McCain Accused of Flip-Flopping on Border Issue

KSAZ-TV FOX 10 / KUTP-TV FOX 45 Phoenix, Ariz. ^ | 2010-05-18

[rabscuttle385]

PHOENIX - The "danged fence" ad is giving John McCain some danged problems. Senator McCain made the ad to tout his border security plan but instead, it has forced him to defend himself against accusations of flip-flopping on the issue.

Seeking a 5th term in the U.S. Senate, McCain has made immigration the core of his re-election campaign.

"The whole issue can be resolved by securing the border and then moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform. But if you don't secure the border then you just have continuous flow," McCain told FOX 10.

But in 2006, McCain took a much different approach. That's when he partnered with the late Senator Ted Kennedy on an immigration reform bill. It did call for stepped-up border security, but it focused more on providing a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

"Are we a nation that is nativists? Are we a nation that refuses to allow people who come here, for the most legitimate of reasons the same reason our forefathers came here?" McCain has said.

You see other congressional incumbents across the country, both Democrat and Republicans alike, that are modifying or "flip-flopping" on some of their previous stances.

Fast forward to 2010 -- what has turned out to be McCain's toughest re-election bid -- the battle against former Congressman JD Hayworth.

On his campaign website, Hayworth attacks McCain's border plan. Hayworth says, "Here's the problem. John McCain is part of the federal government he's been part of the federal government for the past 28 years. He was supposed to have been protecting us and the protecting the border."

McCain counters by saying, "The fact is that in 2007 I said we had to secure the borders first. I ran for president specifically saying we had to secure the borders first."

[rabscuttle385]

Go to hell, Juan McCain.

[rabscuttle385]

"Are we a nation that is nativists? Are we a nation that refuses to allow people who come here, for the most legitimate of reasons the same reason our forefathers came here?" McCain has said.

[cripplecreek]

My friends.

I was only joking when I suggested that Americans wouldn’t pick lettuce for $50 an hour.

[Blue Turtle]

Go JD !!

[EagleUSA]

Accused? Hello? The scum bag ALWAYS turns into a conservative at election time, especially since he is running against a REAL HONEST CONSERVATIVE.

Go JD !!!!

[Man50D]

McAmnesty could prove his commitment to securing the border by sending in Connecticut Attorney General and former combat hardened Marine, who served in Vietnam, Richard Blumenthal! BlumenDodd must be telling the truth. He stated it publicly.

[Seaplaner]

Nonsense!

John Sidney McCain has NOT flip-flopped on the border issue.

Repeating for total clarity. McCain absolutely did NOT flip-flop on border security. And, that's that!

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(You see, my FRiends, he actually only "flipped". The "flop" will come after the election, at which time he will happily reach back across the aisle and abandon border security, Arizona, and these United States.)

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[StACase]

A Mexican, an Arab, and an Arizona girl are in the same
bar. When the Mexican Finishes his beer, he throws his
glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the
glass to pieces. He says, 'In Mexico , our glasses are
so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one
twice."

The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks non-
alcohol beer (cuz he's a Muslim!), throws it into the
air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to
pieces. He says, "In the Arab World, we have so much
sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with
the same one twice either."

The Arizona girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her
beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the
air, whips out her 45, and shoots the Mexican and the
Arab. Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and
calling for a refill, she says, "In Arizona , we have
so many illegal aliens that we don't have to drink with
the same ones twice."

[240B]

This is nuts.
He was the biggest Pub supporter of blanket amnesty behind GW.

[Oldpuppymax]

Juan McCain? Flip flopping on immigration?? In an ELECTION year?? Oh SURELY not??!!

[WayneS]

His flip-flopping is not merely an accusation when it’s DOCUMENTED.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Go to hell, Juan McCain. “

Eventually.

[magslinger]

In other news, the sun rose in the east today.

[broken_arrow1]

McCain flipped before he ‘flopped’.

[c-b 1]

"The whole issue can be resolved by securing the border and then moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform. But if you don't secure the border then you just have continuous flow," McCain told FOX 10.

That's DC speak for, secure the border, pass an amnesty, then withdraw funding of the resources securing the border.

[240B]

That is a sure formula to generate a stampede across the boarder into the U.S. Apparently, that is what both parties want.

[pogo101]

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[AngelesCrestHighway]

Hey! Common on now!...What's a flip-flop between friends???

[moovova]

I’m sorry. I’m confused.

Is Juan on the “flip” side now? Or, is he on the “flop” side?

I can’t keep up anymore...

[ken21]

“bipartisan” johnny.