Palin/McCain rally: "I'm real disappointed they didn't talk about the Mexicans overrunning Arizona."

By GottaLaff

J.D. Hayworth, Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas (Maricopa County Attorney)
(about a month ago)

The poster reads, "McCain/Palin betray the Tea-Party"
Mesa, AZ rally


The video of Ron Paul war protesters is a little shaky, but at least you get a glimpse.

My dear Twitter pal Tiggrr1 attended the Mesa, Arizona Palin, er, McCain event. That would be the very same event where a heckler got roughed up for practicing free speech.

He e-mailed me with some observations of that, and a couple of other things.

Tiggrr got to the Mesa rally just as the police released the two kids who had been forced out.

He grabbed a quick snapshot (see above) before the crowd started looking, er, askance at him.

He took some video (I'm not sure if I'll be able to get my hands on it), but one included a man with a sign that said, "Pull your head out Sarah". [Added note: Tiggrr tells me that the guy at the beginning of the video was the one holding the sign, including a slash through his McCain picture.]

He also shot some footage of Ron Paul supporters protesting the Afghan war (above).

Other video moments included a few pro-forced pregnancy advocates at a nearby Catholic church.

Tiggrr also encountered some anti-immigration protesters who decided to spontaneously blurt out their feelings to him. They were disappointed with Speaky McHellNo, and were angry that she is backing, as they call it, "pro-immigrant McCain". And he quotes:

"I know that Palin doesn't want these illegals in our country."

That from a man who was carrying a Going Rogue book.

Another said:

"I'm real disappointed they (McCain & Palin) didn't talk about the Mexicans overrunning Arizona."

Tiggrr decided to ask some of the Tea Baggers who they considered to be their Arizona hero. The answers: Pearce, Thomas, Arpaio, and J.D. Hayworth... for standing up to illegal immigration (see top photo)

As Tiggrr tells it, he "has lived in Arizona for 50 years, growing up with Hispanic immigrants in Mesa. There was a farming town in which many immigrant children were born, and are U.S. citizens."

But, he goes on, now these same hard working people are portrayed as "illegals, dope dealers, and gang members by the GOP and the Tea Baggers." He wonders "how many Hispanics have they been around? My guess is they don't see American Hispanics as equals."

As we all know, one of the next big issues pending in Congress is immigration.

It's going to be a very long year.