John McCain’s senior campaign adviser, the liberal Republican Grant Woods, recently said, “To be an Arizonan is to be a part of Mexico.” We discovered why. Woods was fined $1400 by the INS for hiring an illegal immigrant as a nanny in 1993. His excuse? He said he didn’t realize it was against the law. This man later became our Arizona Attorney General, and now he is a Senior Advisor to the McCain campaign. Over the last few years he has drifted further to the left and now frequently endorses Democrats. He endorsed Democrat Harry Mitchell for Congress in 2006, former Democrat Mayors of Tempe Neil Giuliano, John Moeur and Bill LoPiano, former Scottsdale Mayor Sam Campana, former state Senate President Leo Corbet and others. Liberal Republicans like Woods are quick to call out other Republicans for violating Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican,” but don’t hesitate to break it themselves. Woods slammed J.D. Hayworth when Hayworth was running against Mitchell for Congress. Among some pretty rude insults, including calling J.D. “Foghorn Leghorn,” Woods said, “His rhetoric in immigration, in particular, is hurtful.” Is that so Grant, is that because you got caught? Woods served as Harry Mitchell’s criminal defense attorney when Mitchell got caught stealing campaign signs from an opponent. Woods understood what it was like to get caught doing something wrong. With senior advisors like this liberal, it is going to be difficult for McCain to fool the voters that he has really changed and is now as conservative on illegal immigration as J.D. Hayworth is.