I will keep in mind that this is from Mike in NY who his own chairman says is not capable of taking care of the responsibility that were offered to him. I believe it was Manhattan area?

You commented how your glad that Florida was no longer part of the Modern Whigs. did you ever know that this blog is what started the steps for Florida to leave the Moderns? You made issue that the people of Florida must have been Republican because they were running 3 candidates against 3 Democratic held districts. Guess after they had two more congressional candidates announce against 2 Republicans that argument went out the window.

There must be no communication in the NY chapter or you would have known that just last Wednesday your state chair Gene was on the phone with Florida begging them to come back to the Moderns and to help him become the next Chairman of the Modern Whigs due to the fact that now Chairwomen Stephens is also resigning.

You must have just figured McKain as the easy target. Well, you made it easy by misquoting him from your own article. I will add it for you .

“For starters, why is Rush Limbaugh such a sore topic with this guy? I get frustrated when someone makes up statistics and then expects everyone to agree. “However, for all the people that love him there are two that hate him.” This goes to the credibility of the writer. I would love to know where he got this statistic. Rush does have the #1 talk show in the country, so he must be doing something right.”

To me it looks like he was pointing out how as a registered Democrat you were very sensitive about Rush Limbaugh. He also pointed out your made up statistics and questioned your credibility as a writer. You never did bother to state where you got your statistics from by the way. I think he then pointed out that Limbaugh must being doing something right based on his ratings. I don’t recall McKain ever stating his support of Limbaugh. Pick up the phone and call him. I’m sure he will tell you what he really thinks of Rush. But your attempted twist was almost worth it.

It must be hard being an activist without even putting your shoes on. I have heard the Moderns described as a “phone book party” I think the correct description should be a “computer keyboard party”

Gene was right about you. You are out there. Even Lebowitz once told me that you were a nut when I contacted him about you.

Okay now I submit this and then you reply with some other reason why Florida is _________. I will let you fill in the blank. You are good at that!

However, there is no need to inject racism into this equation. Because at it’s core, this isn’t an issue of race. It is a straw man with a measure of truth behind it. We know that racism is alive and well within the fringes of the Republican party. I know that at least for my self race is not an issue. Nor do I think it is for the majority of my fellow Whigs. You are an American regardless of the color of your skin.

The problem we have have is with illegal immigration. The reasons we have such heavy regulations on immigration are various and sundry. Among them, there is the criminal element. With the drug trade comes waves of criminals and violence. These people never go through the proper channels and therein lies the problem. We can’t keep track of the bad apples.

The other big problem is that with an influx of cheap illegal labor comes an increase in the number of Americans who lose their jobs to migrant works. This is also a huge detriment to the Mexican-Americans who came here legally and who pay their taxes.

It’s not immigration we have a problem with. When done properly integration of immigrants into American society contributes to the diversity of our great melting pot and strengthens us as a society. It’s truly a shame that race ever entered the equation. But this is not anything new. Italian and Irish immigrants all faced the same discrimination when they came here at the end of the 19th century. Even legal immigrants were often harassed and pelted with rocks as they got off the boats.

Immigration control exists to protect Americans of all races, religions and creeds. Try not to be so hasty in judgment against those of us who want what’s best for all us. We don’t need to be enemies.

However, by threatening to cut off diplomacy as we have in the past, we will only be creating more problems. We tried that with Cuba and it only furthered the resolve of that nation’s leaders to maintain it’s ties to the Soviet Union and briefly gain nuclear power. We need to maintain open ties and consider the possibility of trading with these guys. We need to get them out of this situation of dealers and abusers with North Korea (the abusers) buying up weaponry and materials from the dealers, China and Russia. We need to break their habits.

Then things start to fall into place. They have nowhere else to go but the democratized West. The same thing has been happening in China since the early 1990’s. Once the Soviet Union fell they had nothing else to do but start deregulating their markets and making slow strides toward a free society.

It’s a long process and the “I want my pony now” crowd won’t be pleased with that, least of all the gung-ho warhawks in the Republican and Democratic parties. If push comes to shove, we shove back, but extending a cautious hand of friendship is one of the best options we have. Our military is already stretched far too thin as it is, and redirecting troops to fight a large (militarily) hostile nation would create even more problems than we already have. Ones that we simply cannot afford both in terms of money and the lives of American soldiers.

Anyway, my rant has become long winded and boring. I’m glad I had the opportunity to toss my two cents into the hat.

I know he’s on the FWP ticket – but that doesn’t mean he’s their puppet.

Here’s the interview:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-16781-Tallahassee-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Paul-McKain-What-separates-me-from-Allen-Boyd