Weathervane McCain

 Re: John McCain: Illegal Immigrants ‘Intentionally Causing Accidents On The Freeway’, Huffington Post, First Posted: 04-20-10 01:00 PM 

 

In an appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered a strange

Senator McCain and the late Senator Kennedy announcing bipartisan immigration reform

 defense of a stringent new Arizona immigration bill that could lead to racial profiling. 

When asked by host Bill O’Reilly if he was comfortable with the possibility of racial profiling, McCain said he wold (sic) be “very sorry” if it happened, but suggested it’s justified because of “the people whose homes and property are being violated. It’s the drive-by that — the drivers of cars with illegals (sic) in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway.” 

McCain added: “Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe.” But the Arizona senator did not provide any additional details to back up his assertion about cars carrying illegal immigrants “intentionally causing accidents.” 

McCain now: 

Racial profiling is justified according to McCain. No more glad talk about how immigrants should have a path to citizenship. No more talk about how guest worker programs are essential. Now it’s all about how immigrants are intentionally hurting white people on the highways, in their homes, and with “drive-by”. 

Now McCain is trying to out-conservative the conservatives in order to gain support of the tea baggers in Arizona. This man is as wishy-washy as George Bush claimed John Kerry was. During the campaign, and subsequently, I called him “Weathervane McCain”. During the campaign, and depending on which group he was talking to, he changed position on immigration no less than three times. Today, he has taken on the hard liner roll of a xenophobe to appease the growing radical fringe. 

McCain during the campaign in 2008: 

Underlying his talk, is the ever present racial epithets that we are hearing more of since the Republicans lost. I will attempt to translate his Republicanease. When McCain said that people’s “homes and property were being violated” and ending with “our citizens are not safe” he’s actually saying that immigrants are brown and scary, real citizens are white and righteous and everything good. 

Immigrants are brown, almost to the point of being………black! 

New driving violation in Arizona: DWM – Driving While Mexican! 

If these huge farms, these agribusinesses, along with others like hotel chains, laundry services, and restaurants paid decent wages it would go a long way to end the illegal boarder crossings. Why? There would be no job openings for them here. The heart of the problem is that these businesses can pay slave wages to these immigrants without having to file any paperwork. There seems to be no intent by the authorities to crack down on these employers who could just send the immigrant workers packing when they get wind of a bust. But those busts are rare, and these business owners are allowed to continue. 

It’s too bad that McCain can’t see the truth. He seemingly can’t remember a time when he had proposed some good ideas about immigration reform. Now? He can’t help himself. McCain is like he is a hungry dog after red meat. He is the worst sort of politician that will do or say anything for a vote even if it means backpeddling from everything he ever stood for. 

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