God forbid he gets the job, immigration will be one his priority list… of granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

In the middle of the night, Kay Bailey Hutchison, introduced a bill that allowed DHS to not build the fence.

Romney could have hit a home run when McCain said “We all support stopping Illegal Immigration”. (BS)

He could have illustrated that only just 5 miles of the the 854 miles of double-layer border fence mandated by the Secure Fence Act of 2006 has been built and that a double layer fence had not been built mandated by Act. He could have asked McCain why he had not ensured the fence was being built and why he supported Hutchinson’s Amendment to stop the fence.

McCain voted for the Hutchison Amendment.

In addition, he could have asked why he has a foreigner on his campaign committee and use McCain\ Feingold to clean his clock about foreign influence in our elections.

Juan McCain is a Liar and Traitor that should have been exposed easily last night but Romney was being too nice.

Instead of letting Mitt ring in, they went to their break??

The weakest conservative position of the front-runner and they gave him a pass?? They didn’t allow a follow up after the break??

As a side note to Mitt. WTF are you waiting for? Super Duper Wednesday?

McCain would love to be asked this question. It would just invite him to go on and on about why a comprehensive approach is the only approach.

No one will ask him the million dollar question…”would you support citizenship for all illegal aliens in this country”?

orlandocajun on January 31, 2008 at 7:12 AM

Exactly! His comments on the subject are limited to ‘The bill will not come up for a vote’ and ‘I have learned my lesson, the citizens want the border secured first’.

The problem is that if another amnesty bill is brought up he will support it!

McShamnesty may indeed secure the border if elected but you can also be sure that amnesty is second!

I wish a moderator/interviewer would ask McCain why the Arizona border is NOT secure, despite McCain’s presence in the U.S. Senate for decades. If McCain knows what it takes to secure our border, then why the hell hasn’t he secured it already? What is he waiting for?

It’s no accident that Arizona’s state legislators have been passing some of the toughest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country. The state has been forced to do this because the FEDERAL government’s refusal to secure our border has led to Arizona being overrun with illegal aliens. McCain, who for years has been in a position to do something to help, has done nothing. Yet in every interview or debate where he is asked about illegal immigration, he responds with his “I’m from a border state and I know how to secure our borders” crap — and it always goes unchallenged. Why do they keep letting him get away with this kind of nonsense?

included a pathway to citizenship for illegal a—immigrants

Just because he wouldn’t sign his old bill doesn’t mean that he’s changed his position. He would still grant citizenship/amnesty and the media refuses to make him answer that question.

I’ve noticed several attacks on Bob Dole on this thread. It’s really quite unfair. Bob Dole lost to an excellent campaigner. He certainly pulled no McCain like garbage and he was well-liked by Republicans and viewed as honorable by the more reasonable Democrats. We should honor and respect him for his efforts.

thuja on January 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM

I second that emotion.

Fredheads have agreed we can’t allow Juan McCain into our White House so, we’ll have to hold our nose to vote Willard in BUT, we will hold him to his current lies of being a conservative for four years…don’t think we won’t.

( We don’t want to hear any crap from him as if we were supporting the scumbag either. )

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Or has he reversed course on this as well?

HotAir could be in hot water if his lawsuit victory in 2005 had stood… I see all kinds of potential undocumented “in kind” contributions here. Much less the lack of open FEC required communication for any issue ads by some of the bloggers whose names aren’t made public clarifying their support and specifying who it is who has made these statements.

Dole was not disliked.

He was just not much liked, either.

He was considered a weak effort at opposition to a complete sleazebag of a calculating weasel / amusingly pathological liar (Clinton) who was felt to be more “charismatic” than the monotonous but honest Dole.

The Republicans at the time were too stupid to nominate a serious candidate, and lost.

The Dole-esque repetition with MCain is that he is too weak when facing the slime-machine of the Clintons and too unappealing, to the general voter, to beat the (media generated and desperatedly propped-up) “charisma” of Obama.

Dole was a good guy, but beyond his “sell-by” date for that tough a fight.

McCain is a cranky liar, which makes his chances even more absurd once the media sees him as the R candidate and turns against him with everything they are now hiding about his testy character, his unsavory past and many flaws, political and personal.

No slam against Dole was meant.

But the same path is being plowed by the delusional Republican middle.

Obama will beat McVain easily.

Hillary, with a little effort.

But he’ll lose.

He’s too cantankerous for popular consumption.

Resolute on January 30, 2008 at 9:40 PM

True. He’s saying it’s a moot point because it’s clear that the American people won’t let it pass. That’s not flip-flopping; that’s being realistic. He would prefer a more lenient policy, but he’s not going to go against the will of the American people. I think that’s a decent answer, honestly.

And, to be quite honest, the same people talking about him tearing the party apart are the ones who were on the “better dead than anyone-but-Fred!” bandwagon: A very, very small part of the overall party. The Internet is not representative of the Republican coalition, even if it’s closer to the views of Rush. Just like Fred-mania, this too will pass. It won’t be painless, but it will pass.

Besides, Mitt might win.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

My but you’re gullible, AP.

Feel better?

Absolutely not. He’s doing the same thing he does every time this issue is brought up, which is to harp on his “secure the borders first” message. Behind that verbal wall is a labyrinth of amnesty proposals and benefits for illegal aliens. Do you really think he’d have Juan Hernandez on his team if he was tough on illegal immigration? He’s 100% corrupt and deceitful.

Feel better?

Not at all, because he’s not saying that he somehow saw the light… he’s simply responding to an outraged public. He repeatedly says that now it’s evident to him that the American people want the border secured first. I think he should have had the common sense to want that done himself and not needed the political wind to blow him away from his original position.

Feel better?

Remember that scene from the matrix when Neo shoots at the Smith on the roof….. yeah….