With all due respect, Mark Harvey, McCain’s position has never been for illegal immigration even when in 2007 he worked for the bipartisan immigration bill. His argument then was that the bill included tough law enforcement provisions, and there were such provisions. The telling objection to that 2007 bill was that the Reagan-era immigration “reform” also had strong law enforcement provisions in it that were not enforced, which is what led to the current immigration problems and which calls at least for a “law enforcement first” position. In response, McCain did go to a “law enforcement first” position in 2008, which is certainly not for illegal immigration but against it. Since then, northern Mexico has degenerated into a staging area for narco-terrorism that has spilled over the border into the United States; and so in 2009, McCain called for the deployment of troops on the southern border.

I do, though, agree with your assessment of Noonan.

TerryTate is 100% co-rrect. McNuggets is way past due for his new career as a taco vendor in downtown Phoenix. If you believe McCain has anything to offer Arizona I’m afraid you are badly misinformed or lack the knowledge of what’s called reality. Phil Byler, you should work for one of the useless news programs on television. You seem to parrot their drivel with great skill.
Sure, Noonan is a urban bugwit with no clue as to what is going on in the real world us drones live in…just like “Maverick” McCain.

Terry Tate, you are not going to get results with J.D. Hayworth, you may get results with John McCain who with John Kyle are trying to publicize the issue. Also, the current problem of northern Mexican narco-terrorism has not been in existence for 27 years.

There are also matters of deficit spending, health care, bailouts, appointments and foreign policy.

John McCain, throughout his career, has been a fiscal conservative who has opposed earmarked and out of control federal spending and who voted against Obama’s deficit spending budgets, denouncing them as “generational theft.” (J.D. had his pork barrel spending moments in the Congress.)

McCain strenuously opposed and voted against ObamaCare and was accused by the New York Times of throwing bombs on the subject. McCain voted against every Obama bailout bill and even voted against the second release of TARP monies when Bush was still President in late 2008. (J.D. was on the sidelines on these issues because he lost his last race for Congress to a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican congressional district that should have been a safe seat even in bad year for the GOP.)

McCain voted against the confirmations of tax cheat Geithner, radical pro-abortion advocate Sibellius, leftist attorney Kagan and transnational advocate Koh to their respective positions in the Obama Administration and voted against the confirmation of Sotomayer to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Few people have the experience and knowledge concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security that John McCain has. He was right about the Iraq War when even many Republicans went wobbly and fought off Democrat led efforts to cut off funding our troops in the field in Iraq. McCain was right to attack Obama for dithering about committing to General McChrystal’s plan for Afghanistan and for not supporting the Iranian dissidents. McCain could be right because he knows his stuff when it comes to Commander in Chief decisions.