Amnesty was McCain’s Agenda in Speech to La Raza
The Bear on Jul 19 2008 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Election 08’, Immigration
McCain completed the trifecta of Hispanic events today by speaking to the National Council of La Raza, after having addressed in earlier weeks the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed officials (NALEO) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
McCain’s message to all three was the same – that he is the true champion of amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens in the United States, not the pretender Obama. As he told NALEO, “comprehensive immigration reform” (the preferred euphemism for amnesty) “would be my top priority yesterday, today and tomorrow.”
It would be smart for Obama to keep goading McCain, as he did when speaking to La Raza Sunday, by accusing him of having walked away from the immigration bill he sponsored last summer with Ted Kennedy. McCain is an honor politician, and he considers his honor to have been challenged by Obama’s claims; as McCain told La Raza, “He [Obama] suggested in his speeches…that I turned my back on comprehensive reform out of political necessity. I feel I must, as they say, correct the record.” The result of all this record-correcting is that he keeps reminding voters that he’s “Amnesty John” with an unshakable commitment to legalizing illegal aliens.
In fact, it’s clear from McCain’s comments that amnesty is the real goal for him, and that promises of enforcement are simply a means to that end, a way to make amnesty more palatable to voters – not just Republican primary voters, by the way, but also the very independents and blue-collar Democrats that he’s targeting for November.
And McCain’s “border security first” rhetoric is transparently insincere.
SideBear: As I said before, is McCain trying to loose this election?
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