Fred Thompson Hits McCain
Posted on January 15, 2008
While everyone praised him for killing the Huckaboom, many said he gave McCain a pass. After too many accusations of him being a stalking horse for McCain, many are saying finally.
Here is a little more for Ace. Fred on the Glenn Beck show.
GLENN: How do you explain? Because — you know, and it’s unfair to ask a competitor this question but I’m going to ask it anyway because you know the man and you worked with the man for a long time and everybody says he’s a good man and everything else. But good God almighty, he’s wrong on just about everything. How do you explain with conservatives going out to vote, how are they supporting John McCain? What is this — where is this coming from?
SENATOR THOMPSON: I think the basis of it is national security, national defense. John was right, I think, with regard to Iraq and he stood tough during tough times and I think he turned out to be right. And I was the same place the whole time and have been. We agree on that. But John is wrong on some other important things and he was wrong when he voted against the Bush tax cuts.
GLENN: But wait a minute. I mean –
SENATOR THOMPSON: He says he’s changed his mind about that now and, you know, sobeit. But, you know, I was there during part of that time and I voted the other way. I believed the other way then, I believe the other way now. He’s certainly wrong with regard to the immigration bill that they tried to get the American people sign off on last year and they gave a resounding no and now everybody’s getting tough on the border. But on taxes and immigration, especially, you know, I think he’s wrong. But so is Huckabee as far as that’s concerned.
GLENN: But he’s also wrong with McCain/Lieberman where he wants to sign treaties for global warming. He wants to give away sovereignty on global warming. This guy is not a conservative.
SENATOR THOMPSON: No, I think he’s in the wrong direction on that, too. I think that that’s absolutely true. But, you know, he’s like everybody else. You know, he has his strong suits and his weak suits. But I think that the direction that he and Huckabee and others really, I think Giuliani and where Romney has been in the past all are going in a so-called moderate direction, which is going to lead to, you know, so-called big government conservativism or bigger government conservativism anyway.
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I can’t beleive that Thompson would support McCain. McCain is a guy that flips a coin out of bed each morning to decide if he will go liberal or conservative for the day….He is much too cozy with the Ted Kennedys to get my support. Please just tell them it aint so, Fred!
McLame’s Immigration Insanity
McLame and LIEberman were recently on a PR campaign together in NH and lying through their teeth on McLame’s immigration record. At a recent town hall meeting, McLame speaks for a while uttering his gibberish about illegal immigration and the illegal’s are god’s children (he obviously believes that they are a special type of god’s children and deserve some kind of extra compassion), etc. LIEberman takes the mike and says…”To say John McCain ever supported amnesty for illegal immigrants is a lie…” This is extremely disturbing that both of these Senators would try to deceive and directly lie to people for the express purpose of garnering votes. You can view this for yourself in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3gSPhNSEM
McLame is trying to run from his actions and record. He is intentionally distorting (I call it lying) the irrefutable fact that he was a supporter of amnesty by claiming he was never for amnesty. He was a main architect, contributor and proponent of the Comphrensive Immigration Reform bills (s. 1348 and s. 1639) of 2007 that were written in order to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. McLame was so deep into the content and language of these bills that they were often referred to as the Kennedy-McCain Immigration Reform bills.
McLame has consistently supported amnesty for illegal aliens since at least 2003 as reported by hotair.com from a Tuscon Citizen article…“McCain Pushes Amnesty, Guest-Worker Program,†reported the Tucson Citizen of May 29, 2003. The senator is quoted as saying: “Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens. That has to be a component of it.†The newspaper also quoted McCain as saying: “I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible and at the same time make sure that we have some control over people who come in and out of this country.â€
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/05/video-liebs-says-mccain-did-not-support-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens/
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/06/017540.php
During the ABC News presidential debate on January 5, 2008 McLame said: “Let me just say I’ve never supported amnesty. A few nights ago, Joe Lieberman and I had a town hall meeting together. It was a rather unusual event. The issue came up. Joe Lieberman said John McCain has never supported amnesty, and anybody says he does is a liar, he’s lying.†http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/politics/05text-rdebate.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1199721737-2vqWJVFzkwWyQwnxeL9Sew
One day later at the Fox News presidential forum, McLame said, “I have never, ever supported amnesty, and never willâ€.
During the Fox News presidential debate on January 10, 2008 McLame said: “I know how to secure the borders. I come from a border state where our borders are broken. More people come across our border illegally every year than most any other state. And I will secure the borders first…The remaining 12 million…we must then, in my view, address it in as humane and compassionate way as possible. The three GIs who were missing last year in action, one of them was still missing in action, his wife was about to be deported from this country. I’m not going to deport the wife of a fighting serviceman who’s missing in action. I’m going to handle it in a humane, compassionate fashion.â€
EARTH to McMARS; if you know how to secure the borders, why is your home state’s border still unsecured (McLame has been in Congress for 26 years, the last 22 as a Senator), so much so that more illegals come across your border than anywhere else? What have you been waiting for? Amnesty (again)? Furthermore, what does a GI wife’s situation have to do with the 20 to 36 million illegal aliens here, many of which came across those borders you know how to secure but have done nothing to secure?
http://www.thestate.com/presidential-politics/story/281821.html
Lest we forget or if anyone is unsure as to what the definition of amnesty is, I will provide it below:
AMNESTY, in relation to immigration matters, is legislation to forgive the breaking of immigration laws and to make it possible for illegal aliens to live permanently in the United States. Amnesty represents a system of federal rewards and assistance for illegal aliens, and they entice an even greater number of foreign nationals to illegally enter a country.
AMNESTY:
1. A general pardon for offenses against a government
2. An act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole
3. Forgetting or overlooking any past offense
Not only is McLame a supporter of amnesty, he is not fond of any fencing for immigration control or for security reasons. McLame said, “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.â€[Prisoner of Conscience - Vanity Fair, February 2007: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/02/mccain200702
â€We are not going to erect barriers and fences†(June 5, 2007 CNN Republican Presidential Candidates Debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5G3kH1PvvU )
I suppose McLame has never heard of the 14-mile double-layer fence between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Its benefits in stopping illegal entry into the U.S. were immediate and long lasting. According to a 2005 Congressional Research Service report illegal alien apprehensions along the fence region dropped from 202,000 in 1992 to 9,000 in 2004, a reduction greater than 95% ( http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200712/NAT20071219b.html )
Particularly galling is that December’s omnibus spending bill did not include the appropriations for construction of the double layer 700-mile border fence, which was passed into law just a few months earlier. Additionally, the requirement of a double-layer fence mandated by the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was removed, so if funding is ever restored, a truly effective fence being constructed is unlikely.
I’m sure if McLame was somehow elected President; one of his first official acts would be to take down the fence surrounding the White House…right John?
Pretty clear that Fred Thompson is addressing John McCain’s liberal bent. We need to remember that we are in America, and that Senators and Representatives do make friends - but that is a necessary part of being effective as a Senator or Representative. That sort of “friend” is often as not a friend of convenience. Clearly, Fred Thompson is not in agreement with McCain’s liberal beliefs.
Fred is still the only candidate in the field that supports the right of the American citizen to be free. All others want to limit freedom, to curtail it, to set more and more limits on it. I want to be FREE.
I want Fred Thompson as President. Conservative, Consistent, and Principled - and committed to freedom for the people.
I will NOT support McCain. I will sit out and not vote rather than vote for a man that supports illegal immigration. It is my NUMBER ONE issue, and I want Thompson to hit hard and be the choice. Come on FRED!
If that is as tough as Fred is going to get with McCain he might as well give it up.
That was pathetic to say the least. It in no way erased the suspicion that Fred is covering McCain’s butt.
McCain is a crybaby. Using the argument that he is not going to call a soldier in Iraq and tell him he is going to deport his mother back to Mexico is so much phony sentimental BS.
That comment alone showed just how shallow John McCain really is.
Fred said McCain is wrong spin it how you want He does not agree with him !!
Thompson is an open borders globalist free trader sell out scumbag.
F that Guy
and F Mc Cain
Julie Anne
and the Huckster
They are all Bush bots
So tell me, Zeezil…how are you logistically going to round up and send however many million illegal immigrants home? McCain has never condoned illegal immigration or gone against plans to stop it. But the fact is that they’re here already and there’s no possible way to send them all packing. Unlike many of the Republican candidates (Romney with his bid to save the auto industry and Huckabee with his idiotic flat tax to name two), McCain is a realist. You may disagree on his definition of “amnesty” but he’s never pandered to the voters and promised them things he couldn’t deliver. If being honest and direct and sticking to your guns makes you a liberal then you can call McCain a Kennedy all you want. Doesn’t change reality.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity according to some well known individual and Fred Thompson is planning to do the same thing Bush did and failed. I am firmly convinced the American people are tired of the result of that insanity.
I reject the false premise that you must round up millions of illegal aliens if you want to reduce their numbers. Fred has described his approach to this issue as “enforcement through attrition.” There have been media accounts of illegals leaving the U.S. because of enforcement efforts. Fred’s approach will encourage Repatriation will happen when the incentives to come here are reduced.
Border control and legal immigration can happen together. Open borders and the rule of law cannot. McCain cannot spin his record away from support for amnesty, as Zeezil describes above. McCain seems much more comfortable with liberal Democrats, he should come clean as say he is one of them. He sure isn’t a conservative.
Pardon the error. This sentence should read:
Fred’s approach will encourage repatriation when the incentives to come here are reduced.