McCain: "Nasty And Unhinged" On Cons "Insulting Latinos" Over English?

There are three things to be troubled with about McCain here, his disdain for conservatives, his temperament, and his problem with wanting Latinos in America to speak English.

McCain stood in the middle of the GOP cloakroom and yelled at several of his Senate colleagues because they deigned to have a vote — to have a vote — on Inhofe's "English As the National Language" amendment to the 2006 immigration bill. He accused conservatives of being "divisive" and "insulting" Latinos for suggesting that immigrants ought to learn this language. He was nasty and unhinged. About 10 staffers witnessed this. He delighted in telling the conservative senators there that they were destroying the party with these efforts. This is what Santorum is talking about. He had antipathy for social and cultural conservatives' efforts.

Comments

[Scrapiron]

Who is supporting this whining back stabbing weasel? Democrats?

[BobInStamford]

I can't wait for Bob Dole Part Deux!! In the words of the Great Decider - Bring em on!

[seekeronos]

Hey Boob, call your daddy John McCain. He needs his Depends changed - maybe one of your illegal Latino manservants can do the job.

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"--- Who is supporting this whining back stabbing weasel? Democrats? ---"

Democrats and RiNOs alike want him to be Obama's easy Fall Guy. Hate to besmirch the War Hero, but his heroics do not outweigh his rascally attempts to undermine this Republic and undo the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago.

He is nothing now but a shallow husk of whatever man he was in the Hanoi Hilton, and betrays the will of Party base for a few crumbs from George Soros's table as delivered by his Aztlan-seeking minions.

[BobInStamford]

I'm sure that there was an Office of Presidential Diaper Changers under Reagan. Perhaps they can try it again for ole Juan.

[Fred Beloit]

seek, I'm off to the ballot box today to vote in a primary that doesn't have a candidate in it who represents me and my views. Rudy, a half-hearted alternative choice, seems to be done for. McCain is a bull-headed egotist who might do anything. So it will be Romney, who seems to have started his campaign as the Big-money Repubs' darling. I have really nothing to go on but hope that Romney means about half of what he now says. That might be worth settling for. But I'll have both eyes on him if he wins the national candidacy. If he crosses over too much, I'll not vote for a president in the big election. One thing I've learned through this whole mess is I'm no Republican. Going to go down to City Hall next month and change to indy.

[templar knight]

Fred, I've set down here in Texas and watched the Mitt Romney types ruin Texas, all in the name of big money progress. Can't stand McCain, either, and would never vote for him. I'll vote for Rudy, I guess, and see what happens, but I'm already a registered independant, so I beat you by a couple of years.

[Fred Beloit]

Temp, I've always been a slow study.

[WAHOO WILLIE SEZ:]

I've been an Indy since Carter shamed me out of that party. Dunno about the other states but here an Indy can vote in either party's primary (not both) so we get some subversion along with legitimate party jumping. The subversives get the partisans all excited about the numbers voting for "thier" party only to get hurt feelings when the general comes. Thankfully, chad can't vote here so we dont worry about him hanging...........Make sure the hole goes all the way through Fred!!!

[Fred Beloit]

Wahoo, I've lived and voted here since 2004. Haven't seen a chad yet. Must be a mid or south Florida thing.

[Dan Riehl]

Heck, I was a Dem, voted for Carter in my first election. Promptly changed to Ind. after that fiasco and have been ever since. What can I say, I was young and grew up with JFK plates on the walls.

[WAHOO WILLIE SEZ:]

Dan,
I was in Jimma's military. Had friends applying for welfare to feed thier kids. Lost friends in the desert and watched Soviet tanks roll into A'stan. Got to watch Khmer murder former allies before we removed thier last hope for rescue. Of course, after Watergate I couldn't be a Repugnican either.

[mojo]

"A lesson in manners punctuated with a fist in the mouth tends to stick with you."
-- My Old Man

[seekeronos]

Fred, Temp - I've been mulling the idea of going Indy myself, pending how things go the GOP I've always known has seemed to become skewed either leftward or to the Big Money/Establishment.

The Constitution Party might also be worth a shot, although I'd like to bludgeon the guy(s) who handle their web site design. Good ideas sell, but good ideas packaged well sell better.

Then again, here in NY we have this weird little thing called the NY Conservative party, which started out as a protest thing against the Rockefeller Republicans that were running amok through most of the 1970s and somewhat into the 80's. It seems to have caught some wider-spread support, now having some 350,000+ registered members.

And under NYS rules, they can support GOP candidates or run their own guy. It might be worthwhile to hang out there until the GOP comes around to its senses, if at all.

We'uns up here in the NYS hinterlands tend to run a bit redder than our city-slicker brethren down south do... so I guess I'll sate myself by supporting conservative local and state candidates who might actually have a shot at office.

But as for the primary, I get to wait until Tsunami Tuesday, and will most likely vote for Romney (admittedly, if Ron Paul could ever put away the Truther stigma, goldbuggery, and the "evil expansionist empire" meme... I could actually see myself supporting him - and I may yet support him in the general against McCain, should he run indy as many suspect he will).

As I said on another thread, that would take the bite out of otherwise choosing a (D) in hopes of seeing an impetus for deeper, unified conservatism in 2012.

[Brad S]

Just out of curiosity: Do any of you think the message of "We welcome Latinos into our party, as long as they have their immigration paperwork in order. Otherwise, we're going after your lawbreaking family." is a message that will get a lot of Latinos into the GOP family?

Or are you not into welcoming more people into your "tea-and-crumpets" society?

[WAHOO WILLIE SEZ:]

Well Brad, I think you'd get a better answer from Latinos who got here legally. I know some immigrants from European countries who waited years to get thier paper work through and they aren't real happy with people jumping fences and such. SO maybe go ask some Cuban-Americans.