McCain Meets With Hispanic Leaders
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Michael Tarm, AP, June 19, 2008
Republican presidential John McCain assured Hispanic leaders he would push through Congress legislation to overhaul federal immigration laws if elected, several people who attended a private meeting with the candidate said Thursday.
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Both McCain and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama support giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, but neither has made the issue a centerpiece of the campaign. At one time, McCain’s campaign suffered because of his stance on the issue.
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Pulido [complained Rosanna Pulido, a conservative Hispanic Republican], who heads the Illinois Minuteman Project, which advocates for restrictive immigration laws, said she thought McCain was “pandering to the crowd” by emphasizing immigration reform in his 15-minute speech.
“He’s having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear,” she said. “I’m outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative.”
After the event, McCain met privately with Martin Sandoval, an Illinois state senator and Democratic convention delegate for former candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sandoval said he left open the possibility of backing McCain, citing his immigration stance and pledge to keep business taxes low.
(Posted on June 23, 2008)
Comments
McCain panders to hispanics, Obama to blacks. Who is panerding to me? The white conservative in his 40s that works hard for a living?
Steve
Posted by at 5:09 PM on June 23
McCain once said that soft amnesty (“comprehensive immigration reform”) failed in 2007 because the politicians lost the trust of the people. Actually, it failed because the people knew what a rotten deal it was, not because they couldn’t trust the pols enough to think that CIR was somehow good for them.
This proves that he’s an amnesyaire, and always will be.
Posted by Question Diversity at 5:56 PM on June 23
McCain seems to hate white America and love illegal aliens.
The Republicans need to get another candidate who puts Americans first or the man who is reported to have supported Odinga for President of Kenya - the same Odinga who wants to outlaw all religions except Islam - will be elected President out of disgust for the Bush Republican betrayal.
Posted by Oldman at 5:57 PM on June 23
I wonder how the coming war with Mexico will effect this issue. Of course, few to no, MSM sources are documenting the fact that we now have frequent paramilitary incursions into the US by drug cartels and that the US recent sent 6,000 national guard to the border as an emergency measure.
Only a matter of time before these small skirmishes break out into something so large it can’t be ignored. It will be defacto war with Mexico. And it’s unavoidable by any actions the US could take (short of immediately militarizing our border).
This will move the entire issue firmly and permanently outside of immigration.
Posted by at 6:42 PM on June 23
Another spineless white man giving into minority groups. Wish every white man was like Taylor or Duke.
Posted by at 7:46 PM on June 23
I predict in the months leading up to the election that mainstream Republicans and movement Conservatives will do everything in their poser to avoid discussing or addressing immigration in any way or form. They all know how dispicably weak McCain is on this issue, yet they will support this traitor fully, so long as the evil Democrat doesn’t win, blah, blah…
America’s fate is sealed.
Posted by HH at 10:32 PM on June 23
It is astounding that McCain is the Republican nominee for President. Could the Republican Party machine possibly have put forward a bigger boob??
Posted by Bobby at 10:45 PM on June 23
Last year McCain co-sponsored an amnesty bill w/ Senator Chappaquiddick.
When Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul slammed him over this at the Republican debates, he flip-flopped and began chanting “We can’t have amnesty” on tv.
Now he privately assures Latinos the fix is in. And this guy used to call his campaign “the straight talk express”!
Posted by Madison Grant at 12:45 AM on June 24
I find myself getting ready to vote third party and the Devil take the hindmost since I don’t trust Mc Cain to do the right and lawful thing on immigration. Basically their both tools for their liberal causes and don’t give a darn about us, I don’t see any other ethical choice. Anyone give me a reason to vote for McCain other than his skin color?
Posted by at 1:22 AM on June 24
I suspect that McCain, who wanted to be Kerry’s running mate
and approached Daschle about caucusing with Democrats,
harbors an aversion to conservative whites. I think that
this will make him a disaster, both as a candidate and
as a prospective President.
Posted by Larry at 1:30 AM on June 24
It’s really quite incredible that this incoherent buffoon stumbled his way into the Republican nomination, admittedly with a little help from the equally incoherent Mike Huckabee.
McCain’s none too bright, erratic, has zero understanding of basic economics, and is more than a little wacky in the bargain.
He’ll never be able to withstand the scrutiny focused on him by a presidential campaign and will unravel like a cheap suit, bringing about the greatest national defeat in Republican history.
Posted by john at 5:43 AM on June 24
Maybe better to vote McCain in anyway and then barrage him with anti-amnesty sentiment. Wouldn’t that suceed more so than with Obama?
Posted by truthbetold at 10:59 AM on June 24
I can only imagine how this meeting is going.
“Psst Chewie, I’ll give you California and Texas if you get your people to vote for me.”
“Orale jefe, we already have them. You’ll have to do better than that ese.”
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 12:04 PM on June 24
In big media announcements, McCain pretends he’s seen the light and now adopts the American majority’s wishes regarding illegal immigration. In more private encounters with hispanic activists, he assures them he still holds the views expressed in the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill - the one blown off the Senate floor by the intensity of public fury against it.
McCain is a liar.
Posted by Gary at 12:40 PM on June 24
“McCain panders to hispanics, Obama to blacks. Who is pandering to me?”
Hillery Clinton tried but got no traction or support from the media; only mild condemnation.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 4:22 PM on June 24
1:22 A.M. June 24 post:
Check out the Constitution Party
Posted by at 5:03 PM on June 24
“It is astounding that McCain is the Republican nominee for President. Could the Republican Party machine possibly have put forward a bigger boob?? “
Well, as Rush Limbaugh explained his “Operation Chaos” campaign, the news media and Democrats are constantly urging their people to vote for the so-called “moderate” in Republican primaries, so why shouldn’t Republicans vote for Hillary?
Posted by at 9:59 PM on June 24
Good. I’m voting for Obama now. This “Scot” just pushed me too far.
Republicans against McCain in 2008!
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 11:16 PM on June 24
Obama’s words are empty and useless. I don’t know what to think about McCain. Neither one has said anything that would benefit my family or at least not work against it.
Politicans are liars. They don’t know what’s important anymore. Neither will be my President. Neither will follow through tomorrow on what they say today. How are we suppossed to choose who is worse?
Posted by fire&brimstone at 12:23 AM on June 25