Republicans Don't Want You To Stay Here

Republicans Don't Want You To Stay Here

The McCain Bus sputters through Iowa, you know, the state he blew off last time. Classic just-don't get it moments.

"What it is that lost the last election for Republicans was spending," he said, pointing specifically to pork barrel projects.

¿Que? You mean the war, the war, the war, scandals and the war had nothing to do with it?

But it seems All The Base was more interested in those pesky Mexicans:

McCain said Thursday that the frustration he has encountered from Republican activists in Iowa about immigration stems from Congress' failure to enact legislation making it tougher to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, not opposition to earned citizenship.

'They don't want anything that smacks of - quote - amnesty,' the senator said in a Des Moines Register interview before headlining a forum with about 300 GOP activists in Ames.

'But there is an overwhelming majority of Americans, including Republicans, who feel that we need to have a comprehensive approach and realize you can't simply deport 12 million people. They don't want anyone rewarded for illegal behavior.'

But that is exactly what the proposal McCain introduced last year and is reworking this year does, Onawa Republican Dick Schlitter said.

'I'm in favor of strengthening immigration law, but by agreeing to let people who broke the law stay here is allowing them to break the law,' said Schlitter, co-chairman of the Monona County Republicans. 'Then you start to say, 'Which laws are we going to enforce, and which are we going to ignore?' '"

The GOP base, especially in a non-cosmopolitan place like our state, won't budge on this. They want people rounded up and sent south in chains. And talk American while you're at it. Tom Tancredo, your opportunity is here.