McCain can't pacify both sides on immigration
By: Gebe Martinez
February 13, 2008 07:51 AM EST

Time for a little straight talk here, as presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain likes to say.

McCain’s immigration position is not much different from what it was last year, before political forces caused the Arizona senator to back away from the bipartisan compromise he helped craft in the Senate.

The difference between then and now is how he talks about handling immigration.

Having felt the anger of voters about lax border enforcement, he issues a “straight talkâ€