Thanks for the morning laugh.
Posted on 05/30/2008 6:20:25 AM PDT by Uncledave
Many conservatives realistic enough to know there will never be "another Reagan" nevertheless wish at least for another Barry Goldwater. They don't realize that we already have one. His name is John McCain.
{snip} AS WITH GOLDWATER, so with McCain. Irascible, iconoclastic, sometimes a bit profane, always his own man and nobody else's, McCain is a curmudgeon's curmudgeon -- but still with much to offer his country. We all know, of course, why so many of us are so often so angry with McCain -- his sometimes bizarre heresies from conservatism, his insulting language and hair-trigger temper toward conservatives who disagree with him -- but we spend too little time acknowledging the man's strengths. On those issues on which Goldwater was strongest, about which he cared most deeply and on which he was most identifiably conservative, McCain is as strong or stronger than any national leader in the past 20 years.
Consider the fight against outrageous government spending. No major party nominee since Goldwater, Reagan included, has been as consistently and bravely dedicated to fiscal discipline as has McCain. Last week he both made a superb campaign speech and penned a hard-hitting column for the Chicago Tribune blasting the bloated, irresponsible Farm Bill for which 80 percent of his colleagues were cravenly voting...Indeed, entitlements collectively represent an absolutely deadly time bomb, and McCain might be the only man in American politics today with the will power, the moral standing, and the sheer cussedness needed to defuse it.
{snip} John McCain is not a conservative champion. But he deeply believes, and strongly champions, many conservative principles, many Goldwaterite principles. We certainly could do worse than to be stuck with him as our own, infuriating, headstrong, bullying, honor-obsessed, indefatigable, and sometimes downright inspirational SOB.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I take comfort in deluding myself that much of what this author writes is true.
Will he lose like Goldwater? McCain isn’t even a moderate conservative. He shares the same views with Obama on Global Warming, Gitmo, Amnesty for God’s Children, and obscene corporate profits. I will be no part of that train wreck.
Didn’t AuH2O turn out to be a lib towards the end?
Shouldn’t there be a barf alert?
This is pure Heresy.
The tax burden of shamnesty for 22+ million illegals, and cap and trade global warming buffoonery says otherwise. It's a myth that McCain is a champeen of limited spending. He's just shuffling the deck to pander to certain voting blocks and is willing to turn taxpayer revenues into promissory notes.
Yes.
The choices really are simple:
The Obamanation utter nightare. One we might never wake up from.
The McCain Pain - take 1,000 aspirin and call me in four years.
The Reagan dream - or rather fanasy. No going to happen this time around, even if you stay home and wish for it. All that will happen is the dream will turn into the nightmare.
I’m going to suck it up and take my aspirin. We will survive that, if not happily.
at least for another Barry Goldwater.
I revere what Goldwater did as highly as I do Reagan.
He holds Goldwater's seat and he takes that fact seriously. With McCain you are going to get some things that you don't like and you are going to get them until you howl. You are also going to get a lot of things that you do like. And you are going to get them until you howl.
The democrat MCLame being compared to Goldwater???
HA, HA, HAN HA ....that is the most obtuse statement I have heard since Hussein obama opened his mouth last
Goldwater always acted on principle and explained his actions in relation to those principles. If there is a unifying principle underlying McCain’s positions I can’t detect it.
I’m sure McCain will win a gang of 14 states in the general.
The Maverick Party is going to show up and vote for him BIG TIME!!! Whoever that is.
In your heart you know he’s a RINO.
He never endorsed special rights for any "group". His views were actually fairly consistent and libertarian over time. Lieberals like to claim they converted him. They never did.
Where was the barf alert on this piece?
This is great news, now I can cast my vote for McCain and have no worry he will betray me like he did his conservative roots, his first wife, conservatives and America with his amnesty plan.
SCREW that sack-o-doo-doo McCain.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's needed now as desperately as it was needed back then.
ROFLOL! McCain might resemble Goldwater in his advanced state of dementia when his young, liberal nurse-wife became the puppeteer! The only other thing they have in common is the state that elected both of them.
Obama=Messiah=doofus
Hillary=Thatcheresque=doofus
McCain=Goldwater=doofus
What a sorry bunch of democrats.
The Dems aren't the only ones trying to re-write history.
That is exactly why I want to elect him. IF and that is a big IF, he picks a conservative running mate, we could well see that VP pick running things after a while.
I dont think McCain will serve out his first term.
I know exactly what you mean. The idea that it might be a good thing for the traitorous, self-worshiping McCain to be President of this country is a revolting absurdity -- until you weigh the proposition that the only alternative is to elect Barrack Hussein Obama.
It's mind boggling to consider how we got to this point. Honestly, it might be easier to rebuild the conservative cause from its current rubble after an Obama presidency than after a McCain presidency. On the other hand, Obama would do untold harm in four years of appointing socialist judges and advancing his Marxist agenda. Either way, it's a fine mess we have gotten into.
(Note: I regard McCain as a traitor to conservatism, not to the country.)
Now that’s funny. We need a follow-up article explaining that UP is the new DOWN and WHITE is the new BLACK also.
It’s quite amusing watching people make claims that are so obviously detached from reality.
Good article and McCain will make a fine President that the Country will be proud of.
Only 27 nasty McCain haters posted? What? Are your legions diminishing? Cool!
When I read the headline I thought that the author was predicting a 1964 type wipeout of McCain. I don’t think it’ll be that bad, but I think Obama wins comfortably.
Like the rest of the political whores in DC, McCain bases his actions on what he thinks will benefit him politically. That’s why he stopped pushing amnesty last summer, because it would have killed him in the primaries.
Wonder how you'll feel after McQueeg's amnesty and the MS-13 gang members move in next door.
“He shares the same views with Obama on Global Warming,”
Yup, and he’s also for the cap and trade scam. However, one big diff is McLame is for nuke power - lots of it. That is good for several reasons: It works, it helps us to get out from under the oil ticks, and it pits anti-nuke greens against pro-nuke greens. The last is a true “get the popcorn” factor.
Well, you can’t drive a nuke car, at least not yet. Still there may be new technologies he would probably endorse, steam powered cars with even cowcatchers welded to the front, and possibly one powered by rubber bands and springs. I could see where you could wind up a car every couple of miles you know....
“He also endorsed a local Democrat congressional nominee over a carpetbagger Republican who felt he was entitled to the seat in a Republican district.”
Similar experience here in Ohio. Gov. Strickland (D) has been far better on 2nd Amendment, govt growth, pro-biz, and good govt than Gov. Taxt (Rl ever was. Not that I’m much of a Strickland fan, but he’s the headache after the nightmare that was Taxt. Between the two, I’d take the headache (D). Look at this election about the same way.
This is also a bit of a gamble. McLame is a politician. He is saying what he has to in order to lock the middle and even some of te Donk base. My bet is that when he gets in, he’ll shift right. Just like most of those “moderate” or “conservative” Donks shifted hard left once they got elected in 04.
I very much agree with this assessment, as should any true conservative with an ounce of sense. The war on drugs has done more damage to the American way of life than anything since the New Deal.
-ccm
“We will survive that, if not happily.”
I’m not so sure.
“Wonder how you’ll feel after McQueeg’s amnesty and the MS-13 gang members move in next door.”
Are you kidding? Happy’ll have a fiesta.
Well, it is very PC to “celebrate diversity”!
It’s no Goldwater—it’s only the new McStangelove.
Good one...
Don't believe everything you think...
For some reason, I just cannot bring myself to say, “In your heart, you know he’s right”.
Younger folks should know this was a campaign slogan for Barry Goldwater. He was right then but the country didn’t know it.
I hope you are right, but fear it is a false hope. The time he has spent kissing the ring of La Raza versus trying to mend fences with conservatives is particularly telling. Does he really have to shore up his La Raza credentials? Obama already supports amnesty and driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Does McCain think he is going to top that?
Sorry, but I still can't bring myself to vote for the guy. I would have much rather taken a chance on Rudi or Romney who, although they both governed ultraliberal northeastern constituencies, at least didn't take delight in p***ing on conservatives.
Always the same inspiring argument from McCain supporters:
Dear Conservatives,
Please vote for John McCain because everybody else is even more horrible than he is.
Or....OBAMA, booga booga!
Scared yet?
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