Posted on 02/02/2008 7:53:57 AM PST by AuntB
I agree. The sheeple will never hear about it for two reasons, the media is not about to report it and even if they did the sheeple are focused on the Super Bowl, not Super Tuesday. And besides, Britanny was taken by ambulance to a psycho ward. Priorities, folks, Hillary will take care of all the little details for us anyway, no need to worry about anything.
Why isn’t Romney running ads against McCain highlighting the Juan Hernandez issue? That is the one thing that could take McCain down on Tuesday, IMO.
Make that Santorum, Tancredo and Sheriff Arpaio!
Exactly...the good Sheriff carries a lot of weight in my book. He’s been right on the front line fighting this.
The only Romney ad I have seen is a contrast between him and Hillary! And it is a lame ad in my opinion! What is he doing? He has to defeat McCain not Hillary!
Ya know, I may JUST be able to vote for Romney now.
The implications of the contrast between Romney and McCain is very defining.
McCain is for ending American occupation of north Mexico and giving it back to the conquistadors from south of the....line.
Romney did not directly hire illegals to do work at his house. That was his lawn service who hired the illegals. Just goes to show how easily illegals can get employment.
Missouri had a top aide to the governor discovered as illegal and deported after many years of high profile exposures. It obviously has been far too easy for illegals to walk boldly without fear of consequences for their illegal activity. Time is ripe for a REAL CHANGE!
We need someone who will get tough on enforcement.
Romney has the appearance of that kind of person.
We know without a doubt how McCain is bad on immigration enforcement.
I guess that it all boils down to who will destroy the US the slowest, the rats or MexCain.
Just McCain being McCain...
Capitol Hill staffers rate their bosses.
McCain got no glory from those who work with him.
“Every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views. While there may be lots of partisan backbiting among congress members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle. “
Worst Follower 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Show Horse 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Hottest Temper 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) known to snap at staff when the cameras are off
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1666.html
Latest (Jan. 2008) OVERALL Presidential Candidate Ratings On IMMIGRATION
How Good Are The Promises of Each Candidate to PROTECT Workers, Communities and Taxpayers FROM ILLEGAL & OVER-IMMIGRATION?
VERY GOOD# Mitt Romney (28 points)
GOOD# RON PAUL(24 points) # MIKE HUCKABEE(24 points)
POOR# RUDY GIULIANI(7 points)
BAD# JOHN McCAIN (5 points) # JOHN EDWARDS (5 points) # HILLARY CLINTON (4 points) # BARACK OBAMA (4 points)
Please note that our ratings do NOT amount to endorsements. Nor do they convey anything about the character, the strength or any other positions about the candidates. http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez2008.html
THE McCAIN WAY - ATTACK REPUBLICANS
Defending His Amnesty Bill, “Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, ‘F— you!’ at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. ‘This is chickens—stuff,’ McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. ‘You’ve always been against this bill, and you’re just trying to derail it.’” (Charles Hurt, “Raising McCain,” New York Post, 5/19/07)
In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: “I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush’s campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, I’ll use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. We’re all pretty tired of that. As president, I’ll be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what.” (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00; www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoXkCprdL4)
Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) nams. “Why can’t McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, ‘Only an a–hole would put together a budget like this.’ Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: ‘I wouldn’t call you an a–hole unless you really were an a–hole.’ The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. ‘I decided,’ the senator told Newsweek, ‘I didn’t want this guy anywhere near a trigger.’” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)
Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A “F*cking Jerk.” “Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. ‘Are you calling me stupid?’ Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. ‘No,’ replied McCain, ‘I’m calling you a f—ing jerk!” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)
In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A “Scuffle” With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. “In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, ‘Is the senator about through?’ McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his ‘courtesy’ (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn’t part friends.” (Harry Jaffe, “Senator Hothead,” The Washingtonian, 2/97)
Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: “Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. … The political tactics of division and slander are not our values… They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.” (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)
Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Volunteer. “It was election night 1986, John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. ‘Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didn’t look good on television,’ Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. … ‘There were an awful lot of people in the room,’ Hinz recalled. ‘You’d have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face.’” (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, “Stories Surface On Senator’s Demeanor,” The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)
Sen. McCain “Publicly Abused” Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). “[McCain] noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesn’t ‘insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that.’ This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle…. There have been the many times McCain has called reporters ‘liars’ and ‘idiots’ when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. ” (Editorial, “There’s Something About McCain,” The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07)
Is it any wonder McCain has few endorsements from his Congressional piers? Romney has more! Huckabee has 5 and Ron Paul ZERO.
http://thehill.com/endorsements-2008.html
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Guess he is going after the concept that he can’t beat Hillary in a general election. Stupid tactic if you ask me.
desperation.
I wish Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) would endorse Romney!
Another congressional endorsement for Romney:
On the Republican side, Miller had endorsed for president Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, who has since dropped out.
“The United States economy is in dangerous waters
and on the verge of being shipwrecked by a crippling recession,” Miller said. “With his business savvy and real-world experience, Mitt Romney is the candidate that will steer our economy to calmer seas.”
Miller said he also is encouraged by Romney’s tough stance on stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.
“Gov. Romney has pledged to continue work on a fence along the southern border, implement an employer verification system, punish cities that support illegal immigrants, improve interior enforcement and reject all forms of blanket amnesty,” he said.[snip]
http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_8146641
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Romney MUST point out the differences between himself and McShamnesty on this issue and do it in ads in every state!!
Romney has largely allayed my suspicions on illegal immigration, but I’m still of the opinion that Romney has no convictions (which are better than the wrong convictions) on the 2nd Amendment and abortion....meaning that he could very well see either as acceptable for horse-trading, but probably won’t go out of his way to antagonize conservatives on either issue (unlike what I could have seen Giuliani doing). Romney is not nearly as toxic as the front-runners (McCain especially). With a large enough clothespin, Romney could pass muster.
“reject all forms of blanket amnesty,”
He’d best be rejecting ALL forms of amnesty, not just a blanket amnesty. Those words were FDT’s qualifier for an amnesty ‘out’.
We were for Hunter at first. Then Thompson. Now it is Romney. The more I hear about him the better I like him. We are Conservative. Fundamentalist Christians. Republicans and Federalists.
Good news! I hope the endorsements keep coming along with some big ones, as most conservatives at this time, thankfully, seem to realize we must rally around and support, Governor Romney! : )
Mitt against amnesty? He’s our last best chance.
Take a look:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/166511.aspx
1994 Flyer Reveals Romney’s Conservative Positions
May 29, 2007
A lot has been made of Mitt Romney’s 1994 positions on gay rights and abortion. We’ve heard the flip flop charge before. But what hasn’t been well publicized is the following campaign flyer from 1994. Take a look below.
I’ll take Romney. NO to McCain.
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