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John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?

I need a Dramamine to cover GOP Sen. John McCain's re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he's inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain's campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of stomaching from the current White House. We need choices, not carbon copies.

After decades of embracing the liberal media moniker "maverick" for his frequent derision of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, McCain has now abandoned the label. He told Newsweek magazine earlier this month: "I never considered myself a maverick." But countless YouTube videos show McCain and vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin invoking the "m" word. Here's a typical bit of self-puffery from a McCain stump speech on Oct.14, 2008:

"It's well known that I have not been elected Miss Congeniality in the United States Senate, nor with the administration. I have opposed the president on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoner, on … on Guantanamo Bay. On a … on the way that the Iraq War was conducted. I have a long record, and the American people know me very well, and that is independent and a maverick of the Senate, and I'm happy to say that I've got a partner that's a good maverick along with me now."

With veteran tough-on-illegal-immigration GOP challenger J.D. Hayworth (whom I support) just five points behind McCain in the latest Rasmussen poll, Not-Maverick has now abandoned (or rather re-abandoned) his notoriously long-held open borders stance. Just a few short years ago, Not-Maverick was attacking Rush Limbaugh as a "nativist" for opposing the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty plan. When GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions introduced an amendment to bar illegal aliens from receiving the earned income tax credit, McCain likened it to Jim Crow laws.

Sessions: "…I do not believe we should award people who have entered our country illegally, submitted a false Social Security number, worked illegally… I do not believe we should reward them with $29 billion of the taxpayers' money. That is a lot of money."

McCain: "What's next — are we going to say work-authorized immigrants are going to have to ride in the back of the bus?"

When Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico called for a cap on the number of visas for legal permanent residents at 650,000, McCain called it un-American and accused Bingaman of "discriminating" against poor foreigners (never mind that the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill itself had a visa cap of 290,000).

Like the true progressive he is, McCain never lets the facts get in the way of playing the race card. Unless it's an election year, that is.

When McCain's friend GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma put forth an amendment to "require the enforcement of existing border security and immigration laws and congressional approval before amnesty can be granted," McCain refused to take a position and sat out the vote. The amendment failed 42-54.

Just how beholden and deferential were McCain and his illegal alien shamnesty Republican twin Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to Teddy Kennedy? During floor debate on an amendment that would have required illegal aliens who get legal status to have a minimum level of health insurance, the Washington Times reported, the pair scurried over to check with Kennedy before voting to ensure their votes all matched. The amendment went down.

Actions speak louder than the pro-enforcement, strong-borders rhetoric McCain adopted for his failed 2008 presidential run — and which he has now resurrected to save his seat in his border violence-plagued state of Arizona.

More words you can't believe in: In a fundraising e-mail sent out this week, McCain pledged that he's "determined to return to the Senate to continue fighting against the massive expansion of government under President Obama." Yet, to this day, McCain refuses to admit his own individual responsibility for supporting the pre-socialization of the economy started under George W. Bush and continued under Obama. McCain has never admitted he was wrong about his support of the $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout; the $25 billion auto bailout; the first $85 billion AIG bailout; and his proposed $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout (which dwarfed Obama's plan).

His latest McLame-est excuse for supporting TARP? He was "misled." But all the warning signs and red flags about Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's incompetence and untrustworthiness were there before McCain joined the Chicken Little crowd. McCain is trying to have it all ways — refusing to admit he was wrong, blaming Paulson for duping him, and creating the illusion that he'll be competent enough to resist the next inevitable bailout temptation when the feds hit the panic button.

Asked by a conservative constituent at a recent town hall meeting why the four-term senator deserved to be elected, McCain stammered before giving his best argument: He had more "standing" than anyone else. Entrenched incumbency is not an argument for more entrenched incumbency. Stop this ride. It's time for McCain to get off.

Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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Take Mc Cain PLEASE!!!
Like a people caught up in co dependant relationships, Arizonans keep bringing McCain back “this time he will love us, he was just having a bad time, this time will be DIFFERENT”.
Fortunately this time around Arizonans have met their Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura and Dr. Drew, who with doses of tough love, humor and an honest love of Arizona will bring us back to normalcy. That man is JD Hayworth.
The more one listens to JD, the more it is painfully obvious that McCain has never cared for Arizona, never even bothers to come here unless it is to raise funds for him self.
This painfully obvious during the presidential campaign as McCain never visited his campaign offices, all campaign materials had to be purchased by volunteers and legislative districts for distribution to the public. Donations were taken to cover the costs of these materials. We watched time after time as McCain failed to stand up against Obama, it was as if he was in a fog. We chalked it up to age and being tired.
Now its 2 years later and McCain sure found the energy to work on keeping his Senate seat. He began running attack ads against JD Hayworth two months before JD announced. The ads became nastier which made McCain seem less like a senior senator and more like a desperate political hack.
This go round, the Maverick is now the Man of Character, running ads in which he intimates that he, and he alone brought the Abramoff scandal to light, and by innuendo attempts to paint JD as being part of that scandal. No matter that JD was innocent of the charges, that the whole business of naming JD has always had McCain's fingerprints all over it. McCain has never been one to let facts stand in the way of a vendetta.
JD's camp has taken the high road and never mentioned the Keating scandals in which McCain was found to be involved up to his neck.
During the presidential campaign people would ask what McCain had done for the state, and for the life of me I couldn't tell you. I can tell you how he stood shoulder to shoulder with Kennedy to pass Kennedy Care, how he and Russ Feingold wrote that abomination of campaign legislation, McCain Feingold. I can tell you how he told us Arizonans that we needed the illegals here because if they weren't here, lettuce would cost $50.00 a head. No real Americans would work in the fields. Most recently when Rancher Krentz was murdered on his own land, McCain was strangley silent, he had to wait to see what public opinion was. Rendering an opinion that we should DO something.
Turn out the lights John, the party is over. We finally realize that we deserve better and we shall get it.

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Posted by: Laurie Curry
Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:58 PM

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Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma put forth the most correct amendment in years! Johnny obviously was just politicing (like so many others in DC!) too hard to even bother to agree. Yeah, riiight! It is true that things can't be had all ways and McLame is not going to have it at all come November! It is time "we the ppl" end his ride! I hope Arizona is listening to him.

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Posted by: bill s
Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:32 AM

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Michelle I am a HUGE fan and admirere of your work. However, I am surprised by your article on Senator McCain? Have you looked at JD's record in the House and why he was defeated in his relection bid? Character matters. If you would like more info on JD's career let me know?
Problem For JD Hayworth? http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2006/jan/democrat-senator-keeps-abramoff-money-because-its-republican-scandal
Was JD A fiscal conservative in Congress berry his defeat? http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/33001
CREW RELEASES SECOND ANNUAL MOST CORRUPT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS REPORT Check out JD Hayworth) www.citizensforethics.org
"If We Do the Possible, God Will Do the Impossible"

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Posted by: andrewluck
Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:31 PM

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