this should sit well with forum members as an unpleasant dose of the policy-reality of McCain-elect.
The stepford voters won’t bat an eye.
The brilliance of September will fade in October if the new ads are indicative of the coming message.
McCain can’t help himself and mainstream America does not trust him on this issue.
We know that whichever guy wins, they will sign an immigration bill that comes to their desk.
Of course, Bush would ALSO have signed a bill. So nothing’s changed.
EXCEPT that, if Obama wins, he gets replaced in the Senate with another pro-immigrant liberal democrat.
If McCain wins, we might well replace him with an anti-immigrant conservative.
And if not, if McCain wins, at least he won’t be in the Senate to put together coalitions. And he might have coattails to keep more republicans who oppose immigration in the house and senate.
So yes, we’d be better off if our ticket was Thompson/Palin, or Romney/Palin. But I don’t think anybody here was under the misconception that somehow McCain had changed his position.
However, you want to cause trouble? then ask them what Palin’s position is on immigration. Because so far as I can tell, she’s never really talked about it. So I don’t have any idea what her views are. I bet Alaska doesn’t have a lot of trouble with day laborers standing around the 7-11s.