For many conservatives, nothing about John McCain sticks in the throat so immovably as the yoking of his name with Edward Kennedy's in the 2005 immigration bill.(The Week)(Brief article)

For many conservatives, nothing about John McCain sticks in the throat so immovably as the yoking of his name with Edward Kennedy's in the 2005 immigration bill. McCain-Kennedy never came to a vote, but it formed the basis for subsequent bills in 2006 and 2007, all offering amnesty to illegal residents, all keenly supported by McCain. The candidate swears he has seen the light now, and will properly supervise enforcement of existing immigration laws. One strong reason to doubt his sincerity is his hiring, and subsequent defense, of former Mexican cabinet officer Juan Hernandez, a propagandist for the most egregious kind of ethnocentric multiculturalism. Sample Hernandez quote: "I want the ...