Marky Mark Comes Out For Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

From the (Harrisonburg, Va.) Daily News Record

Mark Warner, speaking in Harrisonburg on Friday, said that he would have supported the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill that was defeated in Congress last summer.

“Push come to shove, I probably would have voted for it,” Warner told a gathering of Democrats in the city. “The alternative is that we do nothing.”

No, sir.  The alternative is that we enforce the law.

Wasn’t this the same guy who just the other day said he supposedly favors tougher actions against illegal aliens? Yes, it certainly is.  Now, get this.  You’ll catch a glimpse of how Marky Mark ran his 2001 gubernatorial campaign and he obviously thinks that he can run the same model in 2008 for senate.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee chided Warner for “flip-flopping” on immigration.

Republicans cited Warner’s support for a bill when he was governor that would have allowed some exceptions to the state’s prohibition of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

When the General Assembly rejected the changes Warner wanted in 2003, he vetoed the bill.

“Mark Warner is running from his record as governor of Virginia, and he is going to have to answer uncomfortable questions,” Republicans said in a prepared statement.

Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said the charge was unfair.

The governor’s veto was based on the immigration situation then, and Warner’s current plan addresses the issue now, Hall said.

The GOP charges, Hall said, revealed the attack mentality of the Republicans.

Any time an opponent tries to bring up Marky Mark’s record as governor or a position on an issue, it is automatically labelled “unfair” or an “attack.” Now, this may have worked in the weeks after 9/11 when Marky Mark claimed that Mark Earley was engaging in partisan attacks by actually comparing where the two of them stood on issues ::GASP::, but no opponent should ever let him get away with that again.