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Over the weekend, McCain and Obama attended a conference of Latino voters. In an effort to pander for votes, both of them once again called for “comprehensive immigration reform.” McCain proposed legislation a couple years ago, co-written with Ted Kennedy, which would have granted illegal aliens amnesty as well as Social Security benefits. Conservatives and regular every day Americans from Alaska to Wyoming and California to Maine rose up and demanded that the borders be secured without any grant of amnesty.

In the process of running for President, McCain claims to have learned that what people want are secure borders first with no “comprehensive” reform to provide benefits and citizenship to those who came here illegally. However, as this weekend proved, McCain still hasn’t changed his mind and is willing to sell out you, me, the millions of people who immigrated legally, millions more who will be forced to pay benefits to people who came here with no respect for our laws, etc.

Many of our readers will vote for McCain because of his stance on Iraq. Others will vote for him because he’s more likely to give us conservative judges than Obama (just like Gerald Ford gave us Stevens and GHWB gave us Souter). But, what he did this weekend is the same thing he’s always done and goes to show, yet again, that he cannot be trusted. He sold out conservatives to pander to the left for support. What makes you think when he gets into office, he won’t continue to do the very same thing he’s spend the last 10 years doing in Congress? McCain is no conservative… in fact, he’s worse. McCain is Bill Clinton - finger in the wind, always following and never leading - in conservative clothing.

George Carlin used to proudly proclaim he didn’t vote, saying out logic was all wrong. If you vote for someone, you don’t get to complain when they screw up in your name. If you don’t vote, you can always say “hey, I didn’t vote for that guy.” Now, I’m not encouraging you to not vote… I’m encouraging you to not vote for McCain (or Obama). Do you really want McCain’s view to be the standard bearer of conservatism for the next 4 years? Do you want “comprehensive immigration reform” done in the name of conservatism? Do you want carbon caps, taxes and trading done in the name of conservatism? Do you want another Justice Souter in the name of conservatism? Conservatives don’t believe in selling out our country and as McCain has repeatedly shown, he is no conservative.

If McCain wins, it’ll spell the downfall of the Republican Party, just as the Compromise of 1850 spelled the doom of the Whig Party and ultimately lead to the rise of the GOP. You would think the senior party politicians would know that bit of trivia. Much as the issue of slavery divided the day then, illegal immigration will be the chasm today. Conservatives will be forced to seek a new party that agrees with our path. As Ohio Rep Lewis Davis Campbell proclaimed after the Whigs lost the next election, “We are slayed. The party is dead–dead–dead!” 8 years later, a newly form party elected their first President.

PL <phantomlord@rochesterconservative.com>