The Senate Amnesty Bill lacks votes, and so does Mc Cain. He is trailing badly behind Giuliani, and I predict he will lose more ground when the votes start rolling in. The RINO from Arizona has sunk from 26.4 to 16.3 percent of the GOP field poll since February. Once Romney and Thompson gather momentum, he's finished. Mc Cain trails Clinton, Obama, and even Edwards in head to head polls. Here's one reason why;
Despite his best case for the immigration compromise -- and he made a good one at the debate the other night -- the unalterable fact is that the issue is right now a major problem for the McCain campaign.
To wit, one of the first tangible signs of the damage it's doing, as supplied by Romney's camp:
Subject: RE: TIME TO CALL RADIODate: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:15:22 -0400
From: David Nix
To: 'Adam Temple'
CC: Mike Gibbons
Adam,
Please consider this my resignation as Aiken County chair for McCain. I am too far from him on the Amnesty Bill. I was hopeful that he could keep his nose clean this time around, but he can’t read the pulse of the American citizens.
...Can't read the pulse of the citizens. With all the talk about Reagan in the First debate, you'd think the GOP would realize that a populist candidate wins for us every time...
Please pass my regrets on to Henry McMaster.
David Nix
Aiken CountyAdam Temple is McCain's South Carolina press secretary. The e-mail was in response to a plea for McCain county chairs to call into talk radio stations and make the pitch for their candidate. Nix, evidently, is very unhappy about the "Amnesty Bill" because the guy he cc'd, Mike Gibbons, happens to be a reporter for the Aiken paper. Henry McMaster, btw, is the state AG and a big McCain supporter.
Yes, call in the talk radio stations and explain why an open border is so crucial to Homeland Security, and when they disagree with you, just swear at them.
