radical, charismatic Marxist in my life in the form of Pierre Elliot Trudeau – Canada’s communist sympathizing Prime Minister during the 1970′s. In only 10 years or so, he launched Canada inexorably down the path to big government socialism. Obama gave me and others who have seen socialism up close (and fled) the same totalitarian vibe folks like Trudeau gave off – and that scared the bejeebers out of us. Try telling that to Americans who had no concept of the threat or the stakes and who were so tired of being taken for granted by the likes of McCain. RINO’s like him have destroyed the credibility of the GOP and I am not sure given all the Upside Down Elephant posts you keep putting up that that message has sunk in just yet…
I can’t express my utter contempt any better than Allahpundit did here in response to Johnny-come-lately’s shameless new border enforcement ad:
I don’t know what to say, guys. I’m genuinely speechless. Pandering is one thing, shameless careerist pandering is something else, and then there’s John “Goddamned Fence” McCain marching along the border in a badass Navy baseball cap looking like he could choke out a coyote with his bare hands. And you know what? If he thought he’d get a few points’ bounce from it, I bet he’d do it too. How long before he’s spotted on the trail wearing a “Viva Los 1070″ t-shirt?
Yep, now he’s wrapping himself in the very same border fence he was cursing during his presidential campaign in the company of liberal Vanity Fair reporters.
The man who proudly named Soros-funded, open-borders radical Juan Hernandez as his Hispanic Outreach Director is now traipsing around with the Border Patrol promising to fix the fence he cursed and make Americans safe. After trashing immigration enforcement activists as nativists for years, he’s now “one of us:”
I honestly don’t know how anyone who has him on to talk about immigration enforcement can get through an interview with him and keep a straight face.
It’s political Kabuki on steroids.
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Update: Shadegg laughs at McCain’s border fence ad.
The former House member met with House lawmakers, activist Bay Buchanan, the late Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation and Americans United for Life. While behind in the polls and fundraising, Hayworth has until late August to stabilize his campaign and beat McCain, who has responded with much sharper conservative rhetoric in recent weeks. One example: His “Complete the danged fence” ad that’s been hit as a sharp turn away from his immigration reform proposals in the past.
Hayworth, who’s proposals in Congress on immigration reform focused on enforcing current laws while McCain’s suggested a path to citizenship for illegals laughed at the new McCain stance. “That thing was just hilarious,” he said, adding that McCain is “contorting politically.” But he liked the theme so much, that his campaign is going to put up a new website that they say will pit old McCain positions on key issues with what he’s now saying on the campaign trail. He said it will be called something like: “TheDangedTruth.com.”
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He’s toast and he knows it!
It’s funny how conservative McLame gets when it’s an election year. I heard Karl Rove last night talking about the election. He believes Juan will win. I hope the voters in Arizona prove him wrong.
And how many years has Juan had the opportunity to close the borders? He’s been in the senate long enough that his words sound hollow. He speaks with a forked tongue.
This is my take on this. Rinos and dinasours like McCain actually served this country during a time when memories were short because technology wasn’t such that we could be reminded on a daily bases the lies these people tell. McCain is an “old guard has been” who hasn’t kept up with technology in a way that he can appreciate you can’t fool everyone anymore by expecting them to forget what happened last year. In the same vein, people must be reminded on a daily bases about health care via technology. Obama won’t like it, but hey it has to be done.
He’s finished. Next, please.
When it was important where were you John? The truth will set you free.
Let character be your guide, principles and values, not your lust for your seat in the politburo.
It’s too bad you have shown what you are really all about … power lust.
Fool me once–shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me.—Sorry John, you’ve had one chance so go now quietly and enjoy your retirement.
I still remember when McCain dissed social conservatives back in 2000.
John, I forgive you. That’s how we religious conservatives are.
However, that doesn’t mean that I will let you walk all over me and my country just to keep your job.
Dear Senator McCain, you are not “my friend” and I protest your use of those two words. Now, go away.
He’s had a lot of years to get his act together. It’s time to give someone else a chance to prove their meddle.
Like Siamese triplets, it’s time for the whole McCain-Graham-Lieberman group to go.
Maybe he and his daughter can attend remedial Conservative courses on what a conservative really is. They’ve lost their way and are in need of a political GPS to guide them home.
I can’t get a mental picture out of my head. Two politicans. One standing by the window looking out, the other, his feet propped up on his desk, “Don’t worry about it Joe, you know how these people are. They can’t remember what they had for dinner last night..you worry too much. They’ll forget all about it before the signatures are dry”
Too little, too late, intellectually dishonest
Stick a fork in him.
I would have more respect for him, if he had stuck to his long term positions and argued them with passion.
Like him or not I always respected Ted Kennedy for his intellectual honesty on issues. His beliefs, however wrong, were his beliefs and he stuck to them.
*barf*
Calling Sarah Palin! Isn’t about time to finally declare that your quid pro quo obligations have expired and start distancing yourself from this embarrassingly obsequious RINO?
If you continue holding your nose much longer it’s gonna leave a permanent mark.
Yet the polling is way too close-heartbreaking. The money is pouring in for John McCain to run these “tough on immigration-build the fence “I HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED”.
McCain has the money and the machine-JD Hayworth just does not seen to catch the traction he needs-why I do not know.
I watched Juan McCain on Hannity last night and he referred to 2008 speeches on securing the border etc etc. But he forgot to mention his previous “build the GD Fence” comment from the 2007 Grahamnesty debate.
He was there in 1986 when we gave 2 million illegals amnesty and promised it wouldn’t happen again. He lied to us because he didn’t close the border as promised. Any one that was in office then, lied and can’t be trusted to be in office this time around.
Re-elect No One 2010/2012.
It is time for him to go.At times he was honorable but mostly he is like all the rest of Congress.Keeping their power base at our expense.Sure he served and was a POW but if this keeps up we will all be POW’s.Prisoners Of War on Americans.
And if you can crawl up to the border and get one finger across John thinks you should be a citizen.
Primaries are for the party activists. Hayworth’s support comes from those who have not been that active or worse for a primary Independents and conservative Democrats.
A radio talk show host in our area has been vetting GOP primary candidates for months and telling people to get involved in the primaries.
That is what’s needed IMHO.
McShame, McShame, McShame
Idunno about the Kabuki analogy. We used to watch Kabuki with the kids at the mall. While the charicatures and over acted drama fits Juan, the Kabuki was actually interesting, entertaining and funny. The kids loved it.
This stuff is just tedious, pathetic and rather disgusting.
It’s like of someone who says they are a big advocate of mousetraps – after they’ve gone out of their way scattering morsels of cheese all over the place to attract the mice.
It’s time AZ follows CA’s lead and build a real border fence. Conservative AZ voters are only now waking up to what it feels like to be a typical Californian where you can’t get your politicians to listen to you.
McCain, Kyl, Napolitano, and all of those treasonous AZ mayors, all central players to why AZ is overrun by drug cartel operatives and other illegals. How is it the AZ is considered a conservative state? Looks to me like it’s just an extension of CA.
And don’t get me started with “open borders central” Texas.
Like Grahamnesty before him, he’ll win the primary because he is a sure bet in November.
Time for conservatives in AZ to kick him out, even if it means voting Dem in the general. Better to have the enemy outside the gate than within the walls where McCain has demonstrated his ability to do irreparable harm to the Constitution.
Off topic, but I just read this:
Heterosexual lobby?! Why doesn’t anyone tell me these things?!
Juan should have played Leonard Smalls in “Raising Arizona” ca. 1987…
“Name’s Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny… only I ain’t got no friends.”
Corrupt, certainly; criminal, probably
However, treasonous does not apply.
Maybe he saw the light. Maybe, he didn’t and is just sticking his finger in the air to see which way the political wind is blowing. The voters in Arizona are going to have to decide whether to trust him or not.
HAHAHA
Kind of makes you think of the mole the krauts planted in the prisoner barracks in the first episode of Hogan’s Heroes, doesn’t it?
Watching this loser crash and burn is one of the finest experiences I’ve had in a long time. What a great day for America!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
He’s been in the senate long enough that his OFFICE should be hollow!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Arizona has completed phase I of taking back their state from the criminally liberal. Phase II is coming in November. Let’s see if they have the wisdom to send one of the career political elites packing.
Why should he remember? He fooled the Republicans in 2008, and in too many election cycles to bother counting before that. Come on now, and be honest. How many people here actually went ahead and, for whatever reason, actually voted for this clown to be POTUS?
The very people who are today celebrating his demise largely cast votes in his favor in 2008. I do not begrudge anyone that vote, but rather wish to make the point that by allowing him the nomination, voters have merely encourage him to continue with this crap. The technology being used against him today is not appreciably more formidable than that of just two years ago. He fooled enough people then, so why not now?
Truth be told, this man should have been shown the door long before 2008. Had that happened, we might not have had the choice between a rock and a hard place that we had in 2008, and Barack Obama might still be a mere nuisance noisemaker in the Senate.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Juan is getting his money from the party faithful business people who want to keep their slaves, and the George Soros “we want communism” crowd. The Politburo in any commie country lives really well, while all the little people eat gruell and die from pneumonia.
Love the analogy, but disagree with it. McCain hasn’t lost his way. He is still focused on the same tings he always has been.
These lies just show the real John McCain in action yet again. Shame on Arizonans for letting him get this far. Kudos to those same Arizonans for seeing the light.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
This is perfect.
I am sooooo using this (with your permission, of course)!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
yes, John,’my friend’(yech!)..the border is bad…THANKS TO YOU!!!
We can hope that AZ Conservatives get rid oy McClame in the primary. I’m not sure how we rid our country and party of the idiots Graham & Lieberman. They all have to go before our nation becomes unrecoverable, thanks to them.
When McCain points his finger at Democrats,
there are three fingers pointing right back at him.
Where was John McCain on February 2, 2008 when one of his Republican primary competitors committed to the 15 point action plan developed by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)?
The plan includes steps to improve border security, workplace enforcement and legal immigration policies.
Mike Huckabee not only committed to Session’s points but also committed to ensuring that fences would be completed on BOTH southern and northern borders by July 1, 2010. Both fences would probably be done by now if Huckabee had won the nomination and general election.
I am disappointed that of all men, I never thought that McCain would retreat from his real beliefs just to save his political hide. That type of morphing is usually the province of slimy democrats.
He fits that descrption well.
On May 13th, 2010 at 9:37 am, iamsaved said:
And to think that John McCain’s predecessor in that Senate seat was…
Barry Goldwater!
His tag line should have been:
I’m Juan McShamnesty and I’m pandering for votes as my poll numbers drop…
Did you first check to make sure Juan Hernandez was alright with it?
Also, my fffff….ffffff…FFFFFRIIIIIIEND (gasp!), if we build “the danged fence”, how will we get those foreigners in to do the jobs Americans won’t do, like pick lettuce for $50/hour?
Non-PC terminology but worth considering
Fox is busy giving Slimeball Mac credibility. Every time I see that face on tv I feel like vomiting.
Can some of you Arizona residents explain why Hayworth is behind in the polls? I would really like to understand.
As a 24 year veteran, I’ll say it: John, your past service for your country is appreciated but whatever credit that provided has been expended. You are out of touch with real conservatives and you should retire while you still have your honor. Changing your political position just to get re-elected does not reflect well on that honor- and I’m being nice about this. I do not want to dislike you but you are making this difficult. Take up a hobby or hang out at the VFW, but just go home. We have got it from here.
And putting the traps out for show, but never setting them.
If America could deport the illegal invaders back then, they can sure do it today!
If we can spend $700 Billion to bailout Wall Street (TARP), $150 Billion to bail out Fannie Mae, and $787 Billion to bailout the public employee unions (Stimulus)… how can they plausibly claim they can’t afford to build a $5 Billion border security fence?
“Senator Hayworth”, hey, sounds great to me.
Juan McCain: your time will be better spent golfing, at book clubs, visiting your grandkids, etc. — please, just go already. You know you’re in trouble when your peers openly laugh at your hypocrisy.
As with most political ads that is 31 seconds pure unadulterated BS…I will all but guarantee it that if Juan is re-elected it won’t be but a blink of an eye and he will have forgotten all about the boarders and back to path to citizenship for the invaders of my country, McCain is no more than a lying politician.
He’s long out lived his “heroism”.
I am not a voter in AZ, but if McCain wins the primary, he must be held to this newfound position.
Why are politicians’ egos so big that they feel they are needed well beyond their ‘stale’ dates?
McAmnesty, please, just retire.
Which reminds me to send a donation to Hayworth.
Good luck with that.
Ironic isn’t it that the president mocks a law requireing the enforcement of federal immigration laws as profiling: “if you don’t have papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed.”
When in San Francisco, an illegal alien that wasn’t deported murders a husband and 2 sons coming home from a picnic.
And San Francisco and the President think the Arizona law is the problem.
Don’t worry, John. Bob Dole’s probably ready to give up making commercials for Viagara. “My friends, I’d like to talk to you about erectile disfunction…”
It would be easier to hold a live fish to a slimey rock.
Yup. And… let me add a historical reference or perspective. People (the critics, or nay-sayers) say stuff like: ‘it costs too much’, ‘it’s too big a project’, ‘it’s too complicated’, etc. Well, I call BS.
The US Govt (primarily) cut a new road out of mostly uninhabited and inhospitable terrain, used machinery that was often unreliable, and extended some 1400 miles and was completed in only about 8 months. Oh, and this all happened almost 70 years ago! People today know it as the Al-Can Highway.
The justification for the project: it was deemed critical to our national defense and territorial integrity in the face of an ongoing and encroaching hostile threat. (Let me extend a big ‘thanks’ to all the soldiers that got it done too)
If we could build the Al-Can highway then, there’s no reason we can’t put the double-layer fence up the full distance of the southern border (where needed) in a year or two.
What about her endorsement of Juan’s pal Fiornia another RINO. No offense intended, best you look closer at Palin, she is a GOP politician not a conservative. She’ll grab you by your heart strings with her little boy, and talk like a conservative on social issues, then on issues like our boarder invasion she slides to into RINO mode…”path to citizenship”. Fiorina is not a conservative just as McShame is not…but you find Sara endorsing and campaigning for both.
you bet and Ike did it with only 1075 BP agents…we now have well over 17K…nappy in her infinite wisdom has blocked the border invasion pics web site at DHS…a useful tool showing the extent of the invasion but the border is “more secure than ever”….NOT…
I’m doing my part as a non-AZ resident. Donation to Hayworth election, and e-mailed Hannity to Stop with the McLame pass and uncontested b/s on his show.
Phil, why do you have to go and bash Texas? I like you, man, but that is not the way to win friends and influence people.
Texas may not be perfect, but (outside the weirdos in Austin) we’re a a very conservative and level-headed state.
I like California and I know from experience that it has many redeeming qualities. You don’t have to diss Texas to make yourself fell better about California. I have been all over CA (and the U.S.) and I know there are good honest Americans in CA being harassed and intimidated by a few nuts in L.A., S.F., and Sacramento.
Based on recent threads, there’s a possibility that you might call me a RINO for saying this. I hope not. I remember agreeing with you on many issues and I admire your passion. I am certainly no RINO.
Anyway, I know TX isn’t perfect. I also know I’m not either.
If TX were the hellhole that it looks like you think it is, I would take my family elsewhere.
I question just how conservative Hannity is…his so called conservative guests are made up of RINO’s McShame, Rove, Romney.
Some still think McCain is an honorable man.
It is not honorable to conspire behind closed doors with Ted Kennedy and La Raza against the American people.
It is not honorable to try to rush an amnesty for foreign nationals illegally in our country AND their employers through Congress without committee hearings shortcutting the normal process.
It is not honorable to have contempt for the will of the people. “I’ll build the G-D fence if they want it.”
Dishonorable conduct unbecoming a U.S. Senator. Way past time to remove him from office.
Hannity is a GOP cheerleader, not a conservative. He talks a good game at times, but will always revert to pimping RINOs.
JOHN MCCAIN !!!!!
JUAN HERNANDEZ TELLS US YOUR HEARING IS BAD.
SECURE THE BORDER.
PERIOD.
ENFORCE THE LAW.
NO NEW PATH.
Questions for illegal alien apologists like John McCain:
Why does The National Council of the Race (la raza in spanish) and the Chamber of Commerce get to negotiate a “Comprehensive Shafting of The American Citizens” behind closed doors? Since when does an organization representing foreign nationals breaking our laws get to rewrite our immigration laws to suit the lawbreakers? Isn’t this akin to allowing NAMBLA to rewrite our laws regarding child predators? Or allowing organized crime syndicates to rewrite racketeering, gambling, prostitution, and extortion laws?
We The People are being told by our representatives that we should sit down and shut up while they invite in the entire world. We The People should get some say in this matter. Another amnesty will set off a stampede like we have never seen before. There is not much time to save our country. All the power and money are on the side of shoving this amnesty down our throats. The RNC wanted an amnesty candidate in the last election, some of you voted for one. Don’t do it again. Please, we have very little time to save our country.
There are. With the shape California is in, there is absolutely no reason for a Californian to bash Texas or most other states for that matter.
VP, it puzzles me how Hannity and Mark Levin, who I believe is a dyed in the wool conservative are best of pals.
Seems Hannity and his “go along to get along” GOP(grand old pals)is in opposition to Levin’s “change the country before it’s too late” attitude. Strange bedfellows?
John, John, John, (tch tch tch ) I applaud your Military Service, your Senatorial Service, not so much.
Hey Arizona, the MSM is trying to pick your candidate for you again! What are you going to do about it?
He stuck his finger in the wind to determine what to say to save his political future. Instead of running again, he needs to chose a retirement home.
HEY! IS THAT SOLICITOR GENERAL ELENA KAGAN UNDER ALL THAT CLOTHING???
John McCain now believes that the new Arizona law is a good Start, but doesn’t go far enough. The Senator simply won’t rest until every illegal is hunted down ,clubbed like a baby seal, loaded into a boxcar,and bodily thrown out of the country or the day after the Arizona primary. Whichever comes first.
Who is Sheriff Paul Babeu and what was the price for his soul???
Just when you didn’t think McLame couldn’t get any Lamer, he one-ups himself. I almost threw-up in my mouth at the sappiness of this stupid video. “Senator, you’re one of us.” What, is that guy a SINO? (Sherrif in name only)
Please, Arizona, VOTE THE BUM OUT!
I have plenty of friends with whom I disagree.
Most are simply a different flavor of center-right than I am, some are outright liberals, some self-proclaimed anarchists, potheads, open-borderers and other weirdos. (and one (former) illegal who isn’t sure where his allegiance lies.)
I don’t have a problem w/ having friends who disagree. However, they don’t dictate my beliefs. Also, I would resent anyone who told me that I couldn’t choose my friends. Despite Hannity’s softness on some issues I think I could call him a friend if I knew him personally and just concentrate on the commonalities.
Then again, I get along with a lot of different kinds of people and I have several friends who HATE each other.
Why isn’t anyone already asking him: “Are you willing to swear under oath that you are not taking dirty money?” Corruption everywhere you look but no one dares ask those in charge the obvious questions.
Why are so many of us find it so easy to accuse the government of being corrupt but yet can’t connect the dots to grasp the concept those in charge must be corrupt for the government to be corrupt. Those in charge have names and operate in plain view. Could we please ask the obvious suspects the obvious questions? Please?
Let’s get real. 535 elected jerks and 40-50 years of “talk” and we still do not have border security. Please, if these traitors in our Congress REALLY wanted to do “something” about illegal aliens entering the US, it would have been done a long time ago. If for no other reason, Arizonans, don’t keep putting the same airheads back into a position of trust. Remember, it is privilege to be in the Congress, not an incumbent right.
I read your post first, plymouth, and was about to get into fight mode with Pasadena Phil over whatever was said about Texas. Nobody takes the name of Texas in vain. Then I read what he wrote, and I realized he’s right. Rick Perry refuses to join Arizona in their fight because he says, “It’s not the right direction for Texas.” Apparently Rick Perry is going in the wrong direction if he thinks that. I know what direction I’ll be heading when it comes time to vote for the next Governor of Texas.
Given McCain’s age, this would probably be his last 6-year term (wouldn’t have to run for re-election). There is no doubt in my mind that the “Maveric” would not only vote wrong on this issue, but would probably completely morph into the liberal-lite he wants to become. He would have to look back to the right to reach across the aisle.
He won’t. He has no intention of sticking to this position. It’s only to get himself elected.
For all of the praise of McCain’s military service, I ask a few questions.
How many lives did McCain try to save on the deck of the USS Forrestal?
Why did John McCain partner with John F’in Kerry to treat the POW-MIA families with anger and disdain?
Perfect post – swmntman #80. Exactly what I think, too!
On May 13th, 2010 at 9:20 am, plymouthacclaim said:
Me, too.
I forgive him, but I won’t forget.
This business with the fence isn’t the first time that McCain tried to use a story or an issue to first say, “I’m not one of you” and then later turn around and use that very same issue/story to say, “I am one of you.”
1) The Fence. From John “Goddamned Fence” McCain (i.e., “I’m not one of you”) to John “Build the Dang Fence” McCain (i.e., “I am one of you.”)
2) The “Cross in the Dirt“.
Here’s Sheriff Babeu’s home page:
http://pinalcountyaz.gov/Departments/Sheriff/Pages/Home.aspx
Sorry RWR, we voters didn’t have much choice by the time the primaries came around. I loved Fred, but he sorely disappointed me with his tardiness and dropping out. I was then left with the choice of Mitt or McShame. The week before the primary (I think) Mitt called it quits too. Not much of a choice at this point.
I hope the voters remember the shamelessness of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu when election time for him comes around. He’s the guy that thinks that our photo radar doesn’t save lives.
Thank you. I know I take pokes at Texas from time to time but it’s only because Texans (like Arizonans and others) often attack CA when their own states are at least as bad.
I have nothing against Texas. I could even end up living there some day since I have enough TX clients to make a nice living there. But it is really annoying to hear provincials from AZ, TX and elsewhere bashing CA when we are probably ahead of everyone else on solving the problem. We have a border fence that works for instance.
Our liberal politicians are no worse than those running AZ and TX.
Maybe we can film them in their natural habitat particpating in Primal scream Therapy…
Are you going to vote for the Dem? How will that work out for the future of my home state of Texas? Or will you not vote for Governor at all? Just a question – don’t know what you meant.
Appreciate your input, you obviously have a more lenient criteria to meet for accepting one as a friend.
That’s not to say friends should always agree on every subject, but IMO the future of the country is not a simple matter of seeing another’s point of view and thinking none the worse of the opinion or the person. How do you determine the enemy? I know I couldn’t accept as a friend anyone contemplating the over throw of our country. Would that not include “some are outright liberals, some self-proclaimed anarchists, potheads, open-borders and other weirdos.”
At no time did I advocate telling how or who one may choose as friends. It’s a matter of one’s criteria for choosing a friend that I questioned.
rightisright,
Hannity has been good for Levin’s exposure and career, you don’t bite the hand that feeds you is the only explanation I can come up with.
If you look at Hannity’s regulars, they are all RINO’s. Not one of them has done or will do anything to stop the invasion of our nation by illegal aliens. That goes for most of the GOP, they are on the payroll of the cheap labor express.
I don’t agree w/ Perry 100% of the time,
but the alternative is UNTHINKABLE!
Bill White was mayor of Houston. He left our city in financial shambles and political chaos: entitlement programs, wasteful spending, cronyism, etc. He is a hardcore liberal / socialist. We CANNOT allow him to ruin the state.
…add Sanctuary City to Bill White’s resume!
Yikes – Bill White sounds like a typical dem-wit.
You are missing the point. WE are trying to make sure that the GOP presents conservative alternatives. YOU are once again presenting the RINO argument that their side sucks more than ours. Instead of succumbing to your fears as Plan A, why not help us chase the RINOs out of the party? Doesn’t the effectiveness of the Tea Party give you hope?
How about taking a leap of faith and voting for the candidate who can best be trusted to represent what most Americans want? We’ve tried you way and look where it got us. Try our way. It’s working.
*It is imperative that McCain not win the primary; He is a 180 away from the good people of Arizona and their new law against illegal alien criminals; As I have said before, he is Arizona’s version of Ted Kennedy, and will only do further damage to that fine state; I will continue to send coin to JD Hayworth so he can get his message out and push McCain into retirement.
VP, you may very well be right, IMO the tables have changed if what you say is the way of the world. I think Levin is more of an asset to Hanitty than visa-virsa now days, I listen to Levin daily and I have to tell you, I cringe when Hannity pops on for a few minutes and is off pandering.
Rick Perry before his last election talked tough about doing something about illegal aliens and as soon as he was re-elected he changed his tune.
Perry will do nothing to stop the invasion. I understand that White is worse, but you get what you vote for.
Had McCain been elected President, amnesty would have been the first thing he did.
Pasadena Phil: If the Primary is already done with (in Texas, which is what I was talking about), then how are you going to vote in somebody that isn’t even on the ballot (such as a more deserving Conservative)?
Yes, vote McCain out on Primary level – but what if he wins the Primary again? Put in a Dem?
Pasadena Phil:
Don’t assume that I don’t follow TEA Party candidates, quite the contrary! I’m a member of my local and state TEA Party groups. Unfortunately, Debra Medina was our only choice during the primaries. I’m NOT about to vote for a 9/11 Truther and in this day and age, I’m not willing to give “on the job training” to an inexperienced governor. Perry is NOT a RINO. He has made some mistakes, but TX is one of the few states “in the black” financially. We can’t throw ALL incumbents out because we’re angry at a few. DISCERNMENT is critical!
You’re right, and as much as I hate to admit it, I guess I have no other choice.