Posted on 03/01/2010 11:00:52 PM PST by freespirited
My brother and I have a running conversation about whether it is a good thing that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., didn't become president. We both voted for him, but I decided early on, as much as I oppose every Marx-tinged thing President Obama stands for, I was glad Obama had won and McCain had lost. At least, I was glad McCain had lost.
That's because only out of ashes may the phoenix be reborn. The liberal-lite frustrations of a McCain administration would have smoldered on the Right but lit few fires, dampening the possibility of real post-Bush regeneration.
From Bush's compassionate conservatism" (read: liberalism) to McCain's compassionate bipartisanship (read: more liberalism), the nation would have continued to drift in the wrong direction. The "good" thing about the economy-crashing, military-breaking, ideologically mind-blowing Obama administration is that it puts us on a collision course that just might force Americans to bail and start over better. Metaphorically speaking.
But also, McCain didn't deserve to be president, at least not under the false flag of "conservative." McCain is no conservative, a fact that stands out as he faces a serious Senate primary challenge from J.D. Hayworth, a genuinely conservative former U.S. representative.
After all, John McCain co-wrote the bill providing, in effect, U.S. citizenship to some 20 million illegal aliens (that's why they called it McCain-Kennedy). He co-wrote the bill restricting political speech (McCain-Feingold). Hayworth opposed both.
As for global warming legislation -- sorry, "climate change" -- McCain used to lead the floor fight for cap and trade (initially known as McCain-Lieberman), but now even the New York Times has noticed McCain has gone mum on the issue and "is likely to keep his distance even more over the next six months because of a primary challenge from a conservative former congressman that threatens to end his Senate career after four terms."
And yup, Hayworth opposes cap and trade. McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts; Hayworth, as he puts it, helped write them. McCain rules out enhanced interrogations and wants to close Gitmo. Hayworth supports enhanced interrogations and wants to keep Gitmo open. The list goes on, but there's no need to draw a picture.
Except, maybe, for the benefit of -- how to put this?-- challenged conservative leaders. These include former Sen. Fred Thompson and former Govs. Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, who, contradicting everything they ever got us to think they stood for sort of, have endorsed McCain.
This may burnish "the maverick" with their conservative bona fides. But it also makes those bona fides look more than a little cheap.
Or maybe they just aren't who we think they are. But does it matter? Perception does seem to be everything. In November, Hayworth was polling neck and neck with McCain.
After Sarah Superstar held out her coattails to McCain -- who, let's not forget, personally and through his staff publicly savaged her -- a January poll showed McCain leading Hayworth by 22 points.
So why is McCain running scared? Because he is running scared.
At least that's one conclusion to draw from an initial Web ad released by the McCain campaign that stoops to smear Hayworth as a conspiracy nut unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate for having the audacity -- I call it common sense and a little grit -- to point out as a radio host that "questions will remain" until our commander in chief releases the paperwork associated with his birth currently under state seal in Hawaii.
Questions will remain and do remain despite Hayworth spokesman Jason Rose's craven dodge: "Questions were raised on the air. They have been answered." No, they haven't been answered. And that's true largely because of McCain.
Remember when presidential candidate McCain's own natural-born credentials came under question because he was born in the Canal Zone? Naturally, he released his paperwork.
He should have then called on his opponent, Barack Obama, to do the same -- naturally. Such leadership would have dispelled all corrosive doubts raised and perpetuated not by "conspiracy nuts" but by the unprecedented lockdown on simple Obama ID -- birth certificate, education transcripts and more -- by the Obama machine, fueled and oiled by a compliant media.
But he didn't -- another reason McCain shouldn't have become president. Now, if conservatives could just retire him from the U.S. Senate.
When a guy running for POTUS honors you with the VP spot, when the ticket loses you dont turn around and campaign for his opponent when he is trying to hold on to his existing office.
Sorry Diana, but this is just basic political etiquette.
America, or most of it, is now AWAKE!
Sen DeMint chose to remain neutral in this primary. palin could have also. just sayin.
“I was glad Obama had won and McCain had lost.”
I stopped reading right there.
I didn’t like McCain before he ran for president, I didn’t like him while he was running for president and I don’t like him now... I want him to disappear.
However, being glad that that white hating socialist, hell bent on America’s destruction, is bedbug crazy.
I voted for John McCain and I’m glad he will never be president. But I can’t be happy that he lost while we still have Obama to survive. We have at least three years yet for something truly horrible to happen - 9/11 with WMDs, the financial destruction of the United States, and so on ...
As did I. Amen to that!
SarahPAC has donated money to...(wait for it)...Lindsey Graham!
Precisely. This is why it is counterproductive to hold the nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. It's a slower death but a death march none the less. Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to move forward. BHO was a step backwards but it will allow us to move forward.
This one will make your day! :)
Sen DeMint was not McCain's VP pick.
Politics being what it is there is no way Palin could remain neutral. The MSM would hound her for it demanding why. And it would be an admission that the people were correct in electing Obama over McCain and her. Which is not exactly a winning position to be in if she wishes to run herself. Just saying, something that actually makes sense.
I fully agree with you Sarah Palin analysis, and I would also like to add that I will reserve my pleasure over McCain’s Presidential defeat, until the Healthcare legislation withers on the vine. If the Heathcare bill passes then McCain’s Presidency would have been better then Obama’s Presidency by umteen orders of magnitude.
That qualifies her endorsement but does not excuse it. Etiquette is unimportant compared with doing what's right. At least she could have stayed on the sidelines.
Backing McLame in the primary is wrong, no matter who does it or for what reason. I don't hate her for it or anything but it's still not cool. Hayworth is the superior choice, there is no excuse for any conservative not to wholeheartedly back him. McCain is a huge jerk anyway, undeserving of personal loyalty. He didn't honor Palin, he used her.
I hope she doesn't do any campaigning for him.
Let’s get real, folks. McCain/Palin would’ve been 110x better than what we have now. Basically we don’t have a Prez or VP that can think on their feet. Fortunately we have the networks of good folks that keep a close watch on their escapades.
SarahPac gave money to
Sen. Jim DeMint
Rep. Michelle Bachmann
Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Sen. John Thune
Sen. Tom Coburn
Doug Hoffman
Add that to your tag line
Senate elections in South Carolina (Class II): Results 2002–2008:
2002: Lindsey Graham 600,010 54%
2008: Lindsey Graham 1,069,137 58%
Seeing Obama sit in that office and call himself President makes me want to vomit every time I think of it. He’s an anti-American Muslim-sympathizing commie through and through. McCain in that chair would have been palatable. However, I think the USA right now is like a spiraling alcoholic, and we needed to hit bottom before we could admit to having a problem and beginning the long journey back. The election of Obama took us from sliding toward the bottom to rocketing to the bottom and continuing to drill, but I have high hope that the resurgence of many of the American principles of government at the grass roots level, and the recognition of the need for fiscal sanity at the grass roots level, will build us back up again soon.
Now having said all that I can safely say that I had fasted & prayed during the elections that 0Bama would lose big time, however since he "WON" the election and is now proceeding at breakneck speed to destroy this country McCain would do well to stand aside and let younger and stronger leaders who are committed to the Constitution lead the way.
I was going to post much the same thing using the same analogy. I pray to goodness that the majority of Americans have hit the bottom, but I’m wondering if alot of Americans won’t have to feel severe pain to wake up. Will that happen before 2012? I don’t know. I guess we will have to see what the forecast is like with the election in 2010. Whatever happens, the Republican that takes it from Obama in 2012 or 2016 is going to have to be an EXTRA special person.
I AGREE! And take that dopey valley girl daughter with him and stuff a sock in her mouth. A man with any sense would be embarrassed by that kind of public idiocy.
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