McCain 'Wobbling' Leftward Again on Immigration

By John McCain’s own admission, his embrace of immigration reform nearly sunk his candidacy in the early primaries, writes Byron York in the Hill. But after saving his hide with a swing to the right and a pledge to "secure the border first" (a “legitimate flip-flop,” York specifies), the pendulum is moving leftward again. McCain recently told a Latino audience that comprehensive reform “will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”

This is Mac “at his most incorrigible,” argues York, who says the candidate is reneging on a critical promise and “wobbling or slipping into the old McCain.” The candidate even told a newspaper that he’s “glad” he fought (unsuccessfully) for reform. Ed Kilgore says on Salon that conservatives who hoped “immigrant-bashing would be the great wedge issue of 2008” are set to be disappointed. (More John McCain stories.)