Minutemen: John McCain switch 'shameful'

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A co-founder of the anti-immigration Minutemen on Monday dismissed Sen. John McCain’s new, tougher immigration stance as “shameful election-year politics.”

The Arizona Republican, who’s seeking a fifth term this fall, is now supporting an Arizona bill that allows law enforcement officers to demand proof of citizenship – even if they just suspect illegal status – and detain suspects until the federal authorities can determine their citizenship.

McCain’s move, announced Monday, is a dramatic shift right from his more moderate, comprehensive approach to most immigration issues.

Chris Simcox – co-founder of the Minutemen and a supporter of McCain’s Republican challenger, J.D. Hayworth – said in a statement released by the former congressman’s campaign that “for almost three decades, McCain had the office and the opportunity to help close the borders to illegal aliens, and he did nothing.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36039.html

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Golly, who would have guessed that craven political pandering wouldn't work?

[goclark]

1. There are no words in the dictionary for my feelings of McPain

[Cha]

7. I think

"mcpalin" says it all.

[goclark]

15. Yea, what a team McPalin

:puke:

[panader0]

2. As a resident of So Arizona

I must drive through checkpoints on the way to Tucson. I understand the need to control the border,but the checkpoints are not right.
"Let me see your papers" seems like aa police state.

[Robb]

3. Back in 1990 (or 91?)

...I was driving a friend from Pakistan through a fruit checkpoint border crossing (I forget which state did this), and as I slowed down and eagerly rolled down the window he started to flip out a bit about his passport being in the trunk.

"No, no," I said, "It's for fruit."

He looked at me like Americans are all insane. :D

[PSzymeczek]

11. Arizona used to do it

but quit a few years ago.

[Robb]

27. Thanks.

I remembered it was somewhere in the Four Corners. :hi:

[Heywood J]

29. "Fruit checkpoint"?

You've got to be shitting me. They seriously stop you and ask if you have fruit?

[iris27]

30. It's an attempt to prevent the spread of non-local

invasive species, ala the rabbit in Australia, bamboo anywhere in the US, etc.

[PSzymeczek]

10. We have one

on the way to Tucson. On State Highway 90 just north of Whetstone. Half the time, they're not paying attention.

[teknomanzer]

14. Check points?

If I may ask where are you driving to and from?

[pamela]

18. Off topic but I have a question...

Are there drug sniffing dogs at the checkpoints in Southern Arizona? Any places that you know of in New Mexico or Arizona that a person needs to watch out for in that respect?

[panader0]

21. Yes, there are drug sniffing dogs, at the same check point

mentioned above, north of Whetstone. A dog alerted on a friend of mine, his truck was driven 60 miles away to be Xrayed. He had to sit in the back of a Border Control car. When the Xray showed nothing, he was released, 3 hours later, and lost the time and gas.

[pamela]

22. thanks

I'm heading out that way in a few weeks. Just wondering about the whole checkpoint thing. We don't have those here so they make me nervous.

[G. L. Herter]

25. Yes, there are dogs.

I go through the checkpoint between Gila Bend and Ajo pretty regularly. I've only had to open the trunk once, though.

[Jefferson23]

4. Shameless fool McCain. n/t

[chollybocker]

5. Gee, whowouldathunk the Minutemen would be endorsing Hayworth?

Never saw that one coming. :crazy:

[PSzymeczek]

12. I did.

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Simcox is originally from Tombstone, about 15 miles from here.

[TomCADem]

6. Oh, the right wing is now discovering that Mr. Flip Flop is full of it?

[classysassy]

8. McCain is a poor senator

but you stick with the clown you know not the clown you don't know.I've been here in southern arizona over forty two years,the outer ststers(carpetbaggers)have ruined this once lovely state,McCain,from Texas,Kyl,from Colorado,Hayworth,from North Carolina,Simcox,from California now if all of the carpetbaggers would just go home this would once again be a lov ely place to live or visit.

[PSzymeczek]

13. You left out Glenn Spencer,

who came here from Texas. Or was it California? At any rate, he's not from Arizona.

[classysassy]

16. Spencer

is from California,thanks for reminding me of another clown in our midst.

[classysassy]

17. We both forgot

Sheriff Joe the scum from new england.

[leahcim]

9. Think about what items you typically carry around on a daily basis....

Is there a single one of them that absolutely proves your citizenship? Unless you carry your passport around, the closest thing is a driver's license, but in the strictest state you might have gotten that while covered by a visa that has since expired.

The minutemen want to give police unrestricted power to detain anyone they want to unless they can prove on the spot that they shouldn't be detained. Another group of "patriots" who talk about freedom but dream of a police state.

[opihimoimoi]

19. McCane fails the CHARACTOR CREDIBILITY AND CLASS Filter....

not even close at this snippet of Time

[Old Codger]

20. Gee

What a surprise, Mclaim is willing to do anything to get elected, who'ed a thunk it

[Rex]

23. Awww...even when he sucks their toes, they complain he does a shitty job.

Still some toe-jam in there, Maverick. The man is a walking Loserman.

[Blandocyte]

24. Dang. I just got my John McCain switch installed 3 days ago

[No Elephants]

26. Talk about a changey thing not working for ya. McCain changed every one of his

positions before he ran for President. http://crooksandliars.com/2008/06/16/mccain-sets-a-new-record-10-flip-flops-in-two-weeks#comment-642275


Not to mention sucking up to Dummya, despite one of the most despicable Rove tricks having been used in the South to knock McCain out of the primary race when Dummya was first seeking the Republican Presidential nomination, namely, implying that McCain had an out of wedlock, interracial love child. Yet, not long after that ....






Talk about selling your soul. MMA--Maverick, my ass.

[pampango]

28. Not surprising that the Minutemen support Hayworth, though McCain's flip-flops prove his

insincerity.

"In 2005...Hayworth became a militant foe of Mexican immigration. Not just illegal immigration. Hayworth proposed a moratorium on legal immigration from Mexico. He declared an intention not merely to secure the border but also to "stand up for our culture" -- which implies that Mexicans adulterate American culture. Hayworth warned of activists who would create an Aztec state on the ruins of American sovereignty in the Southwest.

Hayworth now presses his anti-immigration message in a primary challenge to McCain -- contesting for the right to run for the Senate in a state that is about 18 percent Hispanic. To this appeal, Hayworth has added a "birther" message accusing President Obama of "identity theft." Here he is on legalizing gay marriage: "I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse." "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041904131.html

The Minutemen would love to see Hayworth get elected to the Senate. He may be a secret (or not-so-secret) member of the organization. :)