Tea Party Labels John McCain An ‘Illegal Immigrant’ (for his trip to Syria)
On Tuesday, the Tea Party website ‘Tea Party Nation’ put out an article (see below) that labeled Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) an “illegal immigrant” because he had sneaked into Syria to visit rebels fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime. ... It also noted that McCain’s humanitarian support for rebels could be attributed to his lack of intelligence, and Democratic turnout for his unsurprising win in the Arizona Senate race.
The characterization of McCain is just one incident in a long series of efforts by the group to unjustifiably incite hatred against undocumented immigrants. While the Tea Party is ostensibly meant to represent true American virtues, it’s better known for its outlandish values that border on racism, particularly when it comes to immigration.
Some major newspapers like the New York Times, the LA Times, and the AP have dropped the use of “illegal immigrant” from its coverage of undocumented migration. Immigration advocates view the phrase as offensive, citing that “no human being is ‘illegal,’ drop the I-word.” Yet Tea Party organizations have hardly budged.
In pandering to Tea Party advocates, some politicians are in fact hurting progress more than anything. Across many issues, Republican senators have quietly shifted their concerns to appease Tea Party supporters. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), for example, has shifted towards a Tea Party-style concern for states’ rights, when it comes to the ability of American children of undocumented immigrants to recieve federal benefits.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/05/28/2066511/tea-party-immigrant-mccain/
The illegal immigrant and mind-blowing stupidity.
The Syrian rebels are not simply rebelling against Bashar al-Assad. They are radical Islamists who want to turn Syria into an Islamist state. It was only last month that these Syrian rebels pledged their loyalty to Al-Qaeda.
McCain has the track record to prove he is an idiot. He supported America’s intervention in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak. How did that work out? It took a nation that had been a solid America ally for thirty years and transformed it into a radical Islamist state.
Libya is another great John McCain achievement. ... Prior to the rebellion, Muammer Qaddafi, Libya’s dictator had been behaving himself. He had given up Libya’s weapons of mass destruction program and was pretty much keeping himself at home. Qaddafi was not a saint but he was certainly better than what replaced him.
Now McCain wants us to do in Syria, what we did in Egypt and Libya. A reasonably sane man would ask how has this worked out for us? Perhaps after two unmitigated disasters, McCain would learn. Or perhaps there is a reason McCain graduated at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy or managed to crash a couple of airplanes.
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/the-illegal-immigrant-and-mind-blowing-stupidity
Not much love for McCain among tea party immigration hawks.
