I think the solution is not to bash McCain so much as to endorse his opposition, JD Hayworth -- not SOS, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D._Hayworth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D._Ha...ical_positions
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Like most Republicans elected in the 1994 landslide, Hayworth was an ardent conservative. He has said he believes border security and interior enforcement of immigration laws are the solutions — not a temporary worker program as proposed by President George W. Bush for Mexican illegal aliens.
In January 2006, Regnery published Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror, a book by Hayworth and his chief of staff, Joseph J. Eule. He sold less than 1000 copies of the book and it was considered a financial flop by the publisher. In the book, Hayworth said that Bush is too close to GOP contributors from the agribusiness, meat packing and construction industries, who he calls "addicted" to a steady stream of workers from Mexico and Central America to keep wages down. Hayworth also argues that current immigration law misinterprets the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, says that a child of undocumented immigrants born in the U.S. should not be given U.S. citizenship, and advocates the "Americanization" program Henry Ford advocated in an interview with the New York Times in 1914.[3]
The ever-so-successful process that used to be called "Americanization" was a major movement in the early 1900s … Henry Ford, a leader in this movement, said, "These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live." Talk like that today and our liberal elites will brand you a cultural imperialist, or worse. But if you ask me, Ford had a better idea. Most of his ideas are remembrance of the "Know nothing party" from the early 19th Century in which ALL immigrants were considered evil.
(from Whatever It Takes)
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Although I don't think Henry Ford had anything useful to say about the integrity of the United States or immigration or what it means to be an "American". And I don't think Henry Ford had anything to do with the "Know nothings".