Is there hope for John McCain on the illegal immigration issue? If you listened to last night's debate, you might think so:McCain said securing the borders is the "responsibility and the priority" of the American people.
He said he would not vote for the pathway to citizenship part of his original immigration reform plan because the American people do not want it without securing the borders first.
Now, if we could only get him to convert on drilling in ANWR and campaign finance, along with realizing global warming is not fact but dogma, we might have something. Or is this merely John McCain the campaigner talking? Stay tuned and wonder...but at least maybe, unlike our own Senator Voinovich, he might actually have listned to the vast majority of Americans on illegal immigration.
Meanwhile, Mike "Pimping my Faith and playing Pandering Pluralism" Huckabee is out there trying to promise everyone a government job working on infrastructure, without saying how to pay for it:
Infrastructure in this country has been neglected," he said. "I don't think there's a governor in this country that wouldn't tell you that you'll create more jobs and you'll build it with American workers, American concrete and American steel. That's stimulus."
And he will promise us colonies on the moon and everyone will get the Chuck Norris exercise machine if he is elected, too....Never trust an Arkansas governor from Hope, no matter what party.....
Romney, meanwhile, said he would probably not appoint Sandy Day O'Connor as Reagan did:
With former First Lady Nancy Reagan looking on, Paul disagreed with President Reagan's choice of Sandra Day O'Connor as a Supreme Court justice, while Huckabee and McCain declined to say whether they would have tapped her for a spot on the high court.
Romney said he "would rather have" a different kind of justice on the bench.
Here is a mark against McCain, because Bob Novak in a column covered elsewhere in the SOB Alliance (see sidebar) said that McCain had criticized the selection of Sam Alito as being too conservative, and here he decides to pass. The American people want leadership. I find myself strangely agreeing with Ron Paul. Egads!
Romney, meanwhile, had issues with something heretofore unassailable in the debates--his business acumen. John McCain came out swinging with Romney's record beign one of downsizing and layoffs, not just monumental growth:
McCain sideswiped Romney's credentials as a successful business leader while answering a question about who would best run the nation.
"I think he managed companies and he bought and he sold and sometimes people lost their jobs," McCain said. "That's the nature of that business."
Critics note that Romney's tenure as CEO of the leveraged buyout firm Bain Capital resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs through layoffs and bankruptcies. Romney, the wealthiest candidate in the 2008 presidential race, ran Bain Capital from 1984 to 1999, during which time he earned the bulk of his fortune.
Bain Capital specialized in buying companies in distress and revamping them, often by cutting jobs and closing plants. Some of Bain's purchases became more efficient and successful businesses, while others, loaded with debt from Bain's fees, were forced into bankruptcy, costing more jobs.
Snipe, countersnipe, and such. Who says the Democrats have the monopoly on vitriol and attack stealing substance?
