McCain Plea to Hispanics Dismays Anti-Immigration Republicans

Hans Nichols



(Bloomberg) — Arizona Senator John McCain cites his standing with his state’s Hispanics as proof that he is a different kind of Republican, distinct from the illegal- immigration foes who dominate the party. He vows to campaign in the barrios, gunning for the 70 percent Latino support he won in his last senatorial election.

That’s precisely what worries anti-immigration Republicans, who say the party’s base will stay at home if it detects the kind of mariachi politics that President George W. Bush practiced to win more than 40 percent of Latino voters in 2004.

[b][color=red]If McCain “panders for the Hispanic vote, politically, he’ll kill himself and he’ll kill us,â€