Squaring the Culture

Michelle Malkin and Allahpundit report this morning that the McCain campaign has hired notorious open-borders activist Dr. Juan Hernandez as his Director of Hispanic Outreach. He apparently joined McCain’s staff quietly last November.

Hernandez regards Mexico and western America as a single region, and favors free access across the borders for workers. Hernandez not only encouraged Mexicans to break US immigration law, but worked in the Mexican community in the US to ensure that they did not “go native” by losing their Mexican identity and citizenship, while working for the Vicente Fox administration in Mexico and teaching at the University of Texas.

Check out the interview that Hot Air posted (Allahpundit link, above). He’s completely following the leftist playbook, tugging shamelessly on emotions while refusing to address any question directly, but saying that he is. He’s not very good at it, it’s obvious that he’s been coached. Keep your air sickness bag close.

Republican primary candidates are all pandering to conservative issues, but not credibly. By doing so, they’re acknowledging that the Republican party is mostly conservative, and that they’re out of touch with it. McCain’s version of this dance is to distance himself from amnesty, declaring that he’s never supported amnesty. This is the same McCain, however, who cussed at the thought of the border fence, whose Immigration Reform Act allowed law-breaking immigrants to become citizens after paying a small fine, and who now has hired, not an open-borders moderate like himself, but a full-blow advocate for MexAmeriCanada (with a hat tip to Glenn Beck for the nomenclature).

A family friend of mine works on Russ Feingold’s staff. He’s a Progressive. He can’t stand McCain; “He’s duplicitous,” says my friend. I see what he means, but frankly, it doesn’t surprise me. I’ve written enough about McCain that he’s earned his own category.

I’m flexible, but I absolutely shudder at the thought that this man might become President. If he runs against Clinton, I’ll duct tape my head so it doesn’t explode (another nod to Glenn Beck) and vote for him, but in any other election, I won’t pull the level for John McCain.

From Dr. Juan Hernandez on Nightline, June 7 , 2001, courtesy of The Corner:

I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’

Does this sound like sound US policy to you?