McCain received death threats over immigration issue

[Wetzelbill]

See that's just how sick a certain segment of the GOP is, they actually want to kill a guy because he supports a quest worker program. -WB

McCain: Immigration Issue Led to Threats

ASPEN, Colo. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday that the issue of illegal immigration angered people unlike no other, including the unpopular war in Iraq, and sparked unprecedented death threats against him.

"It is unbelievable how this has inflamed the passions of the American people," the Arizona senator said in remarks at The Aspen Institute, a public policy forum. In an interview, he declined to elaborate on the threats he had received.

Still, McCain said, he continued to support a temporary worker program for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Derided by critics as amnesty, the program was one of the most controversial elements of the failed immigration bill supported by President Bush and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate.

McCain acknowledged that the immigration issue, along with his support for the war in Iraq, had cost him politically.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070815/mccain-colorado/

[defendandprotect]

1. The right-wing is violently nuts -- especially when stirred up by GOP --

[L. Coyote]

2. Yeah, and Rove found a bug in his office, right? Old trick.

[NanceGreggs]

3. And all along he thought it was the gay sweater ...

... that would inflame the masses.

Live and learn ...