John McCain's Immigration Flip-Flop

Barbara Morrill for Daily Kos

Daily Kos Staff

Monday July 14, 2008 · 7:15 AM PDT

2008/07/14 · 07:15

Today John McCain will deliver a speech where he will say that:

...he has earned the trust of Hispanic voters by championing an immigration reform bill that nearly killed his presidential bid. [...]

"I took my lumps for it without complaint. My campaign was written off as a lost cause. I did so not just because I believed it was the right thing to do for Hispanic Americans. It was the right thing to do for all Americans."

But McCain is ignoring one little detail; he thought that it was the right thing to do until he realized that the issue was killing him among conservatives, so he lurched to the right and flip-flopped on his own bill.

John McCain's Immigration Flip-Flop

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