Posted on 01/22/2010 11:17:29 AM PST by American Dream 246
The question isn’t why Sarah Palin is helping John McCain. The question is: What are you doing to stop him from cementing his Big Government Republican legacy?
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Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for The Right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight-message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives have worked hard over the past year to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.
Red Flag Number One: A reader from Arizona informed me the day after the Bay State Bombshell that he had received a robo-call from Massachusetts GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown. “He basically wanted me to vote for John McCain in November,” the reader said in his description of the automated campaign call supporting the four-term Sen. McCain’s re-election bid. “No wonder [Brown] said he hadn’t had any sleep…he was busy recording phone messages!”
Red Flag Number Two: Also in the wake of the Massachusetts special election, the nation’s most popular conservative political figure, Sarah Palin, announced she would be campaigning for her former running mate in Arizona in March. Palin told Facebook followers that she’s going to “ride the tide with commonsense candidates” and help “heroes and statesmen” like McCain. Facing mounting conservative opposition in his home state and polls showing him virtually tied with possible GOP challenger and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, McCain welcomed the boost: “Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party.”
Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, Sen. McCain is now clinging to its coattails to save his incumbent hide.
And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy.
In Florida, McCain’s Country First Political Action Committee is supporting the Senate bid of fellow illegal alien amnesty supporter and global warming alarmist, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, whose crucial 2008 primary endorsement rescued McCain from disaster. Grass-roots conservatives support former GOP statehouse leader Marco Rubio – who is hitting Crist hard for lying to voters about his embrace of President Obama’s pork-laden, fraud-ridden stimulus package.
In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs – and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. An estimated 40 percent of her coffers are filled with out-of-state money (and much of that is flowing from the Beltway).
The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest – stifling the candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far Left and big business Right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and another GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet – despite the huge cash and crony advantage of front-runner and blank-slate Jane.
In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure, and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout, and the first $85 billion AIG bailout. As GOP rival and grass-roots-supported Chuck DeVore’s camp notes, Fiorina has also vacillated publicly over the Obama stimulus. With taxpayer “friends” like this, who needs Democrats?
With all due respect to McCain’s past noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations.
He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America.
He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout.
He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots.
And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.
Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place.
The conservative base has no such obligations – and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late.
The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.
If Sarah intends to run in 2012 she’s lost my vote in the primary. She walked and talked a good game up to this point but this is a major mistake to support King RINO and his 30 million illegal amigos.
I agree.
I know we won’t be duped by him but moderates and RINO’s will too easily jump on his bandwagen again.
John McCain should retire or be relegated to a minor role in the Senate. He doesn’t get the mood of the country anymore than the President does.
John McCain should retire or be relegated to a minor role in the Senate. He doesn’t get the mood of the country anymore than the President does.
Sorry, meant to reply to the OP.
Thank you, Michelle Malkin!!
Well folks, if anybody is going to be able to stop McCain and his big-money boys, it will have to be US.
Not to mention his loopy wife and daughter, his pocket puppet, Lindsay Graham and his poisonous assortment of paid political advisers and henchmen. McCain and his tribe need to be voted off the beltway.
This is a great summary of where we are and we must not let the Rinos think that just because we supported Rino Brown to kill health care that we support the other rinos and their leftist agenda, too.
It would help Brown to understand that the voters mean business about freedom and cutting the size of government as he watches his “powerful” pal McCain put out to pasture.
I understand Palin’s “rock and a hard place.” It is too bad her first National exposure and experience came with McLame. Until the tea party movement, we sure did not see McCain and his witchey women out front defending Sarah and her family when the feeding frenzy of John’s pals was going on. Oh well. Spilt milk and all that.
Will FR be excited about defeating McCain in the primary?
Hayworth might be running and I assume that FR will be supporting him if he does.
Chris Simcox is running. Will FR support him if Hayworth doesn’t run?
https://www.simcoxforsenate.com/
The guy who claims to have pulled McCain out of the jaws of defeat in 2008 is FRED MALEK. Fred, according to some on FR, is now leading Palin on her path. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2434882/posts?page=22#22
This guy is NOTHING for conservatives to be proud of.
OP kingmaker leans toward Mitt Romney
5/19/09
Fred Malek, a heavyweight Republican fundraiser and kingmaker, has singled out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the GOP’s leading contender in the early stages of the 2012 Republican presidential derby.
In a largely unnoticed post to his blog late last week, Malek, a wealthy businessman who served as national finance co-chair of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, ranked Romney No. 1 on a list of influential Republicans “who might both lead our party back and who might be our nominee in 2012.”
Malek, who did not return an email requesting comment from POLITICO, blogged that Romney has “the established organization, fundraising network, time, and talent to get the nomination this time” and predicted he could “be in the best position when the serious campaigning begins in early 2011.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22736.html
Mr. Malek writes:
Whether you loved or hated John’s position in the Immigration debate, his actions that June exhibited the quintessential get-in-the-middle, role up your sleeves, bi-partisan leadership that has marked his service to our country. Unfortunately, at the time, much of the Republican base did not see this leadership as a positive attribute. As a result, the fundraising well dried up, and it could not have come at a worse time.
http://race42008.com/category/2008-misc/
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Similar questions may have been raised after a recent column [”Fred Malek, Then and Now,” Feb. 4] that recounted Malek’s abuse of the public trust and public servants during the Nixon years and his role in carrying out Richard Nixon’s disgusting hunt for Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He was only in his thirties at the time, his friends say in his defense.
Is there a continuum of behavior whose parts cannot be separated from the whole Malek?
There was the dog killing in Peoria in the ‘50s, the Senate Watergate Committee in the ‘70s, the doomed nomination to be a governor of the U.S. Postal Service in the ‘80s, and now the Securities and Exchange Commission action in 2004.
Yes, Malek vs. the federal government two years ago.
Fred Malek and his company, for their failure to disclose to the pension fund (and pensioners) the side deal to retain and pay DiBella nearly $375,000 — and without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings — consented to the issuance of a cease-and-desist order censuring him and his company. Malek’s company was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $150,000, and he was personally made to pay a civil penalty of $100,000.
That wasn’t ancient history or a youthful indiscretion. The year: 2004. Malek was 67 years old. [snip]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031001843_2.html
f Sarah intends to run in 2012 she’s lost my vote in the primary. She walked and talked a good game up to this point but this is a major mistake to support King RINO and his 30 million illegal amigos.
I agree. What happened to Conservative Principles Sarah ? McCain did not even resemble a Conservative till this election cycle. Now, to have a Conservative Standard candle (Sarah) come out in support of one of the GOP’s biggest RINO”s ? Wow, to say i am confused would be a understatement.
“Chris Simcox is running. Will FR support him if Hayworth doesn’t run?”
Not me. Not anyone who really knows the guy. All he will do is screw this race up and keep McCain in. Just like he screwed up the entire minuteman movement. There are better candidates in Arizona.
If McCain had a sense of honor, he'd respectfully refuse her support in his primary bid. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening.
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