McCain is such a HACK. I love how all of the campaigns against Romney can’t even agree on how much he raised taxes/fees. WHen asked about this in the debate, they actually used numbers, and it was the same amount that Romney has always said he raised fees. He raised them 240 million. He justified it and moved on. Why is this an issue. If anyone would like to look at a true flip-flop, go look at McCain’s record. It is quite telling.

How could ANY McCain supporter possibly create something like this? Bashing Romney for not commenting on the Bush tax cuts when their own candidate voted AGAINST those same cuts?!?!?!? It is hilarious that the McCain camp would even think about such a weak issue to attack Romney on, considering McCain’s own history.

For someone who likes to paint Romney as a flip flopper, McCain sure has had a change of heart about tax cuts, but don’t you dare call him a flip flopper, he just “listens to the people” and then tells them what they want to hear.

Hey any room in that little sail boat for the other candidates?
Because they sure are flipping and flopping all over the place.

They should talk their lucky stars that Romney didn’t go after them in the debate last night.

Every time mccain and the huckster go after romney i CANNOT stop laughing. Both (mccain and huck) claim they are against being negative or hateful.

I will start off w/ huck. He first made a cheap shot at mormons a few weeks before the voters decided in iowa. He apologized(which is a good thing) but its too late!! Then he almost released an negative ad,(why did he to go as far to make it in the first place if he is against negative adds) He said i wll not release this ad, but if i did this what it would look like. Knowing the press would show it to the world! This guy got away with political murder! Huckabee has made and endless amount of passes at mitt for his money. Last time i checked it is not illegal to have money! He earned it. He went to school, have a degree from harvard and byu. I sense some jealousy. Not to mention ed rollins wants to punch in mitts teeth. All these canidates are well to do(wealth wise) Cut the crap!!

Then mccain, has taken some passes at romeny and called him a flip flopper and a phony. Then he (mccain)releases this ad! He was against bush tax cuts, now he is for it. Now he decides to be tough on illgal immigration. Lok who is the flip flops now!!

Romney has changed his opinion on things. He has made his fair share is mistakes. But he is the only canidate, who has humbled himself and aplogized.

It appears that McCain knows he cannot beat Romney on real issues so he comes up with non-sense like this. No worries, because Romney is still going to win in Florida, and he will get the nomination. Romney is the real deal, and after winning last night in the debate,he proved yet again why he deserves to lead this nation in November. Romney has the most delegates out of everyone running and he has been able to push through attacks after attacks. Mitt Romney has my vote in November, because he is the only one who can defeat the Democrats!

This is plain and simply – “old politics.” McCain is going to trip himself up (if he hasn’t already) – When will politicians realize that the general “educated” voter doesn’t want to see candidates tear down their opponents – it looks desperate. A true political leader will stand on their platform and record and then educate voters on same. The simple fact of the matter is that McCain is capable of carrying some Independents, and the centrist Republicans – Romney can and will carry the true Republicans, and represents what the party stands for. PREDICTION: Romney takes Florida by 5%! Go Mitt, we’re with you!

Is McCain stupid? He vote AGAINST the Bush taxes and he’s putting an ad up against Romney?

Dumb, Da, Da, Dumb…

Calling a person who doesn’t take a stand on a position, and then takes a formal stand is hardly flip flopping on the issue. Romney clearly stated that he didn’t offer an opinion because he had no input on the matter as a Governor.

Raised taxes $ 700 million??? Funny, I’ve read all of the official documents conerning taxes in MA while Romney was governor and they don’t mention any tax increases. They do mention that he staunchly enforced fee collection, which had been previously ignored, and adjusted fees that hadn’t changed in over 20 years according to the economic indices.

Adjusting fees based on the economic indices hardly qualifies as raising taxes. Government agencies who provide services were in deficit because the fees required to provide the services had not increased proportionally with the cost of the services. Romney was just correcting the incompetence and negligence that had gotten MA into the 3 billion dollar deficit he inherited… and fixed.

Hey forget the political side of this ad did you notice Mitt’s leg’s, they are nice!!!!!!!! He must work out!

Peace Out!

The surfing fits Mitt like a glove. For more surfing news go to trueromney.com

Check out this video of JOHN MCCAIN ENDORSING MITT ROMNEY!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/01/mccain_endorses_romney_in_2002.html

Another flip-flop “my dear friend”?

Its only an issue about what you’ve done when you lie about it….He said it ony affected few people in an earlier debate…It affected everybody that drives ,and there were three fees directed all to the same area of transportation in one way or another…If he did it and was truthful about it that’s one thing…..But we don’t need another LIAR in the White House,and he blatantly lied,that’s all there is to it

Looks like yet another detour from the “Straight Talk” express.

Wasn’t McAmnesty the guy whinin in IA and NH about how Mitt was such a meaning for running “attack ads” that weren’t even attacks (they were straight up contrast pieces)? Wasn’t McAmnesty the same guy who repeatedly said “Negative advertising doesn’t work”? Oh, OK, now that he’s about to get embarassed here in FL suddenly he believes in negative ads and they work?

So much for straight talk and taking a stand. Looks like McAmnesty blows with the wind of the polls as well–for amnesty until he was against it, against the tax cuts until he was for them, against negative ads until he was for them, unversed on the economy until he was the next Greenspan…..The Straight Talk Express has broken down!

No way RAY!!! There is one person, running for President, that hasn’t flip flopped!!!

RON PAUL!!!!

I thought John McCain was against negative ads? I guess his true colors are coming out. It’s a fact that he is no conservative. He won’t win the GOP candidacy because he’s compromised his conservative standards to be one of Washington’s “GOOD OLD BOYS”. And by watching the debates last night I realized that he isn’t very smart. It was weird to hear him talk about himself as a conservative. WHAT? Actions speak louder than words. Retirement is his best bet. This country needs a strong conservative leader. That’s Mitt Romney. He is man of impecible integrity and intelligence. We need Mitt!!

January 25, 2008

Ask John McCain about his Hispanic outreach director, Juan Hernandez (former Mexican government official)
John McCain’s Hispanic outreach director [1] is Juan Hernandez, a U.S.-Mexico dual citizen and former Mexican government official who said the following in 2001 about Mexican immigrants to the U.S.:
“I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’”
He also said [2]:
“We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
Now, he’s working for John McCain.

However, what McCain knows is that no one in the MSM is ever going to question his hiring accepting the volunteer efforts of [3] a pro-open borders Mexican partisan and former Mexican government official. Based on his easy deflection of immigration questions – and the fact that almost no one has put his responses on video sharing sites (except, as far as I know, back in June), and the fact that the MSM covers for him – he knows he’ll never get blowback from this.

So, that means it’s up to you. If you want to sink McCain’s candidacy, go to his campaign events and read those quotes to him and ask him to renounce them and fire dump Hernandez [3]. Then, upload his response to video sharing sites.

More on this here, here, here, and here.

Hernandez was previously Director of the Office for Mexicans Living Abroad until there was apparently some sort of falling out involving him or someone else. That office then became the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, with several of their members involved in pushing Mexico’s agenda in the U.S. An Illinois state senator, Democrat Martin Sandoval, even serves on their board while at the same time pretending to serve U.S. interests.

UPDATE: Jerome Corsi offers this:
McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers emphasized to WND that Hernandez is “a non-paid volunteer to the campaign, and he does not play a policy role.”

“Juan works with us to reach out to the Hispanic community to meet with the folks in the various states,” Rogers said.

Asked if the McCain campaign has repudiated Hernandez’s “Mexico first” declarations, Rogers did not give a direct answer.
Let’s hope he stands by him a little longer, but even if he throws him overboard you can still ask him what he was thinking.

UPDATE 2: More on this here.

A roundup of his cable TV greatest hits is here; it includes him promoting a North American security cordon – just not a Union – as well as cheap vegetables. So-far-unwatched videos that might have something are here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. If he says something on those that can be incorporated into an anti-McCain video, please leave a comment.

You can hear his 2001 Nightline quote here.

From 2001 (link):
“I never knew the border as a limitation. I’d be delighted if all of us could come and go between these two marvelous countries,” Hernandez, 45, said in a recent interview…

“Those who don’t like [my activities with the Office and his dual citizenship], I’m sorry. But there are 20 million of us,” Hernandez said. “There are 20 million people that have one foot here and one foot there.”

…Hernandez has lobbied to make life easier for Mexican migrants in the United States. He has worked to cut the costs of money transfers, helped win lower tuition at Texas state universities and urged U.S. states to loosen restrictions on drivers’ licenses [in addition to less controversial proposals]…
From 2002:
Writing in National Review (October 12, 1998) Jorge Amselle (like Linda Chavez, a pro-immigration Latino Republican) warned that, “The Mexican government through its promotion of bilingual education and of dual nationality and voting is actively subverting the assimilative process of Americanization….”

Amselle was referring to the official Mexican government policy of acercamiento (“getting closer” or “establishing a bond”) to “Mexican communities abroad,” meaning both Mexican citizens living in the United States and Mexican Americans who are U.S. citizens. This policy was started by the old PRI regime and has been considerably expanded by Fox. The spirit of this policy is exemplified by Juan Hernandez, a Texas-born Mexican-American dual citizen, who is Fox’s cabinet minister for Mexicans Abroad…

…Two years ago, before Fox became president, his current national-security adviser, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, advocated a policy in which the Mexican government would work politically with the “20 million Mexicans” in the U.S. to advance Mexican “national interests.” In El Siglo de Torreon on May 5, 2000, Zinser attacked American attempts to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border. He declared that “Mexicans are subjected every day to mean-spirited acts and their rights are permanently threatened by ambitious politicians who are hunting for the Anglo vote.” After disparaging the “reactionary Senator Jessie Helms,” Zinser recommended that Mexico “find allies in the U.S. political system” particularly among “Liberal Democrats, labor unions, civil rights organizations, and social movements.”
[1] welcome-vote-2008.blogspot.com/2007/11/fiestas-mccain.html
[2] juanhernandez.org/index-37.html
[3] Let’s take John McCain’s spokesman at his word that Hernandez is a “non-paid volunteer” to the campaign. Being very precise will also help avoid McCain trying to obfuscate the issue. Note that, as pointed out at the first link in UPDATE 2, Hernandez is a Senior Fellow at the McCain-linked Reform Institute, and I’d imagine he’s receiving some money for that. However, if you ask McCain about this craft the question in such a way that he can’t raise minor points.

Nasty, Nasty, Nasty. What is wrong with Mccain. He disgraced himself in front of the nation by throwing all that personal attacks on Romney during the ABC debate, now he is doing this. What a turn off to see a presidential candidate behaved this way. Do I really want to vote for someone like him for president? I don’t think so. A President should have dignity, intergrity, good character, and professionalism, Mccain has none of that. How sad.

Anyone, but Mccain.

I thought that McCain said he was going to run a CLEAN campaign? Goes to show you that the Good Ole Boy can’t even be trusted for a month. I guess it’s just that “been in Washington forever” thing! His ad also showes that he has NO imagination….using the same style from 4 years ago…..old news just like McCain.

Romney’s ad showed facts……straight from McCains mouth. Not a bunch of accusations.

You will always know a person by his actions, not his words. It seems as if Romney has always been a person of integrity and morality, and that although he has changed positions in the past, he has always done what he said. If he said he was going to get everyone insured as Governor, he did it. If he said he felt a woman had the right to make personal child bearing decisions, he let her. He is a man who says what he means, and means what he says. Let’s all remember that by their actions, you will know them. I would rather vote for someone who has changed positions and then acted in a way that shows he really changed for the right reason, than for someone who has said one thing and then acted in another (tax cuts, immigration, etc. =>McCain, Huckabee!) And as for the flip-flopping, at least he hasn’t flip-flopped wives through his marriage…a true test of discipline, morality, and valor.

Despite accusations to the contrary, Mitt Romney’s fee increases in Massachusetts helped the taxpayer. Fees are for specific services provided. When a fee is not high enough to cover the cost of a service, the balance comes from tax revenue.

By ending the payer subsidy of fees, Romney freed tax dollars, helping turn a deficit into a surplus.

As for McCain:

wow–this Juan Hernandez doofus is a piece of work!

A non-paid adviser? What does that mean? I didn’t think that John McCain had enough money to pay any of his staffers!

I have volunteered on campaigns before and I don’t get access to the green room or to policy sessions like this former minister of Mexico gets.

Will john McCain take on a ‘volunteer’ former foreign minister from China to advise him on toy safety or on Taiwan?

Will John McCain take on a ‘volunteer’ former foreign minister from Russia to advise us on our military policy?

He better not!

We can not let foreign governments influence us. John McCain does not see the folly in his ways–that alone is enough to disqualify him for the job, but here he is seeking advise from someone who is actively promoting open borders and breaking our laws!

Juan McAmnesty must be stopped. He is not presidential and is anything but “straight talk”

McCain is a dishonest lying little old weasel that disgraces the Republican Party. I cannot believe that people would support a man that calls him self a republican when he is really democrat. I thought that McCain was against negative ads what’s this? I am a military man and am ashamed to see that McCain who is a distinguished officer in the Navy cannot live up to the principals of the military (integrity honor selfless service and loyalty). If McCain wins the nomination I will be ashamed to call my self a republican and a proud supporter of the GOP.

It’s pretty amazing that when John McCain was upset over Mitt Romney’s ads a little while back,
he complained that he was being “attacked.” Now that Gov. Romney just might when Florida,
who seems to be doing the most attacking, childishly no less, but John McCain. Pasting a picture
on Romney in a cartoonlike commercial? A commercial with no substance at all, I guess the
issues are just a big joke to McCain.

I just read another article from Fox where McCain is now telling lies about what Romney said about the Iraq war. Amazing to me that he gets away with it. I used to really respect John McCain, my father was a disabled war veteran, so I understand full well the tragedies and sacrifices of war. I think McCain takes everything too personally. What will he do when he is President and someone in the media “attacks” him? Poor me again?

I love President Bush, it doesn’t matter to me what the media or liberals say about him. He has
guts and strength and takes all the personal attacks against him in stride. In a day of constant media scrutiny, I believe that Gov. Romney is the only one with the fortitude to withstand the attacks
and remain focused on a goal with real Republican values.

I’m voting for a Republican, not a moderate like McCain who makes nice with the likes of Teddy Kennedy. I want a President that will keep us safe, strengthen our economy and help us innovate enough to compete with a world market. I would really like to see someone get in that is not a lifetime politician and run our government like a business. All us stockholder “taxpayers” would
do well to vote for a “successful” businessman. I’m glad he is “rich” and is willing to fork over
a lot of his own money for his campaign. I like a man that is willing to put his money behind his
mouth! Would we want an “unsuccessful” businessman running the economy?

I adore Rudy and adored Fred as well, both would make wonderful VPs. Huckabee seems like
a nice guy and I’m an Evangelical Christian, but I really think we would be best served if he
went back to the Church Pulpit, instead of the Bully Pulpit. I frankly don’t think he could handle the job, there is too much at stake.

Voting for Mitt in 08.
of President.

Whatever respect I held for John McCain before today IS GONE!!!

I am absolutely disgusted at the dirty politics he is playing on the verge of losing Florida!

He has been coming out with statements all day saying “will Mitt Romney withdrawl troops within 60 days?” “Mitt Romney should apologize to our fighting men and women”

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE JOKE!!!

I hope that the people of Florida and the rest of the country will see this man for what he truly is: a power hungry fraud!!!

WATCH THESE VIDEOS FOR THE TRUE STORY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/01/romney_democrats_favorite_repu.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/01/mccain_endorses_romney_in_2002.html

AND WATCH THESE THAT SHOW WHY DEMOCRATS ARE WORRIED ABOUT ROMNEY:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/01/how_romney_will_run_against_th.html

MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/

Tonight, McCain that lying slippery self serving Machiavellian dirt ball (who is also a hero, but that was then, and he’s no honorable figure for what he does now) is lying boldface about Romney’s statements about a time table in Iraq. Romney clearly said he would veto any time tables, and said any bench marks including time lines should be between Bush and Maliky, not public.

McCain also lied about his own record (and falsely accused Mitt of lying) in saying his problem with Bush tax cuts was we didn’t cut spending. Bull stuff! Deep Bull Stuff! McCain clearly stated at the time he went against tax cuts that they were targeted to much towards the rich. Those were his own words, and what makes it worse is he lied again when he accused Mitt of lying when he used McCain’s own words in perfect context.

McCain also lied about Romney saying his immigration plan was reasonable then saying it wasn’t. That is absolutely not true. McCain’s first draft Mitt said was reasonable, but the Kennedy Collaborated draft is the one that contained what is amnesty with a penalty so those who broke the law can pay a fine and still stay in the country having butted in the line ahead of those who followed the rules, which is what Mitt and most republicans had a problem with.

McCain is a liar who blows up when things are not going his way. His integrity is a facade which fades like the Clintons does, when things don’t go their way.

What we get in McCain isn’t much better than Clinton, or Clinton the rehash … the other half. I’d rather see the democrats win than to pervert the republicans like that … and I’m an independent, but the party of the Clintons (because Bill made it in his disgusting image) is a very ugly, corrupt, and dangerous thing.

Here is how it will be:

Obama v. McCain = Obama wins
Clinton v. McCain = Not voting
Clinton v. Guillani = Not voting
Obama v. Guillani = Obama wins
Obama v. Romney = Romney wins
Clinton v. Romney = Romney wins

You have got to be kidding. Does it get any lamer than taking an old ad and PASTING someone else’s head on it? Whatever McCain is paying this guy it is too much.

As I have watched this man move I have realized how age is catching up with him, not only physically but by his cantankerous countinence, I can see his simply NOT up to the task of negotiating when things do not go his way. I believe if faced with a real crisis I would ten times rather have Guliani or Romney dealing with it than this reactionary geriatric. He is constantly telling us to ask his 95 year old mother what she thinks, but says nothing about asking his father who died at age 70. I think McCain understands the economy as most senators and governement officials do…from a tax/deficit point of view. I have just shaken my head at the conventional wisdom shoveled with a five tined fork(generally used for cleaning out stalls) by the glenn johnson media types whose agendas permiate their stories. I like Romney but Guliani has exhibited first class character on the campaign trail. McCain has been trying to parlay his POW status into support for a cranky and vulgar old man(I think telling a collegue to F*** off qualifies) with a desire to turn Iraq into another South Korea. I am afraid if he were to be faced with a cuban missile crisis we would end up trading warheads. I think we need someone who is in control of his own temper and his own reactions to the challenges of others..without that I fear for the time when OUR security is in jepordy and he simply doesn’t think clearly. Am I calling him senile? Out of control? Ego driven?… Yeah i guess I am. If McCain is the only Republican that can be elected, then maybe we had better wait 4 years…in the mean time, I will vote for someone who can figure out how to PAY for any additional days we have to spend liberating Iraq, and it sure isnt McCain.

The only thing that seperates Biased reporting (as Carl Cameron does because he has the power to do so and affect the outcome) from an assasination (because the assasin also has the power to do so and affect the outcome) is a murder comitted.

Take away the act of murder, and the biased reporting is no different than the dishonest and Constitutional process perverting act of using deadly force to effect an unnatural outcome. Carl (and I guess Fox News as well) obviously uses deception to effect outcome in his own preferance as a political assasin from Syria uses murder to effect the outcomes in Lebanon. The results are the same.

This kind of behavior should not be tolerated, regardless of who any of us supports. It sure shouldn’t be tolerated in the liberal media who is far more corrupt. Nor should it be tolerated by Fox News, who is learning how to follow in the media’s patern of corruption.

Without honest reporting, we can’t know the truth, and without the truth it is impossible for us to excersize a vote which expresses our true wishes. Without that any voting is a waste of time. We might as well be in Cuba where they tell you how to vote, as to cast a vote based on disinformation.

A biased media steals our constitutional freedoms, and makes the will of the people mute. What is going on here is nothing but a coup against the informed will of the people in this country.

McCain probably can’t remember he already played that video before, but pasted Kerry’s picture on the surfer!
McCain should just go home…..he has no integrity.

The headline should read. McCain steals Bush ad. or McCain Plegerizes Buch’s Kerry ad. Truly a pathetic blog that promotes such dishonesty. I dont believe what FOX REPORTS …Well at least the YOU DECIDE part is still intact.

That has got to be the gayest ads I have ever seen, I hope you can come up with something better than that Mr straight talk express!

Julie,
You apparantly only read one side of the page….its Romney that won the dirtiest campaign poll on fox…Its Romey that’s the whiner. My ads are only comparisons he says,when confronted,but,when, he, hears the truth its an attack….Its my opinion that he should remove the silver spoon from his mouth and insert a passifier….This guy is total deceivement…a guy that puts up his sail and goes wherever the wind(or his own hot air) takes him.He as more answers tha carter has little liver pills,as long as he can figure out what people want to hear….but those of us that look into his background have found out,He’d sell you out for Chinese money,by way of Bain Capitol,and He’s just too bound to that faith,that he thinks don’tor houldn’t mean anything to us……Read Ezra Taft Benson’s acount of how Mormon faith has to play a part in the Government…that account was stated on Feb.26,1980.

Disagree,Texas,if Romney’s the Nominee,a lot of people will write somebody else in or not vote at all……Secondly He won’t be able to skirt around the religion issue with the dems….but if it doesn’t serve anything else,in the long run we;ll know what this guy is really about,because they’ll make it an issue,and if you spend the time,you can find out now ….you don’t have to wait,however, if you’re one of those with the blinders on that are just flooding the Blogs,you won’t take the time….but that’s up to you

I have a few questions for McCain
1.Why has he taken no action on the death tax?
2.Why has he taken no action on the Social Security Tax not being tied to inflation?
3.Why is he not getting rid of the tax on people and small business which was design for the super rich?
4 He was one of a gaggle asking for more troops. What did he really do to make this happen?
5.Why does he believe he can find the heads of Alquada when I have seen no action on his part
to disclose where he is and how he plans to get them? Sounds like Clinton again.
6. Just how is McCain strong on security. That means what has he done?
The real bottom line is he is an old,no new idea senator with every evidence that he is really a liberal. Why don’t you guys at Fox try getting answers rather than creating images

C’mon omegahpla,I’ve been called Bigot etc for a lot less than you’re stating here. You have to face the fact that everybody isn’t wrong all the time because they don’t agree with you……maybe its you that is wrong,have you ever thought of that??????Just a question,but it sure is starting to look that way……..When you throw enough dirt to earn the right to the dirtiest campaign,as was determined in a Fox poll,then,ya have to expect to have a little thrown back….whats the catch phrase so frequently used….hmmm.oh. they were only comparative remarks….ya reap what you sow……

Has Romney skirted around his religion?

In light of the outcome of last Florida Primary election, I see why Mr. Huckabee is staying in the race. He has no chance of winning the Republican nomination. Mr. Giuliani, though I didn’t agree with his liberal views, is a true American. He saw himself with no chance of winning the nomination, and pulled himself out of the race for the benefit of the party. But not Mr. Huckabee. The only reason I can see he continues to stay in the race, is to take votes away from Mitt Romney. Now looking back on what he has said about the Mormon religion, leaves me to deduct that he’s staying in based on his bias and bigotry. I thought in 2008, especially Huckabee, claiming to be a conservative Christian, there would have been no room for that. In my view he should do the honorable thing as an American and drop out of the race and let the people decide between the top two runners, instead of trying to split the conservative vote. But I guess that’s not feasible for Mr. Huckabee. He talks a good talk, like he plays a good guitar, but when it comes down to it, the true conservative and Christian principles are not there. What is it going to take to get the true conservative movement to see the difference between political talk and action. It’s surprising that the media doesn’t talk about the discrimination and bigotry of religion. It seems that is not as important as the discrimination between blacks and whites which the liberal “politically correct” media continually throws in our faces.
Thanks,
Jaime Esteves, Michigander