that when Obama ran Spanish-language radio ads claiming that McCain’s position on immigration was the same as Rush Limbaugh’s, none of the people he went to bat for at great political risk lifted a finger to defend him.

Yeah, I think he’s 100% justified in telling Latino leaders that elections have consequences.

And he is surprised?

Dude, they used you like a tool and then didn’t vote for you. Tell them to pound sand headed south.

KARMA is a monster and it’s come around to bite them in the butt. I agree with Dan these people did nothing to help McCain in the election and they expect him to still take on flack for their sorry butts…..he has a Senatorial election to win and he doesn’t need illegal immigraton hung around his neck.

And interestingly, Obama hasn’t done anything for that interest group. NAFTA is under fire and jobs nativism is thriving. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a fresh start for our party with hispanics. After all, anyone who has the motivation to break laws and risk dying in the desert is our kind of people from a work ethic standpoint.

Too bad it’s already after he lost us a presidential election.

McCain finally is getting out of the way on this. He is finally helping conservatives come together.

We’ll see how he acts if Obama has to actually take action on the border to prevent the drug wars from spilling over.

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In a broader sense though, this is nothing more than just desserts, right?

What happened to the great man of honor and integrity who did what he thought was right no matter what the consequences? Where is that great champion of the less fortunate among us we were all compelled to vote for?

Could it be that he was never what he’s been sold to be…that deep down under the facade and propaganda about McCain and his great principles we have nothing more than a petty, pathetic vindictive man who cares about nothing more than his own self aggrandizement intent on feeding his enormous ego and damn enyone or anything that gets in his way?

GOD forgive me but I loath this man and he has done nothing since the election to assuage my distrust and utter contempt with which I view him!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

but Im tired of McCain. The media keeps bringing him up and its annoying.

… for both parties.

For McCain, for abandoning the principle of the rule of law, sticking it to the conservative movement for his own self-aggrandizement, and for futile ethnic pandering …

and for the pro-amnesty/pro-illegal immigration lobby, who (predictably) despite McCain’s kissing of their collective a–, completely abandoned him at election time.

Let this be a lesson to other Republicans – ethnic pandering doesn’t work. Sticking to your principles, while sometimes painful, DOES work in the long run.

This story has nothing to do with McCain changing his position on amnesty.

He’s effectively saying to those Hispanic business leaders, “I promised more to you than Obama, I stuck my neck out for you more than Obama, and you went and voted for Obama. Now you want me to stick my neck out further? Kiss my ass! McCain out!”

Don’t get the wrong idea from this story. McCain is still for amnesty, and he’ll be on Obama’s side when the immigration issue comes back around.

The only news here is that he’s pissed off it didn’t help him on Election Day.

Finally Senator McCain has been exposed. I would like to applaud the author for being brave enough to report this to the American People. McCain, as the leader of the “Cross The Isle Folks” got exactly what he deserved from those so-called Hispanic/Mexican Americans. I feel sorry for the young man. Maybe if he had watched TV he would have seen all the Mexico flags at the rally, two of them, and knew the fix was in. This is a great day for me, and I can’t wait until the Specter, Snowe, and Collins, have their “Temper Tantrum” when they find out the “Greens”, the Waxman (D-Calif), and the “Great One”, Nancy Pelosi, has stabbed them in the back. That would be some HOPE I could believe in, and that just may lead to some CHANGE I can believe in.

McCain, Bush and the Republican establishment had this crazy idea that by supporting amnesty, Hispanics would suddenly become loyal Republicans.

Instead, it ended up alienating a large part of our base in order to chase a small amount of potential voters that never really had any interest in the Republican Party at all.

The amount of swing-voter Hispanics that wants amnesty is much smaller compared to the amount of Reagan Democrats that wants a secured border that enforces immigration laws.

Had Obama been challenged on his immigration stances (like granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens) the Republican Party would have fared a lot better in 2008.

At the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding. We had a Republican that was as pro-amnesty as a politician can possibly be, and yet he still lost the Hispanic vote in overwhelmingly numbers.

Hopefully other RINOS will see it doesn’t pay to betray your base for people who will never support you.

Has nothing to do with Hispanics. They did not catch on to it then, and it should have come as no surprise to anyone that he acts as he does now.

Bush did capitalize somewhat on immigration in 2004, as he was seen as soft on illegals and saw a larger improvement among hispanics than among any other major group (9% increase from 2000). However, that was before the issue actually came up, and since it did, the media was able to exploit GOP opposition to it as “racist” or “xenophopic” or whatever, so 4 short years later, when another pro-amnesty Republican is running for President and hoping to build on Bush’s gains among hispanics, the well is so poisoned for the entire GOP that he actually gets a lower portion of the hispanic vote than Bush ever got.

I think it is a shame we couldn’t find a way around the immigration issue. It would be nice to not have to rely almost exclusively on the votes of white folks to win elections, and like many of the other commenters, I see these hard-working, God-fearing hispanics as Republicans waiting to happen.

is up for re-election and he knows his position hurt him deeply here in Arizona… this is all about trying to get re-elected. It doesn’t look like anyone will run against him, which means our choice is McCain or the democrat.. I’ll reluctantly vote McCain.

Thank God that McCain is not the “bad” me.

But the Hispanic vote is so simple to understand. Yes they want amnesty. BUT THEY LOVE NANNY STATE of Obama more than anything else.