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The McCain campaign continues to perpetuate its Big Lie in the run-up to Super Tuesday. And thanks to MSM enablers and open-borders Republicans rooting for a McCain win, voters are swallowing the Big Lie. The Big Lie is that McCain can be trusted on immigration and border security. Dinocrat reports that the McCain campaign called him again and left a recorded message touting the shamnesty promoter's border security credentials. Here's the text of the call:
On the issue of immigration there is no debate that our borders are broken. There are 12 million people here illegally. I've listened and learned. We must secure our borders first and restore trust and confidence in our government. As President, I'll hire new border patrol guards, build a fence, ask governors to certify that their borders are secure. The two million people who have committed crimes will be deported immediately. No one will be rewarded for illegal behavior. They'll go the the back of the line, pay fines and learn English. For those already in our country, there will be no special privileges, and we'll punish employers who hire illegal immigrants. We'll be humane and compassionate, but we will be firm. It's a matter of national security.
According to the WaPo/ABC News poll released this weekend, 47% of respondents said McCain was the candidate they trusted most on immigration; 22% said Romney; 10% chose Huckabee; and 5% went with Paul.
If those voters knew about Juan Hernandez and Jerry Perenchio, McCain would be in single-digit Paul territory.
You want straight talk? McCain's tongue says he's "listened and learned." But his heart is with La Raza, the militantly ethnocentric, anti-immigration enforcement Hispanic lobbying group that honored him in 1999 and whose annual conference he keynoted in 2004.
Go back and watch McCain on the Senate floor during the amnesty debate. Refresh your memories. Here he is comparing guest-worker tax treatment to Jim Crow laws.
Let me remind you of how he and his good friend Teddy Kennedy engaged in nauseating identity politics straight out of the Raza playbook. From May 25, 2006, these are the true, extremist views of John McCain:
An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It's the most important debate of the year, in my opinion.
The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many?
On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
On the other side, the blubbering open-borders duo of GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Democrat Sen. Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Bingaman is offering an amendment to cap the number of visas for legal permanent residents at 650,000. The current Senate immigration bill essentially obliterates the current employer-based green card cap of 140,000. Spouses and children currently count against that cap. Under the Senate bill, that would no longer be true. There would be, in effect, no limits. Bingaman's cap would be four times the current rate–yet both McCain and Kennedy are responding hysterically as if Bingaman has proposed some human rights crackdown on the world.
When Bingaman pointed out the need for prudence in opening the floodgates to unlimited numbers of low-skilled workers, both McCain and Kennedy pulled the race card. McCain's immediate response was to sputter that the "Chamber of Commerce, unions, and Hispanic groups" oppose the caps! McCain called it un-American to be selective about whom we let into this country. Yeah, he did.
When McCain accused Bingaman of "discriminating against" poor immigrants, Bingaman pointed out that the McCain-Kennedy bill itself had a 290,000 cap. No response from the Open-Borders Tag Team.
Sen. Tom Coburn, a staunch amnesty opponent, has endorsed McCain. He's letting bygones be bygones in the spirit of senatorial collegiality.
But I remind you that McCain refused to support Coburn's amendment to the shamnesty bill calling for full enforcement of our immigration laws.
And here's a reminder of John McCain's "leadership" from June 2007 via the Washington Times:
Often lost in the big picture coverage of major legislative issues like the now-troubled Bush-Kennedy immigration bill are the little moments that say everything about how Washington works. They're the little moments that your legislators don't want you to know about and figure will never make it back home through the media.
But Stephen Dinan, our excellent national political reporter who has led the way for months on coverage of immigration legislation, captured this priceless moment in his story this morning as the supporters of the bill struggled to keep it together.
The late-night vote was on an amendment that would require illegal aliens who get legal status to have a minimum level of health insurance. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is the chamber's most liberal member, was — not surprisingly — opposed.
Writes Mr. Dinan: "Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona both went to check with Mr. Kennedy before casting their votes to match his. Soon after, (Arizona Republican Sen. Jon) Kyl also switched his vote to match Mr. Kennedy's."
The amendment was defeated.
And let's remember McCain pulling the threat-of-violence card in support of immigration capitulation: If we don't give in, it'll be like the banlieus in France!
Crooked talk: He says he'll build the fence.
Straight talk: He resents what he calls the "goddamned fence."
John McCain and La Raza-The Race share a deep-seated contempt for grass-roots conservatives who worked successfully to defeat the disastrous amnesty bill. And they share a common impulse to marginalize their political opponents as "haters."
Thus, La Raza-The Race has launched a new "We Can Stop the Hate" campaign–smack dab in the middle of the campaign season–to redefine tough policy criticism from the Right as "hate." They protest that it is "racist" and out-of-bounds to talk about reconquista–even as the McCain campaign boasts a "Mexico First/"Just A Region"/"Free Flow of People" outreach director who's practicing it out in the open for the leading GOP presidential front-runner.
Yes, an ethnic separatist group that calls itself "The Race"–a group that has embraced John McCain and vice versa–has the gall to crusade against "hate." Chris Kelly notes that La Raza-The Race head Janet Murguia is calling for networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves and that both La Raza-The Race and another open-borders group are pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
Read it:
Ms. Murguia argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights: "Everyone knows there is a line sometimes that can be crossed when it comes to free speech. And when free speech transforms into hate speech, we've got to draw that line. And that's what we're doing here today. And we need to make sure that network executives will hold their people accountable and not cross that line."
Murgia praised McCain and looks forward to the "tapering down" of immigration enforcement efforts if he wins the White House: "With his emergence as a leading Republican presidential primary contender, I do think that we'll see this toned down… Does it mean that we know everything he's going to do in that area of reform? And I know he's got his work cut out for him with a number of people, and we'll see him put this whole platform together, but we do believe that if he ends up being in a lead role here, we think that that issue will be tapered down."
No respect for the rule of law. No respect for the First Amendment.
Like John McCain said: "I'll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep."
The company John McCain keeps:
Russ Feingold.
Teddy Kennedy.
Lindsay Grahamnesty.
Juan "Mexico First/Free Flow" Hernandez.
Jerry "Spanish first" Perenchio.
Geraldo Rivera.
La Raza.
Charles Keating.
John Kerry.
The New York Times.
Before you vote for John McCain, I ask you just one question: can it get any more obvious that a McCain Presidency is NOT in America's best interest?
While not perfect himself, Romney is a far better choice...
There's my two cents.
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