May 23, 2007
McCain Is A Lone Wolf On Immigration
Is it us or is John McCain basically the only major national figure aggressively touting the Senate immigration compromise? Yes, the White House is sending paper to critics at the Corner, but the efforts seem a bit half-butted. Maybe they're just fatigued. In the coming days, McCain will hold conference calls with reporters in all the early primary states, Florida and California, with the twin goals of defending the compromise and branding himself as the bipartisan leader who helped to broker it.
Meanwhile, we received this urgent message from the folks at The Shot in South Carolina.
York County GOP Chairman Glenn McCall yesterday sent out a “call to action” to put pressure on Senator Graham to back down from the recently proposed Senate immigration deal. This comes on the heals of RNC Chairman Senator Mel Martinez, who was a key player in shaping the new immigration deal, calling on Republicans at the national level to get in line behind the deal.This is obviously a major issue with the base and it is becoming increasingly hard for GOP leaders to avoid taking a side. Thus far State GOP Chairman Katon Dawson has been eerily quiet on the issue. Having had the National GOP Chair weigh in as well as a major County GOP Chair, one has to wonder how Chairman Dawson has been able to sneak under the radar on the issue. Especially given his recent interest in using his roll as Chairman to take policy positions on School Choice and Workers Comp legislation. Perhaps a call to the SCGOP to ask where Dawson stands on the immigration bill would be in order,
By the way: if you're wondering precisely what Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani would actually do with the 11-12m illegal immigrants already here, well, you'll have to wait a while. No specific proposals are forthcoming, we are told.
Posted at 02:45 PM
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The wrong side on immigration, campaign finance, free speech, the war, marriage protection and NCLB. How can any Republican support this man?
Dan C. | 05.24.07 12:48 PM
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