John McCain’s masquerade as a conservative is over.
After securing the Republican nomination, the Sacremento Bee is reporting that John “Straight Talk” McCain has backed off his campaign promises to be tough on illegal immigration. This reinforces my concern that McCain only talked tough on immigration to get the the vote of conservatives during the primary season and now he’s back to his maverick ways.
Unfortunately, he is making it very hard for anyone who respects the laws and sovereignty of our country to stay committed to voting for him. Can he be trusted anymore on the immigration issue? Of course he can’t. He’s not a conservative and I’m beginning to wonder if it wouldn’t be better to let Obama win in the fall. At least Obama makes no secret that he is a Democrat. The Bee reports:
Asked by Silicon Valley panelists on what he would do to grant more visa for skilled technology workers, McCain broadly advocated the comprehensive immigration reform plan he had backed with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in Congress.
The same issue brought McCain intense criticism during the Republican presidential primary from conservatives who assailed him as soft on illegal immigration and an advocate of amnesty.
But today McCain, the now presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said an immigration program is needed that protects America’s borders and national security. While he called for punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, he also advocated a humane approach that treats illegal workers as “God’s children.”
Michelle Malkin has extensive coverage on the disappointing news. She wisely doubted McCain back in January when McCain claimed that he understood that conservatives want the borders enforced:
For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want—protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking–The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.
While I’ll never vote for one of the socialists running on the Democratic side, McCain is making increasingly difficult to be able to vote for him either. He is not a conservative and I’m not sure that he can be trusted. McCain would be wise to stop hanging around with pseudo Republicans like the governors of California and Florida and start reconnecting with conservatives and the base of the Republican party. Obama isn’t the only one who is demographically challenged.
McCain has shown his true colors. Never trusted him from the get go–being an Arizona resident. He’s let the border here and the border environment turn into a wasteland.
We’re in a mess, and we all better unite under some kind of banner or coalition to stop the madness. If people don’t get involved (millions, not thousands) we’re toast and won’t have a say so about anything. We’ll be fighting every move McCain makes, and if the Congress is severely compromised, we’ll be even further incapacitated. If he decides to use executive decisions on anything he wants, we won’t have a leg to stand on.
He’s a real piece of work and his mindset and elitist attitude will be our undoing.