McCain and La Raza/The Race: A “serious lapse of judgment”

Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 05/11/2008 | Michelle Malkin

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The open-borders media has been AWOL on John McCain’s decision to speak to the radical racialist group, La Raza/The Race in July. He has been allowed to skate on the issue in several recent sit-down interviews. Many of the same pundits who blasted Barack Obama for his ties to the radical racialist Jeremiah Wright have nothing to say about McCain’s longtime association with the shamnesty-pushing, sovereignty-undermining, publicly-subsidized shakedown artists of La Raza/The Race.

Not everyone’s looking the other way. Editorial page editor Colin McNickle at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review warned today:

“McCain had made significant progress in reaching out to conservatives over the last month or so. But his La Raza embrace is a serious lapse of judgment, one of a number of lapses that, if the primaries are a valid indicator, could lead to a full quarter of the Republican electorate staying home on Nov. 4.”

Guess McCain’s counting on all his left-wing global warming fear-mongering friends to make up the difference.

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Related from The Other McCain: Mr. Reformer’s Glass House.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Ping!

[chasio649]

Rules?

;)

[Thunder90]

La Raza will end up voting for Barry anyway.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Hispandering PING! ;)

[MrEdd]

My Position from the start has been:
If we need people we can process in new citizens who have never committed any crime including entering illegally.

And who are drawn from every country in the world
From Iceland To South Africa, From Norway to South Korea
Every corner of the globe, not giving ANY preference to the few nations to our immediate south.

My Position Has Not Changed.

I am a conservative not a Republican. I will vote for Republicans IF they are conservative. If Bush's opponent had not been Hanoi John Kerry, I would not have voted in the last election.

Islam's war against the west will inevitably bring the US a nuclear strike. The persistent open borders are a hot potato that will utterly destroy the party in power when it happens. I prefer that the borders be closed - but barring that, let it be the liberals who are destroyed if we're not going to move to prevent it.

This is as obvious and foreseeable as the earlier attacks on September eleventh. Aside from the loss we all will have of family and friends WHEN not if this happens, I recognize that the party who emerges in power will be able to radically reshape government the United States. Many on the left foresee this as well, and are actively working to keep our defenses weak.

I therefore am willing to sacrifice important pieces to win the game. Winning the white house or congress are less important than closing the borders. A candidate who could win an office, at the cost of placing someone in office that the left could justifiably claim failed to aggressively defend America costs conservatism control of the board.

By the same token I will not move to save a socially liberal republican candidate merely to defeat the democrat. Sometimes control of the board is more important than saving every pawn.

If I get a liberal in office who votes liberal while claiming (unchallenged) to represent the party with a conservative platform, then my voice is even more unheard than if a liberal democrat is in office. It means that conservatives will vote for anyone who claims conservatism, even if they are to the left of Hillary Clinton. It also means that the Republican party did this eyes wide open, believing that I (and other conservatives) would vote for a yellow dog if it was a republican. Sorry RNC that only works with democrats.

Semper Fidelis

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

;)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

A “serious lapse of judgment”

No, not a lapse.

Just as indication at those whom Mcloon chooses as allies.

[kaehurowing]

I will never vote for McCain. The GOP better get its act together and pick another candidate or they will find there is no one left in their party.

[MovementConservative]

If they do stay home, then some good GOP house members(and there are a few) will be ousted. Oh well. I guess the US is going to become just like Massachusettes and New Jersey. Wonderful.

[chasio649]

She is so pretty....my wife is a filipina and everytime Michelle is on Fox...she screams at me in my computer room that “Our girl is on Fox”

;)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

If they do stay home, then some good GOP house members(and there are a few) will be ousted.

While I don't advocate staying home, myself -- I'll be voting for genuine conservatives down ticket, and either voting third party at the top or else leaving it blank altogether -- that's the inevitable risk the Republican party takes in running a RINO who, like a parrot suffering from Tourette Syndrome, reflexively and incessantly disses both said party's base and their conservative positions on the issues.

McCain can either meet the base at least halfway, on the specific issues on which they most profoundly disagree with him... or else accept the logical consequences of not doing so, like a mature, rational adult.

[no dems]

Maybe he thinks there are more Mexicans than there are Conservatives who are out there voting.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Indeed. Agreed.

Mrs. Malkin is an attractive American of Asian background.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Maybe he thinks there are more Mexicans than there are Conservatives who are out there voting.

Nationwide opinion polls routinely place the number of Americans who regard illegal immigration and/or porous borders between the U.S. and Mexico as a serious problem at a level between 80% and 89%, depending.

McCain has been, and remains, an imbecile. ;)

[The_Republican]

This remind me of “Untouchables” in Indian Society. Higher castes are not supposed to come in contact with the lowly castes or they go to hell or something.

The Politics of “Untouchables” is the new thing in Conservative world.

Can’t shake hands with so and so, otherwise the germs are transfered and somehow your own convictions are vaporized.

What foolishness!

FDR sat with Stalin who was one of the WORST monsters who ever lived and killed more people than Hitler. Don’t think Stalin’s germs caused FDR to become an absolute tyrant.

Nixon went to China and that moved paved the way to taking down the Iron Curtain. The nexus between Soviets and China was broken after that.

Throught history, bitter enemies have sat across the table and had discussion.

However, now some psychopath losers are spreading an insane Philosophy that having discussions with people you disagree with or even your enemies makes you evil.

Now the same psychotic thought process is being extended to domestic policy.

Most all Democrats are Al Raza supporters if not members. By this same psychotic logic that meeting Al Raza is a great sin, then coming in contact with Al Raza supporters, the Demcorats must also be an equally horrible sin. How far can this foolishness extend?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Strongly objecting to giving racist hate groups validation by meeting with them," in your eyes = "psychopath losers." [sic]

Fascinating.

And very, very revealing.

[The_Republican]

Validation? FDR validated Communism? Nixon Validated China? Reagan Validated USSR? You can meet people you disagree with and find common ground where you can. If Al Raza (which I don’t know much about other than absolute hatred and visceral reaction from some here) can make a difference of 5-10% of votes, then why not meet them. You don’t have to give them what they want. Simply create an impression that you reached out.

Try and figure the out Demographics of Americans today. Over 15% are Hispanic and Blacks are about the same percentage. Asians and other are about 4-5%.

You CAN NOT restrict yourself to 66% of the people, and expect to survive, especially since the ratio is going in other direction fast.

This is Democracy. They count number of votes at the end of the day. They don’t value one vote more than the other, because it is from someone with much purer and noble beliefs. Someone who refused to shake hands with Al Raza gets their vote counted ten times. Then it would be an intelligent strategy. However, since that is not case, then wherever you can find votes, you have to reach out. That doesn’t mean you give everything they want. Reaching out is not same as agreeing to everything.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Al Raza (which I don’t know much about

Then you're simply, by your own admission, posting from a position of ignorance, and need to remedy that before we may profitably continue. Michelle Malkin's site is an excellent starting point, re: this topic. Begin there.

Try and figure the out Demographics of Americans today.

See post #15, above.

[AnimalLover]

Most all Democrats are Al Raza supporters if not members.

May I ask where you got this information. I know and am related to many Democrats and I assure you this is not the case