John McCain: Republicrat or Democan?

Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain says his views are closer to Theodore Roosevelt's than to more conservative presidents...more like his views are getting closer to Obama and Hillary.

Shame on you John McCain! Can I have my vote back? Well, I might not be able to get my primary vote back... but don't you think for a minute that you've got my presidential vote secured.

Again and again, in speech after speech, you trump up job loss:

"More than 400,000 people have lost their jobs since December, and the rate of new job creation has fallen sharply." -Denver town hall meeting, Ohio town hall meeting, La Raza Convention...

There are somewhere between eight and eleven million illegal aliens in this country, John... what do you think there impact on American jobs is? 400,000 jobs lost since December? Want to do something constructive? Put them in I.C.E; You can't have immigration reform when you have open borders and eight million illegals running around. The Reagan Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 granted amnesty to approximately three million illegal aliens... now we have eight million. AMNESTY DOESN'T WORK!

"We know as well that tens of thousands of felons -- in custody and at large -- entered our country illegally. Why has it has fallen to sheriffs and other local officials to protect their citizens from these foreign-born felons? Because our federal government failed to protect our borders from their entry, and this serious dereliction of duty must end." -Speech to National Sheriffs Association.

Funny... I don't recall you telling La Raza that!

"Our compassion for laborers who entered this country unlawfully -- our understanding of their struggles, even as we act to secure the border -- speaks well of America. But this respect does not extend to criminals who came here to break our laws and do harm to people."

I got news for you John, those who entered this country unlawfully... are criminals who have broke our laws and do harm to our people. Funny how you seem to make a semantic distinction between "unlawful" and "illegal" when it comes to regarding felons and aliens.

A definition:

Unlawful: 1. Not lawful: Illegal. 2. Not morally right

Illegal: 1. not according to or authorized by law: Unlawful: Illicit.

I am not without compassion, but do not support rewarding lawbreaking behavior. I would support significant increases in the legal immigration quotas for our American brethren... but do not support legalization of those here illegally. The Hispanic vote might be the "key" to "this" election... but DO NOT FORGET THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS THE "KEY" to "YOUR" election. Losing the conservative base will lose you the election... think we'll vote for you simply because you're the Republican nominee? Think Again!

Having listened you during the primary and listening to you now, I'm beginning to feel I was sold us a bill of goods. That, or you're selling a bill of goods now! Either way, I don't like it.

I've also seen your 'Colorado' Ads pandering to Hispanic-Americans and Latino-Americans and don't like them either. You want to be like Teddy Roosevelt? Let me leave you with his words:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American."

"This is a nation — not a polyglot boarding house. There is not room in the country for any 50-50 American, nor can there be but one loyalty — to the Stars and Stripes."

"The effort to keep our citizenship divided against itself by the use of the hyphen and along the lines of national origin is certain to breed a spirit of bitterness and prejudice and dislike between the great bodies of our citizens. If some citizens band together as German-Americans or Irish-Americans, then after a while others are certain to band together as English-Americans or Scandinavian-Americans, and every such banding together, every attempt to make for political purposes a German-American alliance or a Scandinavian-American alliance, means down at the bottom an effort against the interest of straight-out American citizenship, an effort to bring into our nation the bitter Old World rivalries and jealousies and hatreds."

"Let us say to the immigrant not that we hope he will learn English, but that he has got to learn it. Let the immigrant who does not learn it go back. He has got to consider the interest of the United States or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend upon his knowing English and observing American standards ... We must insist upon his showing the same standard of fealty to this country and to join with us in raising the level of our common American citizenship."

Teddy Roosevelt; my great-grandmothers petard!

~Finntann~