John McCain and Immigration
With everyone attacking McCain about his stand on immigration, I was hoping that I could look at his ratings from interests groups and compare them with Clinton’s and Obama’s. I honestly wanted to find that McCain was ranked better from the “no amnesty” interest groups then his Democratic opponents, but this just wasn’t the case.
Quite honestly, it really shocked me to find out that Hillary and Barack had received better scores (2005-2006) from Americans for Better Immigration (McCain: 18, Clinton: 26, Obama: 28) and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (McCain: 15, Clinton: 50, Obama: 43). Just to give you a little perspective, Senator Jim DeMint, who was a strong opponent to last summer’s comprehensive immigration reform, received a rating of 79 from both during the same year (this year he received a 92 from ABI).
Even though McCain received a 100 from the English First group last year, don’t get your hopes. The year before he only received a 25. This is still better than Hillary and Barack’s zeros for both year, but one is to expect McCain to act tough on immigration during the presidential primary. Don’t expect him to keep his 100 percent too much longer since the primary is over.
I am by no means saying that you should vote for either Hillary or Barack in the coming election. All I am saying is that we, as conservatives, are going to have to watch McCain closely when it comes to anything that deals with immigration.
I much rather have to deal with McCain on his few faults than Hillary or Barack with their innumerable faults.
