McCain shakes off GOP's anti-immigration right [cold shoulder to Barletta of Hazleton]

The Boston Globe - Political Intelligence ^ | 2008-09-22 | Sasha Issenberg

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SCRANTON, Pa. -- During the Republican primaries, John McCain delicately balanced his record of pushing for immigration reform with satisfying his party's new appetite for harsher restrictions. Now in a general election against an opponent who broadly shares his views on the issue, McCain is showing greater ease asserting his distance from the anti-immigration right.

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On his Northeastern Pennsylvania trip, McCain pointedly denied coattails to a controversial immigration critic and congressional challenger who has become one of the best Republican prospects for a House pickup in a largely Democratic year.

Lou Barletta, the mayor of nearby Hazleton, became a favorite of the Lou Dobbs set for passing bills to declare English as the town's official language and forbid businesses from hiring or renting to illegal immigrants. Polls have shown him competitive with the district's longtime incumbent Paul Kanjorski, a success local operatives credit to the enduring power of anti-immigration politics in this largely working-class, white-ethnic district.

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[UCFRoadWarrior]

McCain wont win Pennsylvania now...how dare he diss Barletta

Maybe its time to dump McCain....Barletta/Palin or Palin/Barletta would be a sure winner

[Norman Bates]

That’s delusional.

[ari-freedom]

in 2012

[pissant]

Reason number 29 that I’m writing in Duncan Hunter.

[Norman Bates]

The just say no to Sarah Palin ping list rearing its head again?

[DoughtyOne]

This is something we have been aware of for some time, McCain’s views on immigration. It’s nothing new really. The Boston Globe is just trying to stir things up.

[VictoryGal]

Damn. Just... damn.

[Joe Boucher]

John, you dumb ass old fart. Ya try to push this amnesty b.s. before the election and you will lose the conservative base.
I know I won’t vote for ya if ya do, I’ll sit out and start looking for a new CONSERVATIVE party and say to hell with the GOP.

[Norman Bates]

Tell me. Do you intentionally cherry pick the worst possible headlines to post?

[Norman Bates]

29? I can’t think of a single reason to do that.

[TexasCajun]

MeCain/Palin 2008

[norton]

His speech today at some Irish get together was much the same:
Noted border control then went on to how we need to create a path to citizenship (for illegals) "after meeting some requirements".

He's sure that Palin tied up the conservative vote for him.
Now he thinks it is safe to revert to his anti US pandering.

Time to reconsider a write in;
if he didn't learn from the last time, four more years won't help.

[E. Cartman]

If America isn’t worth protecting with a fence, why are Bush’s, McCain’s and Kennedies estates?

[E. Cartman]

Mommy let you out of the cellar today, Norman???

Did you promise to stay away from those filthy, filthy girls??

[Norman Bates]

Then you don’t have anything to say?

[E. Cartman]

Now he thinks it is safe to revert to his anti US pandering.

Folks who think his pick of Palin means he's suddenly seen the light are badly mistaken. If he wins the election, until he dies, she'll spend her time fetching coffee and picking up his shirts from the cleaners.

[rabscuttle385]

The just say no to Sarah Palin ping list rearing its head again?

Who said I was saying no to Palin?

[cripplecreek]

I suspect that Palin will be the first to go under the bus if McCain get himself in trouble.